Make Way for Ducklings

identification to England, as they constantly relate to it, and want to build a genuine English society in Australia, in order to recall their roots. Some officers like Tench, for instance, out of cruelty but also customs, say that erecting a Tyburn “would make the convicts feel more at…

argument from contingency. The argument revolves around contingent beings, which are things that do not have to exist, but do, and necessary beings, things that could not fail to exist. Clarke constructs a chain of contingent beings leading all the way up to the only necessary being, God, but unfortunately three of the links in Clarke’s “Chain Suspended from Heaven” are faulty. The first faulty link is a logical fallacy, namely the fallacy of composition. Clarke assumes that because all of the…

depict courage in their own ways. In the story When Elephants Fight courage was displayed multiple times. The story describes Jimmy and his brothers being brought to the possibility of their own death in the hands of murderers. That stress gets multiplied when their parents were killed by the Lord's Resistance Army. While their parents loss took a hit at them,…

me names and sometimes physically do things to me. Such as throwing stuff at me sometimes pushing or tripping me. I think they think I'm a freak due to my mother killing herself. They think I'm ugly because I'm ugly. There's nothing that happened to make me ugly. I splashed my face with cold water and stared at my taunting reflection in the mirror. I looked like a complete mess as my reflection stared back at me. I had to look away. I hate that I am so ugly. I hate that I'm shamefully hiding…

everyone that I was the alien in the class again. As the day moved along, I start to realize that I am not going to make it. This class was painful as hell. I did learn some stuff in the class though, don’t get me wrong. Well, not necessarily those topics that you would speaks about at the dinner table with your parents or at church on a Sunday morning, but those topics that will make you look like a pro around your…

partying-I could already tell that I was going to regret my actions by tomorrow morning, but not as much as Landon. Recently, his parents grounded him for failing his classes and I suppose trashing the entire house was his way of retaliating. Luca and I went our separate ways. Landon wasn 't in sight, so I got out my phone and started going through my notifications. I had up to sixty from Tiffany, alone. I had about twenty missed calls and the rest were a bunch of text messages asking me…

I couldn 't find a way to make myself interested in the things I was reading. Every year there was a new summer reading assignment and every year I didn’t read it. I would try to but along the way I would end up opening Sparknotes and reading the summaries of each book instead. At times I felt bad because I knew that I should be taking advantage of the access…

risk of accidents may increase. First aiders should be available to ensure all children are kept as safe as possible and to ensure that any children who are injured get the assistance they require as soon as possible in a safe, calm and controlled way. Activity Two (2): The Age of the Children Participating: The activity is designed for a group of 5-7 year olds. However, the activity could be adapted for any age range. A Detailed Description of the Activity: Activity two would be a series of…

On December 14, 1945, Paul VanSteenbergen, my uncle, boarded a troop carrying liberty ship. He went inside and placed his standard issue backpack on his cot and then returned to the top deck to wave goodbye to his family and friends, who were waiting in the wooden pier below. Men leaned over railings, climbed on lifeboats, and perched midway up the masts to catch a last glimpse of their families. Now, at age eighty­nine he retells the story in his Guilford home. He verbalizes how he managed…

“I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.” This quote, from Carol Gilligan, an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist makes an interesting inquiry in her quote. In my judgement, gender will continue to have a socially constructed role in our culture, while sex has remained biologically determined and perpetrated because social roles in our culture have evolved greatly over the past decades. These roles…