Hurling

1.1. What is the meaning of the following words in the context in which they appear: Clerk meant a person employed in an office to perform general office tasks. Dowry meant a talent or endowment. Gallantry is courageous behavior, or respect from men given to women. An inscrutable smile is one that is difficult to understand. Resentfully is to describe an act done when insulted or irritated. Whole in this context meant for the entire twenty-four hours, whether she was sleeping or awake. Usurer…

Adam Moore Mrs. Vermillion English II Preap/6 period 3 October 2014 Title of work: Lord of the Flies Author’s Name: William Golding Date of Publication: September 17, 1954 Genre: Fiction Setting: The story’s setting was in a densely tangled jungle on a Pacific Ocean island with a lagoon surrounded by palm trees. The story took place sometime in the mid 1950’s and mimicked the cold war and WWII. The atmosphere was a feeling of abandonment due to the crisis going on in England since the people…

Aggression in children is a trait that is picked up by children from their surroundings and the people they interact with during their formative stages of life. Aggressive behavior covers a number of actions and habits that transcend through various modes of violence, such as bullying, physical fighting, verbal aggression and abuse, robbery, and the like (Felthous & Sass, 2007). The aggressive behavior as noted above starts from children when they begin to pick up different behaviors and…

World War II was a war no one anticipated to be as horrific and excruciating as it was. Some of the actions performed during the Second World War were of such magnitude, that those who survived were torn for their lives, the children suffering along side the parents, as the ripples of time collided with the shoulders of those men and women who where forced into a battle for their lives and their future. The unjust burdens pushed down on the reluctant participants of this war ended in more than…

places. For example, athletics is linked to Kenya, football is linked to Brazil; ice hockey is linked to Canada or Sweden; golf is linked to Scotland; sumo wrestling is linked to Japan; cycling is linked to France, baseball is linked to Cuba, and hurling is linked…

These deaths are caused by people who disregard the safety of themselves and everyone around them. Most drivers forget the gravity of the act of driving a car. Operating a motor vehicle is essentially strapping into a several thousand pound bomb and hurling it down the road at incredibly high speeds and steering it through various obstacles. To do such a task impaired is simply idiotic and it is baffling that such acts are still common in American society. To be fair, drinking and driving is not…

One, having experienced a devastating situation, such as war, might relate to the idea that “it’s no good at all to see yourself and not recognize your face. Out on my own, it’s such a scary place” (Efron). Throughout life there are times when we no longer recognize ourselves. One’s identity is more than just physical appearance. In Night by Elie Wiesel, we can see that war not only physically changes a person, but it also shakes a person’s faith, weakens relationships, and loosens his morals;…

Oh, Mom! – A Brechtian Analysis of Well by Lisa Kron Most of us can relate to the adolescent struggle against a matriarchal force – almost mystical, but for sure one that seemed to be all powerful and overwhelming as well as nurturing. For many of us, that struggle to assert our own independent identities extends well beyond our years of teenage development and stays with us well into our later adult lives. This can stem from resentment, or an anxious desire to right any believed wrongs and thus…

The Mission, a film set in 1507, reflects on a Jesuit mission settlement, torn apart by Spanish and Portuguese government. With the papacy caught in the midst of this turmoil, conflicting ideas of injustice and moral sense drive the message of the film. In relation to the Enlightenment, an epoch of modernized philosophical ideas from the 1400s through the 1600s, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas of individuality, human nature and corruption are best represented through themes of government, religion…

The young sun burned so bright that my feeble eyes were no match. I shut them and let my other senses take hold. It smelled of pine and smoke and happiness. I burst with laughter as the cold water sent warm shivers down my spine. The river water curiously tasted like heaven. Only heaven and seraphs could come to that river. It was paradise. As I opened my warm eyelids, I concluded that Chloe was an angel, for her blonde hair was glowing like halo. “Whatcha doing?” I pushed my long, dark, coffee…