Endgame

“ I got it [polio] when I was a little girl. My parents watch as I slowed down and my hand stopped working. We couldn’t afford the surgery to fix it, but I finally better. But my hand is a constant remember, but I refuse to let it stop me.”(6) Poliomyelitis, deriving from Greek meaning grey and marrow. Which more than likely refers to the spinal cord, along with the suffix –itis or inflammation.(4) For a time, Poliomyelitis was once was called infantile paralysis because of its primary effects on

issues the Reconstruction drafters faced like compensating northerners and not alienating the South, providing justice to African Americans—especially freed slaves—stood forward as the primary moral goal. After all, by the end of the war, the North’s endgame became less about state defiance and more about the moral obligation of emancipation. The North first employed a strategy of appeasement to save the dignity of the South but after a recalcitrant South refused

Broadly defined, impact investing refers to investments "made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return". In other words, it means investing capital to generate social impact in a way that it is not charity, so the money lent is returned entirely in a given period of time. These returns may vary from the initial principal amount upward (or, potentially, downward), depending on the nature

In Chris Cleave’s novel, Little Bee, there are many characters with different personalities, ethics, and responses to the situations that come up in the book. The story is told from the two perspectives of Little Bee and Sarah. Little Bee is 16 year old refugee from Nigeria who comes to England to live with Sarah O’Rourke because the O’Rourke’s are the only people Little Bee knows from England. Sarah is the wife of Andrew and the mother of Charlie. She runs a magazine and has an affair with Lawrence

organization essentially split in two: Solidarity continued its existence as the union, but it also established a new political wing, Citizens’ Committee Solidarity, that would nominate delegates in the elections (Klein 219). It took part in the elections of 1989 and won 99 percent of all the Senate seats, thus attesting to the party’s overwhelming popularity among the Polish electorate (Walicki 114). Tadeusz Mazoviecki, a Solidarity leader and political dissident who was imprisoned during the

Pike Over the past three seasons we have seen quite some villains on the show. Most of them were grey-ish: they had the right intentions but not the right methods. Think of Diana Sydney, Queen Anya, Dante Wallace, Queen Nia. There were some less redeemable villains like Cage Wallace and there are a few that are just downright unlikeable (remember Dr. Lorelei Tsing?). However, Pike takes unlikeable villains to new dimensions. Nothing that the show has done has made him even a bit likeable. I want

Role Reversal in King Lear        King Lear, known as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, deeply affects its audience by playing out the destruction of two families. At the end of this play two of the protagonists, King Lear and his loyal friend the Earl of Gloucester, die after having suffered through major injustices at the hands of their own children. These characters’ deaths are incredibly tragic because they are brought on by their own actions instead of by the circumstances that

Robert Frost is known for his layering poetry that includes unique characters for the audience to enjoy. He, “always wants to reach for a more complicated vision, one arrived at after much pain, much “sucking up” of passive, reflected beauty” (Panini 235). This quote about Frost suggests that his writing flourishes in the face of uncomfortable subject matter, a quality most ordinary people do possess. However, Frost is not trying to steer the audience toward his way of thinking, he is simply telling

school student that volunteering isn’t exactly at the top anyone's priority list. As I mentioned earlier, I spent my summers as an underclassman hastily completing as many volunteer hours possible with my church. I hadn't cared for it at all, the endgame was getting my sheet signed by the coordinator and I was the first one out of there. It wasn’t until this past summer - the

If one has never played a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game before (commonly referred to as a MOBA) it can seem like a daunting and yet entertaining task. After taking the time to select and download the game you are wanting to play, such as Smite, Dota 2, and the most popular game currently, League of Legends. Each game begins with the player picking a character with unique abilities, and getting teamed up with 4 other players with the objective of getting to the opposing teams base on the opposite