Agent Shufeldt, I am writing this letter to you because I chose your name for the “Adopt an Agent” program that the lab does. I based my decision solely on the awesomeness of your last name. I hope all is well with you and though I don’t know you very well, I am sure you are doing an awesome job. However, if you are not doing an awesome job you should pick it up. I don’t like to be a liar. Anyway, I hope things in the investigative world are running smoothly. I know hectic that lifestyle can be. According to our organizer, the theme for this letter is “mints.” (Breath savers if you will) So I am supposed to tie in that theme somewhere in my letter. So I guess I’ll write you a poem. Roses are Red Violets are blue-ish… I guess… Breath mints
Steven Alper’s life started out completely normal. Steven starts out as your average teenage middle school boy; skinny, wears glasses, has braces, and last but not least, invisible to the hottest girl in 8th grade, Renee Albert. Besides being a complete geek, Steven excels at playing the drums; even making into the All-City Jazz Band. But after troubling times come after attempting to make “moatmeal” for his younger brother Jeffery, Steven’s world gets turned completely upside down; changing and challenging the rest of his 8th grade year.
One of the biggest critics of Pericles’ vision of democracy was Pseudo-Xenophon or (The Old Oligarch). The Old Oligarch first critics the common assessment of the Athenian Democracy that states that democracy does not work very well and that it is foolish and mistaken. The Old Oligarch responds to this common assessment believing that Athens is doing everything right with democracy in terms of what they wanted to achieve with all citizens getting a say in government as Pericles had visioned. However, the Old Oligarch criticizes the common people of Athens as ignorant and disorderly. The Old Oligarch does not agree that all Athenian citizens have merit over class like Pericles. Not being a supporter of the poor, the Old Oligarch finds the Aristocrats as the better sort of people. In passage 1.9, The Old Oligarch states, “But if you seek for good legislation, in the first place you will see the cleverest members of the community laying down the laws for the rest.” The Old Oligarch’s statement shows that he believed the aristocrats were designed to rule. They had money and time, the two biggest components to get an education at the time, and as a result the Old Oligarch believed the aristocrats since educated, could make the best legislation for Athens. The Old Oligarch belief is supported through history to when democracy fell in Athens after the consequences of the Sicilian Expedition. After the fall of democracy, Aristocrats were put in charge because they were seemed as the most educated. In addition, the Old Oligarch states in passage 2.17, “But in the case of engagements entered into by a democracy it is
Traditional theories of intelligence do not account for the ambiguity of classes such as philosophy or for the wide range of interests a child can have. For example, contemporary theories such as Sternberg’s Theory of Intelligence and Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences both account for more than the general intelligence accounted for in traditional intelligence theories. According to Robert Sternberg’s Successful (Triarchic) Theory of Intelligence, are Hector’s difficulties in philosophy indicative of future difficulties in the business world? According to Sternberg’s Theory of Intelligence, Hector’s difficulty in philosophy will not negatively affect his future. Sternberg would instead focus on elements of successful intelligence like Hector’s involvement and contribution as an individual, as opposed to relying on intelligence measured by tests.
Since the night Lamar almost passed I have thought about writing to your family every day to express how sorry I am about the pain Lamar and your family have endured since the night of his overdose.
Mr. Fox is one of the most enchanting and interesting books that I have read recently, and Helen Oyeyemi is also a highly inventive storyteller. She combines the reality, the fiction and fairy tales together, creating different characters and plots. Some characters are serious or ironic. Other characters can fall in love immediately with others or kill their lovers. I can feel the warm atmosphere when the characters are docile and romantic, and I also can feel the pains when characters stuck in the puzzles.
