Julian May

August has an amazing personality according to Jack, Jack says “... if all the guys in the fifth grade were lined up against a wall and I got to choose anyone I wanted to hang out with, I would chose August.” I think Jack says this because, August may not be the most popular kid in the grade but, he is a great friend to have despite his face.…

Performance-enhancing drugs will simply amplify the effects of a strict regimen (548). And although athletes may train follow the same routines and train with the same intensity, genetics ultimately dictate who…

Art is complex, it is more than just an object filled with paint for it to be used as an antique for your living room set. Art can be used as an expression, positive or negative. Art can entice in many ways, for its concealed hidden message for the viewer to analyzed and understand the meaning than the art itself. Art is expressed in many alternatives as well, not just historic paintings from Picasso, Warhol. As well from the like of musicians, a certain creation something more presented than…

have Catholic majorities. Others, especially Reformed Churches in the United States, move commemarations to the Sunday before, calling it Reformation Sunday. Luther’s letter cascaded into a central episode of the Reformation, the Diet of Worms (Jan 28–May 25, 1521). Now, in those days a Diet was less about losing weight and more about weighty judgments. Or to be more exact a Diet was "the general assembly of the estates of the former Holy Roman Empire".…

warships. This proves that Rome was a good society because they annexed much land around them and if they were defeated, they would rebuild and defeat their opponent through its outstanding military, which was made up of the army and the navy. Some people may disagree with me because they think that Rome’s size contributed to their downfall, because the powerful generals wanted all the power of the empire, and that caused Rome’s army to grow corrupt due to the generals who were bribing the…

Latin American literature has many different variations of tone; three types of tone that can be found are depression, dark tones, and frustration. The author’s tone of depression can relate to the oppression and loss of hope due to societies beliefs at the time. Depression can be shown through the short story “Light is Like Water” and the poem “Poet’s Epitaph”. The author details his or her work within these stories in a way that allows the reader to feel some of their sorrow. Ominous tones…

Every year in the United States, 40,000 babies born have a congenital heart defect, making it the most common congenital anomaly in the United States, and that statistic is only increasing (CDC 2018). 40,000 may not seem like a lot, but that’s 40,000 children affected by a defect that strays them from living a normal childhood and the likeability of living a long and healthy life. Additionally, this affects the parents as well, who are now wary of whether or not their child will surpass their…

Sir Julian Corbett’s Thoughts on U.S. Hegemony of Low Earth Orbit Satellites – manmade systems deliberately placed in Earth’s orbit – undeniably benefit humankind, from enhancing scientific understanding, communications, and situational awareness to expanding commerce and development. Correspondingly, low-Earth orbit (LEO) represents the point of entry for the security, economic, and informational benefits humans derive from space because almost every manmade object traveling through this…

The images in the middle and on the right show brain tissue of two individuals with significant tau protein build up and CTE. This discovery was first made by Brain Injury Research Institute doctors Bennet I. Omalu, M.D. and Julian Bailes, M.D. in a professional football player in 2002 (What is CTE?, 2016). While research on CTE has grown tremendously in the past five years, there is still much about the disease that is not understood (Iverson, 2013). Boston University’s Center…

Fried Green Tomatoes is both a film and book written by Fannie Flagg, which takes place in Whistle Stop, Alabama. Whistle Stop is a small community and everyone is involved in each other’s business. It tells the story of four women in two different eras and the trials and tribulations of their life. Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison originally met when Jamison dated Idgie Threadgoodes brother, Buddy Threadgoode. Buddy Threadgoode died after being involved in a train accident, both Idgie…