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Puerto Rico’s Culture, History, and Food What is Culture? Culture is a series of visual manifestations and interactions with the environment that make a region different from the rest of the world. Culture is the combination of values, beliefs, and practices of a particular group. Puerto Rico is a beautiful country with rich cultural diversity. Although, Puerto Rico is the smallest of the Greater Antilles. Puerto Rico is made up of the Main Island surrounding smaller islands. Being a…

Authenticity is supposed to have a moral and motivation to do the right thing. I often see authenticity as sometimes black and white but then again sometimes I see it as shades of grey throughout the situation. When I look at person and they have done wrong but yet something good came out of it I see it as shades of grey. Yes, they have done something wrong, but it came with a good outcome. Authenticity has diverse meanings and definitions but I think authenticity means having integrity, having…

INTRODUCTION The series is termed as A Song of Ice and Fire written by GRR Martin, and the game of thrones comes from the first book of this series. The name of the series tries to provide a perspective to its readers that at some point of time Fire and Ice will be opposing each other, sometime. The whole series orbits around intensified politics, where a set of houses, take as modern day nations, are trying to take over a common throne, assume being the ultimate super-power. The series…

Michael Santurello II The Hobbit Hon English IV 8 February 2017 A Journey Into The Hobbit A journey into the middle-earth, is where the author J.R.R Tolkien takes the reader in the novel known as The Hobbit. This book tells of a quest in which Bilbo Baggins, a small hobbit is hired by dwarves to come with them to fight a dragon and have a share of their treasure. There is much reason to believe that, even though not his intent, Mr. Tolkien had made his writings of Lord of the Rings and the…

Loyalty’s Different Meanings Loyalty can make or break any relationship. Loyalty is being there for that special someone, keeping secrets, only talking to them, and always protecting them from harmful things. Loyalty is when a person is committed to someone and they do not associate with anyone else on that same level, While some may say it is only having one friend that you only tell things to and expect them to keep it to him or her self. Loyalty is what defines a relationship it is like…

Hobbits are always predictable—they never have any adventures or do anything out of the ordinary. They like peace and quiet and enjoy the comforts of home, like the six meals they have a day. The unexpected hero, Mr. Bilbo Baggins, like any hobbit, enjoys the comforts of his hobbit hole, but eventually finds himself doing and saying things rather unexpected. The Hobbit, a fantasy fiction novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, shows how Bilbo evolves from a simple hobbit to a true hero. Bilbo Baggins…

disappointing because it wasn’t as good as The Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson had more money to spend while making The Hobbit, he didn’t follow the book as closely as he did for the Lord of the Rings, and the last Hobbit movie extended edition is rated R. After making The Lord of the Rings trilogy Peter Jackson earned quite a bit of money. Since he had the money, permission and the actors he decided to make the Hobbit trilogy. When Peter Jackson made The Lord of the Rings trilogy he wasn’t…

the success of a novel. If a reader is not interested in the novel, it is unlikely for them to finish it or recommend it to others. Therefore, an author will use various narrative strategies to promote reader engagement, and this is something that J. R. R. Tolkien does extremely well. The Hobbit has received wide critical acclaim and has become one of the most famous novels of our time, due in part to the reader engagement it produces. In The Hobbit, the narrative strategies such as the use of a…

It was the year 2010, I was 17 years old, and at the time I was living with my older brother Jacob and his family. I was downstairs in the computer room checking my Facebook as usual, when all of the sudden I get a message from my father in Norway. My father was a very prominent pastor in the Hampton roads area for nearly thirty years, but he and my mother had some problems and decided to get a divorce about four years earlier. After the divorce my father had decided to move to Norway and host a…

else. Bilbo decides he will give it to them, “if it will aid in your bargaining” (Tolkien, 314). He then says, “the dwarves can do what they like to me. I hope you will find it useful” (Tolkien, 314). This trial places Bilbo in a dilemma, due to his value of peace; he could not stand to see unnecessary conflicts arise. Bilbo disregarded his own fate and placed the needs of others above his, as the friendship he had with the dwarves, would be tarnished. Undergoing this test brought to light and…