The Blow

Legend has it that we (the people) formed from a small flower called the Dandelion. The gods above watched and observed the empty nothingness of the vacant world below. The queen of those gods knew something must be done about this plain world. Thus one day, after a talk with the Tree of Gifts, the queen of the gods, being that males weren't seen of importance at this time, called a meeting. At this meeting the gods and she grouped together to discuss what they must do. "We are capable of…

The hazel hues of the woman's eyes stared blankly ahead, focused past the moving bodies before her but fixating on nothing. Valerie's whole world had crumbled around her in a matter of seconds it seemed. Blow after blow of bad news came like rapid waves from the ocean seeking to drown her. It was one thing to have a close friend skip town without really a word but it was another thing to have it happen when you needed them the most. In the same night Val had lost two out of the three people in…

leaders in Birmingham begin to hold workshops on non-violence and explained the dangers of direct action. MLK states that during the workshops they would, “repeatedly asked ourselves: “‘are you able to accept blows without retaliating?”’ This causes questions of could the people really accept blows without wanting to retaliate. Could they have other people spit in their face and not fight back, or at a sit in have ketchup squirted in their face. Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?”’…

Joker publicly states that he no longer cares about killing Batman because he is ‘too much fun’ and that if the Wayne employee, Coleman Reese, who supposedly knows who Batman really is, is not killed to prevent the secret from slipping, then he will blow up a hospital. All hospitals begin immediate evacuation (Source 1).” ‘Introduce a little anarchy - upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. And you know the thing about chaos - it's fair(Source 2).” The…

meditation on life and death, being alive and not being, over the disadvantages of existence and the act of suicide. Hamlet compares life with death. He sees life as missing the power, humans as being exposed to the blows of life and outrageous fortune. The only way to dodge the blows will be to stop existing. The death is thus a desirable state. Nevertheless, it is also seen as a journey to the unknown, to a place for which there is no map and from where no one has returned. Hamlet…

fact, Julia is merely using Winston for sex as a way to rebel against the Party. Given the fact that the Party discourages intimacy between individuals in order to prevent the formation of loyalties, Julia considers the act of having intercourse as a blow against the Party. She believes that the only way of…

of the action and words is that Elie’s loss of faith may deal a damaging blow of making it harder to keep hope on his sorrowful path. The change in Eliezer’s faith throughout these quotes shows that it has only become worse a time continues to go on. The pit of doubt will most likely, continue to grow throughout the story until the end. In absolute finality the effects of Eliezer’s experience delivered many crushing blows to his “profound”…

In the story, Lord of the Flies, Ralph is perceived as the main character. He goes through many obstacles that change him in a significant way. Such as losing the boy with the mulberry birthmark on his face, Jack killing a pig, the fire going out, Piggy dying, and losing the conch. When the littlun’ with the mulberry colored birthmark disappeared, Ralph seemed as if he lost some of his confidence as a leader. At the beginning of the story, Ralph was more optimistic about the situation the boys…

because there are still vast amounts of players that still try their best to get away with these “dirty” hits. Because of lawsuits filed against the NFL recently by former players, the league is now suspending and fining players who deliver constant blows to the head. After a ridiculous amount of lawsuits, the NFL is now suspending and fining players indefinitely if they continue to violate the helmet to helmet rules put in…

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company was the first company to manufacture domestic supply of high quality gunpowder .In 1802, the DuPont family began their industrial business in the United States by building the Eleutherian Mills on the Brandywine Creek in Delaware. This was the beginning of an extensive scale gunpowder production in the United States. Guncotton, also known as nitrocellulose, was invented in 1845 by German chemist Christian Schonbein. The purpose of this invention as to create…