Lucky Strike

He fought for the Maratha Empire which inhabited most of northern India, and is one of the largest Indian empires in history. He served as the peshwa for the Marathas in the early 19th century under Chhatrapati Shahu. The Marathas were extremely lucky to have Bajirao man their army, as he did many great things. Bajirao should be considered a hero. Bajirao is considered a hero through his help to the Maratha Empire because of his expansion of the empire, military intelligence and success in…

The population in other states decreased because so many people left for the California Gold Rush, talk about taking a big risk and hoping to strike some gold in California. The year 1849 is when the Gold Rush became best known for as “The Gold Rush and the Forty Niners”, not the National Football League team, but the 1849 miners, people who left their home for California. Everyone knew about…

but they do not complain or at least constantly ask for hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Celebrity pro athletes these days don’t find their fame are not satisfied enough with their fame, especially when it comes to fortune; once they strike big deals with their teams who offer massive amounts of money, they start to want and expect more overtime. Football player Dez Bryant, the wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys…

instilled this strength and this great feeling of accomplishment in everything I did, and I believe that is what has helped me overcome all these challenges. I say I am haunted by my childhood because those were the hardest days of my life. I was lucky enough to be so young and oblivious to what was truly going on, but the strength and tenacity my parents had within themselves to come to a new country in which they knew not one word of. They are the strength and rock that have guided me to be a…

game. When Swift was about 12 years old, a computer repairman taught Swift how to play three chords on a guitar. This performance leapfrogged her singing and songwriting career. Taylor Swift’s first song, Lucky You, was inspired by this repairman. Shortly after this swift receives…

or locked in a metal cage. Genie was raised in social insolation by her abusive Father, Clark Wiley. Clark lacked natural love as both his parents were not fully involved in his bringing; his Mother ran a brothel and his Father died of a lightning strike. The abandonment of his mother caused a large resentment towards her, and the death of his father meant he lived in multiple orphanages. The abandonment from Clark’s parents could have been the initial source of his…

well as locality, there’s also the aspect of the physical location, whether this be countries on a fault line or near a concentrated epicentre. Countries such as Japan who have both of these have to be well educated in responding to hazards and are lucky enough to have the technology in order to predict. It could also depend on whether the location is mountainous or flat as far as volcanoes are concerned. Hazards in mountainous areas are likely to be easier to respond to quicker than in flat…

“‘Sure,’ cried the tenant men, ‘but it’s our land…We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good, it’s still ours…’” (…). This line from John Steinbeck’s famous book The Grapes of Wrath spoke true for countless farmers during the 1930s. Farmers across the nation had to sit and watch as their family farms were destroyed by drought and dust storms. This tragic event became known as the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl, a term used for both the area affected by the severe…

for a Tragic Optimism”, Frankl introduced Jerry Long, a man who became a quadriplegic at seventeen. Jerry turned his tribulations into triumph by living by the motto, “I broke my neck, it didn’t break me” (147), insinuating that though tragedy may strike, one can still manage his life. But, does he truly have authority over his life if it was already determined what obstacles he had to jump…

attended an all boys school, St. Xavier's Institution when he was younger and then moved on to study at University College London after college. He lived a very typical student life as he grew up, going to cyber cafes and playing games such as Counter Strike and Starcraft for fun. He had a knack for table tennis as he used to play it really well and represented his school and eventually, his university when he studied in London. After finishing college, Timothy Tiah went on to pursue a BSc in…