the Story of the Grail

but market dynamics started changing with Thailand property crisis banks collapsed and mathematical models started failing. Models were giving strange results. Traders stopped borrowing and started investing risky. But LTCM models told a different story. LTCM continued to follow the models and borrowed even more (100BILL). but the market kept testing and doing the…

ruling his land and trying to stop suitors from marrying his mother and gaining power of the kingdom. “First by far to see her was Prince Telemachus, sitting among the suitors, heart obsessed with grief..” (Homer., Fagles, and Knox 81). Throughout the story, Odysseus encounters many situations. The last, and most famous, situation he was in was when he went in disguise into his own home, where his mother was going to marry whoever could shoot Odysseus’ old bow and arrow through 12 axes. Odysseus…

never actually read his works personally. There were, however, stories and rumors spread throughout Germany regarding the two. Viennese actress Rosa Albach-Petty, for example, reportedly heard a story from a friend of a young workman named Adolf Hitler who asked to borrow Thus Spoke Zarathustra and another book by Nietzsche, saying, “‘almost solemnly,’” “‘I promise you ma’am, that I will cherish the books like life itself.’” Stories like this, while untrue, served a valuable purpose in Germany.…

The Arthurian Legend is a collection of various stories which revolve around King Arthur, one of the legendary kings of Britain. These stories vary in their versions, interpretations, and spelling of names but their essences remain the same. They regale us with tales of the time prior to King Arthur’s conception to his rise to kinghood, tales of his adventures with his Knights of the Round Table, tales of the adulterous romance that occurred between his queen, Guinevere, and his knight and…

Chivalry throughout the years has died, it has been beaten and changed and thrown into unpredictable situations and called appropriate. Nowadays chivalry is not a popular term, it’s not used as often it’s commonly mistaken as being a gentlemen or simply just being nice. One of the funniest contradictions in today’s world is that we have a lot of feminist who also like it when men are being chivalrous. Many women claim that chivalry is dead, thus the inspiration for the title, these women also…

Arthur: Fact or Fiction? King Arthur lived around the time of approximately 400 A.D., a time in which stories were blurred and details changed. Like many other books centered around the Arthurian Legend, The Once and Future King, by T.H. White, contains many inaccurate details. These inaccuracies are due to the story’s long history and constant retellings. The true story is still there, but it has been covered by a couple hundred years worth of exaggeration. This has turned the history into the…

deciding what we want to learn and what we want to become, all of this is based off the actions we see in other individuals and our surroundings. The narrator in “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, has altered his characteristics throughout the story, but by the end he comes to the realization of who he wants to be, by accepting and acknowledging his faults, being aware of who is around, and choosing to let go of negative events that occurred in his life, due to this the narrator has become…

Education is the art of accumulating knowledge and utilizing that knowledge in everyday life. The lifestyle and the standards of the workplace have reformed massively for the American people since the birth of the United States. However, in the last couple of decades there has not been much innovation in our academics to keep up with the American ideals of diverse backgrounds in the workplace. The education system in place is only allowing a certain type of student to succeed on to the workplace…

She opens the narrative in a side story about her intercession to keep knights at Camelot after Arthur failed to do so. Meanwhile, Prince Méléagant, son of King Bagdemagus of Gorre, visits Camelot to boast of the many people kidnapped from Arthur’s land, Logres. Guinevere agrees to parlay…

Jackson might not be a traditional literary hero, he does accomplish his quest. Not in the best way, but he gets it done. By doing so not only does he redeem his grandmothers regalia, but also redeems himself. Why? Because in the very beginning of the story Jackson sees the regalia at the pawn shop, but did not want to call the cops and make it easy to obtain it. No, he wants to make it a quest. However, he did not win it back the regalia with money. The pawn shop knows that the right thing to…