The Amory Wars

We arrived at a small café. At the counter we bought two orders of fish and chips wrapped in packets of paper. I followed Marisol outside to a bricked patio. The café tables stood under colorful canvas umbrellas. Marisol chose one furthest from the café’s backdoor, seeming to breathe easier now we were off the street. The aroma of golden battered fish and crispy chips made my stomach rumble, and I realized just how hungry I was. I knew it was from using my mage powers. A bottle of malt vinegar sat on the table, and Marisol tilted the bottle to sprinkle some on her food. She offered me the vinegar. I took it and did the same, figuring she hadn’t led me wrong yet. Using my fingers I broke off a bite of steamy, hot fish and popped it in my mouth. Eyes closed, I savored the succulent flakiness of the fish, mixed with the pungent tang of vinegar. I followed it up with several salty chips. Oh my gosh, on the favorite meals in my life scale, this scored a ten. I searched for Hawking and spotted him sniffing at some uneaten fish and chips left on a vacated table. Surely he isn’t going to...yep, there he goes. He wolfed the food down in in several gulps, licking his lips and snuffling around for more at other empty tables. Gross. When he saw me watching him, he grinned, “Can you believe people leave such savory tidbits behind? What are they thinking?” Well, they’re not thinking a gargoyle that’s half pig is going to come along and gobble it up for them, that’s for sure. I turned…

to riches story while his main character, Amory Blaine, has a riches to rags story. Fitzgerald used the society around him to assist in the historical context of the novel. He used the youth culture that he both experienced and observed; he shows the youth drinking excessively, doing drugs to get attention, and shows the creation and destruction of potential relationships. The first World War also greatly affected the plot of Fitzgerald’s…

Well, Everybody played a part in the vietnam war. It was a bad war cause a lot of people died in the war and i think that why you gonna shoot and kill people and just be looking all around at dead bodys like i don't understand that but from my oppoining i think they were just trying to prove that that they would win and the other lost and died. At first Americans supported the war at once but as it got worse they turned against the war. I think that the U.S. shouldnt have been involved because…

Water, a natural resource deemed to be a right, is fast depleting. Our planet’s fresh water reserves present an unfavorable picture, with only 1% out of 3% accessible for direct human use. This scarcity, fueled by unequal distribution amongst countries caused by geographical and political obstacles, raises the potential of “water wars”. Such concerns are exacerbated by uncontrollable population growth, pollution due to industrialization and modernization, and climate change. A new approach to…

It is rare to have wars based solely on religion, although they make up about 40% of all other wars fought. Religious wars are motivated by a higher power or idol that is said to have commanded radical groups to kill in an unjust manner. Ethnic cleansing, for instance, is one aspect of war against religion. The Holocaust, for example, was a war against millions of Jewish men, women, and children were killed because of their ethnic background. Hitler’s affirmation of dominance of his race was…

The students talk about the prevalence of these practices in elementary school right through to high school, where some claim that “everyone gets beaten up by him (a teacher)...even the Advanced Level boys get beaten up”. Meaning older and stronger boys are also susceptible to being struck, not just those who are in younger grades. However, the girls point out how teachers are somewhat cautious about disciplining older boys. This statement is also interesting because it points out how these…

nature are equal, this produces fear, such fear leads to war, this state of war leads to preventive measures of attacks against neighbors, there are three principles of quarrel relating to such which are competition, fear and glory, in such state nothing is ‘unjust’ and thus there is no civilization. Due to all these claims, if humans were left to the State of Nature, humanity would cease to exist due to all the violence this state results in. One of the reasons the State of Nature produces…

peaceful, it is worth asking how much of unrecorded human history was peaceful. Since the creation of man, humans have been at war with one another. Our wars have been violent and quiet, however, almost always present. Conflict is observable within every niche of humanity, even within the walls of a classroom it is possible to find evidence of conflict, yet humans have not found a way to deal with it better than war. The history of conflict stretches as far back as the beginning of humanity…

Armstead and his life My wounded warrior hero is Charles Armstead. He was born 1977 May 9th. He grew up in Needville Texas. He states that he lived a normal childhood with a loving family. He went to school in Needville High School. His hobbies are playing basketball and racing. He became a military hero because he saw other military people and he wanted to be just like them. He enlisted in the military in 1995. He was enlisted and was not an officer. He was in the…

on the order of $100 billion annually on cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine, but in 2000, much more money was spent on cocaine than marijuana; in 2010 the opposite was true (estimation). However, the drug traffic is not the only U.S policy issue with Colombia. The civil war against insurgent groups in Colombia had been a critical battle, that U.S has been supporting. The armed conflict in Colombia…