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How The Americas Change The Americas are forever changing, like the tide of the sea they ebb and flow sometimes in ways more prosperous than others yet retaining that fascinating pattern that is still so true to its nature. In America we endeavor for change, most of the time we strive for positive change, modification and transformations that will ultimately improve our country and the lives of our citizens. We are consistent in the very fact that we wish to advance our society and to go…

The banquet hall was disquietingly huge. An intricately detailed table was covered by an ill-white table cloth and there was a grand ceiling with lights hanging high above the heads of the guests. The new King Macbeth had thousands of slaves chaotically running around; they all had a posture which told stories of hard work and dedication to their cause. Yet I doubt the King knew even half their names. The room itself was overly decorated with expensive gold-plates and paintings that portrayed…

uniform, taking on roles in the military in roles including, but not limited to WAACs (Women’s Army Auxillary Corps), WAVES (Navy Women’s Reserve), Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, Coast Guards Women’s Reserve, and the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS). This extensive list of roles performed crucial tasks such as repairing aeroplanes, working as laboratory technicians, being radio operators, and even training anti-aircraft artillery gunners. The jobs that women took on during the war starkly…

changing themselves to look more like white people. One author in particular who best exemplifies her beliefs on conformity is, Chimamande Ngozi Adichie author of the novel Americanah. In her novel she writes about how White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, or WASP for short, has all the power in the world and minorities are trying to conform themselves so they can be higher up on the racial…

Salvaged in the 1960’s, the Flotilla Fresco was discovered in a building that had been obscured under volcanic ash. This was due to a series of natural forces. The painting is a Fresco, which is a technique in art where the paint is applied on plaster that has not dried yet. There are many speculations of what the painting is portraying. From a commemoration celebrating a new sailing period, military ships, or a transit from Akrotiri to Crete. This painting is treated as one of the most…

A Spark of Hope: Luck and Other Virtues of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games The novel The Hunger Games (2008), written by Suzanne Collins, explores the idea of luck and its effects on Katniss Everdeen. Luck is a “force that operates to bring advantages or disadvantages to a person. It is a combination of circumstances and events operating by chance that shape ones’ future” (Gage Canadian Dictionary). Just like Newton said, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. For luck,…

(Northern California Coalition on Immigrant Rights; sfgeneology.org). Irish immigrants who settled in western cities such as San Francisco “managed to avoid much of the bigotry and Know-Nothing spirit” since the region had not yet developed the “entrenched WASP establishment” found in the east coast (Dungan). In this environment, Irish San Franciscans enjoyed greater social mobility, economic opportunity, and political power than their east coast counterparts. Several held political office; in…

Human intelligence is the intellectual abilities of humans, marked by high cognition, motivation, and self-awareness (Tirri & Nokelainen, 2011). Intelligence allows humans to apply cognitive abilities to many different functions such as learning, communicating, reasoning and it also enables humans to experience and think (Solomon et al., 2015). Humans have relatively large brains, approximately three times larger than those of their closest primate relatives, and possess cognitive skills not…

Ayn Rand’s (1905 – 1982) personal philosophy, Objectivism, was directly impacted by the political influences she was exposed to throughout her upbringing, namely Russian socialism and, as an adult, American capitalism. Objectivism holds that: reality exists as an objective absolute, man is an end to himself and his purpose in life lies within satisfying rational self-interests, and laissez-faire capitalism reigns supreme over any other form of economy. She preaches that one must live a “selfish”…

I finished reading Lies by Michael Grant, pages 386-447. This book is about kids that are locked in a 20-mile circumference “fishbowl” with no adults. Most kids have gained mutant powers, some good and some evil. Sam, Astrid, Edilio, Albert and many other kids, have learned to step up and take charge of a crumbling town. During the book many secrets have to be kept to save many lives, and they learn they’re worst nightmare, the gaiaphage, isn’t fully gone. These kids must figure out a plan to…