Treasure map

Out Hollywood Egyptians are portrayed as slave drivers and scary mummy’s; the Egyptians are wrongfully portrayed. The book of the dead is a window in to the past of what mummies were really for besides terrorizing the looters that came for their treasure. The book of the dead helps the deceased journey to the next world with prayers and speeches. The book of the dead is just the moer common name for the book of coming forth by day. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is usually a long scroll that…

my family was all safe that day, but if circumstances had been slightly different, my mom would have been on the highway structure that collapsed during the quake. Seeing this ad makes me wonder what would have happened if she had been heading to Treasure Island to pick up my dad from work. It makes me realize that we didn’t have any plan in place if something like that happened, and my younger sister and I wouldn’t have known what to do if our mother didn’t come home that day. This ad is…

The nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood, entirely reconstructed a horrific crime scene while depicting the lives of the runaway murderers. The author, Truman Capote, uses montage (a form of writing that switches back and forth) to allow the readers to see into the lives of the killers and the petrified people of Holcomb, Kansas. On November 15, 1959, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith brutally murdered Herbert, Bonnie, Kenyon and Nancy Clutter in their farmhouse. Floyd Wells, a previous cell mate of…

When you hear the name Christopher Columbus you think of the man who discovered “The New Land”, which we now know as America, but is that all he’s done? The great explorer has had many other discoveries for us and done. He has done way more in his lifetime than any of us would ever think to do in ours. With that being said he’s a great man at sea, he’s been on four voyages, and during one of those voyages was the discovery of The New World. Most people would say he is a great and heroic man, but…

grandparents were Lou and Gladys Neitling. Lou was in the Air Force and as he aged his health declined. He and I had a wonderful and close relationship when I was a child, but he died at the age of 76 when I was in middle school. Lou would hide treasure maps and fake treasure for me to find and dig up; he enjoyed having his grandchildren around. Lou’s wife, Gladys, outlived him for roughly five years. She and I were not as close. She always loved when we visited her in Illinois, but we never had…

Gold Fever Like all kids we would dig holes all over our backyard look for treasure being little pirate. But one day as you sailing the high sea and you were following a map digging hole in your backyard and you found gold. You ask your parent if they actually hide the gold from you so you could find it. But you find out it wasn 't them that hid the gold from you. This is a story of a greedy family that doesn’t care about myth, but only getting rich with gold. There was also a metal green box…

The Scramble for Africa The general idea or definition most people associate imperialism with is the overtaking or influence a country has over another country in which the other country has relatively a weaker government and military system. This is supported in the book ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” in which the writers states “Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and…

The Attack on Pearl Harbor The “Gibraltar” of the Pacific (also known as) Pearl Harbor was the headquarters for the United States Pacific fleet from the years 1899-1941. This monumental place experienced one of the most devastating attacks in United States history which left them no choice but to join World War II. But, did they really have a choice? In early January 1941 the United States Ambassador to Japan sent an urgent message to the U.S warning them of a surprise attack to pearl harbor.…

There are different types of freedom, some for example are freedom of conscience, to achieve a coherent and balanced life from the inside; Freedom of expression, in order to disseminate ideas and promote open debate and discussion; Freedom of assembly as a guarantee to associate with those who share ideals and work for them; Freedom to choose responsibly and peacefully to the rulers, among others. After this brief analysis of the concept of freedom, we see what it encompasses and what it means,…

If you are brought into a world where, before you are even born, you are told that you won’t succeed life is a struggle. Society tells you you can’t do it, you aren’t good enough, or you are worthless. This is how women are viewed. In America we are very lucky that this is a much smaller issue than in some countries such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan, but it is still an issue in our home too. Women are still not paid as much as men, they are expected to stay at home with the children,…