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The need for renewable energy is becoming a high priority as the population and resources used continue to rise. With the amount of pollution output by Americans, we must find renewable sources that don’t harm our planet. The need for gas and oil has become a problem in today’s society as it is constantly being burned, and creates harmful fumes in our ozone. A promising energy source would be wind power, because it is an infinite source of energy as our planet naturally produces wind. Although…

Usman Aliyu Mr. Ramon Villar G10 Integrated Humanities: History 20 November 2017 Essay on Imperialism “Imperialism is the act of a bigger (stronger nation) takes full control over a smaller (weaker nation). It dominates in aspects such as political, social, economical aspect of the country (What is Imperialism, 2017)”. The term imperialism came from the Latin verb "imperare", it means 'to command' and from the Roman "imperium" (expansion). As early 1830, Europeans started imperialism in…

practical evidence to back up his argument that Thalidomide was completely safe. Eventually, it was taken off the market in March of 1962 (“Helix Magazine”). But, Grunenthal did not force it’s sister company in Spain to foreclose, so it was sold in Madrid,Spain until about 1980 (“Thalidomide”). It did not help that the Spanish government did not properly enforce the controls over Thalidomide usage (“Thalidomide”). Fortunately, America did not face this horrendous tragedy because the Food…

Bartolomé de las Casas was born in 1484 in Sevilla, Spain and died July 1566 in Madrid. He was a very famous Spanish historian, social reformer, and Dominican friar in the 16th-century. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially elected “Protector of the Indians.” His most famous writing is the excerpt A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias. Las Casas objected to the Spanish treatment of the natives, and in 1542 he wrote an…

As mentioned and referred Kashmir, Al-Qaida is expanding the operations from this platform and there hidden units in the state. Al Qaeda – the Arabic meaning of the term is THE BASE. The organisation started growing with the dense network of Arab volunteers who migrated to Afghanistan in the eighties to protest under the flag of Islam against the soviets. This organisation stands on a solid platform of unbreakable religious beliefs and extreme rigidness. These volunteers confuse terrorism with a…

Color, Biblical Imagery, Physical Path, Landscape, and Animals In “Hills Like White Elephants” and “After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned” Hemmingway and Eggers both use the symbolism of color, Biblical imagery, a physical path, landscape, and animals to enhance their respective story’s meaning. Through symbolism the reader can get a complete understanding of what each of the characters are feeling. Hemingway is famous for his stories about everyday people that his readers can…

Las Meninas painted in 1656 with oil on canvas, is a depiction of everyday life of the royal Spanish family where Diego Velazquez was able to show a real moment in time, avoiding idealism and capturing truth. Velazquez was a court painter of the royal family, King Philip IV and Queen Maria Anna, which he worked hard at to achieve, and wanted to show this achievement to others. When viewing the painting the obvious focal point is Princess Margarita who stands out from the center, dressed in…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” is a short story that tells the conversation of a young lady and older gentleman of the 1920’s. The two characters, Jig and an older American man are being portrayed from a third person point of view and their thoughts and feeling are sometimes questionable throughout the story. Both characters are at a train station in a valley in Spain drinking. The conversation is about a procedure that the young lady is skeptical about having done. Hemingway’s…

women. If the Prioress was written as a male, or was an ideal women who did wrong, excuses would have been made in her favor. This can be argued simply by the fact that although Ambrosio committed murder twice, and committed incest, the people of Madrid were still ready to forgive him as the guards came up signify his pardon in chapter twelve. Ambrosio not only got a fair trial, but his fate and person was taken in consideration long before action was taken on his crimes. Unfairly and inhuman…

The poem Castile by Louise Gluck tells of a train ride throughout the country of Spain. It, as many of Glucks other works of poetry and poems, focuses on relationships and has a whimsical setting. The relationship she mulls over in this poem is that of a lover, whether it happened or not. Several times in the poem, the speaker states “I dreamed this” while questioning the reality of the dream and their memories. The poem is disconnected, almost like a dream, the speaker is coming in and out of…