Hope Diamond

discovered the Cape of Good Hope near the southern tip of Africa. He originally named it the Cape of Storms due to all the violent storms in the area, but king John then renamed it to the Cape of Good Hope. After Dias’s massive discovery, he returned to Portugal in December, 1488. Due to Dias’s brilliant discovery, he was later on employed to go on another voyage. A month later, Bartolomeu Dias unfortunately passed away due to a ship wreck at sea near the Cape of Good Hope during a storm.

the skateboarding company Obey. Fairey was first noticed for his art work of “Andre The Giant,” creating stencils that he would put on posters and stickers that he put up all over cities and hand them out to people. In 2008 his art took off with his “HOPE” poster for the Presidential Campaign which featured the face Barack Obama on it. After becoming successful was faced with negative criticism an accusation from Mannie Garcia that could cripple and artists integrity. Fairey created another piece, “Make

Fall of Asclepius By Harm 1 and Icrick Prologue Where should I begin? The apocalypse happened so fast. In less than a month, monsters infested every part of this world. People panicked, people died. They clawed at each other just to get out of all the infested areas around the world. There was problem about fleeing from infested areas. Everywhere was infested. There was no where anyone could go without encountering the walking plague. You know that phrase "War is Hell"? Well... it's dead

In 1890, there lived a woman, named Mary Cheapmann. She was a beautiful young lady with long blonde straight hair, white skin, and blue eyes. Every man that she met can’t resist to not see her face. She lived with her father, James Cheapmann in a village in Wiltshire, England. It was a small, peaceful and tranquil village, where the people lived happily and harmoniously. She helped her father every day, who was a poor vegetable seller in a traditional market. One morning in autumn, as usual Mary

Patel Mitali Mr. Lindemann English 1301 February 10, 2014 My first day in America I remember my first day in America like it just happened yesterday! I moved to America from India when I was just 12 year old. When I started my journey to America, I was getting mixed feelings, one side I was excited to go to America I saw in movies and wanted to be a part of great American culture but on the other side I was feeling sad about leaving behind my friends and place I was born and spent my childhood

This child, lets call him, Jack. With no control at all, Jack was fortunate enough to be born into high-income country, like New Zealand Then there’s, Jill. With the same amount of control as Jack, he added to the total of 10,368 children born into poverty a day. That’s one child, every 1.2 seconds Jack has a 1 in 165 chance of dying before he’s 5. Jill on the other hand is not so lucky and the odds of him reaching his 5th birthday are 1 in 6. Everyone was born into and are living in circumstances

Time and time again, there have been opposing views on just about every single possible topic one could fathom. From the most politically controversial topics of gun control and stem cell research to the more mundane transparent ones of brown or white rice and hat or no hat—it continues. Sweatshops and the controversy surrounding them is one that is unable to be put into simplistic terms, for sweatshops themselves are complex. The grand debate of opposing views in regards to sweatshops continues

There are many jobs that technology have eliminated in the past decade or so. New types of technology have been coming in to "help" and modernize this new generation. There are even scientists creating robots to physically replace a human and complete the human's labor with great ease. Personally I have a few concerns and fears about this topic in general. I get this feeling that robots can turn against us and try to invade the world and the human population. This may end up leading to a man against

Is the internet really making us stupid? That’s the question that many people in our society are asking these days, and we all have our different opinions. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many writers such as Nicholas Carr, in his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, and Nathan Jurgenson, in his article “Pics and It Didn’t Happen”, the internet is making us lazy by the minute. It distracts us from the things we need to do, and has also downgraded our intelligence. Indeed, the internet has been

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