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come up with more and more creative ways to tell Makoto she's not interested. Yet you find yourself saying, “So what?” Maybe you're tired of heart-shaped cootie and lovebug bite marks all over your arms and legs. Perhaps you have a heart blacker than Queen Boreal's soul and the holiday causes you to cower in your home until all of the pink blows over. No matter! Here are some helpful tips to get the grumpiest of grumps through the holiday. 1. Be prepared for the annual Infestation ahead of…

Nefertiti was an extremely powerful Queen during the eighteenth dynasty, and to this day she remains one of the most famous Egyptian Queens to have ever ruled. Nefertiti translates to “the beautiful woman has come”. She is suspected to have been very tall, thin, and she was known as the most beautiful woman in all of Egypt during her time. At age 15 she married Amenhotep who is later known as Akenhaton. Even though she was the wife of King Akenhaton, she along with other women played a…

I chose the book The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley because I have always been fascinated by how our culture views sex and how it has had an effect on our evolution. The author discusses how the biological factors of sexual selection has affected human psychology. You probably remember the Red Queen hypothesis from recently. From Through the Looking Glass, Alice meets the Red Queen who is constantly running just to stay in one place and not fall behind. This is…

Sphere of Influence When Elizabeth 1 became queen of England, she understood the importance of controlling the way she was portrayed. With this control in her hands. Elizabeth created a mythical image of herself that subjects embraced also glorified. Elizabeth wasn’t just the queen, she was a great artist, but more importantly, her strong personality influenced along with inspired the arts, including the culture of England to reach new heights. Elizabeth became the Imperial Votaress in the…

In excerpt of Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen he uses various literary devices to stress the idea that winning the race is as essential to Abraham Okimasis as breathing. By using characterization of the location and vivid imagery, Highway conveys a tone of dramatic suspense during the last leg of Abraham Okimasis’ race. To introduce the reader into the last leg of the race Highway decrives the harsh conditions that were taking place. Highway describes the air as” so crisp, so dry [as] Abraham…

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was the queen of Egypt for 22 years. Although she was a queen for quite a long time, it was not a simple task for her; she had to go through various issues before she finally became ruler of Egypt. Cleopatra was born in Alexandria, Egypt around 69 BCE. In 51 BCE, her father, King Ptolemy XII, died after his long reign as king. 18-year-old Cleopatra and her 10-year-old brother, Ptolemy XIII, were married off and became the new rulers of Egypt, but they faced…

the same importance as men. In William Shakespeare’s tragic play “Hamlet”, the female characters, Queen Gertrude and Ophelia, are given very few lines and are either portrayed negatively, or just seen as sex objects that men can do whatever they want with. The lack of significance they are given allows for them to be merely background characters, instead of playing major roles. Throughout the play, Queen Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother is portrayed negatively. She is criticized by Hamlet as being…

Queen Nzinga Mbande, Queen Nzinga for short, was the powerful African ruler of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms, is now the country of Angola, during the 16th and 17th century. She was best recognized as the fearless leader that helped her people fought against the colonization of the Portuguese and bring freedom to her country, as well as free her people from slavery. Ngola Kiluanji Kia Samba, Nzinga’s father, was the ruler of the Ndongo people at the time Nzinga was born. Her brother, King…

Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage is based primarily on Book Four Virgil’s The Aeneid and is an exploration of the dangers of female rule and gender identities. Marlowe’s interpretation of Dido’s character is focused on Dido’s struggle to maintain both her ‘masculine’ nature as a ruler and her ‘feminine’ nature as an individual. Marlowe views female rule bearing too many weaknesses, such as a female ruler requiring a marriage to produce a legitimate heir could place the nation under…

There is a new Queen, who was born among royalty during the year of 1558 in Hatfield, England. She is one of the three surviving children of King Henry VIII and the most unlikely to be next in line for the throne. She would rule during a time period where her Protestant faith would be tested in the highest regard due to her mother and her brother previous rule before her. She never knew her mother, Anne Boylan, for she was beheaded before the people for being “unfaithful” to the king. The main…