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Settling into my armchair, I glance out the window, taking in my surroundings. It’s another warm October day in Messina as the Celeste sky manages to peek through the clouds. Exhausted from a long day of tending to patients, I feel myself starting to drift off, escaping the chaos of being the town’s leading medici et phisici, a healer and person learned in science. All of a sudden, the front door slams, jolting me awake. The rapidly approaching footsteps cause me to sit up in apprehension. Out…

Final Thesis: Coco Chanel broke barriers and ignored the rules of structures “ladylike” fashion; Chanel’s legacy revolutionized and paved the way for not only high in fashion, but influenced and impacted women’s everyday wear and freedom of clothing. Core Text: Chanel and her World provide readers with Chanel’s life from the birth of her grandfather to the legacy she left behind after her death. The book goes in depth of how Coco Chanel invented modern clothing for women by stripping women of…

“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, is a novel about the tragic fall of Okonkwo, the protagonist, and the Igbo culture. The novel takes place in Umuofia, a village in the eastern part of Nigeria where the Igbo culture is seen. Religion and faith play a substantial role in the novel and are possibly the main reasons the novel plays out the way it does. If the religious and faith aspects of this novel were not as strong, then the novel may have turned out differently. Achebe shows how the…

back to overlook these territories and keep them secure. He held some of my fellow warrior behind to kill any thieves of the goods. We made our way to Persia, keeping in contact with Genghis through post-houses that were enforced to be put up with messengers or spies in…

The Odyssey by Homer is an epic of a Trojan war hero and his ten year long struggle to get back home. “But if you only knew, down deep, what pains are fated to fill your cup before you reach that shore, you’d stay right here..” Odysseus and his crew have won the battle of Troy, and tries to make their way home. They encounter many obstacles and all but Odysseus succumb to death. Odysseus faces many challenges until successfully returning to his home and family after twenty long years.…

Those who have seen into the nothingness of the void, as I have, know that this millennium, perhaps even this century is mankind’s last. We have too long ignored the idea that there is more to the universe than what rationality and science can explain. Now, with all of our knowledge we can do nothing, I can do nothing, to stop the impending demise of our race. We are finished as a species, our tale, long past its climax and entering the end of its final act; the knowledge of why this is to come…

summer reading project entry 1 the major people in a long way gone include ishmael beah who is the protagonist of the book and through the book he is running from soldiers but eventually he becomes a soldier when he cannot escape them. junior is ishmael's brother who plays a major role in how ishmael acts as a soldier even though junior and ishmael were separated. for example when ishmael was going to reunite with his family just before he got there it was burned down causing ishmael…

In Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, the Europeans creep into Africa and plant their own religion and government. Okonkwo states, “The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.” (20). The white men are very clever because they ask for what they can get…

They seem to have their own miniature perfection, which is charming. From their perspective even measurement of time looks different – the third part of a minute is an important division of time for them. Even miniature fairies, such as Cobweb, Moth, Peas-blossom, and Mustardseed, are devoted to making the world happier and more beautiful. They delight in all beautiful and petite things, and war with things that creep and things that fly. Their behavior seem to be very unselfish and…

"Shit. Can 't believe I did that in a skirt." she laughed, pushing herself up with her right arm. A throbbing pain shot through her left arm, starting near her shoulder, she must have disconnected it. The wind picked up, tossing her wavy dirty blond hair in her face. She pushed her hair back then realizing that she had a gun in her hand. She tucked it in the back of her gray office skirt that was now torn in many different places and covered with splotches of blood, same with her blazer. She…