Spear

As a small town girl from Kentwood, Louisiana, Britney always wanted more. Britney Spears, a teenage girl who just wanted to follow her dreams and become a star took it a little too far and became crazy. From a young age Britney has always gone outside the box with everything she has done. From kissing Madonna to dancing with a snake on stage you can always count on her to take it to the next level. On December 2, 1981 Jamie and Lynn Spears welcomed their first daughter, Britney Jean Spears into the world in the small town in Mississippi. Britney has an older brother named Bryan Spears and a younger sister named Jamie Lynn Spears. Growing up Britney lived in Kentwood, Louisiana. As a child she loved to dance, sing and was a great…

Disney was Their Open Door Flashback to the ninety’s, when Brittney Spears and Christina Aguilera Starred on The Mickey Mouse Club on Disney channel. For both stars, this was one of their first jobs, opening many doors for the girls. Since Disney, both women have become American Pop Icons. Even though, both stars started from the same place, they both evolved at different times, and took different chances in their musical career. Brittney Jean Spears was born on December 2, 1981 in McComb,…

Singer Britney Spears suffered a wardrobe malfunction during her recent "Piece of Me" show in Las Vegas on Friday, October 17. The pop star was performing her 2009 single, “3” in a revealing black mesh unitard with strategically placed pleather patches. Britney was about one-third into the performance when the zipped-up back of her sheer black jumpsuit popped open. She never skipped a beat as she motioned for her backup dancers to help and several dancers took stabs at zipping her up but they…

creatures that took them there were Valkyries. Vikings also believed in Norns. Norns chose when each viking and god would die. According to the lore of the vikings, Odin and Thor die at the end of the world. Odin is eaten by a wolf and Thor is killed by a snake. Loki also dies, but he is poisoned by the other gods as revenge to all the jokes and pranks he has played on them. The vikings also believed that they and their gods inhabited different realms, and that they lived in Midgard while the…

different accounts which were grouped together and titled Broken Spears. Although both of these historical writings give present-day readers a sense of what the conquest of New Spain might have looked like,…

was an efficient, long ranged weapon that could kill an enemy with the pull of the string. The origin of the bow and arrow are prehistoric, bone arrow points dating back to 61,000 years ago have been found at Sibudau Cave in South Africa (Bow 2). The bow served two purposes, a ranged and a hunting weapon both that were really important. Other cultures would use a makeshift crossbow (Bow 4). The Javelin was like a spear but the javelin was made for spearing and close range combat. It was easy…

essential to the idea of the hoplite. The basics of the panoply include grieves, a helmet, a breastplate, spears, and a sword (Hanson, 2002, pp. 63). Thrusting spears were the primary offensive weapon of combat, averaging about 1.8 to 2.4 meters long and (usually) tipped with an iron, leaf-shaped spearhead (Schwartz, 2009, pp. 81-82). However, the shield, also called the hoplon, is the most defining tool used by the hoplites and was “a rounded, concave piece of wood…and by the fifth century…

The spear was one of man’s earliest inventions, used for hunting, fishing, and combat. Early spears were merely sharp sticks up to 2.1 meters in length. And later adapted by many countries and used in many wars. Over the years the spear took many forms in the material used for it. From the vikings to the Romans, the spear was used all over the globe. From flint to metal,the spear was extremely versatile. Early spear were first just sharpsticks, anywhere from 2.1 to 3 meters in length. Early…

Talk in London England, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie remarked that if a people are shown as one thing, over and over again, that is what they become. For centuries the conquest of Mexico and the fall of the Aztec empire has been a single story told through only European accounts. In The Broken Spears Miguel León-Portilla provides an account of the first arrival of European colonizers through a collection of codices authored by indigenous people. Although the validity of these accounts is often…

According to Ian Karambelas, phishing is “an attempt to obtain user credentials, financial data, or other sensitive information by emulating a legitimate email communication.” But spear phishing is a far greater threat than the phishing email because it is “a type of targeted phishing in which an attacker first researches the target individual or company to increase their chance of success. Because this allows the attacker to appear more trustworthy as a legitimate business entity, users are…