I Was Hoping

Many people do not realize how greatly their surroundings affect their everyday lives. Their environment can ultimately hurt or help their development. Positioned on the east side of the Bosporus strait, the location of Byzantium was ideal in that it served as a point of commerce and transportation between Asia Minor and Europe (“Byzantine,” History.com). The Byzantine Empire, later in their history also managed to maintain control of the borders of the Mediterranean Sea, but a lack of natural…

great persecution in 303. After Constantine take over, he later legalizes Christianity as Romans accept Christianity, which resulted in the Edict of Milan in 313 (Cohen “Roman Responses to the New Superstition”). Furthermore, during Muhammad’s life, he was praying with Jesus and Jesus’ disciples in Jerusalem during his time in Mecca, which certainly showed no sign of hate against Christianity. With many scholars doubting not only the origin of Christianity, they doubt the spread of…

Wen-Chung’s compositional output was marked by the gradual formulation of his musical language from I Ching, or the Classic of Changes from the Western Zhou period (1000-750 BCE). The most documented aspect of Chou’s language was his system of pitch organization, which he named variable modes. It took Chou more than three decades to arrive at its final version, and it formed the backbones of his compositional structure. The theoretical foundation of this system is based on the I Ching…

dissertation – was extremely daunting. It would be the last piece of work I would complete for this course and the most substantial one to date. I had many fears about the whole process. As someone with a tendency to procrastinate and the inability to concentrate for long periods of time, I knew this was going to be a challenge. Just thinking about the work that the dissertation…

were directly centered on Luke when I walked into my door. I tried my hardest to think about something or someone else. I didn’t want my mind going off to dreamy land before I even had the opportunity to know more about the man that had captured so much of my attention tonight. Then my thoughts easily moved to the man whom I was supposed to be with tonight on an amazing date that went downhill quickly. I wished in this moment that the date was with Luke, then I would still be out enjoying the…

think about the background, struggle, and the history hidden behind the mele. Kaulana Na Pua, Na Alii, and Hole Wai-mea explicitly demonstrate the history of Hawaii in mele. One of the most famous patriotic Hawaiian mele is ‘Kaulana Na Pua’, which was written by Ellen Wright Prendergast in 1893, under the title “Mele Ai Pohaku” (Elbert, 62). She wrote this song for the members of the Royal Hawaiian Band who opposed to the overthrowing of Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom. As a…

” As in today companies are looking for people with good social security numbers and as we know most Mexicans that weren’t born in the United States don’t have social security numbers. My aunt was born in Mexico in a small town call Ixcatiopan. Coming to Chicago at a young age was difficult for her. She is now living with my cousin and looking for a part-time job. My aunt has been kicked out of different places where she has gone for a job interview because she can’t…

Criterion A: Investigating My goal was to create a family tree in my extended family for as far as my grandparents remembered. But once I realized that the tree wasn 't going to turn out as big as I thought it would be I decided to change my topic to something that I loved-food! I changed my topic to the history of pasta. This opened up doors that lead to new things that I could research and a much more vast ground for me to start my project on. I researched things like all the different types…

The similarities and Differences of Eastern and Western Religions are how they were created and Endured within their historical and geographical context There are many similarities, like how they view their teachers and that they have prophets, and differences, like their teaching methods, types of teachers and how they view themselves, between Eastern and Western religions, and they were created and endured within their historical and geographical context in many different ways. The authors of…

I have had the privilege to interview Mrs. Davida Gee- Allen for this assignment. Mrs. Allen is a graduate from Mississippi Valley State, where she received her master’s in the field of Social Work. She is currently a supervisor at the department of human serves in the Mississippi delta. She emphasizes the fact that she love what she do, no matter the cost. She entered this field to help people with everyday crisis and most of all defenseless children. Her future plan is to become an…