Parchment

Deciding that using a pen name would be the best way to get my writing in the paper, I carefully constructed the persona of Mrs. Silence Dogood, a middle-aged widow who made fun of life as she lived it, when I was sixteen. I scrawled a letter onto parchment and signed it with her name, later slipping it under the door of my brother’s office in…

Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) is an autosomal recessive disease that impairs the ability of DNA repair in cells that are damaged by ultra violent light. XP is rare and roughly affects 1:250,000 Americans a year1. Unsurprisingly, early in a patient’s childhood they have extreme sun sensitivity, which gravely increases their incidence of basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, as well as benign and malignant melanomas. Before affected children reach the age of 20 years old, their incidence of…

It was the year 2058 and there were no more religious distinctions in Israel. After centuries of religious war, including the crusades, the Israeli-Arab conflict and the Intifada there was an even worse religious uprising. On April 13th in 2028, Pope John Francis visited Bethlehem for Easter. He was assassinated by Hamas terrorists, Mahmoud El Axan and Muhammed Bin Raji. The five year war that ensued resulted in the deaths of 2,000,000 people and destroyed most of the religious sites in…

Power shall be vested in a President of the United Statesv." But Scalia ignores the concomitant clause that states "Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departmentsvi" as well as the sweeping powers given to Congress through the Necessary and Proper provision. Necessary and Proper gives Congress the means to make laws concerning the execution of federal powers, so it can hardly…

Ode to Moleskine I sometimes feel I was born out of time; I should've been a scribe in the middle ages when royalty valued such skills but would in all probability, end up beheaded for my insolence. A friend introduced me to an associate photo studio owner In the summer of 2008, where I was presented with the opportunity to get serious about photography. Her business was centered on models that weren't entirely cut out for agency work and needed photographers to put them in their best light. ─…

running on low, add the chocolate chips. Be careful to not over mix. 5.Put dough out onto a floured surface and fold into a ball. 6.Pat dough into a circle about 2 inches deep, and cut into 8 triangles. 7.Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 18-20 minutes. 8.Allow scones to cool on a wire rack. **During my 1st attempt at making these, it turned into cookie dough. (I think I let my butter set out too long) So I rolled the dough into 2.5 inch balls. Then…

dating a fellow Bengali, but once he gets to know her, he changes his mind. “It is her familiarity that makes him curious about her” (199). Gogol weds Moushimi with a traditional Indian wedding, wearing traditional Bengali clothing. He wears “...a parchment-colored Punjabi top that had once belonged to his father, a prepleated dhoti with a drawstring waist, a pair of nagrai slippers with curling toes” (220). While Moushumi herself is dressed in a sari, her neck draped with priceless jewels. The…

She’d singed the edges of the parchment to make it look old. The map showed the cave at the source of the Charles River, the swan boats flying away, the chocolate mice at Burdick’s. Christina’s Ice Cream, Ashmont, the cemetery with dragons’ teeth” (Goodman 1). With this painting of the…

This paper will discuss two oil paintings created by Francisco de Zurbarán (Spain, 1650) and Henry Oshawa Tanner (France, 1898) that depict the popular religious scene known as the Annunciation. In the Christian faith, the Annunciation refers to a celebration of when Gabriel appeared before the Virgin Mary to inform her that she would conceive the son of God. Both artists describe the same incident, sharing the same basic subject matter and similar visual arrangement. However, in attempting…

layers are erased, and new ones are built on top of the old. This metaphor is extremely useful for landscape architects. It takes skill, knowledge and a keen eye to detect and decipher faint texts on a parchment. It also involves a high degree of respect and caution when dealing with the physical parchment itself. One cannot assume to know what lies beneath the most recent layer or indeed which layer will prove to have significance. The same is true of landscapes and, as conscious and skilled…