Prince Caspian

Once upon a time I was laying down on my bed bored. It was a friday morning there was no school today so I layed down in started thinking of something I can do to keep from being bored. Finallly, I came up with a plan to create this nice monster human like creature. I searched for things I can use to build it with. First I grabbed all of the old wires that I had around the house. Then I ordered fake human skin from online. After that I sketched the parts out on a sheet of paper so, I would know…

Sam laughed as her husband and son came flying out of the portal wearing their new costumes. Lilith, who was sitting on her laughed, giggled so much that she intangibly fell through Sam's embrace. “You didn't tell me you were getting a new look, too,” Sam called, as Danny walked out of the Specter Speeder. “Yeah, well, I wasn't expecting to, either,” Danny admitted. His costume was an updated version with a more armored material, that moved just as flexibly as the original. Instead of a white…

The Scorch Trials opens with the boys we call them Gladers all in their dormitories having a grand old confusing time, when a new something bad happens. Crazy people outside they are called Cranks start screaming, so the boys all race into Teresa's room to see if she's okay. On the way, they find a bunch of dead bodies hanging from the ceiling of the hallway. Great. Then, when the boys get to Teresa's room, they find that she's gone; a boy named Aris is in her room instead. No one knows what's…

My birth name is Prince Albrecht III, but to avoid any further association with my father, I simply go by Brecht. Yes, King Brecht! That is a fitting name for a monarch, and it shall be mine very soon, but I must first determine how this assassination will take place. His…

his political treatise, The Prince in 1532, Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with unprincipled, deceptive, and tyrannical tactics. In his lecture ‘Machiavelli on Republican Virtue,’ Dr. Cook argues that The Prince is grossly misinterpreted, deemed an apology for tyranny, critics have gone so far as to label it the dictatorial handbook. On the contrary, Machiavelli, through The Prince, was advocating for Republican government. Cook maintains that the Prince, needs to be read with an…

Machiavelli’s book The Prince so controversial? The prince is an analytical ‘handbook’ written by political philosopher, Niccolò Machiavelli. Within the book, Machiavelli offers advice to new princes regarding the way in which they can gain and maintain power in a state. However, since its publication in 1532, the book has been dubbed controversial due to the ideas it shared and was even banned by the Roman Catholic Church in 1559, raising the question, why was Machiavelli’s book ‘The Prince’ so…

In The Prince, Machiavelli uses fortuna to refer to the luck and opportunity that can befall a prince. In addition, he uses the word virtu when referring to the ability of a leader. A ruler who is given power through inheritance, or wealth, relies on money and family in order to sustain their power, like a crutch. Take away the crutch, and the prince will lose their ability to sustain their regime because they lack the virtu to lead alone . Through the passage a significant detail is added to…

personal narratives or texts and the intentions of their writings. Primary sources that will be explored in this essay are Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) translated by Thomas Wright and William Marsden, the Venetian, Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) translated by W.K. Marriott, Bartolome de Las Casas’s A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1532) translated by R.Hewson, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) by Olaudah Equiano, and The…

The rise and fall of an empire will depend on the mind and intentions behind the leader. In The Count of Monte Cristo- by Alexandre Dumas and “Viva La Vida”- by Coldplay, both the author and the songwriter use imagery and allusion to convey the idea that desire and excessive power can lead to the fall of an empire. In The Count of Monte Cristo, a man by the name of Villefort, is the Royalist son of a Bonapartist. Villefort slowly made his way up the social ladder, was a trusted Royalist, and…

The thing that surprised me the most about the spring break trip was the city of Memphis. I had much higher expectations for the city. Although those expectations were not fair they were nowhere close to being met. I visited other parts of Tennessee before but never Memphis, so I had high expectations for the city since I had been down south before. The vibes I received from Memphis were poor. The food wasn't extraordinary. The people weren't open to new black people in the neighborhood. I…