Grover

vengeance, and Percy kills her with a pen that has turned into a sword. When they return to school, nobody remembers the teacher. After school lets out for the summer, Percy and his mother are at the beach. A storm goes through town, and Percy's friend Grover encourages Percy and his mother to leave the house. During the storm, they are attacked by a Minotaur, or Greek monster, and Percy's mother, Sally, disappears. Percy kills the Minotaur and falls asleep. When he wakes up, he is at Camp…

Every morning, I wake up in my warm, comfortable bed. I roll over and check my phone, then get up, go to the bathroom, and head off to the gym. I do this every morning, without any real thought or consideration. While not everyone follows the same morning routine, for the most part, people have a similar frame of mind. Wake up, get ready for your day, and go. Now imagine not knowing where you were going to fall asleep every night. That’s a pretty difficult thing to think about, right?…

Caldwell and West Caldwell “Chiefs on three, one….two...three...CHIEFS!” Chiefs are the mascot of Caldwell and West Caldwell’s amazing sports teams. Caldwell and West Caldwell are located in Essex County, New Jersey. The Caldwells settled in the early 18th century by pioneers who moved westward from Newark or through the Passaic Valley. West Caldwell and Caldwell have pools open all summer for people to hang out. Caldwell and West Caldwell both have governments that are open to new ideas, they…

In 1959 "True" magazine published several articles about the sighting of large, mysterious footprints, in the woods of Bluff Creek, California. The story grew and people began to say that the footprints were made by a creature they called "Bigfoot". Some even claimed to have seen him. The most famous image of the creature was a 1967 film, taken by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlen. It showed a dark, man-sized and man-shaped figure striding through a clearing in the woods. Because the film was…

“The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending”. As Grover Norquist inquired politicians want to kept their own money in their pockets while taking money from the people. The reason why citizens want to increase taxes is because they want to get rid of the nation's financial debt. Raising taxes on the rich has been a topic of debate for quite awhile now. People feel like they should tax the rich more than the middle class and…

influential in the 1884 presidential election. One, likening nominee James G. Blaine's dinner with millionaires and plutocrats shortly before the election to Belshazzar's feast of the Bible, is credited with contributing to Blaine's narrow loss to Grover Cleveland. The cartoon, entitled "The Royal Feast of Belshazzar Blaine and the Money Kings" and co-drawn by Valerian Gribayedoff, was reprinted on billboards across New York and Blaine lost the state, and thus the election, by little over 1,000…

The book Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer is a collection of stories describing different events in which the U.S. overthrew foreign and oppressive governments, or simply governments that were not beneficial for America. One of the stories he included was America’s annexation of Hawaii, a massive turning point in our country’s history. However, The way Kinzer writes and retells the story is slightly biased towards the side of the Hawaiians. This makes for a story that may change peoples perspectives…

Joseph Glidden was an Illinois inventor that wanted to help farmers but he end up help many different type’s people and industries. Joseph Glidden’s barbed wire helped in many different ways .His design of barbed wire revolutionize United States and Illinois. His barbed wire helped in ranching, war tactics, and agriculture for United States. That barbed wire has help revolutionize United States in different ways. Barbed wire helped rancher and change Barbed wire has been helping ranchers for a…

The chemical structure of a cigarette contains over 4,800 different compounds (Saha, Bhalla, Whayne, & Gairola, 2017). The chemical compounds in cigarettes contain many different types of gases and toxic properties. Approximately 100 of these compounds are considered carcinogens, cocarcinogens, and mutagens (Saha et al., 2016). The gases associated with a cigarette include formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, ammonia, and a number of other gases (Saha et al., 2016). The chemicals found in cigarettes…

Individuals lucky enough to come across a $1,000 bill need to hang on to this money, as circulation of these bills has been halted in an effort to fight against organized crime. The United States Department of the Treasury ceased printing these bills, and any bill larger than $100, in 1945. As a result, only those bills created during the 1934 series remain in existence. Although President Richard Nixon did remove the bills from circulation, they are still considered legal tender and may be used…