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The way we sense things is how we perceive the world around us, and to also make sense of it all. The sensory organs I chose to explain are the nose, tongue, and ears and how they connect to the brain for our perception. As we inhale the scent of something, the molecules reach the receptor cells high in both nasal cavities. Then the axons from millions of these receptors carry nerve impulses directly to the olfactory bulb. The olfactory bulb is the smell center of the brain. From there, records…

It was the first day of the last week of the summer break, and I couldn’t wait for school to start; I missed my friends. As I sat down to eat my breakfast that morning, my mum surprised me when she said, “Hurry up with your breakfast, because I want you to catch the 9.45 bus into town to get the school uniform order from old Mr. Worthington’s store, and if you don’t dilly dally, you’ll be back before it starts raining cats and dogs again.” Leek is the closest town to our farm; about 6 miles…

What you do and how you choose to live your life shines a bright light on who you are as a person, an individual. It is your identity. A lot of the time growing up can be stressful, especially when you are in high school and you are caught up in the commotion of every day teenage life. Figuring out your aspirations and setting priorities is all part of this ginormous world we live in where society plays a key factor in the decisions we make for ourselves. In high school I had friends, hobbies; I…

After exploring the vast expanse of rooms and collections inside the British Museum, the Mycenaean Collection is the collection of artifacts that truly intrigues me. Located in Room 12 and 12b in the British Museum, the Mycenaean Collection provides an amazing insight into the Greek Bronze Age, The Heroic Age, and Greek Mythology legends, especially the epics written by Homer. The collection features many artifacts of red and black painted pottery, bronzes from the Geometric Period, bronze…

The idea of maintaining an idealistic image of what a woman should be can be daunting for many women. In the novel written by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar is a feminist classic as it entails the struggle that the main character, Esther Greenwood, faces as she battles relationships, motherhood and the ideal image of women brought to her by the magazine internship she works at, all while slowly losing her sanity. Esther unravels and begins to show signs of her mental illness early on. High-class…

“To love is to suffer, to wander aimlessly, unable to concentrate on anything but the mental image of the beloved…” (Sayre 350). Lancelot by Chretien de Troyes presents this quote clearly as Lancelot, a knight, goes through countless obstacles to save Queen Guinevere, who is King Arthur of Britain’s wife. He’s chooses love over reason to ensure that he is the one to saves her from Sir Meleagant no matter how harmful or tempting those obstacles become. This story of courtly love shows the reader…

The Reel Life The Goldbergs, a television sitcom show shown on the ABC network, focuses on a family living in a town in Pennsylvania in the 1980s. The producer, Adam Goldberg, uses events that happened to his family in the 1980s to create each episode. Adam, what most people would call a nerd and a little quirky, follows all the new pop culture arising during the 1908s. Because of his love of pop culture, he documents his life by using his VHS camcorder and recording several aspects of his life…

brought peace and prosperity to other people in the kingdom. Some achievements were Silk Road, Papermaking, Iron technology (cast iron) plowshares;Moldboard plow (kuan), Glazed pottery, Wheelbarrow, Seismograph (Chang Heng), Compass, Ship's rudder, Stirrups, Drawloom weaving, Embroidery for decorating garments, Hot Air Balloon, Chinese Examination System. Rich farmers used oxen to pull plows; poor people pulled plows themselves. The biggest products in the Han economy were iron, salt, copper…

The Bell Jar is about a story of a young, brilliant and enormously talented woman and her struggles as she grows up in a foreign country, America. This short autobiographical novel details six months in the life of its protagonist, Esther Greenwood and the events of Sylvia Plath's twentieth year; about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. In the narrative's opening chapter, Esther, an over-achieving college student, is spending an unhappy summer as a guest editor for…

It was December 20th, 2015. I had no idea what that day was going to bring. I owned a horse named Nevaeh that year. She was very naughty and we travel all over to do shows for people. It’s very embarrassing when your horse starts bucking in front of a crowd of people. So Kelly, my horse instructor, or in other words a close friend, decided it was time for a change. She brought Jaelyn and I to a place in Volga, Iowa called Katy’s Corral. Katy runs the place and buys and sells horses. I knew why…