The Day of the Locust

particular Valentine’s day where we were missing two chefs in the kitchen, and we became absurdly busy. That night was full of people are eating in my restaurant. Because we were missing the two chefs, we were unable to get food to the customers fast enough; many of them choose to leave. I can remember their eyes’ and their expressions when they watched me; it was like they wanted to destroy the restaurant because we made them have a bad experience on their wonderful Valentine’s day. That night,…

the ship. Pi Patel, the protagonist of Life of Pi, has to live with these circumstances, and he miraculously survives. This story is about a young boy who grows up in a zoo, since his family owns it, and makes sense of himself through religion. One day, Pi’s father decides he is going to move the family to Canada because he believes there will be better opportunities for all of them there. After about a year, all of the zoo animals are sold, and Pi’s family boards the Tsimtsum, a ship that will…

Mary Rowlandson and her use of David’s Psalms When the Puritans arrived in New England, they saw themselves confronted with a wilderness in which they wanted to found their “New Jerusalem”. In the Psalms of David, which describe his own spiritual “wilderness experience”, they found hope and consolation. It is not surprisingly then, that these Psalms appeared in the first book printed in America, the Bay Psalm Book of 1640. David’s Psalms appeared to be of particular importance to one Puritan…

Introduction An exudate is a liquid secreted by an organism through pores, wound or cut by a method known as exuding. In plants exudates include saps, latex, nectar, resin and gums (Power et al., 2010). These plant exudates are used in a broad range of food and pharmaceutical product in addition to several other technical applications. As a result, they form an essential group of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) and are therefore a foundation to multi-billion industries worldwide. These plant…

Carl Rogers and Fredrick Perls both developed useful psychotherapy techniques that have similar goals. However, the two types of therapy pursue this outcome in dissimilar ways. Carl Rogers’ client centered model focuses on the relationship with the client in the hopes that building a genuine relationship will allow the client to explore attitudes and emotions more deeply. Or, in other words, examine hidden aspects that are recalled remotely but are not being experienced by the client in the…

happy, but it is based on ignorance, cheap thrills, and a loss of the things that define them as humans. Controller Mustapha Mond claims that they have “Ford 's Day celebrations, and Community Sings, and Solidarity Services” (Huxley 45). However, their religion has been reduced to a sham, a mockery of the meaningful religions in the present day. Self exploration is nearly impossible. Individualism is gone. These sacrifices may benefit the stability of the state, but destroy the dignity of the…

The 10 Plagues are: the river Nile was turned into blood, Egypt was overrun by frogs, Dust turned into lice, a swarm of flies came to Egypt, All Egyptian livestock died, Egyptian got boils, The worst hailstorm in Egyptian history struck, A swarm of Locust at all the Egyptian’s crops, Egypt came into total darkness and, the firstborn of all the household of Egypt died. The Israelites recall eating the lamb they slaughtered with the unleavened bread. They also celebrate the Angel of death…

Reflections of Historical Realities-- To Kill a Mockingbird In the 1930s, many Southern towns remained tainted by the bloodshed of ancestors and were still largely removed from past Reconstruction efforts to modify deeply ingrained social dynamics. The Great Depression only served to weather such towns, acting as an economic earthquake that toppled the belief systems of many people, testing both their integrity and clarity of vision. Maycomb County is no such exception—a setting depicted by…

ideas about the routine nature of life, using the cyclical structure of the poem as a physical representation of the many cycles of life, the poem beginning in a warmer, domestic scene before extending outward to the cold surroundings of a winters day in Dublin, reflections on death, and the eventual return to the house in which the Speaker resides. The tone is observational and there is no rhyme scheme, which reflects the mundane, repetitive…

There were many great civilizations between 500 and 1500 A.D., but there is one civilization that emerges as the very best civilization from this time period; the Mongols. The Mongol Empire was an empire that existed in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Mongol empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history, at its largest point the Mongol Empire stretched from Eastern Europe to the Sea of Japan all the way up to Siberia and all the way south to Arabia. The Mongolian Empire was the most…