Morning sickness

The journey began at Aberdeen railway station at seven fifty two A.M. on a grim, murky, and wet Saturday. I boarded the train for York, a pungent odour of fried food engulfed my senses. It made me feel nauseous, great start ! I wished I was back home with all it's familiarity and the delicious smell of my mum’s highly scented candles. Eventually later that day I arrived in Grimsby, I thought the day could not get any worse; I was confronted by the same bleak and grey weather i had left behind in…

and greed to children, the truth is less severe which helps kids understand without scaring them. In the first story, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” Potter introduces death through the bunnies’ late father. ““Now, my dears,’ said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, “you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don’t go into Mr. McGregors garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put into a pie by Mrs. McGregor.”” While Potter doesn’t directly state it, it’s clear the father was killed…

Uncle Jack about the Tom Robinson trial, he expresses to him his worries, “You know what’s going to happen as well as I do, Jack, and I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without catching Maycomb’s usual disease” (93). The "standard sickness" in Maycomb is immense racism. Due to his association in the Tom Robinson trial, Atticus expects that his children may be induced to judge African Americans inadequately. Atticus tries to keep the negative impacts of others in the town from…

When we think about killing innocent people the first names that come up to us are Osama Bin Laden with 911 and Adolf Hitler in the holocaust; however there is one person that killed innocent people by sending an atomic bomb in 1945. This person is U.S. President Harry Truman, he tough that by sending the atomic bomb the war with Japan would stop. Throughout history people wonder if the decision that President Harry Truman was the right one. Harry Truman took a barbarous decision of sending an…

not worn for him - a custom which still obtains with us - laying the rod heavily upon the boys for their boyish pranks, he still was wonderfully tender-would invariably walk up hill rather than burden his horse, loved his family devotedly, and when sickness occurred, always installed himself as nurse’”(DuBoise 18). Of his twenty children, those that lived to adulthood were like their father in strong opposition to slavery even though most did not share his…

The plan was simple, practically unbeatable, and a sure win for the Allies. Nothing could possibly allow it to fail. The Battle of the Somme was a complete military blunder when the fight broke out on that dreadful July 1st morning in 1916, to when it ended on November 18th, 1916. Despite the fact that the French needed relief from the German’s at Verdun, the Somme Offensive was only supposed to be a short battle. What it turned into was a mass killing of numerous troops on both sides of the…

William Blake was a radical poet who encompassed the ideals of the Romantic Era while also promoting social change with his work. The first goal of the Romantic Movement, God in nature, is a huge part of Blake’s writings. He was also a strong believer in the second objective, putting desire back into the world. Besides that, he also wrote about social issues that he thought should be changed. Blake was a revolutionary poet who fully embraced the spirit of the Romantic Era and radical ideas.…

What exactly is gender inequality? Where did it come from and when did it start? Gender inequality is the injustice and prejudice treatment and behavior between men and women, which can also be known as sexism. Gender inequality goes back decades and centuries ago to the agricultural era. During such a time, men and women performed massively different jobs. The men worked with heavy field labor type of jobs, while the women worked with domestic-type jobs such as clothing and food preparation.…

Many teens in the United States are encountering multiple pregnancies. Teens should take precautions and learn how to prevent pregnancies or even future pregnancies; if not, teenagers will face consequences of having a child at a young age. Having a baby can cause teenagers to develop health issues. There are many complications that can occur when dealing with a child in a teenager’s life. Most teens that get pregnant end up not finishing school and decide to drop out, resulting in the…

On the 12 of February 1809 a boy named Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. Lincoln came from humble beginnings, living in a log cabin in backwoods Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois and working to help support his family by giving everything he earned to his father. As Lincoln developed into adulthood, countless people and events shaped and refined his views. People who significantly impacted these views included his father, mother, and wife as…