How the Other Half Lives

stories of the Greek gods and goddesses have ingrained themselves in today's world more than many other historical reference that is over 2000 years old, but no example of this is more prevalent than the Percy Jackson series. The Percy Jackson books are the stories that focus on the life of Percy Jackson, a demigod, half god, half human, who lives in New York and during the summer goes to Camp Half-Blood. There he goes on quests that usually end up saving the world from the wrath of mythology.…

Whenever I tell someone where I live, they automatically believe that I am in a gang even if I am only 5 feet tall. Living in Barrio Logan I have faced so many typical stereotypes about my neighborhood, but I don’t see it that way. Barrio Logan is not just a neighborhood, it's a supporting community. Everyone goes out of their way to make everyone seem like family. It has always been a diverse neighborhood with different ethnicities and religions that it has helped me learn to be accepting and…

past and present, and how our lives are all interconnected. The Louisa Rey and Sonmi-451 story are bound together by a thin tangible geographic and historical connection. Louisa’s father, Lester Rey, was a war correspondent during the Vietnam War, which was an ally of South Korea, which is the setting in Sonmi’s story. David Mitchell uses specific plot details to represent how power both influences and exploits individuals. The major plots points of Half-Lives and Orison show how power is used…

which he talks about a myth of soulmates. People were once doubled in every way and out of punishment for rebelling were cut in half. These people then spent their lives trying to find their other halves and the gods gave them the ability to have sexual intercourse so that they could be together. This is how we have soulmates. In this speech I find it interesting how Aristophanes encourages relationships between two males because it is a sign of boldness and masculinity, yet in today’s society…

to 12C, which increases the "assumed" accuracy to about 80,000 years. In order to actually do the dating, other things need to be known like: - How fast does 14C decay? - What was the starting amount of 14C in the creature when it died? The decay…

affect their lives in what kind of choices the individual makes. Not everyone is going to agree with what decision someone will make, but a person has to make a decision that will influence his or her life. Individuals have a desire to have a vigorous life, so that the choices the people make will influence their future. Timing plays an important role in a story because a person will judge a young teenager by making an immature decision. The time goes by so quickly that individuals have to live…

Following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, millions of people fled Vietnam for fearing the “reeducation camps” and other forms of retaliation from the new communist government. Many refugees called “boat people”, made their routes by sailing through the ocean, and they had to risk their lives for a new haven. It is estimated that half of refugees could not made their ways, and ocean was their graves. In 2008, Director Duc Nguyen released his documentary film Bolinao 52, a movie about…

habitat they have and how they live in it plus how the habitat is being hurt. I will also be talking about what kinds of different food they can eat. Plus how they reproduce and what's been cutting down their reproduction. And how we are trying to save them. What the beautiful animal looks like and why people want to kill them. What impact we have on the animal. And finally, how many are left on this Earth, that's what I will be talking about. Habitat of an Okapi and how they live in it. Their…

Valley Forge: Would You Have Quit? Who likes to go fight outnumbered with half your army sick? Britain had an army of 18,000 men and they were staying in Philadelphia. Washington (United States) had a smaller army and decided to stay about 18 miles northwest in a place called Valley Forge. But Would I have quit Valley Forge without permission? I would have most definitely quit Valley Forge because we were outnumbered, the conditions were terrible, and the sickness was outrageous. I would have…

The Call of the Wild by Jack London, is a story about Buck, a huge, four-year-old half-Saint Bernard and half-Scottish shepherd dog, Who is living a life in California's Santa Clara Valley owned by the town’s judge, Judge Miller. Buck’s life in Santa Clara is the best life a dog could be given in his point of view. For Judge Miller, Buck is the most prized animal that the Judge owns. Currently while Buck is living his, as he says, “sun-kissed” life, gold is discovered in the North in Alaska, and…