Race to the Sea

epic poetry, the Odyssey, which is one of the greatest classics in human literature showcasing a man wandering the Mediterranean sea struggling to return home to his family on his island of Ithaca due to difficult challenges continually arising. More recently, Sarah Maas fictional novel A Court of Thorns and Roses depicts a peasant girl who falls in love for a Faerie, a race on magical beings she originally despised, but has to save…

mindedness of gender, race, and environment. Throughout history, the main genders have always been male and female. When a baby is born the first questions asked is “Is it a boy or girl?” Before birth, babies are showered with gender “appropriate” gifts: pink for baby girls…

“[prices and wages] be dolly set at each of our general courts annually,….’’ (DOC.E) They regulated prices and wages so that no one becomes richer as someone becomes more poor. New England also made their money from the sea port. Shipping , ship building and fishing were money makes at the sea port. The Mayflower , a ship that bring the pilgrims to New England bring them on an…

accomplishing what they wanted, they remained in the war due to a treaty signed years previously with the British that stated they would help in times of war. For the next few years, Japan contributed to the Allies by patrolling the Atlantic Ocean, and smaller seas, and shipping artillery to Russia. They had one of the strongest Navies in the war, and they were able to prevent many German attacks on the water thanks to their 21 first- and second-class cruisers, 10 superb ncw destroyers, with a…

bearing Athena (Keréyi 155, Hamilton 32). Born lame and ugly, Hephaestus was thrown by Hera off Olympus to liberate herself from the ridicule that his appearance caused her (Graves 86-87, Cavendish 1268). Luckily, Hephaestus fell into the sea, where Thetis and Eurynome, sea nymphs, cared for him in their underwater grotto, giving him a workshop for him to make ornate objects (Graves 87). After nine years, Hera saw that Thetis was wearing one of Hephaestus’s brooches, and took him back to Olympus…

List.” (National Geographic) Blue whales are magnificent creatures who live in harmony with humans; however, the rise of population and needs have drastically crippled the whale population. Whales will soon be added on to the list of species the human race have brutally wiped out, unless we as humans take action to conserve this noble species. Blue whales are mammals, more specifically pods. They grow to 82-105 feet and weigh up to 200 tons. On average, they live 80-90 years. Their carnivorous…

Beowulf is a strong warrior who comes from the Geats. He is the strongest warrior throughout what is now Denmark and Sweden. Beowulf has shown his strength and courage when he kills Grendel and Grendel’s mother to help King Hrothgar. He was very boastful about his accomplishments, but he had a right to boast because he had accomplished so many incredible feats. Beowulf does follow the heroic code, and becomes King of the Geats later in life. Although Beowulf showed some humility, he was very…

environmentalist”, the author Bjorn Lomborg argues against the “litany of our ever-deteriorating environment” (Lomborg 2001, 3). The litany refers to the popular view point of mass environmental destruction and rapid degradation caused by the human race; which is shaped by the media with the messages and images we see on a daily basis (Lomborg 2001, 3). The litany incorporates the issues such as declining food security, water quality, biodiversity loss and energy generation. Though, Lomborg…

The Bluest Eyes written by Toni Morrison narrates the story of a young black girl that suffers with a desire to have the bluest eyes in town. It is a heartbreaking novel based on the facts that racial beauty in the sixties was a necessary action, the standards established by a white society that determined the aesthetic parameters, had to open its spectrum to include as natural in its bosom the "beauty" in another color; in black. This necessary affirmation of the black beauty should not be a…

The Turkey Trot of Terror Lying on the concrete, crying all by myself, in the middle of a race, I asked myself: “How did I end up here?”. As a six-year-old, I was microscopic in a sea of giants surrounding me in all directions for miles in my perspective. My father and I were on a long, winding trek, The 2008 Thanksgiving Turkey Trot. Prior to this year, my Dad had run it alone, but fortunately this year, he thought I was old enough to come along. Having his doubts, he had one condition: I had…