Pleading

What if you walked into your home and you saw your uncle on the ground with three bullets in his chest? He did not have three bullets in his chest because he shoot himself, but because he owed Nicky Barnes 300,000 dollars and did not pay his debt when it was do. This would be an example of and organized crime. On the other hand, what about a peanut company who add the wrong mixture by mistake and instead of degrading it, they continue to proceed to sell it on the market. While doing so they…

roses, him...again...the sweet words, the sweet lying words of the one she had loved most. Lies and all the lies she had gained. “Please stop haunting me, Dave. Please do,” she begged hopelessly in the night wind. Crying to sleep, she saw herself pleading to Dave, begging him not to leave her all alone in the dark again, in the pit of darkness where she once belongs and calls it home, but Dave didn't tolerate this kind of drama ― Dave, the once she calls it “hero”, the one whom she calls his…

The hundred years war Started when Charles the IV of France died in 1328 without an heir and Edward the III of England claimed the right to the kingdom of France. He made this claim through his mother. The French did not want a foreign king ruling over them so they went to war proclaiming Philip the VI of France as the new king. The French proclaimed Salic law which was where women could not transmit the right to rule or transmit the right to rule to their sons. This was established by King…

prejudicial, immaterial to the legal matter at hand, and will undoubtedly confuse and mislead the Triers of Fact. This motion is based on this notice of motion, the memorandum of points and authorities served and filed here, the material evidence and pleadings…

fix the egregious acts and Thoreau will not step over the line that needs to be done. Especially when it comes to slavery as the center point for most of the conflict about American exceptionalism. “From that time until now, I have been engaged in pleading the cause of my brethren—with what success, and with what devotion, I leave those acquainted with my labors to decide” (1235). b. Thoreau has the same resistance feeling throughout all of his works but never goes past the line. He speaks on…

Madyson McGowan In the story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the author tells a story about a nine-year-old girl named Margot, living in an underground city on Venus. Margot had once lived on Earth until she was four, but her family left Earth for a new life on Venus. Her whole life had been changed by this single action. On Venus, it rains all day long and there is never any sun to be seen, whereas, on Earth, the sun was almost always visible. This change causes Margot to only want to…

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most influential authors of his time; he is considered one of America’s finest authors. His work ranged in different fields of literacy as an editor, a literary critic, he was also gifted in writing elegant fictional short stories, beautiful poems and was known to be a master of horror and mystery tales. His best and most popular works include “The Raven”, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The House of Usher”. Poe was considered to be the inventor of the detective…

Police Brutality: Protecting or neglecting? Police officers have always been viewed as peaceful protectors. When a person is in danger or in need of assistance, the first number to dial is 911. However, the police have become more of a threat than a comfort due to their racial profiling, excessive use of firearms and their inability to make rational decisions. In the past year, American’s have seen many incidents where an officer has shot an unarmed black man for no apparent reason which has…

It’s 1965, you’re lost in the heart of a small town in Oklahoma, you see a “greasy” young boy get jumped by older, more fortunate boys, who comes to his rescue? Not a superhero in a cape, but a real human, a flawed person with all of their insecurities and past experiences. This is what a real hero looks like. Two unlikely heroes emerge in S.E. Hinton’s young adult fiction, “The Outsiders”. Dally Winston and Darry Curtis are heroes not because they save the town, but because of the little things…

The commanding officer of an army is usually responsible for his men and cares about them deeply. But in the second oldest piece of literature, The Odyssey, Odysseus puts the lives of others in danger and cares about himself. For example, when he decides to stay at the Cyclops’s cave, he put his men in danger and loses six of them, which could have been prevented. Furthermore, when Odysseus arrives to Helios’s island he makes his crew swear to him to not eat the cattle, which proves that he does…