Rowland S. Howard

George Lucas once said, “Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.” This theme is very evident and important in House of the Scorpion as some of the characters are very powerful and cannot properly handle their power. House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer documents the journey of Matt, who is the clone of a powerful drug lord. After being injured, he goes to the Big House and meets this drug lord, who has lived for over 140 years. The Big House is where Matt learns that he was made to provide organs for El Patron, the drug lord. He will then attempt to escape, and become more than just a clone for spare parts. The most important central theme in this story is power corrupts. This theme is shown through several characters as the drug lord Matteo Alacran, better known as El Patron, and those around him are extremely powerful, and do not have good intentions. Matt and El Patron are two characters that prove the importance of the theme of power corrupts. Matt is the first example of how power corrupts. Matt has been given power at El Patron’s birthday party because he is his clone, and El Patron wants Matt to have the childhood he never experienced himself. When Matt was in “prison”, he was bullied by Tom and has held a grudge against him ever since. Matt has used his newfound power to move Tom to the “baby table”. “It’s my party, and I get to say who sits where.” (103). Since Matt is El Patron’s clone,…

men behind us, everyone was doing their thing the chair was checking things out, my grandma and I putting bags in the cart and my cousin was just waiting she we can leave. My cousin makes this weird whispering noise to get my attention I look up no words leaving my mouth, my cousin then makes a motion of her hand pointing to the guys. I walk over and she is mumbling something I can’t understand. “I can’t understand what you saying speak up,” I tell her and she tells me to be quiet. After that,…

to talk about R&B and jazz. Woman and men could sing jazz or R&B. with the top records at the top of the charts these singers were unbelievable. Billie Holiday and Kelly Rowland are very amazing singers and they manage to succeed through their life even with all the problems they had. Billie Holiday was born on April 15th 1959. Billie’s real name is Eleanora Fagan she changed it because of her idol of Billie Dove. (Biography.com/editors). Billie Holiday’s mother…

Women in music describe the role of women as composers, song writers and other musical professions. In the 2010s, while women comprise a significant proportion of popular music and classical music singers, and a significant proportion of songwriters there are few women record producer, dancer and actress such as Beyonce and Shakira. They are worldwide famous women singers. Beyonce is an American singer, born and raised in Houston, Texas and performing in singing and dancing competitions as a…

Its image and popularity to the whole entire world is also a huge benefit to how large it has become and how widespread of a retailer it is. You will get a detailed description of what makes Macy’s prosper the way it does and all the aspects of it that make it the Macy’s we all know and love. Macy’s background is a very interesting one. Beginning with its subsidiaries, they have Bloomingdale’s, Inc., Macy’s Corporate Services, Inc., and Macy’s Merchandising Corporation ("Subsidiaries"). These…

beginning of functionalism at 1896, with the publication of John Dewey’s article “The Reflex Arc in Psychology”. This date was not that date functionalism was born, this was a date chosen by chance as we that other writters mark the bigning of functionalism in a different year, one of the example is 1890 which some believe it to be the formal beginning of functionalism with the publication of the William James book “The principles of psychology”. As we discussed at the start of this writing,…

My Epic Hero Journey In this essay I will be deliberating my threshold transition when I am thirty years. I will include five to seven decisions that will change my perspective about life. My five to seven decisions will include me making good grades, A friends death, moving out, marriage, college, and having children.Buy the time I am thirty I hope to wake up in a nice modern house in the suburban part of Charlotte or Raleigh. I will wake to see my husband who is probably getting ready for…

Starbucks Organizational Diversity Diversity management in the workplace is a strategy to improve diversity and inclusion through policies, procedures, and programs (Cañas & Sondak, 2014). Starbucks is a corporation that sells coffee, tea, and food items within coffeehouses as well as in-store items. This paper will examine Starbucks Corporation’s diversity strategy and offer suggestions to improve the approach to increasing morale, revenue, and production. Background In 1971, Starbucks opened…

(“Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. Quote & Summary Data”, 2017). Something important to note is that their profitability has been increasing steadily, and it is still projected to increase. Something else to note is that their stock is now set to surpass its all-time high of $41.50 that was set on Oct. 18th of this year. However, Zack’s Investment Research (2017) claims that most investors recommend that you hold the stock as it is still trending upwards for the foreseeable…

Allen Youngblood 0982986 ENC1101 9/29/2017 Narrative Essay I am in a fantastic boss, I'm such a fantastic boss that somebody once bought me a coffee mug that says "world's best boss". Although the person who bought that for me was myself, deep down I know that I am the world's best boss. A boss is a leader and just as all leaders make mistakes I have as well. Hitler should have never invaded Russia, the mayor of that town in Footloose should never have outlawed dancing, and I should have never…