Mercenary

This dream is for romantics and lovers. Certainly the dream isn’t the sum of the colorful patterns of Hawaiian shirts, coconut bras and grass skirts alone. It’s not in the Pina Colada, or the Surfer on Acid. The boutiques of Waikiki teeming with Japanese tourists, those we can ignore all together, laugh at their circumstance. The accoutrements of hustle and bustle such as these have all been and will continue to be part of the Great Marketing image of a Paradise, and everyday life grows like…

Track 5: The Glamorous Life Sheila E., The Glamorous Life One of the most significant outcomes of the Sunset Sound sessions was an album for Sheila Escovedo, a young Latin with well-honed percussion skills. She was the daughter of a professional backing player and had been introduced to Prince by Carlos Santana. With some considerable coaxing, Prince got Sheila to take a stab at the mic. Following a first, successful collaboration on “Erotic City,” Prince pulled her into the studio with a pile…

grievances through the phrase “He has; (…) He has refused his assent to laws most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” (Jefferson 341-343) This repetition combined with an assertive tone, “He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny…” (Jefferson 342) all try and convey the frustrations felt by the American people straight onto those in power. The words used in these passages also of note, differing from…

Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula has long been held to be possessed of out of control appetites. She is routinely framed as a sexually voracious woman, perhaps even one of the fin-de-siecle's dreaded “New Women,” whose overweening erotic desire is inextricably linked to the horror of her own vampirism and to the violence of her own demise. Reading Dracula as being at the confluence of uniquely Victorian anxieties regarding gender and sexuality, numerous of scholars have argued that a line…

For 500 years, Rome was considered the center of the world and had impacted the world like no other. Its great accomplishments and innovations that were made have pushed human intelligence to the fullest. The unstoppable Roman Empire always believed it was a force that would never fall, but everything good will probably come to an end. While some of its blame can be pointed toward outside forces, a majority of its problems was inner conflicts and poor political choices. The major reasons for the…

geographically on the periphery of Europe, Ireland and the course of the Nine Years War was profoundly influenced by the transformations taking place in continental Europe. The stereotypical native hosts of armoured gallowglass, kern and Scottish mercenary redshanks had little part to play in a war where for the most part military pragmatism and innovation dominated. The reality was so different that sometimes that one must wonder how or why this confusion continues to occur. Thomas Bartlett…

Three decades after the Berlin Conference in Africa the European power is now occupied and colonized in Africa this process later evoking the Scramble of Africa. In the nine documents given each has a specific quality that differs AND relates them to one another. Africa has many actions and reactions responding to the European Scramble that has now taken place. Most of these documents are relatable because each try to convey something that went on during this time. All nine documents will show…

THE OTHER SIDE OF SANDEL’S COIN In contemporary society, money can buy almost anything from access to an express line of an amusement park to a permanent residence in the United States. In his discussion of selective examples, Sandel argues that putting a price tag everything creates inequality based on income, and morally corrupts their inherent value. However, this theory fails to take into account the inequality that is already present in our world and instead romanticizes the definition of…

this as their chance to be something greater, to serve a higher purpose and gain valor. The church made it seem as if one would receive rewards for their service. Incentives were set out for the poor and needy, “Let those who have formerly been mercenaries at low wages, now gain eternal rewards. Let those who have been striving to the detriment both of body and soul, now labor for a two-fold reward” (Fulcher of Chartres 4). The church aims to nullify the alms of slaughtering others through…

The Battle of Cannae Carthage was a city located on the Mediterranean Sea in Northern Africa. It was founded near the year 814 B.C. by Phoenician traders who had a long tradition of trade in the sea (Bradford 21-22). The city was built for trading. It contained two harbors, one for the public trading, with ships from all over the known world. The other port was used as a military harbor (Bradford 22). The city was first built for trading alone, but as the Carthaginians started to discover the…