Sundown

Before the Civil War, African Americans were held captive as slaves and were put into a harsh environment. These slaves participated in the task and gang system. The gang system was a more brutal system because it forced slaves to work sunrise to sundown with no goals, and they were forced to work with little to no food and sleep. On the contrary to the gang system, the task system had slaves work until they met a certain goal for the day, and anything extra was given to the slaves to sell for…

Towards the Horizon It has been six days since my team left me out for dead. The shot barely grazed my shoulder. Anybody would be knocked unconscious with that much blood leaving their body. But they left me there, and they had good reason to. With the Reds trailing them on one side, and the harsh, unforgiving Vietnamese jungle on the other, they didn’t have the time or strength to take care of a WIA. I sort of feel bad for them. I could only imagine the guilt of leaving behind a fellow soldier…

Bucky didn’t know what to do, he was panicked. He remembered that true love’s kiss was supposed to reverse the spell, It was a long shot but he knew he had to take it. At this point he would’ve done anything to bring Steve back. He had a large gash in his side, and possibly broken bones. So there he was, holding his possibly dead friend in the middle of a street, and he needed kiss him. He heard paramedics coming in from behind him, it was now or never. So he did it, he kissed Steve. He heard…

Even though the Passion Narratives of the four Gospels are very alike in numerous of ways, there are also many important differences among them.The three Synoptic Gospels correlate with one another (because Matthew and Luke go off of Mark), while John’s writings are much different, especially when it comes to chronology. Also, while Matthew and Mark are very similar to each other and almost the same, Luke is different from them and is more similar to John. In addition, an unspecified amount of…

“Eve! Get down here!” screamed my mother. I panicked because I knew what was coming. It’s happened so many times before. “Eve! Get down here and clean the floors,” she continued. I hurried downstairs, even though I knew mother would punish me anyway. I got on my knees and started furiously scrubbing the floorboards. My mother started berating me. “Clean there again! That’s not good enough! Too slow! What are you, a turtle? Oh my lord. Have I mentioned how hideous you are?” A tear rolled down my…

All the candles burn down. Tom, who has returned from the Forest in pieces, does not sleep. He reads, but the words wash over him in waves of neat black print. He is cold, but not overpoweringly so. Every so often he feels the stirrings of a migraine, but it never amounts to anything but a faint pulse behind his eyes. He entertains the vague idea of writing in the diary--which lies beside him on the common room couch--but every time he touches it is like a wound splitting open, raw and hot and…

Introduction Nowadays, there is much talk about Greece’s bankruptcy because of failure to service its foreign debt. Internationally renowned economists, politicians, and government advisors have spent a great amount of time to analyze Greece’s economy, bankruptcy, and also indicating possible dates. Ottoman Period During the Ottoman rule, the Greeks, like other people of the Ottoman Empire were practicing their professions, worked their crafts and trades, and in some periods their…

However, my argument is that McCandless was a dreamer and an explorer; an admirable person with worthwhile ethics. The experiences which shaped McCandless’s character began when he was a young boy. He grew up in a household where dysfunction was the norm. Therefore, his first stage in the Hero’s Journey, his “Ordinary World” was one of hurt and family dysfunction, as there were issues such as adultery surrounding McCandless’s childhood. McCandless’s upbringing is easily comparable to that of…

Heavy fighting has come up in Dublin between radical Republicans opposing the idea of the Free State (like the sniper) and those people who accept the dominion status of Ireland after the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922 (the Free-Staters). Killing some “enemies” – among them even his own brother – the sniper experiences the cruelty and senselessness of that war and shows feelings of Irish togetherness when he is forced to look into his dead brother´s face. 2. What different sections does the story…

It’s no surprise that this story is based off a war, more specifically World War I. J.R.R Tolkien was in his first phases of creating the story when the war started, so what better place to draw inspiration from. The Fellowship and Sauron’s war is meant to, in a sense, embody World War I. The book itself was published almost to the day, 40 years after WWI started. Throughout the story the main theme is good versus evil, which is the main point of a war one side is made of wrong doers the other…