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Andrew Carnegie and John Muir both grew up in Scotland and soon after moved to the United States to seek a better life where resources were more plentiful. Carnegie and Muir both had a similarity for not only business, but invention as well. Carnegie and Muir both clearly had the ability to become successful businessmen…

In 2004, Warner Bros. Pictures released a film adaptation of Homer’s epic, “The Iliad,” which was entitled “Troy. ” The movie was directed by Wolfgang Petersen, based by the screenplay of David Benioff. Although the film credits the work of Homer as an inspiration in artfully bringing the heroic narrative of Achilles to life on…

Perseus, a brave Greek hero, encountered a fearsome creature with serpents as hair. This hideous beast had the ability to turn any living being into stone just by looking at them. Perseus quickly came up with a plan when he saw Andromeda in great danger and trapped. He showed the severed head of the monstrous…

The author of the story is Junot Diaz. The setting of the story is in New Jersey and the Dominican Republic. The novel begins with the narrator’s description of the curse, called fukú americanus—a curse of doom, specifically that of the New World. It was brought over to the islands of Antilles when the Europeans…

My artwork piece isn’t a painting but rather an woven piece created sometime during the Ming dynasty. The Ming dynasty ruled from 1368 to 1644. The Ming dynasty was one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history. The focus of this piece is the dragon and your attention should…

The book To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is considered to be a dateless authoritative that trades with such sensitive subjects such as: bias, human self-respect, societal categories, and adulthood. Maturity, that word has a different significance for all of us. Maturity as I see it is an apprehension that comes to people…

    Life Expectancy opens, appropriately, with the birth of Jimmy Tock. In another room of the same hospital, just before, his grandfather is dying, but not before making dire predictions about Jimmy. Having just had a stroke days earlier, it’s a wonder he can say a single word, much less predict the time of Jimmy’s…

The autobiography of Frederick Douglass, titled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, received favorable reviews and quickly became popular. The achievements of this 19th century American slave were particularly notable considering that slaves were forbidden from learning to read and write in any part of the country. In this article, we…

Macbeth was not a victim of the Witch’s misleading prophecies and he is guilty of committing murder not because of Lady Macbeth’s manipulation but rather his ambitions to be king and have power. The struggle Macbeth underwent was his desires to get to the throne of Scotland and know right from his rights and wrongs….

Miller’s Death of a Salesman & Writing Poetry We’ve read several poems highlighting father/child (more specifically the father/son) relationship. Hoyden’s ‘Those Winter Sundays,” Haynes “Digging,” and Reroute’s “My Papa’s Waltz” examine the eventual understandings that grown sons acquire regarding their fathers’ behaviors, attitudes, choices, etc. Witnessed as they (the sons) were ‘growing up. ‘ Death…