Nicholas Hilliard

I am going to start out talking about our 2nd amendment, the right to bear arms. In today’s society you might as well bite your tongue, we have our people who believe they should be ripped away and others who say that everyone should own a gun. But what would Andrew do? Personally I believe Andrew would have wanted to keep guns, 1 reason being that he killed Charles Dickinson in a duel. These 2 relentlessly hated each other but this event had sparked after a horse derby, Dickinson stated that…

Emma Pollock Drs. Merz and Rennie HON 202 18 February 2017 De Docta Ignorantia: As a triangle is a circle, man is unbound from Being On a temperate day, centuries ago, Nicholas of Cusa was at sea returning to Venice from Constantinople when he claims he was led, through “supernatural generosity of the Father, so that he grasped the incomprehensible incomprehensibility in learned ignorance through the transcendence of humanly knowable yet incorruptible truths.” (Miller) A disciplined and varied…

there must be a way of doing it. ~ Sir Nicholas Winton When the Holocaust broke out many lives were put at risk, however people like Nicholas Winton became heroes for their deeds. Nicholas Winton’s deed was that he saved 669 children from death. Emigration wasn't an option. The world's doors were closed to refugees. Conditions in the camps were brutal for the 150,000 people trapped there, especially for the children. And no one focused on them until Nicholas Winton. Instead of spending time…

This is an extremely gripping film set in the 1940's in South Carolina when a poor man, Noah Calhoun, falls for Allie Hamilton, a wealthy young woman. This film explores the theme of love and the importance of setting. In my opinion, an important theme in the film "The Notebook", directed by Nick Cassavetes and based off the well known novel of the same name, is Love. This is the most prevailing theme throughout the film. Even though Allie and Noah are faced with many difficulties, their love…

A struggling single father hopes to win a million dollar prize by entering a competition to replace an injured Santa, save Christmas, and impress his young daughter. STORY COMMENTS ON FIRST 30 PAGES MY SANTA HERO is a sweet title for this family friendly holiday tale. The first 30 pages clearly defines the goal of saving Christmas, his family, and winning a million dollars. The emotional goal is trying to impress his young daughter. The idea of saving Christmas isn’t considered highly…

through faith, and this is not ourselves.” This quote is from Saint Nicholas, also known as Santa Claus. Saint Nicholas had a generous and loving heart and followed Jesus’s way to the best of his abilities. He always gave to the needy, helpless, poor, and sick throughout his life, even if it meant becoming one of those things as well. This saint will always be in everyone’s hearts no matter how bad or good things may be. Saint Nicholas was born in the third century. His parents died in an…

The dance takes the vocabulary of ballet, the story line of The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks and lyrics of Youth by Daughter and blends it into this immaculate presentation of my all-time favorite love story. The floor work resembles the struggle that those with Alzheimer’s face as they live daily without recognizing a bit of who…

Christmas is known for many things – feasts, gifts and presents, Santa Claus, decorating the Christmas tree with tinsel and ornate ornaments, but where did all of these traditions come from? America isn’t the only country that has trees or feasts in the winter months, so where did all of this Christmas fun originate, if not from here, and how did it get here to be celebrated in the first place? Well, to find out, you can start with the gifts that you get on Christmas day, and the cards that you…

A Summary Of The Notebook The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks is a fictional romance placed in the time of the 1940’s. This story is about two young adults who have their whole lives ahead of them and shows how different family values and upbringings affect a relationship and determine the outcome. As predictable as this story is it comes with some surprises in each of the characters lives and can be very relatable to some readers. The Notebook starts off with two older people one listening and…

Prior to that, they first began as the Nicholas kids, performing on vaudeville. They later danced on various New York stages, including the famous Cotton Club, creating an extremely successful act “that combined singing, soft-shoe dancing, acrobatics, and rhythm tapping with precision movement…