Nine Worthies

excited to read the book and see how well she wrote the book. After I saw the report on TV I looked everywhere to find that book. After a few months I never found the book. I soon forgot about it and moved on with other things. Move ahead to about nine months after I saw the news report I was in

writing for her, but while recovering, his language changed. His sentiments detoured to self-pity and his heart bled in his journal. As the guilt sets in Reality of life’s struggles begin The pain, Oh pain! When will it end? It’s time to give up, not worthy of life Take it away please! Here’s the knife. The mind, Oh mind! The thoughts are endless The feeling of despair and an abundance of stress. Emotions, Oh emotions! You show no mercy Between you and peace, there’s always controversy. The hurt, Oh

Institute to record the natural history of syphilis in hopes to find treatment for African Americans. The experiment was called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male”, and it involved six hundred men, three hundred and ninety-nine of them had the disease of syphilis, the remaining two-hundred and one did not. The patients had not given formal nor informed consent, as they were told that they were being treated for “bad blood”, which is a local term to describe several ailments

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle presents the reader with a guide to living a good life. He claims the “highest good” is happiness, and the way to obtain it is through the use of reason. In order to better comprehend Aristotle’s ideas regarding happiness, we will explain his conception of eudaimonia and excellence through rational activity. Then, we will examine this concept of rational activity in relation to the aristotelian concept of self-sufficiency. At the end of the Nicomachean Ethics

Christian Conduct: Thankfulness If Christians are to obey, follow, and love God, thankfulness or gratitude, as it is so often called, must be a key part in how they worship and live their lives. Christians are told numerous times in the Bible to be thankful, but one verse in Thessalonians sums it up, telling Christians to “give thanks in everything, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” (Thessalonians.5.18) In the Bible, there are more than eighty references to thankfulness

The GE matrix is an alternative technique used in brand marketing and product management to help a company decide what product(s) to add to its product portfolio, and which market opportunities are worthy of continued investment. Also known as the 'Directional Policy Matrix, ' the GE multi-factor model was first developed by General Electric in the 1970s. Conceptually, the GE Matrix is similar to the Boston Box as it is plotted on a two-dimensional grid. In most versions of the matrix: * the

Okonkwo as a Tragic Dero Is Okonkwo a tragic hero? To answer that question one must start by defining the term 'tragic hero' first introduced by Aristotle. Aristotle defined a tragic hero simply as being a character fulfilling three different requirements. The character must be larger than life, and must have a high social standing. The character must also have ordinary human qualities, and must have a tragic flaw that leads to his downfall. In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, all these

The Hammer of Thor The Norse Gods are real and the monsters are real too! Magnus Chase is dead, but is now one of Odin’s warriors. The story takes place six weeks after rebinding the wolf god Fenris and postponing Ragnarok, the end of the world. The Hammer of Thor, written by Rick Riordan, is a great book and well worth reading because it is funny and full of fights. In this book, readers continue to follow Magnus Chase’s adventures after the events of the first book, Sword of Summer. Magnus

The Holocaust From extreme prejudice to mass genocide, I think everyone could agree that the holocaust was one of the worst things to happen to the world in the twentieth century. The holocaust also known as Shoah in Hebrew started around 1933, it was a mass genocide where almost six million Jews were brutally killed as a deliberate attempt to get rid of the entire Jewish population. Adolf Hitler came into command as the chancellor of Germany on January 30,1933; he continued to rule until May 8,

Bethany Hamilton once said, “Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love, and it’s part of me.” At the age of nine, I had already mastered the small things in life such as how to ride a bike, tie my shoelaces, and so on, but surfing is the type of thing that just makes one feel invincible once accomplished. When I was nine years old, I was given the opportunity to surf for the first time in Maui, Hawaii where I overcame my fear of trying new things. I woke up to the sound