La Gioconda

“Politics doesn’t belong in football” is what I heard my Dad say as a Jeremy Corbyn banner was raised in the kop. “I watch football to get away from Politics” is a comment I saw in /r/soccer and that got me thinking, isn’t football the worst place to come to get away from politics. I want to start with my overall point. Politics and Football are intricately intertwined. Politics often manifests itself through Football, whilst Football has also been used for political propaganda. One of the ways

Characters contribute to creating a theme in stories we read with physical, verbal, and mental actions. The Pearl written by John Steinbeck is about a poor family living their usual life in their village when their son gets sick and they cannot purchase medical care. They usually go pearl diving and find nothing but are blessed with a huge pearl. The pearl can create great riches but also creates great suffering with in the village. In the book The Pearl by John Steinbeck the characters, The Doctor

"He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to." This quote by Laura Adams Armer relates to the novel The Pearl by John Steinbeck because no matter the way Kino acted he always had the songs in his head. In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, the main character Kino goes through difficult times. His baby, Coyotito, is stung by a scorpion and a doctor refuses to help heal him. After that Kino goes to

It’s was mid December when I flew to Madrid. It’s was snowing and cold. My dad drop me and my brother off at 5am in the morning. We booked a first class delta airline. The flight was 10 hour and 35 min long. I didn’t sleep once on the airplane because I was so happy. When we got to Madrid airport we got into a taxi and went to our hotel. I couldn’t wait for the soccer game tomorrow Madrid against Barcelona. Me and my brother went out to eat that evening. The light were so beautiful. The

How would you spend your money if you made over 10 million dollars a month? Government of the small island, where Cristiano grew up in build a museum in his honor. The government also honor an international airport and several hotels which were named after him honoring his hard work and dedication to his country Portugal. Ronaldo’s car collection is worth over 5 million dollars. Today, he is known for world most charitable sport star. I would like to inform you more about Cristiano Ronaldo. He was

Las Meninas is an old painting that Diego Velazquez made long time ago. It talk about the king’s family and maids. Las Meninas is one of the most important paintings made in the nineteenth century. It was made using oil and canvas. Diego Velazquez is a well-known Spanish painter born in June 6, 1599 in Seville, Spain. He was only thirteen years old when he started drawing. He got married Juana, Pacheco’s daughter ‘a person he worked with for five years’ the couple had two daughters. He lived his

The prosperity of In Paris railway station, two strangers sat down on the same piano bench and performed a remixed masterpiece, which attracted a bunch of people and brought a great joy for them. Such various positive role that music plays exists everywhere and everytime in human beings’ life. Meanwhile, music emits its perfume as an incredible intermingling, as such, it does not only give people miscellaneous emotions but also endows us both microcosmic and macroscopic insight to observe the diverse

The Pearl written by John Steinbeck follows the journey of a poor family that gets lucky. In this impactful tale about how Kino’s, the father’s, perfect life turned into a roller coaster constantly going down. When Kino finds the Pearl of the world, greed and avarice built up in him and others in the town, causing Kino’s personality to take many different forms. From a man to animal to machine Kino is continuously changing as the family goes on their difficult journey throughout the tale. Kino begins

“He who is greedy is always in want.” this quote by Horace shows that greed leads to despicable behaviors. These behaviors will make a person push others away until finally he or she has no one left. In John Steinbeck’s novella, The Pearl, Kino is about to lose sight of what is important by pushing others away. Kino finds a great pearl that, hopefully, should bring happiness to his family, but instead the pearl brings the destruction of all he loves. Steinbeck shows the theme that materialism and

pearl, and refuses to believe anything but his wealth and family in unison, which progressively sabotages them. Finally, Kino’s instinct to always protect his family conclusively led to a disastrous end. The whole reason behind the family fleeing from La Paz was because Kino had killed a man. During the flee trip, Kino discovers there are trackers trying to find him and his family. “‘If I get first to the one with the rifle,’ Kino said, ‘I must get to him first, then I will be all right.’” (83) In