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"Hey girl, wanna be my jalebi (dessert)?" "You filthy cannibal! You want to eat me? What is wrong with you?!" Arya scrunched up her nose at the spiky-haired guy who had said the awful pick-up line and sped along. She clutched Anjali 's arm in case the creep attempted to . . . devour them. Spiky opened his mouth to explain, but Aarya turned her head the other way. "Aarya, he was flirting," Anjali cajoled. "Why do you enjoy scaring away possible boyfriends?" she continued, clearly unimpressed…

The Strengths in the Original Poem of “Intimacy” By removing “Peacock feather,” the delicacy of the feather is diminished. A wheelbarrow is a rough object. The wheelbarrow does not offer the same imagery with the line of “wide eye tamed with dirt” as the “peacock feather does”. A wheelbarrow is neither wild nor tamed, but a peacock is a free animal, and one that is not typically domesticated or tamed. The father also references to the title: “Intimacy” of being a soft and fragile concept. The…

1. The Code of Justinian, The Roman Emperor Justinian instructed his legal advisors to come together to create a set common set of laws that were to be used for his entire empire. The group of men wrote down the laws that were already in use and made sure they did not contradict one another. When they felt the laws were in order they named them “The Code of Justinian. The laws were so well written and were just that many nations used the Justinian codes when they were establishing their own laws…

athletes known for key attributes. In Jackson's case it was his natural hitting ability. Too this day Jackson holds the batting average for a player in the rookie season. In 1911 Jackson was traded to the cleveland Naps known now as the Cleveland Indians and recorded the best rookie batting average of all time at .408. Jackson continued to record outstanding amazing batting averages throughout his career. If Jackson had not been banned from the 1920s he would have gone down as one of the…

shake, crying for the missed time we will never make back, crying to release the tension of these ten long years. “Come with me. There is something I want to do.” We walked home. Mum was spread out on the leather sofa, with martinis, watching an Indian…

It was a warm dry sunny day, in San Francisco where the CIncinnati Reds were taking the field for practise. There was someone named Billy. He was a very kind, thoughtful, and sweet person. He looked a little different than other people. He had a mental disability. Even though he had a mental disability he was the best player at the practise by far, and everybody knew. A couple hours later there was another player who came, his name was Josh. When Josh had arrived he overheard people saying that…

Portugal -1415 -conquered Moroccan port of Ceuta and sponsored a series of voyages down the West African coast. - established trading posts at Sao Jorge da Mina, West Africa -1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope and entered the Indian Oceans. b) Vasco da Gama -Portuguese -1497, went to India -trade gold with peppers - trading post at Calicut, 1500 c) Christopher Columbus, - Genoese mariner Cristoforo Colombo, known in English as Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) -…

September 28. The grand jury brought charges against the eight members of the White Sox team. It stunned the nation, although they still watched the trial very closely. The players soon became known as the “Black Sox.” The grand jury and conspiracy trials were a very important part of baseball history because of all of the gambling scandals. Sox pitchers “Lefty” Williams and Eddie Cicotte both had confessed to the grand jury about their involvement in the scandal. The jury’s biggest issue…

Matt Morici Mrs. Tell AmLit Period 7 February 21, 2017 Let Him In Throughout the history of American sports, baseball has had many confrontations with cheating, scandals, and controversies. From the 1919 Black Sox scandal to steroid use, baseball has lived a life of cheating. Many of these scandals affected multiple players or teams but none have affected a single player more than the 1980’s Pete Rose betting scandal. Pete Edward Rose was born on April 14, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio where he later…

The purpose of this study is to see which factors, in particular, influence how a person feels towards interracial relationships and whether or not certain factors influence a person’s decision to enter an interracial relationship. Specifically, I felt that there were certain factors that would be important in a person’s willingness to engage in an interracial relationship. These factors consisted of parent/family input, age, race, gender, religion, political affiliation, personal background…