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Pompeii The sky grew heavy with smoke and ash. The once quiet streets of Pompeii raged with fearful chaos, as the dark ashes rained mercilessly. I was at home when it happened. I watched my town fill with ash and sorrow whilst people I knew, people I cared for ran carelessly about in attempt to get away from the erupting volcano. I was at home with with my younger sister when Mount Vesuvius erupted. I hadn’t known where to go or what to do. With little direction in mind, we ran away from the…

attended Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., intermittently between 1920 and 1926 but did not take a degree. Before his books attained success, he spent considerable time supporting himself as a manual laborer while writing, and his experiences lent authenticity to his depictions of the lives of the workers in his stories. He spent much of his life in Monterey county, Calif., which later was the setting of some of his fiction. Steinbeck’s reputation rests mostly on the naturalistic novels…

“The British are coming,The British are coming.” This is a quote by Paul Revere. He was born on January 1st,1735 in Boston ,MA. In this report you will learn about Paul Revere. Paul Revere had a very interesting early life. Paul was 19 when his father died, leaving him to help with his mom/siblings. In the year of 1775, he married a woman named Sarah Orne. With Sarah he had 8 children. 16 years after he married Sarah , she died. Then Mr.Revere married a woman named Rachel Walker,…

people felt like they had been punished enough, they were still forced to pay 12.1 billion US dollars. Being that Germany had just been devastated by a war, they were in no economic position to pay. They turned to the united states for help, and were lent money. Unfortunately for Germany, the United States entered the great…

Alexie provides the readers a succinct description of character for the great American Indian novel. In the first 22 lines, he discusses the characters, both hero and heroine. For the hero for example, there some qualities that must be possessed. In general, the great American Indian novel must have a character with the tragic features (line 1-2). They must have secrets (line 14-15), and see visions (line 25). Aside from the tragic features, having secret and seeing vision, first of all the hero…

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, also known as the RFC was created under President Herbert Hoover but it was given more attention under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his New Deal was to give “financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.” (Wikipedia definition). This corporation was created to help stimulate the economy during the Great Depression. The bill was signed on 1932 and apparently…

When I write,I try to capture in words, the half etched thoughts, the unformed silences ,the vaguely understood swirl of emotions all entangled with and undifferentiated from the chaotic images that flash and disappear. When I visualize, I try to capture,in images this time, those half etched thoughts, those unformed silences,those vaguely understood swirls of emotions entangled with and undifferentiated from the chaotic words that flash and disappear. An image, that has never been a word…

students from harming themselves. Not only to protect them, but the students are also on the school’s property. Which means, It also shouldn’t be illegal from schools to search their students’ lockers or desks, because after all, they are school property lent to them to help them, and they are abusing this…

I think one thing that sets me apart from other candidates applying to the University of California. For one important reason is that I am a part of the organization called Global Glimpse. It is a unique community service program helped empowered me to think critically. Global Glimpse choses students who, exemplify the values of courage, commitment, and compassion. I made me soon realize that I am a caring and motivated student who wants to learn more about my world. I try to have a social…

from heaven, a promise of an individual destined for a future of hope. However the son’s life was abruptly cut short as heaven once again unjustly stole away the life of yet another Jonson child. The diction in lines 3 and 4, “Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay. Exacted by thy fate, on the just day,” draws a correlating line to the theme of heaven sending children to the world but unlike the daughter’s poem these lines feel angry. Juxtaposing the poem, “On My First Daughter,” where…