Upward Bound

looked at her knife and with a quick movement of her hand the knife flew at the Raven and hit him straight in the heart. “I never really liked him anyway.” Viona pulled out the knife and let the blood drip into a vile. “Magical Raven blood, that’s bound to come in handy at some point.” She wiped off her dagger and laid it neatly on a small table next to four other daggers. The next morning Viona awoke early, she had decided on finding a dragon; but first she would need a dragon to find. It…

The Atomic Age began at 3:25 p.m. on Dec. 2, 1942. It began in secret, on a squash court under the west stands of old Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. (Allison 30) Two and a half years later, on August 6, 1945, an American B-26 bomber, the Enola Gay dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. (Grossman) On August 15th, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito surrendered. World War II was finally over. Without Japan’s final…

reduction of tariffs and the substitution of income taxes, Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich disagrees and says that though the Republican party promised the revision of tariffs, they did not specify whether or not they would revise the tariffs upwards or downwards. Most republicans criticize the tariff, but Taft signs it anyway. Throughout Taft’s presidency he also vetoed multiple attempts by congress to lower…

reality when New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark formed a coalition government with a smaller party and ended up giving the leader of the other party a position dubbed “the Minister of Foreign Affairs outside cabinet’,which is, a minister that isn’t bound by the concept of cabinet collective responsibility. Not only did this create uncertainty within the coalition, but it caused for uncertainty within the government and an election was called less than three years later and she lost. It is…

TRAINING FOR DIVING MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND SPECIAL AMPHIBIOUS RECONNAISSANCE CORPSMAN Currently, the U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman (HM) Divers do not possess adequate fitness levels to support the full spectrum of Special Operation’s diverse and expanding support roles. This deficit affects the medical support to joint Special Operations, ranging from Naval Special Warfare, Army Special Forces, Marine Corps Special Operations, and to the combat ground forces. Without a physical training program…

My background as a child shaped my views of poverty. I grew up in the west, in a middle class family of Irish descent. As a child I attended Catholic schools. My parents were very involved in the church and my mother was a great fan of Dorothy Day. My earliest memories were of helping with relief efforts through the church. My view of poverty was shaped and forged by my Catholic upbringing. The Church teaches a preferential option for the poor, that we should help the poor.…

The only African American representation in the film is through what is considered a racist imitation or caricature. Jolson’s use of blackface and its meaning has been subject to much debate by scholars. Rogin believes blackface was a vehicle for upward mobility, as Jack Robin ‘rises by putting on the mask of a group that must remain, immobile, unassimilable and fixed at the bottom’. However this is revised by Musser, who believes that Jack was not attempting to mask his Jewishness but rather…

Gothic fiction is known as a subgenre of romanticism. It emphasizes on emotion, but it focuses on more disturbed feelings. Edgar Allen Poe is perhaps the most famous example of an American gothic author. His stories are a true definition of dark romanticism as we see in The Cask of the Amontillado a real prospective on gothic romanticism. It displays a disturbing feeling that the character in the narrative is insane. This type of narrative especially makes a person wonder why someone would have…

on the Cotentin Peninsula. Sectors were further subdivided into beaches identified by the colors Green, Red and White. Omaha was bound at either end by large rocky cliffs, the crescent shaped beach presented a gently sloping tidal area averaging 300 yards (275 m) between low and high-water marks. Above the tide line was a bank of shingle 8 feet (2.4 m) high and upwards to 15 yards (14 m) wide in some spots. At the western end, the shingle bank rested against a stone (further east becoming wood)…

The two works are used in the study of the path of principles in the artistic movements of Realism through Classicism and Romanticism in early 19th century Europe. The object is to analyze how each movement affected and influenced Realism. The movements are linked to other genres; Romanticism is coupled with Classicism, and Realism is associated with Idealism. Both movements faced criticism due to an opposition of majority taste and offensive subject matter. Despite the impediments, the…