Hurrying

Resting on the edge of the Niger River in the usual searing heat of Timbuktu, Fatima, daughter of a village trader Oumar and his wife Awa, quietly ponders about her father and his current pilgrimage to Mecca alongside Musa Keita I and 72,000 other men. Oumar was individually selected by the Mansa himself for this journey, and as important as the pilgrimage is, Fatima cannot help but to feel perturbed by her father’s absence. Awa and Fatima have uniformly quarreled with each other for the past…

by invoking the muse to help him tell the tale correctly. He then blames a multitude of Achaean deaths on Achilles. “Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another”(Book 1 Lines 1-?).…

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere...” (Longfellow par. 1). These words by Longfellow seem to spring into the mind when looking at The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Grant Wood. Grant Wood’s painting presents an idealized portrayal of a well-known event in American history in a time when when America had lost its luster. Upon first looking at the painting, the eye is drawn immediately to the church that stands in the foreground. The white church…

observes the “cooking pans, wooden stools and chamber pots” that various people are dragging behind them. Ratner, using these long lists of items, depicts a chaotic scene, with the lists of words mimicking the flow of people rushing in the streets hurrying towards evacuation. The description of a blind old beggar…

“My mother no linger shows any signs of sanity, hurrying back and forth, wall to wall, sometimes on two legs, sometimes on four, dark forehead furrowed like a new-plowed field, her eyes glittering and crazy as a captured eagle’s. Each time I come in she gets between me and the door, as if to lock me up…

foreshadow future events. Hawthorne explains to the reader that when Hester Prynne and Pearl join Dimmsedale on the scaffold he felt, “ what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other life than his own, pouring like a torrent into his heart, and hurrying through all his veins, as if the mother and the child were communicating their vital warmth to his half-torpid system. The three formed an electric chain.”(Hawthorne 139). From this passage the exact image of what Dimmesdale is feeling and what…

Industrial revolution is the change to manufacturing procedures. It took place from 18th century to 19th century. It started in Great Britain then extended to Western Europe and North America within a few years. Today I will talk about the industrial revolution and its effect on each of the cheap factors. The Industrial Revolution excelled a main revolving point in Earth’s ecosystem and humans’ connection with their environment. The Industrial Revolution intensely affected each characteristic of…

and asks where he is and Arron says I’m just now leaving Wisconsin okay thank you see you when I see u lol Arron says. Next it calls cam and asks him where is he and cam says I’m leaving charlotte ok thank you. 5:00 in the afternoon everybody is hurrying and getting everything right for the party at 12:00 and it ends at 3;00 so the party is right around the block so we have to hurry I dint want to be late okay u feel me. Cleo and baby have a lil conversation about Just in case something goes…

hello boys!” Mrs. Gim said lightly. “We’ve just finished our S.T.E.M. project.” Micah informed Mrs. Gim “Great!” “Place it over there, please.” She asked them. Once they placed the elevator down, they hurried over to the hallway to see Robin Hugo hurrying up to them. “Guys, come see…

I never thought I would go back to school after years spent being a stay at home mom. The decision to enroll myself in college was not easy. I had many routine demands to meet without having college as another burden. As a result, this forced me to put off enrolling in college until later in life. Attending college comes with a hefty workload; college courses are made up of many tests, lectures, and studying. These certain factors made it complicated to decide if college was right for me. The…