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take care of that issue, Quintin.” The two King’s Guard knight returned to the horde of gangly and well-built men. Zarles scanned the tents around them, searching for the map-keeper’s tent. After locating it ten yards away, he grudgingly ate the last scraps of deer meat and did his best to make his way through the piling snow to the particular tent. It was dark inside the map-keeper’s tent, save for an insignificant wick in a lantern near the back. A stout elder man clad in the darkest robes sat…

He started inventing toys as a child. His father taught him how to make his own toys as a child including a pressurized Chinaberry shooter he made out of bamboo shoots and a go-cart made from junkyard scraps and a lawnmower engine. Some of his other experiments landed him in hot water with his mom, including tearing up his sister’s baby doll to see how it’s eyes opened and closed, and nearly burning down his house when he tried to cook rocket fuel in…

It is a well known fact that the educational experience at different schools varies widely. Some schools have a great reputation for educational excellence while other schools are avoided because of their reputation for low student achievement. Two reputable sources on this topic include Jonathan Kozol’s article, “Savage Inequalities”, and Bill Moyers’ documentary, “Children in America’s Schools”. These sources discuss the causes of school inequality, which include school funding, school…

for Maggie. For Dee (Wangero), it is about the appearance of caring about her heritage. For Maggie, the quilts represent her relationship with her grandmother. The quilts represent the family that came before Mama. For her, she can literally see “scraps of dressed Grandma Dee had worn fifty or more years ago… Grandpa Jarrell’s Paisley shirts… [and] a blue piece from Great Grandpa Ezra’s uniform he wore in the Civil War” and she can see them vividly (938). For her family heritage obviously means…

to bring his point across to show his idea was not rubbish but could help thousands in his country. He elicits a feeling of empathy when he does talk about the beggar because they have been looked down upon and even now describing their clothes as scraps. Lastly, the babies are being viewed as a commodity, stating it will “prevent those voluntary abortions.”…

To this day, America’s food culture remains to be its pride and joy, yet interestingly enough, what is understood by many to be the traditional food culture of America actually varies greatly from one part of the North American Continent to the other. However, of the vastly differentiating cultures found throughout America, one cannot deny that there is one region in particular who’s culinary culture is well defined, and easily recognizable. Actually, the entire region’s identity is nearly…

and the lion. “Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal” (Dickens 90). In the quote Sydney Carton is thinking to himself and he compares himself to Mr. Stryver as the jackal. A jackal is an animal that feeds off the scraps of other predators, such as the lion. Sydney feeds off of Mr. Stryver’s success, but in the end it does not really help him to be really known for accomplishments from the beginning. By comparison, both characters have an end goal in terms of…

After witnessing misfortune befall upon another person, have you ever began a thought with the phrase, “What if I had . . . ?” Once the inferno of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was extinguished and the bodies were counted, the involved parties, including the fire department, owners, and builders, likely thought this as well. In the non-fictional excerpt of Flesh and Blood So Cheap, Marrin utilizes explicit details to make his ideas clear, and implicit details to imply failures in safety…

Walter Poe 10/14/2015 Dr. Baecker Composition II Food Waste Food is key to survival and that’s a fact. According to Charles W. Bryant “medically speaking, most doctors agree that healthy humans can go up to eight weeks without food as long as they have water.” Logically speaking that sounds like a pretty decent amount of time but in the grand scheme of things it’s pretty short. There’s only 52 weeks in a year and eight is not even half of it. Not to mention eight weeks is only the length a…

The Agony of a Single Day September 11th, 2001, a date that is seared into the minds of every citizen of this country. A single act forever striking fear into millions.One day forever changed the landscape of New York City, and the entire country. An even that alone changed the lives of a whole nation. The causes of 9/11 were very unclear and blurry for a while following the attacks. But after some time after the chaos was over the causes became clearer. Al-Qaeda felt a sense of outrage…