Plank

a penny in the baseboard of his room, when he explains to Libba his mother’s story, and when he talks to his mother at her grave site. The beginning of the story on page eight, is a passage about a penny that falls in between a wooden floorboard plank. Zane is…

Everyone has time to be healthy Freshman 15 is an expression used to describe an arbitrary amount of weight students put on in their first year of post secondary studies, usually due to unhealthy eating and poor exercise habits. Students say they struggle finding a balance between work, leisure, and maintaining healthy habits, leading to a lack of exercise, and poor nutrition. These complaints are clearly caused by a lack of intrinsic motivation and a growing status quo of complacency, rather…

1. In Book 5 of the Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Calypso is a character archetype by being the lover. Calypso saved Odysseus and then ultimately fell in love with him. Since she fell in love with him, Odysseus was trapped there for years. “But it was I who saved him-saw him straddle”(5.136). Calypso also presented her great love for Odysseus, in which she cared for him and wanted to live in immortality. She felt that if she offered him immortality, that he…

Following the Revolutionary War, there was an age of industrialization primarily keyed toward merit transportation. The most important contribution was the steam engine, which went from helping ships navigate colonial rivers to being the primary choice of Naval powers across the globe. Due to its flexibility in the water, steam ships were prized for being able to go against the current and wind. The downside to the steam ship was that it required constant fuel, coal being the main source. This…

when enveloped in cotton.” His heart was beating so fast that he thought his heart was the old man’s heart. He thinks the cops could hear his heart, and confesses to the murder, by saying “Villains, dissemble no more! I admit the deed!-Tear up the planks-here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”, page 87.…

From drinking too much to contracting rabies is what really matters. Some believe that Poe’s death was caused because of alcohol while others believe it was due to an animal infection that led to rabies. It can be clearly stated that alcohol was not the main component that led to the last line of Poe’s motivated life. For example, “Poe’s Final Days” from Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never- Ending Remembrance Kenneth Silverman states that “Apparently flooded with drink, he may have also been ill…

she could no longer control her breath at all. Shouting pirates, Kathrin bargaining with her father and her own heart beating was so loud she could even think. Now everything started happening a lot quicker. Charlotte was pushed to the end of the plank and had almost fallen when Kathrin came running to her. Charlotte looked at her with huge eyes while Kathrin’s father shouted at them both. Kathrin took her hand and before she had even thought about it, they jumped. Together. Her face and back…

Imagine landowners in the 1900’s, who owned a wide swath of land that has been passed down through the generations. As they look out the window, they see rolling hills and verdant fields. But when they’re strolling the property, they have an epiphany that these are not just normal hills, but man made mounds. Imagine their shock and amazement as they discover what has been under what they thought were hills for all these years. This is what Mrs. Edith Pretty must have thought as she realized…

In the United States of America there are two types of courts, federal and state. Federal courts are created under the Constitution to determine debates involving the Constitution and laws passed by Congress. State courts are created by a state which includes local courts created by cities, counties, and other municipalities. The differences between federal and state courts are defined mainly by jurisdiction. Federal court jurisdiction hear lawsuits against the United States and those…

For over 50 years South Africa suffered brutal repression coming from the Afrikaner Empire with the objective to own the land and all its resources. Racism was the main problem during 1948 until 1991, where African black people were abused and separated from their land due to a legislation named Apartheid imposed by the National Party (government party) in Africa. Afrikaners were Dutch decedents that arrived to Africa between the seventeenth and eighteenth century. From 1877 to 1878 the last…