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Sebastian Junger’s book, The Prefect Storm, is a tragic and intense journey of six crew members setting out to go sword fishing and bring back some for profit; however, they get caught and later died in a “perfect storm”, which means two storms colliding and turning into a small hurricane and later evolving into a powerful cyclone. Analyzing The Perfect Storm, Junger filled his book with his input and ideas of what happened to the sailors at the end of their lives, how he believes they acted and…

Boo is caring because of the fact that, during the burning of Miss Maudie's house, he puts a blanket on Scout. Next, he is kind because he puts gifts in a knot hole of a tree for Jem and Scout. Finally Boo is courageous because he saves Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell when he tries to kill them. After Bob is dead and so is Tom, the sheriff says “Let the dead bury the dead”(pg 276, line 4). What he means is that…

manual assistance is hard to judge. Follow these steps for a killer upper body workout and one of the best fat burning exercises. o Place a jump stretch band over the top of a chin up bar or the top bar of a squat rack. o Slide it through to make a knot and let the rest hang down. o Grasp the bar with a shoulder width grip and palms facing…

reason for my anxiety in school. She was the type of teacher who would say very demeaning things to you and make you feel like a total imbecile. I hated going to her class, my legs would shake, my stomach felt like it was twisting into the tightest knots, and my head would hurt from all of the stressing I would do over this English class. I remember the day Ms. Yanson asked me to meet with her after class. This was my worst nightmare, having a one on one conversation with the teacher you dread…

The story takes place in Hillsboro, Tennessee during the summer. Bertram Cates, a soft spoken yet rebellious sophomore science teacher, has been accused of disobeying the Butler Law, by teaching the theory of evolution to his class out of a biology textbook. Rachel Brown the daughter of Reverend Jeremiah Brown shares a close relationship with Cates which has now reached a romantic degree, she begs him to plead guilty and place himself at the mercy of the court. Cates, however, is the type of guy…

In the play The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, England was compared to many different types of forms of nature. Richard is King and John of Gaunt is trying to advice Richard of the troubles that he is causing England. In Act 2 Scene 2 John of Gaunt is on his death bed and delivers a speech for King Richard to hear. This speech paints many different images of what England was before Richard became King. These comparisons to England and the garden sets a vivid picture of how these two are…

Weddings in the twenty-first century are quite different than what would have taken place in the time of Romeo and Juliet. Marriage has changed tremendously since Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet; arranged marriage has vanished, marriage customs have changed, and how much goes into preparing a wedding. In the fifteenth century most marriages were arranged by parents or relatives not by marriage. The purpose of arranged marriage was to transfer land and ownership or peace treaty between two…

A Day in the Life of a Buddhist Monk in Korea, This girl wrote an article how she went a day with the Buddhist at the Beomeosa Temple in Busan, South Korea. When she got there around 1 pm with other foreigners, all of them immediately changed into their monk clothes. Consisted of a vest and baggy sweats designed specially for sitting “Indian style” when they will do meditation time. Had to learn few “temple manners,” like proper way to bow, whom to bow to, where to bow, how many times to bow,…

In the early 1600’s, there were two settlers, John Smith and William Bradford who came from England. In William Bradford's and Johns Smiths journal, it talks about the difficult lifestyle and the struggles of making new life in America. Although both journals and colonies share some similarities, they both also came across some differences. John smith came to the new world to seek for money while William Bradford came seeking for religious freedom and worship. In John Smith journal, he…

Discord among two people who both want to be the leader causes societies to fall apart and almost always results in chaos. In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, the two main characters, Jack and Ralph both want to be chief which eventually leads to the destruction of their society. When the boys first get together after Ralph blows a conch he found on the ground, they vote Ralph as leader. However, Jack says arrogantly “‘I ought to be chief’”. (Golding, 19). The manner of which Jack…