The Man with the Golden Gun

William Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. Walker’s parents were sharecroppers, like many African Americans, which sometimes made feeding a large family a challenge. While playing with her brothers, she accidentally got shot in the eye with a BB gun, resulting in permanent blindness. Walker has considered this accident the “catalyst for her retreat into the world of books” (Gillespie, Critical). Due to the disability of her eye, Walker received a scholarship to Spelman College in…

Ten: Bedlam in Berlin The silence in the basement was disrupted by air raid sirens which roared out in the distance. Anna gritted her teeth and rehearsed acting brave and Willy sat still, not wanting to move. They could hear the deafening bombs being dropped from planes overhead and carpeting the city. The air in the basement became thick, and they, both began to cough and gasp for air. Miss Margot and Miss Muller rushed into the tiny room and frantically handed them their shoes and shouted, "We…

In the 18th century, the Golden Age of Piracy took the world by storm. An unstable government and fewer jobs for sailors and privateers lead many to the life of piracy. This became a time of terrorization among the waters and coasts of the world. Although there were many pirates in the world making a name for themselves, two pirates in particular stood out the most: Blackbeard and Calico Jack. Blackbeard’s career started in 1716 and ended in 1718. With the end of Blackbeard came the start of…

head foreman and man of many discretionary talents, huddled his crew for this morning was to be the beginning of; “The Great Paper Clip Caper,” Everyone listened intently while Casey laid out the grandest diabolical plot of deception and intrigue ever to course the ears of that motley crew. The intensity of the moment was more than Roger Dodger could bear; also when he heard Casey speak various schemes began to flood his mind. Roger was like that. It was hundred Roger, once…

“Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world”, Mishnah Sanhedrin Rescue in Albania Introduction The Holocaust was the biggest disaster in modern Jewish history, and the largest genocide in the 20th century; the Nazi regime and their allies brutally killed close to six millions innocent Jews (more than two thirds of Jewish population in Europe at that time). With Adolf Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor of Germany, life of Jews changed very significantly. Starting in…

She inclined her head in the red rag. Then they went in different directions, but she could hear the gun shooting again and again over the hill. She walked on. The shadows hung from the oak trees to the road like curtains. Then she smelled wood smoke, and smelled the river, and she saw a steeple and the cabins on their steep steps. Dozens of little…

Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good,…

else around him, or what he did to them. Bryon always got into fights without a care in the world, and he always hurt innocent girls, by telling them he loves them without meaning. He was a player, but love struck him. Cathy changed him into a caring man. Who hates fighting, and hates criminals. Bryon becomes responsible. When The Shepards confront him about cutting Angela’s hair off, he says “It was a rotten thing to do and I’m sorry.” This shows how responsible Bryon is. At one time, Bryon…

Envision the answer. (Haiku) The Moral of the Story I once knew a whistling man and whistle is all he would do. This very true story I would like to share with you. Ted whistled in the morning when he woke up and he whistled on his way to work, in his old truck. He whistled at lunch and again at break. Then when the day was over…

Explanation of Visual Project for Assignment 1 The Sengoku Jidai, or Warring States Period, was the time of great change and evolution with Japan, which lead the country into the modern era. This period saw the country become entangled in a savage civil war that saw the weakening and eventual complete disregard of the established government 's power, the fracturing of the country into small territorial clans. This fracturing also allowed for old established clans to fall and dissolve, and the…