Way of St. James

governments helped by robots. The underground humans produce those robots for the war effort. All the information is transmitted on the screens by the leader stand on the surface, in order to know what is happening above them. The main character, Nicolas St James, is an underground city manager. He has to take the risk to go out of his shelter to find a treatment that would save his robot builder in chef’s life. When he reaches the surface, he finds out that the truth was not the one broadcasted…

The time period in which the novel, The Quarter-Pie Window, takes place in is 1830’s Canada, and during this time period women where slowly starting to get educated, and the only way to communicate with someone how lived far away was through letters. Boys of rich families were usual the only ones to get an education, but during this time period rich girls from rich families were starting to get education too because people started…

The Atlantic World opened up tremendous ways of trading to different parts of the world. It not only gave Europeans a different outlook on the world and trading, but it gave the European powers like Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, France, and the English a new way of trade and exploration as well. With the Age of Exploration these European powers formed, and by their influences sculpted the new world as well as the old. However, some factors that these powers bring led this world to its demise and…

were nearly the same as theirs…” (Chapter 1). Usually the slaves were prisoners of war or criminals therefore, they deserved the punishment and even then they weren’t treated cruelly. His culture seemed respectable, since they had reasonable rules and ways to treat each other. They were known to be clean and decent, so their lives seemed serene until another district would declare a war. The worst part was that there would be kidnappers on the look out to steal unattended children to use as…

Great Lakes, which spurred economic opportunities for New York City to become a national shipping center. With the prospect of commercial transportation by way of the Erie Canal, this encouraged westward expansion and prosperity to all towns and cities along the banks because of its shipping and trading ability. This forever changed the way Americans exercised commercial business exchange. Additionally in 1825, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company in Lowell, Massachusetts impressed on the economy…

The family was already stressed enough, what with the previous day’s 1⁄2 cm of rain draining the hills and streaming across the floor, its volume increased by the early spring melt. The poorly constructed shack had no floors but dirt that had now become mud, veined with rivulets. With no insulation and chinks in the walls, keeping a near term mother warm and dry was a full time task. The available help was a 14 year old girl and a boy just turned 11. Then there was the earthquake. Small by world…

clean profile. On the other hand, if the profile is clean, but the candidate shows up for the interview and acts nothing like the profile that is online, it could give the impression that the person they are interviewing cannot be trusted. Either way, impressions both online, and in person are very…

who were not in the upper one percent. LANGSTON HUGHES’ WORK AND REALISM Hughes “cast off the influences of white poets and wrote with the rhythmic meter of blues and jazz (“The Harlem Renaissance”).” Taking on a rhythm of jazz and blues was a sure way to get his message across in his works. Take Miss Blues’es Child for instance: If the blues would let me, Lord knows I would…

pluggers’ would produce and promote their popular songs (Starr & Waterman: 2003, pg.32). Until 1930, Tin Pan Alley remained the forefront of musical innovation, hosting the greats of Broadway such as Irving Berlin and one of the kings of Jazz piano, James P. Johnson. By 1923, Johnson’s contributions to Tin Pan Alley had been recognised particularly through his work on the well known song the ‘Charleston’. The ‘Charleston’ was first written for the black American musical ‘Runnin’ Wild’ and after…

Mary Tudor was the only child of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She was born at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, England on February 18, 1516. Mary was alienated from her father after he annulled his marriage with Catherine because of her failure to birth a son. When the annulment was official, Mary was considered illegitimate and deprived of her status to the throne. By the time King Henry VII died, Edward VI took the throne. He was only 9 years old at the time, but died at age…