I kept a steady pace while jogging through the park. Training for a marathon is a lot harder than I expected and I had to continuously coach myself through the process, “You can do it Keller, almost done!” My little amount of perseverance dwindled as I neared the end of my run and when I saw a peculiar man sitting on a bench, reading the newspaper. At first I just overlook it, but as I glance around there is another…
After writing my own essay about adversity, reading the book Touch the Top of the World, and listening to the podcast about grit, I have gained a fuller understanding of what adversity is and how it is shown in life. To start off I had never really put too much thought into adversity. I knew Webster’s definition of adversity and that’s quite simple: “a difficult situation or condition; misfortune or tragedy.” While doing these different lessons in class, the distinctions…
European colonization had both a positive and negative force in the world however, the negatives proved to be more dominant. Over this past unit, we looked at several countries all over the world and how they were impacted by the colonization of Europe. In each region the diseases, the idea of slavery and the wars fought all were huge negative forces that left a huge impact of the development of each society. The diseases were very prominent because they were…
General Information Title of Book: Cleopatra: A Life Genre: Biography Author: Stacy Schiff Publisher: Bay Back Books / Little, Brown and Company Copyright Date: 2010 Number of Pages: 324 Settings: Alexandria, Egypt, Rome, Ephesus, Antioch, Tarsus, Nile River (there were all sorts of other places, but these are the main ones that reappear throughout the book.) Main Characters: Cleopatra- A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the family who took the throne after Alexander the Great. A great woman who showed…
Playing to Prove Them Wrong My biggest dream in life consisted of playing club volleyball. I retained a belief that the girls who did seemed so much ‘cooler’ and better at everything they participated in. It sounds cheesy but I wanted to live just like them. I thought that it would remain impossible for me to receive this chance, there seemed to be too much of a commitment involved- both time and money wise. With three daughters at home, keeping…
Hiding in Plain Sight Character Speech: I am Mark Antony, beloved friend of the late Julius Caesar and I am here to tell you why I should be the next leader of rome. For a while I have been Caesar’s right hand man and that opportunity has allowed me to see how things are kind of supposed to be run around here. I stayed loyal to Caesar throughout his whole reign even while conspirators were plotting against him. I have…
I chose to research the topic of marriage disposability. While first researching for this project I wanted to learn about the disposability of children, but shortly after beginning the search I discovered the topic of marriage and felt as if that would be a more appropriate and more interesting topic to cover. I learned so much about marriage that I would have never even known if I didn’t write this paper. A majority of the major points are shown throughout…
This article was the results of a study done at the University of California, Berkeley about the patterns of divorces in families. They wanted to see if students who had divorced parents and/or grandparents, would affect their relationships. The thesis was basically stating that marriage failure tends to run in generations and that males and females who had divorce in their families were more compatible with eachother, they were out to find if this really was true. This article had…
This was a great article, it really made some great connections to the real world while getting need to know information out. The thesis of this article was very clearly stated in the first sentence, “Many young couples are bailing out of marriages that are barely beyond the honeymoon phase.” It starts of talking about Jennifer Anniston and Brad Pitts short 5 year relationship to get something to compare facts to the rest of the article. It goes through a few…
This article was very fascinating because it had quite a bit of history to it, it shared traditions and beliefs from differnt cultures around the world and at different times and compares them to America. The thesis of this article states that we don’t truly know how much divorce is going on in America, that is the purpose of this article. To find out how much divorce is happening, you first have to know what it is and a little…