Holderness

Transformation in stories is meant to scare the person reading it. Transformation uses what we as humans don’t quite understand, against us. It uses death, supernatural elements, and the unknown, all things we don’t understand, to scare us. “But i do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can’t understand.” This quote by Art Bell explains just how little we know. Although dark stories are meant to scare us, lots of people have learned to enjoy this fear. Some people enjoy

lie. The original article was a piece that was commissioned and paid for by the Chamber of Commerce for its own publication called “the Folsom magazine and relocation guide” and titled “Strategic Plan Goes Into Action” which was written by Linda Holderness. The Chamber cut & pasted snippets from the

Macro-level practice skill: Needs assessment Conducting an effective needs assessment is a critical component of working as a sociologist. Needs assessment requires an understanding of the needs of the community which the agency is designed to serve. Methods of needs assessment will vary depending on the resources of the organization. In my case, it involved reviewing the relevant statistical data available from government agencies about the general population along with conducting more informal

Around March last year, lacrosse season was beginning to come around the corner. Everyone was getting prepared for the season with high expectations of winning another championship. For the returning seniors this was a huge deal for them, along with the rest of the team. Everything was in good shape until events unfolded and my spot on the team was a swinging player. The tryouts went by quick. I wasn’t on my game and to be legitimate, I didn’t train at all to prepare for the upcoming season. I was

my reading fluency. During sixth grade, my parents thought that enrolling me in Kumon would help me improve my math skills. Kumon helped me up until the end of sixth grade when, yet again, my family moved across the country to a small town called Holderness, New Hampshire. This is where I met a teacher who helped build on the

This essay will address the theme of death in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 12 (1609) and George Herbert’s poem Virtue (1633). Both Shakespeare and Herbert explore notions of death in their poems, in terms of the tension between the psychical and the spiritual in a religious context. However, where they differ is that Shakespeare places emphasis on the importance of the corporeal, and of what is left behind on earth after death. In contrast, Herbert focuses on the impermanence of the physical, instead advocating

Art is, first and foremost, an imitation of life. Human beings create art, be it visual, literary, or performance, in order to reflect to ends and odds of the day to day; to express the common emotions of humanity in the hopes of garnering some further substance out of life’s mundanely. With this as a broad goal, artistic works tend to revolve around the theme of human nature; revealing, exposing, and otherwise illustrating the human condition. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is no different in

I. Context Quaker Steel and Alloy Corporation (“Quaker”) is a US based producer of specialized metal alloys. It predominantly addresses the high margin, high quality segment of the market, with little exposure to low margin, high volume segments. Quaker is known for providing high quality sales, post-sales and technical service. This niche position has allowed it to maintain an ROE almost twice as high as its nearest competitor. Maureen Frye is an assistant product manager within Quaker’s

his younger sister and his elder brother was sent to prison. His mom died of AIDs when he was only fifteen years old, after he spent most of his time taking care of her. Even with all these misfortunes, Mr. Thomas received a full scholarship to Holderness Prep and ended up going to Colombia and Harvard business

Thoreau once said, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” This is the basis of Creeley's poetry and parts of his life. He is well known for teaching with the Black Mountain Poets in North Carolina and leading a poetic style that focuses on the minimization of words that provides a larger effect for the reader. The simplicity also leads to a very open window to his own feelings without the poetic labyrinth of rhyme and meter. Creeley’s poems fully encompass human strife and the pondering question of