The City of Ember

Death and the Afterlife Traditional Roman beliefs on Death and the Afterlife: Ancient Roman people had very specific ideas and beliefs about death and the afterlife. Romans often had traditions that would help a person’s spirit travel form earth to the underworld. Mostly of very high importance was ensuring a proper burial. Along with this other steps were taken such as a coin being placed of the mouth of the deceased, as payment to the demon boatman they believed carried the dead across the…

The Teacher That Always Believed In Me When I was in the seventh grade, I was placed in a class for students that had difficulty reading and writing - it was called Reading 180. When I started out, the teacher was Mrs.Musick, which is now my senior english teacher. She said that I didn't need to be in the Reading 180 class, but that I needed to be in the regular seventh grade english class. A week later, I found out my schedule had been turned upside down. I was now in the regular english class…

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In the late 1700’s, in a meeting room in Philadelphia, a group of concerned citizens drafted an extraordinary document, one that would form the backbone of a new and prosperous nation. That document, of course, was the Constitution of the United States. The document was full of extraordinary principles, from a system of checks and balances, to the radical view that some rights are inalienable and self-evident. But the most extraordinary precept that the framers of the Constitution embodied in…

Stop and Smell the Roses Robert Frost and William Shakespeare are both very different writers from vastly different time periods. Their individual writing topics also vary; Shakespeare’s writings focuses more on romance-oriented ideals, while Frost’s work highlights existential questions. However, Frost’s, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and Shakespeare’s, “This time of year thou mayst in me behold,” offer many similarities and differences when it comes to technical elements. Though…

Motivation for the Bomb As the Manhattan Project drew to an end, President Harry S. Truman knew he was coming upon the most difficult decision of his life. He could drop a bomb that would vaporize thousands of lives but would end a war in Japan, or he could continue on and cause more American, Allied, and Japanese military casualties. Truman decided to use the first atomic bombs ever made, codenamed “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”, to obliterate Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an attempt to end what was…

Treasure Squandered For many years I have built the great hoard of wealth, and for many years mere men have tried to take it. My great, shining, epic, intimidating piles of wealth, towering to the top of this cavern I call home. The gleam of diamonds and silver coins, the metallic scent of iron, and the pillars of many precious items. There is one thing in which I treasure more than metal, my towering pile of skulls. The heads of my enemies, each thinking they were strong enough to destroy me,…

Valerie groaned as her suit tormented her for the third time that night. The ghost alert on her wrist buzzed insistently, causing her to almost smack herself in the arm in pure annoyance. She had a test to study for, and none of these ghosts would allow her any time to actually be active in her own life. Not to mention, that aside from the Fentons (who hadn't been quite enthusiastic since... the accident), she was the only ghost hunter, so that meant she had to take care of almost every ghostly…

beaten and tortured on a daily basis, simply for openly believing in Christ. Finally, the author appeals to logos by informing the audience that all the stories in this book are true and also by including factual evidence about attacks launched on cities and numerical figures of the amount of people killed in said…

Since the 1980s the world has seen many major social, political, and technological changes. There has been the explosion of social media and reality television, the evolution of smartphones — leading to an increased access to information and entertainment — and a new wind in feminist movements. Politically in the U.S alone there has been the aftermath of 9/11 and the Iraq and Afghanistan military operations. There has also been increased agitation concerning racial equality and gun control.…