Way of St. James

Mount St. Helens is well known for it’s gigantic eruption in 1980. Activity on the mountain began on March 20, 1980 when a magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck. Shortly thereafter, steam began to vent from the mountain and by April, the north side of Mount St. Helens began to grow a bulge. Another earthquake struck on May 18, which caused a debris avalanche that wiped out the entire north face of the mountain. In fact it was the largest debris avalanche in history. Following the avalanche, Mount St.…

Major League Baseball is easily one of the biggest sports that the use of statistics is very important. Many statistics such as, batting average, homeruns, runs batted in, and many more are used by every manager and every critic on a daily basis. The top four most highly sought after awards include the following: Most Valuable Player in each of the American League and National League, The Cy Young Award or in better terms, the most valuable pitcher in each of the American League and National…

two assumptions that gives rise to the problem of the freedom of the will” The debate over free will and whether we can control of our destiny has been at the heart of philosophical debate for centuries. Philosopher such as Aristotle, Hume, William James, Ted Honderich. This essay will discuss that no one is the master of their own destiny according to the theory of hard determinism Within Philosophical school of thought determinism describes that all events are completely determined by…

Mallory James Lynette Burdick CHM 130 11 November 2015 Fritz Haber: For Better and For Worse Fritz Haber, a scientist not well-known to many, has played an immense role for our world today. This paper will describe him, his contributions to the chemistry field, the hardships he had to go through during his career as a chemist and the contradictions of his inventions. Fritz Haber was born into one of the oldest families of Breslau, Germany (now part of Poland) on December 9, 1868. Sadly, his…

2015 Analysis of an original work of art Santiago El Grande by Salvador Dali Much can be said about about this painting. It is extraordinary, a masterwork, and one of Dali’s most famous. I was lucky enough to see it when it was at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Despite holding one of the largest collections of his works worldwide, I spent most of my time at the museum under Santiago. Under him, because everything about this work is designed to put you there. The Saint is…

ragtime. II. Central Part of Lesson (sequential instructional procedures) Ragtime (Class discussion) Ragtime is primarily a solo piano style and was the immediate precursor to jazz. 1. It originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in St. Louis. 2. It consists of each hand doing something different:…

Edwin Wiley Grove, E. W. Grove, was born in Whiteville, Hardeman County, Tennessee in 1850. He was the son of James Henry and Mary Jane Harris Grove. E. W. Grove moved to Paris, Tennessee in 1874, when he was just 24-years-old, and lived there until 1898 when he moved to Asheville, NC. E. W. Grove was known for many things and helped Paris, TN in many ways. The benefits from E. W. Grove have left behind a lasting impact on society. While not much is known about Edwin Wiley Grove’s young…

Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. He grew up Catholic living in the Upper St. Clair's with his parents Fred and Lea and younger sister Stacy. While growing up, Chbosky enjoyed classics, horror, and fantasy novels. He loved the novel The Catcher in the Rye; writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tennessee Williams. In 1988 Chbosky graduated from Upper St. Clair High School, while in high school, he seemed to have met Stewart Stern; screenwriter of the James Dean film Rebel Without a Cause. They closely became…

America, The Beautiful “What, then, is the American, this new man?” In Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur presents this question just as the concept of the “American” is becoming a reality. These epistolary essays were initially published in 1782 during a crucial moment in United States history: the foundation of our beloved republic was right around the bend and the inevitable birth of American literature was pending. Due to our then-newness, Letters…

not by force to all fight along side to help save mutants and human. These highly talented mutants were obsessed with their own feelings and emotions towards their own desires which held them off from moving forward. In this essay I will break down ways in which the X-men is both a functional and dysfunctional team. Dysfunctional…