Petra

The Premier Diamond Mining Company was founded by Thomas Cullinan (later Sir Thomas) in 1902, near the end of the second Boer War (South African War 1899 - 1902). The land was originally part of the Cornelis Minnaar Farm and was purchased for a sum total of £52,000 by Thomas. The company was first registered on the 6th November 1902 as the Premier Syndicate but was later re-registered as the Premier Transvaal Diamond Mining Company Ltd. on 1st December, 1902. Cullinan Village was established in…

that Graff does not want to help Ender he wants Ender to learn how to solve his own problems for himself. 57.Ender reacts to the warnings by being angry and also not knowing if he can trust Petra. But Ender does know that he can handle it himself. A quote from the chapter that shows Ender does not show trust in Petra…

those like them. Right after the Sealand woman lands, and subsequently kills numerous people, she, meeting Petra, “laughed, kissed her, and put her down” (193). The nonchalant behaviour is a result of not considering those “other” not human and regarding them with bigotry. It is also a paradox that the Sealand people care so much about Petra, while show “distaste” toward Waknuk’s, while Petra is, by birth, is a Waknuk (195). Ironically, in the…

Petra Hensley was 16 when she was taken from a train station in the Czech Republic, drugged and thrown into an abandoned apartment only 30 miles from her home. At the apartment she was tied to a wall and exploited sexually. Another trafficked victim was held in the room next to Petra’s. On Petra’s third day in captivity she heard her only companion in the apartment be shot and killed. Petra knew she was going to die if she did not escape this nightmare. Three days after being kidnapped Petra…

During the groups discussion on what they should do Michael said “If the worst comes to worst, and you can’t save Petra, it would be kinder to kill her than let her go to sterilization and banishment to the Fringes” (Wyndham 120) this shows that in times of danger where life is on the line Michael was willing to keep together and let everyone know what must be done…

In Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card the character Ender Wiggin is a strong archetypal romantic character. The story is about Ender Wiggin who goes to Battle School and defeats the Buggers. In order to beat the buggers Ender had to go through the hero’s journey. The hero’s journey is a journey that hero goes through in in order to complete a tasks ,but has many obstacles and the journey changes the character. Ender Wiggin is a romantic hero because he follows the Hero’s Journey steps of…

Over the course of time, there have been civilizations disappearing without a trace such as the Mayans, Nabateans, and The Olmec. Researchers are still astonished and can’t to seem to figure how a whole civilization can be here one day and gone the next without a trace. The common factors that these civilizations have and why it happened to them. The Mayans are known as a lost civilization that lived during the post-classical period (Indian ages). Their disappearance was noticed about 1000…

the propagation of cultural hegemony- “The prototype imperial collaborators are the upwardly mobile third-world professionals who imitate the style of their patrons” (Petras 2072). Here, the imperial collaborators are the educated intermediaries of the third world, who help propagate the culture of their patrons, the West. Petras speaks of cultural imperialism as experienced by people in third-world countries, wherein the locals are convinced by media and technology (controlled by the…

Jonah Halili 8-18-14 Literature Class The title An Enemy of the People is very twisted. While trying to help the people in the town, the protagonist, Dr. Stockmann, was being interrupted by his brother, Peter Stockmann, the editor of the People’s Messenger, Hovstad, and the printer, Aslaksen. When Dr. Stockmann gave out the truth about the pollution in the water to the people, they rejoiced him for being the hero of the town. What they did not know yet was the cost of the renovations to the…

Caviar 101 A crash course from two sisters living the caviar dream Caviar refers to unfertilized, salt-cured fish eggs from sturgeon. Five years ago, Petra Bergstein, Texas Tech, and Saskia Bergstein, TCU, had never tried the stuff. Petra’s work on a sturgeon farm in Sacramento, California, first hooked her on caviar in 2012, not only as a food but as a business idea. She enlisted her sister, Saskia—a consultant and CPA—to help build a new caviar brand from the ground up. Today, the sisters own…