Nine to Five

Faubus became the national symbol of racial segregation. When he used Arkansas National guardsmen to block the enrollment of nine black children. That day they had been ordered by a federal judge to desegregate. People say that Governor Faubus action’s created a crisis with the President. You may call him D. Eisenhower, his full Dr.…

Bates, NAACP president in Little Rock, choose nine African American students to integrate Central High. These nine students are now known as the Little Rock Nine, which include: Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray, Terrance Roberts, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Jefferson Thomas, Melba Patillo, and Carlotta Walls. On September 4, 1957, crowds of protesters, white parents and students alike, ridiculed them and refused to let these nine students enter the school. Governor Orval…

This corporation is known as Illium Works. The main character is David Potter a twenty nine year old married man with twin boys and brand new twin girls. Potter who previously owned a small town weekly newspaper business for the past eight years decides he wants a new corporate job with all the benefits to support his family. The other main…

“That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget” (13-14). By just looking at the last two lines of this sonnet, the theme of the whole poem could be inferred. While John Donne grew up being a Catholic, he later became a Protestant. Due to him suffering through losses and tragic events throughout his life, he, at times, felt conflicted and confused to why his God would let him suffer through that. But overall, he was a man who was passionate about religion,…

Feng Ru. Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru all encountered life changing experiences to impact their lives and countries. Melba Pattillo Beals, an African American, changed education for all races. Melba was part of the Little Rock Nine that segregated to an all white school in Arkansas. In paragraph eighteen, it states,“Step by step we climbed upward-where none of my people had ever before walked as a student. We stepped…

In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse Five, the main character Billy discusses death numerous times and how it’s simply a part of life. To further go on, The Tralfamadorians also see death as just another aspect in life, “Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is ‘So it goes’ (27). This quote talks about how the Tralfamadorians view death and that to them it is irrelevant. Vonnegut uses the phrase “So it goes”…

hypocrite in his views. His writings and teachings consistently defended the nobility’s power. In his Ninety-Five Theses, Martin Luther criticized many practices of the Roman Catholic Church, most notably the sale of indulgences. Indulgences were a piece of paper, that for a small price, were believed to send souls from purgatory, a place between Heaven and Hell, directly to Heaven. In his Ninety-Five Theses, Luther criticized the sale of indulgences, saying “Any truly repentant Christian has…

Quitilian writes on Pindar ‘of the nine lyric poets Pindar is by far the greatest… his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language… and his rolling flood of eloquence’ . Pindar was usually paid by a family member of a victor at the Olympic…

With influence from Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas is said to be one of the most influential thinkers of medieval scholasticism. A man who was once a simple theologian, became the founder of many teachings within the Catholic church. Starting as the youngest son of a family within lower nobility, St. Thomas Aquinas will end his life as an ordained teacher of theology and will have developed ideas of God. Most of his philosophical ideas and teachings come from his search for the existence and true…

Introduction Fishbanks Simulation is a resource management simulation created by Dennis L. Meadows. Teams play the roles of fishing companies in the simulation and compete with each other, dealing with the variations in fish populations and catches for the purpose of maximizing the net worth. Given three ships and same bank statement, each team has an equal start to make decisions about selling, bidding, and ordering ships, as well as the allocation of ships in harbour, coast, and deep sea.…