The Book of Eli

of overwhelming love and the connection as well as the true meaning of father and son even through the darkest of times. This iconic novel was written by the world renown Cormac McCarthy, who typically writes out of the ordinary, dark, and menacing books and is also known for several other of his works including Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men. McCarthy published this novel on September 26th, 2006 and took the world by storm with a whole new type of novel that made its readers do more…

attended antislavery meetings and promoted African Americans staying in the US and getting citizenship. As his family continued to grow, he devotion to African American equality grew. He wrote an autobiography about his life as an American slavery. This book was a best seller causing him to flee the US and come back in two years. After his arrival, he started his own newspaper, The North Star. He was able to publish his writings about antislavery and equality. He allowed his family’s home to be…

This revolution primarily increased manufacturing in the North and made America a large player on the global market. But what were the domestic impacts? In his 1831 book, Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville illustrates how American industrialization benefits the work, but harms the worker. When Eli Whitney introduced the idea of interchangeable parts, mass production became a real possibility. However, Alexis de Tocqueville claims that “the art” the workers create becomes better…

sweatshops can help stop the war on poverty, drugs, and terror. I believe that sweatshops overall are a good thing to have and that we shouldn’t get rid of them. Pietra Rivoli, the author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, breaks her book up into 4 main parts: King Cotton, Made in China, Trouble at the Border, and My T-Shirt Finally Encounters a Free Market. In part one, King Cotton, Rivoli looks at…

During my visit at the virtual museum, I learned a great many things about the Olympic Games. The reason behind choosing this topic, is that the Olympic Games continue today, even though they originally started many years ago; it fascinates me that we as human beings have kept the tradition of organized sports and athletic competitions for so long. Before I recant my experience, I would first like to give a little description on the museum that I chose. The website that I used is merely a…

Tuesdays with Morrie is about the last lessons between a college professor and his long lost student Mitch, who he was a “coach” to. After graduation Mitch promises to stay in touch and gives him a briefcase to remember him by. He then moves to New York to chase his dreams of being a musician and gets lost in life. When his favorite uncle passes away from cancer,Mitch is determined not to end up like him, who worked for a corporation doing the same thing everyday. So he leaves his…

by advancing the amount of time it took to remove seeds from cotton fibers. Before the invention of the cotton gin, workers were forced to separate seeds and fiber by hand. By the mid-19th century, Cotton gin was a leading export in America. After Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, handling cotton became unchallenging which lead to cloth becoming inexpensive. “Cotton imports from Britain rose by 1,500 percent between 1820 and 1840” (Stearns 24). The cash crop better became known as King Cotton…

animal sacrifices permitted the high priest’s servants to plunge a three-pronged fork into the cauldron of boiling water and return to the high priest whatever amount of meat they were able to draw up. In defiance of this rule of law, the sons of Eli (the high priest and predecessor of Samuel as judge of Israel) instructed their servants to take as much meat as they wanted, forcefully if necessary, even before the meat was fully cooked. "This sin of the young men was very great in the Lord 's…

many examples of the Man of God all throughout the Bible. Specifically there are 73 verses that have that exact phrase, Man of God. These verses range from Deuteronomy 33:1- II Timothy 3:17. We know that there were Men of God present before these books were penned and there have been many Men of God since the completion of our cannon. There have been many men of God described in the Bible. Let us take a brief look at their lives and persons to see what exactly it means to be a Man of God. When…

Hardy to Hardly: A Comparative Reflection of Current Events to their Respective Histories 1. “The Internet Still Thinks I’m Pregnant” by Amy Pittman (Sept. 2nd, 2016) 2. “New York Can’t Block Late-Term Abortion in Certain Cases, Schneiderman Says” by Vivian Yee (Sept. 7th, 2016) 3. “Passing My Disability On to My Children” by Sheila Black (Sept. 7th, 2016) 4. “America’s Shocking Maternal Deaths” by The Editorial Board (Sept. 3rd, 2016) With women using apps on their smartphones to track their…