In this quote irony is shown through the inscription on the gate leading into Auschwitz, "’Arbeit Macht Frei’ Work makes you free"(Wiesel 40). This represents irony because the gates were opening, leading them into a prison where no one could ever be truly free. From this quote you are able to infer about life in the camps, and how they compared to life outside of the walls. This saying could be viewed as another spiteful act of the Nazi oppressors, showing their power over the Jews from the very threshold. This helps you understand the inner workings of the Nazi's from the very beginning, they are spiteful, cruel, and evil. "Arbeit Macht Frei" is an ironic thing to put on a metal gate because gates are seen as ways of keeping things out,
In this essay, I aim to show that given Carl Hempel’s (1942) deductive-nomological (DN) theory of explanation and Bas C. van Fraassen’s (1980) pragmatic theory of explanation, Schelling only partially explains neighbourhood segregation, because multiple causal factors and background conditions ought to be taken into account. I will first outline how Schelling explains neighbourhood segregation, and then discuss the following aspects to show my conclusion:
1. Ordinary World - This story takes place in the mid 1700s along the west English coast. Jim Hawkins is an innkeeper’s son, who is pay a monthly allowance of a few pennies to keep a lookout for one-legged. His client is known as “the captain” or Billy Bones, an old man who was a former captain of a pirate ship. Billy Bones was a former pirate, who is described as “tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nail; a sabre cut on one cheek, a dirty, livid white.”(3) His activities in the inn consisted mostly of singing “Yo-ho-ho a bottle of rum”, all the neighbors joining in for dear life, with the fear of death upon them, each singing
I hope this letter finds you well. I just wanted to thank you for giving an opportunity to be adopted. I know it was not your plan to set heartache and pain in my life. Also, I want to thank you for giving me an opportunity in a lifetime to become more than what you ever were. I now realize that many times that when any painful memories came it was because of you.
The Question of Hu reconstructs an extraordinary episode of the initial contacts between Europe and China. Jonathan D. Spence tells the story of John Hu, a Cantonese convert to Catholicism, who entered the service of Jean-François Foucquet, a French Jesuit missionary, as translator and servant. Foucquet took him with on his return to Paris in 1722, but Hu's strange behavior abroad motivated his confinement in an asylum for the mentally ill. From French, British and Vatican archives, the author attempts to reconstruct a narrative on the supposed insanity of the Chinese servant from his controversial relationship with the Jesuit father in the context of cultural selection between Europe and Asia, each society with different beliefs of "faith, madness and moral obligation."
Star Trek has always had a massive cult following and the reboot is no different. The character of Spock has some traits from Epictetus’s theory of stoicism. Spock has always had an internal struggle between his human side and his Vulcan side. Growing up, Spock has had difficulty preventing others from affecting his emotions and accepting his role in life. While the old Spock is mostly stoic, he still has trouble not blaming himself and accepting loss.
As I turned left on the new road, I decide to take to school today. I could smell f wild mint, this was refreshing because the old road would sometimes smell of onions, and at times I would want to cry. At my next turn right
In conclusion, reading the poem “Smell!” by William Carlos Williams made me realized that the way my nose function can be compare to many other aspects in my life. The author tells us about the good and bad odors our nose smell. I also find this poem to be really inspirational because we can all draw many different conclusions out of this
I sat alone reading by the dim light of the last candle that I found in Mommas nightstand. Momma made such beautiful candles, dipping each wick lovingly into the hot wax over and over until the candles took form. Before gently hanging them up to dry she would take a knife and carve a word on each one. Through the years, I had seen the words hope, love, giving, along with a multitude of others. I took the candle down from stand and this one had one word cut delicately in its side...remember.
My favorite smell, probably his, hers, and theirs too, is the smell of freshly cut grass. It’s a little bit sad, actually, that I like the smell of dead organisms, murdered by the hired mower or my grandfather or the obnoxious neighbors who play their drums loudly every Friday. The smell of freshly cut grass brings me back to the time before my parents split up, nearly eight years ago. I feel like I’ve time-traveled to the years of 2009 and 2010. Those were good years. My family of five, myself included, would go on road trips reaching as far as the border of Kansas to the coniferous trees of the Rocky Mountains. There’s a particular memory that I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forget. Imagine being four years old and sitting in a Honda