Way of St. James

Evolution “Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the on the path the best things that will ever happen to us” -unknown. Some people think that bad things that happen are bad and will never get good. But that is how James Naismith invented basketball. Now basketball has evolved into a sport that tons of people adore, and now is evolving more and more. It started with finding scraps from other sports and has turned into a sport. Plus now there are jobs that are…

work Doubt: A Parable, is a gripping drama founded on moral certainty and doubt. The story revolves around three main characters in the Catholic school of St. Nicholas. Sister Aloysius, a nun and the principal of the school, is certain that Father Flynn is sexually abusing Donald Muller. Donald is the first and only black student to attend St. Nicholas, which makes him an easy target for a child predator. The main question presented in the story is whether Father Flynn is guilty or innocent of…

Freedom Freedom is a word that can be defined in many ways to different minds, but in literary terms freedom means “the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved”. Two great poets by the name of Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes wrote two extraordinary poems called “I know why the caged bird sings” and “Democracy”. These two poems open your eye to the word freedom. I choose these two poems because, me personally being of Haitian decent I see how my people are treated and thought of. We think we…

Two cases that are important is James Woods v. Twitter individual and La Russa v. Twitter. According to the article James Woods can sue Twitter user for calling him a cocaine addict an example of a defamation case is the case James Woods vs. Twitter individual. The legal issue that goes along with this case is defamation of character/slander. James Woods sued Twitter user for 10 million dollars over “cocaine addict accusation.” The actor…

The Missouri State Penitentiary was the second largest prison in the nation. It was very harsh and the other inmates were criminals. They were there for murder, theft, and lots of other horrible things. The inmates were cruel to each other and hated the guards. There were lots of different people there for many different reasons. There were even famous criminals there. In 1954 there was a riot that broke out and was chaos. There were people that escaped from here. There is a lot of history that…

James Gatz is the main character that falls in love early in the novel to a beautiful woman named Daisy Buchanan. Not only does Daisy fall in love with James, too, but she tells him she’ll wait for him after he gets out of the army. Later after he’d gotten out of the army, he found out that she’d married a wealthy man and had a child. That’s when his life changed and he changed himself by becoming a whole different man. James Gatz later became known as Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald, the author,…

leading theories: strain theory, social learning theory and control theory. There are also many other theories such as the social disorganization theory, strain theory, labeling theory, and rational choice theory.etc. Each theory has its individual way of defining the social environment and its own and each one a distinctive reasoning as to why the crime was caused. On July 27, 2013, a young boy was shot down by a Toronto Police Officer. Eighteen year old, Sammy Yatim began to display…

him a representative of a “leisure” class, namely, this term refers to the social class which does not have to work as it gains fortune by inheritance. Wealth obtained in such a simple way is spend mostly on leisure activities, which in consequences leads people to degeneration (Pearl, 2005: 5). What is more, James claims that leisure is a source of femininity, and argues…

James Joyce is said to be one of the most innovative and influential writers of the modern time. He was a novelist, poet, short story writer, and a playwright. Joyce made “the modern world possible for art,” according to T.S. Elliot (Litz 16). James Joyce was an Irish modernist writer. His writing was known for its intricacy and vulgar comedy. He pushed the limits with books such as Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In his writings, Joyce was always meeting himself “in ways which must at times have…

siblings, Mary Lou, 4; Lee Roy, who would be 3 in January; and Dorothy; who was almost 15 months old. Almost a year after Shirley was born, the Kolmer’s added a new baby girl into the family, named Elizabeth. Elizabeth would be followed John and James who died as infants and the youngest, Joseph, born in 1945. Two days after her birth, on December 17, 1930, Shirley Komler had a white gown on and was at SPPS Church in Waterloo, Illinois. Shirley was about to get baptized two days after her…