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The Lightning Thief Main article: The Lightning Thief The Lightning Thief is the first book in the series. It was released on June 28, 2005. Percy Jackson is a 12-year-old with ADHD and dyslexia. Percy goes to a middle school called Yancy Academy, which is a school for troubled kids. During a field trip, Percy is attacked by Alecto, a mythological creature known as a Fury, who was disguised as his pre-algebra teacher Mrs. Dodds. Percy kills Mrs. Dodds with a pen sword that his Latin teacher

Faust Romanticism is the belief that poetry is an imitation of life and that feelings and emotion were more reliable than a scientific thought. During the Romanticism, society in this period focused a lot on nature and imagination because romanticism had and has no definable standards. The Romantic Period also had a big interest in finding the truth in everything, especially in unique individuals. Due to the way they saw the world they valued every individual thing, and the size or color had no

In this video of Ted Talk, by Philip Zimbardo, he talks about what makes people go wrong, or turn evil. Mr. Zimbardo proposes the reason as a personal reality, where he knew some kids who grew up and took drugs, and went to jail or simply just went to jail. However, the question is, what caused them to turn and do wrong from that line of good and evil? Philip Zimbardo, makes references from the Bible about God’s favorite angel Lucifer (means the light), until he turned evil. Which resulting in, God

Susan was working at a snack bar, called The Devil’s Den. At the time she was there she realized that there were some difficulties of the employees doing their job right, such as thefts that were going on for a long time now. Something else that bothered Susan was that no one paid attention of the behavior of the night shift employees. Devil’s Den had a contract with the College Food Service (CFS). The employees from the snack bar took advantage of this situation and they got too loose. They took

The day that my son Bailey dropped of his two children to be raised by me and my crippled brother Willie was a Tuesday. The store had been busier than usual. The Blinker family had come by early in the morning and bought all there food for the week. Mrs. Blinker said they didn't come Monday which was their usual day because little Tessy Blinker had her fifth birthday and they had a some sort of a celebration for the child's special day. When Baileys rusty old beaten station wagon pulled up, the

“The Supernatural Fandom-Cult” A normal person would look at some rock salt, a trench coat, or an old black muscle car as everyday objects, but a Supernatural fan sees so much more. “I think ‘cult’ is probably a fair term to apply to the Supernatural fandom,” Misha Collins, who plays the angel Castiel in the show, said in an interview with Larry King (Collins). These particular fans are some of the most dedicated and loyal fans that exist. The Supernatural fandom is unique in a lot of ways, such

1) In Anne Bradstreet's poem,Upon the Burning of Our House,she mourns her things being burned down in the house fire. However, she realises later that it was God "that gave and took" and she should not "repine", saying that God gave her these materialistc objects and now he is taking it back because she was too attached to them. Therefore she says he saved them "a house above" with himself as "the mighty architect", which also relates to him building his plan to purposely take away the objects and

I watched the orange sparks from the blaze curl and twist into the starry sky. Not sure why he wanted me to know this, unless he needed me to be pee-my-pants scared. “Okay.” My throat felt dry. “Who’s Gordok?” The Captain turned to me with anger ablaze in his bloodshot eyes. “He be an evil goblin whose soul is as dark as tar. He ‘as a desire fer power ‘hat can’t be quenched and if he can, he ‘ill seize it and lord over our land.” “Why would he want to waste, Aiden?” Mason held his hands over the

significance of the story’s action taking place mostly at night, in the woods. Well, being in the dark could signify evil, or fear. As a child, most kids could not go to sleep without the light on, for fear of the dark. When we think of ghost, or the devil it implies darkness and with that comes fear. Clearly, Nathaniel Hawthorn had intended to create a fearful tone in his story. Another element that made this story even more suspense was that it also took place in the woods. These two

Devil The word devil is defined as an evil spirit, a devil, the devil, false God, demon, diabolical person. The word originated from Latin word diabolus . In Hebrew another term used for the word devil is Satan, which means accuser slanderer. The Latin word is from the religious Greek word diabolos, Jewish and Christians use the term Devil and Satan or Lucifer. The devil is depicted as an evil being, that is often pictured obtaining a human form but with a tail and horns. The bible first mentions