Moses Montefiore

Port of Call Port of Call, the French Quarter bar and grill was established in 1963 as a steakhouse. The restaurant is located on the historic and beautiful Esplanade Avenue in the French Quarter. Port of Call started out as a small quiet neighborhood restaurant open only at night. The menu consisted of primarily steaks. The chefs would grind up the steak scraps to make the hamburgers. Due to the chefs using steak scraps hamburgers were not a regular menu item. As time went on, Port of Call has…

As far back as I can remember first impressions were of great significance because it’s during this time that one forms a mental image or an opinion about someone that they’ve just recently met. However, if first impressions depicted the correct image or true character of someone it would mean that the first impression that most people got after meeting my grandmother couldn’t be further from the truth. My grandmother would come across as cold or distant at first but then her true character…

Okay, Im pretty sure you know who i am now. Mary. Mary Ann. Mary Bouie. yeah, you know. For the whole 16 years of my life, there is one significant memory i think has shaped me. I believe they 're still shaping me to become a better person today. I might be illiturate, but just hang in there, okay? “Wake up mary” it would be 10 oclock at night waking me up. we had to go to grandma house again. "come on baby girl i gotta go to work." my oldest brother lifted me up and carried me to the…

Katherine Anne Porter’s famous short story “Flowering Judas” follows a women named Laura who is being courted by a man named Braggioni. The story itself uses symbolic meaning with flowers and religious symbols . With every event taking place in her house the reader feels the isolation with her. in Katherine Anne Porter “Flowering Judas the themes, author styles and literary devices all make the story more enjoyable to read. In Katherine Anne Porter’s “ Flowering Judas” the theme of Ideals vs…

Necessary Endings Helena Maria Miramontes is an American writer and English professor. She has written novels and shorts stories, like “The Moths” which is included in her collection of”The Moths and Other Stories.” The Moths is a coming-of-age story about a 14 year old girl who takes care of her sick abuelita. The characters of the story are the mom, the father, the girl’s older sisters, and the narrator which is the girl. The narrator is described as being different, unlike her older sisters…

earth, are revealied to each individual depending on their educational and cultural expreinces. All three poems To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works, by Phillis Wheatley, Learning to Read, by Fances Ellen Watkins Harper, and George Moses Horton, Myself, by George Horton, express education heightening the human expreince. The authors are all grateful for their abilities, and appricate their gifs, but also lament the overwhelming struggles…

Notice the diversity in the Biblical witness to God. Moses wrote that He is, “a consuming fire and a jealous God” (Deut. 4:24). Perhaps this is a reference to His Love; however, does it sound like love was the emphasis when Moses wrote that God would drive out the other nations before the Israelites (Deut. 9:5)? God commands that if anyone is working on the Sabbath, he should be put to death…