It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Cry of Tamar by Pamela Cooper-White and she told me immediately “You can use my copy! It’s a great story!” I never heard of Tamar and was intrigued to read this book based on my friends recommendation. As I read the story of Tamar, I was saddened and angry to see that even in those times, the men would corroborate to protect the perpetrator of the crime. It’s amazing to think of how far women have come over the years, that many women still don’t have a voice. I have always had many friends, but…

The Yemeni Culture The first time I went to Yemen, was when I was 15 years old. Living in America my whole life, Yemen was a new world to me. Even though it was my first time there, I felt at home, like its where I belong. But the kids there didn’t agree with me because I was a little different to them. I was American. I was American raised. I was compared to that one spoiled brat from school, even though I wasn’t any different from them, they still resented me. My first week was hard. I was…

For most people, watching the news on television, reading the newspaper, or checking out the news on your phone is one of the first things you do in the morning. You’ll read about the upcoming elections, the scores of the previous night’s sporting events, and whatever or whoever else is getting their 15 minutes of fame at the time. Then, you’ll read about who has overdosed. It’s to the point where you’re expecting it. “Teen overdosed on Heroin two months before graduation,” or “Mother leaves…

quote by Linda Niamen (cited online 2016) “Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity is characterized by the ability to perceive the world in new ways to find hidden patterns” sums it up perfectly for me. So it’s not enough to have the imagination to think new ideas up. No it is the acting of following through with those thoughts to actually create something that was not there before. So I am wondering what if any influence philosophies, teaching styles,…

who held a small brown clay bottle in his first. “Is that what I think it is?” Perceval handed over the vessel. “Pawl’s famous hangover tincture. I thought you could use it.” Pawl, the Court Healer and a widower, had a problem with drink for years and years until he’d recently married Lady Lindara. Now he was fit and happy, but still brewing up his tincture for those in need, like Gawain. “Bless you, Perceval.” Gawain uncorked the bottle, pinched his nose, and downed the thick, repulsive fluid…

Chapter2 Perspectives: New York as a Character, New York as a Backdrop “I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.” From one of his earliest films, Bananas (1971) all the way to his latest work, Café Society (2016), Woody Allen has always treated New York as a…

enjoy the thrill of getting behind the wheel. The author, Joann Muller, utilizes a powerful opening paragraph that includes wonderful imagery. She establishes a serious and deliberate relationship with her audience, addressing the readers of Forbes magazine. She attempts to educate them on some major drawbacks of technology, specifically as it relates to automobiles. The most powerful rhetorical choice the writer makes is her utilization of imagery, however, she also includes several other…

Understanding the history of education, and the fear it is rooted in, is necessary for understanding exactly why education is failing its most basic purpose. Public education was created in the hopes of producing a wonderful industrialist, not a creative thinker. Fear drove the necessity of drivel education to be implemented in our culture. The social elite feared an educated populous, because they believed them to be dangerous…

war efforts “than a flotilla of destroyers,” since it helped convince America to join the fight in WWII. And that was the goal of this film all along. It’s essentially propaganda aimed toward convincing America to abandon its isolationist policy. Whether or not this particular piece of propaganda had much effect, it remains a decent movie over 70 years later. Mrs. Miniver shows an upper middle class British family before and during WWII. The first hour or so of the film shows life in 1939 before…

your business? Mary: I had been working in department stores for about 15 years, I was lucky enough to work for many of those years with a wonderful old style corsetiere, who ensured I got the very best training. The time came for me to branch out on my own 35 years ago, giving me the opportunity to specialise even more. Gillian: I bought Colleen 's two years ago when Colleen retired after starting the business 15 years ago. I saw it as a great opportunity to use my own experience of breast…