The Spoils

In the 1960s, Venezuela was the poster child of democracy in Latin America. It was one of the only countries moving towards it, while other countries were falling to communism. Then Hugo Chavez ratified in a national referendum and abolished congress and the judiciary. This moved Venezuela’s political rights from 2-4, and its status under the Freedom House Index from Free to Partly Free. In 1999, Venezuela received a 4.0. This was the year Chavez spend dismantling Venezuela’s checks and balances…

After Jonas disappeared the family was in an even worse state because they had much less income coming in for the family. This forced them to take money from Marija which in turn spoils any dreams she might have of having a better life and finding happiness. Even Marija’s husband to be Tamoszius was being used for money and his chance to ever have a good life was slowly taken away from him. This all shows that the American Dream…

controlled all that happened on Earth and the fate of all immortals. The Gods had favorite cities, humans, and armies and interacted with mortals physically, verbally and through dreams. For example, when Achilles and Agamemnon were arguing about their spoils of war, Achilles became angry and began to draw his sword on Agamemnon. Athene, daughter of Zeus and Goddess of war, saw what was about to happen and grabbed the hair of Achilles to stop him. Hera, Goddess of marriage and motherhood, sent…

Trump’s “rise was interrupted again… when the video with his lewd comments about women was leaked. It caused another drop.” But “if Trump focuses on serious issue and doesn’t spoil his progress by saying something stupid or inappropriate, it’s possible he’ll draw even closer to Clinton.” He organized all of his paragraphs to make them similar in order to help the reader find what Trump did to make him fall behind and how he…

her unfair abuse. It might seem like a small act but this was the turning point that Jane had in her life that taught her to stand up for herself. Additionally, she showed independance when she was being debased by Mr.Rochester when he had tried to spoil her with materialistic items after they had gotten engaged. She expressed her annoyance when she said, “Glad was I to get him out of the silk warehouse, and then out of a jeweller’s shop: the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a…

to time. Jax went to his Twitter page and shared saying, "I hear @SurRestaurant and Pump are looking for a new DJ, apply with in. Lol." After that, Jax deleted the tweet for some reason. Bravo may have told him to take it down so that he didn't spoil anything about the show. It is pretty obvious that Jax had to be talking about James Kennedy and was excited about the idea of James being gone. This could have meant that James was fired or quit on his own, but nobody knows for sure. Lisa has got…

in the midst of doom and gloom. Isaiah compares the analogy of joy to the climax of the farmer and soldier’s work, at the end they receive the joy that comes from their work. The farmer receives the harvest of his work while the soldier divide the spoils of his conquest. These examples provide for the people the illustration of the joy that is to come to God’s people through the…

The battle between the humble governess and the evil Quint in The Turn of The Screw rages on. The author of the ambiguous novella, Henry James, includes few vague details while writing his book. While reading his book, it is important to make predictions about what is happening. Throughout the book, the governess tries to protect the two innocent children from the ghost of Peter Quint. A group could argue all day about what happened in this book. Different characters play the different roles of…

I concentrated on the hair clipper making its way through the thick strands that had become my hair : its buzzing sound, its blade that went from the front to the back of my scalp and the bush of hair that it was proud to have cut. Even with the irritating tiny black hairs that were falling on the back of my neck, I knew that I had made the right decision. Our graduating class was given two options: cut your hair or get dismissed. I could feel the negative energy radiating from my 90 raging…

Khaled Hossein uses the main male characters, Rasheed, Jalil, and Hakim, to personify political mindsets in afghanistan. Throughout the book Rasheed is used by Hossein to portray the thoughts of traditional afghan men with strong right winged views with character traits such as dominance, violence, and manipulation. Which strongly reflect aspects of the Taliban.These three characteristics of Rasheed all steam from his beliefs. His dominance is shown through the control he takes over Mariam and…