The Departed

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” This is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s quotes, meaning Edgar had very dark moments in his life that it showed off in his writing. He was born in Boston January 9, 1809 and he was the second child of two actors. But his little family didn’t last long his father abandoned the family and his mom died the following year. Now orphans they were taken in by John and Frances…

Napoleon was a masterful ruler. He discovered a number of reforms that brought peace and strength back to France. Born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Napoleon was the second of eight surviving children born to Carlo Buonaparte. Napoleon family was not wealthy. As a boy, Napoleon went to school in mainland France, where he learned French language. He graduated from a French military academy in 1785. He quickly rose through the military ranks, and through…

Background On Sunday, November 7, 2010 the cruise ship, Carnival Splendor, departed Long Beach, California for seven-day, six-night cruise touring the Mexican Riviera; with stops in Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Carnival Splendor was to arrive back in Long Beach with its 3,200 guests and 1,167 crew members on Saturday, November 13. On Monday, November 8, 2010 at 6:00a.m., a fire erupted in the aft engine room. The Splendor operates on six diesel engines, three in the…

The sweat flowed down my face onto the gleaming wooden floor. My hands on my knees, I was breathing heavily after our second game was over. I was at Southwestern High school playing in a life-changing basketball tournament. My teammates Cooper, Carson, Blair, and Clay were extremely exhausted after the first two games of the day. We had won all our games so far, but now we have to play the number one team in Kentucky this was fifty five and one. They had allstars on their team the absolute best…

Just as Lee departed from Dio, the world-famous bassist Dana Strum suggested Jake E. Lee as substitute for the lately deceased Randy Rhoads to Ozzy Osbourne. Due to Lee’s creativity in technique, Ozzy settled for him regardless of having at first picked George Lynch…

certain amount of years later two ships arrived Alexander Selkirk rushed towards the ships realizing that they were spanish ships. The ships landing party started and forced him to flee back to the island and he avoided capture and the ships eventually departed or left the island, (“ Two Extraordinary Travelers,” 2014). Eventually two British ships arrived at the island on the first of February in 1709, (“ Two Extraordinary Travelers,” 2014). After Alexander Selkirk saw the ships he lit his…

In the novel, “The Swiss Family Robinson”, by Johann David Wyss, a Swedish family is shipwrecked on an uninhabited, tropical island. They find that they are the only survivors of the crew so they set out to explore the island and colonize it. Using resources from the wrecked ship, they construct a magnificent abode high in the trees called Falconhurst. With constant vigor and determination the Robinsons find many wonders of natural beauty, while facing numerous perils and over the course of…

into the warm Haitian airport, my brain was filled with a whirlwind of emotions. I was excited, ecstatic to see the sweet Haitian children and their smiles again. My heart had been missing the country of Haiti since I left the summer before. As we departed the airport and stepped softly onto Haitian soil, I became anxious. I looked around at all the mountains surrounding the airport and was reminded of the beautiful brokenness of this country. I was flooded with emotions as we passed kids with a…

…For a moment, Carlton Hislop wandered down the twisting path that one calls life, and on that rambling route, he stopped at the door of his former employer, Gordon Stenberg, who was the first to recognize young Hislop’s potential in the movie world of Xanadu. Prior to this momentous meeting, Hislop was studying business at Stanford, and it was there, in those hallowed halls of academia, he learnt about the infinite possibilities of making money from movies. So impressed by the mercantile…

It is often said that Chivalry has been lost. That in today’s society, people don’t have the time or patience to act like a knight. More often than not, people are too caught up in their own lives that they don’t have the time to stop and think about helping others. Chivalry is the code of the knights. In Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, chivalry is displayed in many ways. The three ways that chivalry are displayed in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte D’Arthur and Marie Borroff’s Sir Gawain and…