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Some of the earliest double entendres are found in the Exeter Book, or Codex exoniensis, at Exeter Cathedral in England. The book was copied around 975 AD. In addition to the various poems and stories found in the book, there are also numerous riddles. The Anglo-Saxons did not reveal the answers to the riddles, but they have been answered by scholars over the years. Some riddles were double-entendres, such as Riddle 25 ("I am a wondrous creature: to women a thing of joyful expectation, to…

Dear Parents of English Language Learner Students, I want to take a moment and welcome you to the U.S. I hope that this transition will bring you lots of opportunities, joy, and health. Immigration, with all the changes and necessary adaptations to the new environment, is a challenging journey, but it is doable. I am happy to be the teacher of your children and working hard to make sure they learn and enjoy their time in my classroom. I put an unprecedented amount of time in preparing special…

William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night alludes to a variety of themes that commonly include false identity, role-playing, and love. The general plot of the play could be described as a cross-dressing comedy about a woman, Viola, who tries to gain the attention and love of a Duke, Orsino, with obstacles along the way, including Olivia, the Duke’s love interest. The themes mentioned are developed and sometimes scrutinized by the play’s characters, such as Orsino, Olivia, and Feste the clown. In…

Javier Suarez 5working with people can be gained by simply going out in the world, rather than payingthousands of dollars to attend to college. Some students also rather obtain a well-rounded workexperience rather than a specific one, and attending to college is also not necessary to do this.Studying and reading books can give a person the knowledge that they are looking for rather thanhaving to pay for classes on topics they are not interested on. Paying for a book to then read andstudy is a…

Education is one of the most powerful weapon to change the world. Ever since we were 5 we learn and our brain expanded. As you grow, your intellect will grow and progress has been made. School provided that. You have it for 13 years and at the end you get a diploma. Diploma is just paper but it's like a ticket and you could use that to get a bigger ticket. However you have another choice. You could go and drop out or go get the bigger ticket and go to college. I feel like dropping out is risking…

such a competition for the job, getting a MSc or PhD in forensic science is very helpful also, anthropology and archaeology can also be very beneficial. The best colleges to go to for this career would be, University of Mississippi in Oxford, University of Central Florida, and Loyola University in New Orleans. Having an advanced degree will move you up and looks very good when applying for the job. For an Associates degree traditionally, it takes one and a half a year while being full time and…

Former president of Boston University, John Silber, who was also ran for the position of governor for the state of Massachusetts, was an intellectual man. Even after his death, September 27, 2012, he left behind his legacy and had “Sherborn Street” renamed by the city of Boston, the “John R. Silber Way” in honor of him. John Silber’s essay, “Students Should Not Be above the Law” addresses in the beginning of the essay, in which medieval Europe had a “two parallel court systems: the church’s and…

Some even say that student debt may soon become America’s next major economic crisis (Oxford Analytica Daily Brief Service 1). It is estimated that the average student loan debt on the United States is around 26,000 dollars and student debt as a whole adds up to approximately 1.3 trillion dollars. Too many people are perpetually stuck in debt and too little is done to aid these former students. University costs are on the rise to this day, while scholarships and financial aid grow more and more…

Another bad experience that made me the writer I am now, was the English class I took my senior year. Everyone painted senior year to be the easiest year of all and that the teachers are not as demanding since it is your last year. The completely opposite happened to me, of course, I had put myself through another high level class, this time it was not honors but AP! What the hell was I thinking? I had chosen to take an AP English class with Santa Claus. Santa Claus was my English teacher’s…

Today in 2016, we are still at a crossroad between racial identity and bondage. History has a strange way of repeating itself. Even though we made it through 250 years or Slavery, 90 years or Jim Crow, and 60 years of Segregation, we still are going through the same struggles in modern time. This systematic oppression of African Americans has been here far too long and it has been embedded into the American Culture. We are strong people born from super humans who survived the horrors or The…