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Poverty In New Orleans Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, once stated, “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” Nowadays, poverty exists all over the world. There are people living under bridges, people willing to do anything to provide for their families, and people constantly dying because no one will help. Many people don’t realize that there are causes and solutions to poverty. In New Orleans, African Americans suffer the most from poverty. New Orleans has a high rate of poverty because…

1. In the tale “How Robin Hood Came to Be an Outlaw” from Howard Pyle’s book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin is first known as Robin of Locksley before he becomes an outlaw. The story of how he becomes an outlaw starts off with him traveling to Nottingham at the age of eighteen to compete in an archery competition. On his way he comes across some of the King’s foresters who were eating and getting drunk in the forest. They’re job was to protect the King’s forest and make sure no one…

was to become one himself. Even though Kay was handed the right to rule, very similarly to how God handed the embryo the right to rule every other species, Kay is not a worthy ruler. At the tournament, Kay forgets his sword at the inn, and sends his squire, Wart, to fetch it. The inn is closed when Wart arrives, so he goes in search of a sword he could steal or borrow. Wart comes across an anvil with…

Treasure Island, a novel written in 1883 by Robert Louis Stevenson, was adapted into a family friendly movie by Disney in 2002 called Treasure Planet. Despite the names, there are many other differences that set the two apart. Treasure Island’s vivid theme, plot, setting, and list of characters was much more superior than that of Treasure Planet. Most of the characters from the novel remain in the film version but have been altered in some way. The others are simply absent. Jim Hawkins…

How does one learn life lessons while on a dare? In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we see Sir Gawain go through just that. While on a journey to keep his word, we witness Gawain be faced with countless trials without his knowing. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was created back in the late 14th century. We witness much of the culture that was featured during that time, in this story such as knights, kings, magic etc. In this story we witness a self-depreciating knight of the round table…

Don’t shy away from challenges “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” Wayne Gretzky. Don’t shy away from new challenges. This quote reminds people that when they succeed after they have completed a challenging task, they are rewarded, It also reminds people that they will never know the outcome unless they try. If you want something in life you have to try, nothing is handed down. One person who lives by this quote is Derek Jeter. Derek believes when you want to accomplish something…

One of the main themes that were intertwined between a lot of the texts we read was bravery. Most people know what bravery is and what is means but do we really understand it and why it is important to have? In this English course I learned more then just information from the historical texts we read, I learned that being brave and standing up for your self can get you very far in life. The main texts that stood out to me that exemplified this the most were Beowulf, Sir Galwin and the Green…

In our current times, a growing trend in entertainment is a work of art’s ability to be “Meta”. Meta is an adjective referring to a work of art’s ability to be self-referential; in other words, to be aware of itself and its genre. This has also be described as “Hanging a Lampshade” or “Breaking the Fourth Wall”. A few notable examples of Meta works in modern art include television series such as 30 Rock (2006), Family Guy (1999) and Community (2009), or movies such as Scream (1996) or Cabin in…

his last and shortest play, When We Dead Awaken (WWDA), “a dramatic epilogue”, that was regarded as the autobiographical play in which Aronld Rubek, the artist and the sculptor, his young wife Maia, his former model Irene, and a bear-hunter, named Squire Ulfheim as the main characters in this three-act architecturally structured play concentrates…

distinctions between implicit and explicit memory. Implicit memory is the transducing and storing of stimuli that are perceived unconsciously. These memories are also known as learned skills or tasks. Explicit memory is the storage of events and facts (Squire, 1992). Because implicit memory is unconscious and explicit memory is conscious, there are different mechanisms and anatomical locations involved. Explicit memory is known to be centered in the hippocampus whereas implicit is located in the…