Screw thread

Bryce Davis HIST454A 10 December 2014 Final Essay The Doge (Dux) Throughout this semester we have looked at many aspects of what made Venice so prominent throughout its one thousand years of prosperity until Napoleon invaded. From courtesans to the arts, I found the doge to be the most important factors in making Venice’s Venezianta. The doge’s were considered to be the popes of Venice who were the head figures, which made Venice so politically strong. They were the reason that Venice was so…

complicated by the presence of others: What if you had children to protect, or your attacker was drugged, or you could face criminal charges? Our instincts are still slaves to our ability to reason.” “Well whats so fit about that?” David interjected, “Screw the kids, your attacker and the police - you’re acting instinctively right? You can’t help it right, you’re just doing what comes natural?” “Here’s where Darwin came up short,” Said Adriaan wide a wry smile. “Sometimes survival of the…

Sitting there at the end of the pier was the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) towering over every other ship it dominated my sight. Even from far away it was massive but as I inched closer it began to take over the sky, eventually it even blotted out the sun leaving me standing shivering in its cold shadow. I was so enamored by it that I barely remember boarding, only a slight conversation while crossing the quarter deck. Inside the chill lingered as I looked around out the varying shades of black and…

an associate at the Deadwood Detective Agency, was waiting for Seth and me in our tree house—sorry, our top-secret hideout—complete with its three-legged desk and secondhand chairs. Against one wall was a shelf stacked with bins of hardware—tiny screws, bolts, fuses, gears and enough silicone to fill a basin. Next to the door was a poster of a dashing special agent dangling from a ladder, deep brown eyes wide with fear, urging us to hang in there. In the corner sat the hollowed canister of a…