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There are 1,957 four-year colleges in the United States. There are 76 with an eagle as a mascot, 46 which use the tiger, and 39 bulldogs. Yet there is only one college who has a spider as a mascot. Spiders are often popularly known as mean and scary. So why would a university choose a spider as a mascot? In researching this essay, I found that the answer lies in the history of baseball at Richmond. Apparently the term "spider" was first used to describe Puss Ellyson, a baseball pitcher in 1894 because

I love animals. They are special creatures, we get the honor of sharing this wonderful planet with. What if I told you our zoos aren’t doing their jobs of providing and caring for the animals. Zoos have been around for a very long time, early zoos were organized by taxonomy. In our modern world over 100 million people visit zoos worldwide. As these facts show, zoos have thrived in our world for a long time. At what cost for the animals though? Most of the animals in zoos aren’t even endangered. Zoos

My friends and I were walking down a dark alley we heard screaming, fighting, and a lot of movement. When we looked in the alley all we saw was... If you are aggressive to the pets they will be aggressive back and will be worse for you because they can bite,scratch, or even make you bleed. Animals should not be kept in cages. When animals or pets are stuck in cages they don’t have fun in their life they don’t play, run and not even do anything in a little box. The only thing they can do with a little

song called Strange Fruit sung by Nina Simone which is a very political song talking about gruesome lynchings that happened before and at the turn of the century. With help from the sample, West uses the pain of lynching and drug abuse to compare with the break ups he goes through. The instrumental of the song starts off very slow at the beginning we can hear a piano in the background that slowly begins to play. Over this soft piano sound we hear Nina Simone break through. She sets us up with an

The Philosophy of Simone Weil In the final entry to her London notebooks, Simone Weil writes "Philosophy is exclusively an affair of action and practice. That is why it is so difficult to write about. Difficult in the same way as a treatise on tennis or running, but much more so." (Allen, p. 157) In these next few pages I will try to relay the basic ideas contained in Simone Weil's works. Because of the extensiveness and complexity of her work, I will be using her words exactly, as often as

notable artists. Among them are Nina Simone and Avicii featuring the vocals of Audra Mae. The song originates from a scene in the musical sung by the character “The Negro” after he wins the game [of life] in spite of the abuse and racism he experiences at the hands of the musical’s main characters. In the same year of its Broadway premiere, Nina Simone recorded her own version of the song for her album I Put a Spell on You. Simone’s iconic rendition

Animals are pretty chill. They do a lot for us too, dogs help police sniff out illegal drugs, sea lions are monitoring climate change in the ocean and bees help grow our planet. Dogs have a sense of smell that is 1000 times stronger than the average human. Which is like woah. With their strong sense of smell, detection dogs are used to help find drugs, contraband, blood, etc. which helps the police keep us safe. Sea lions that are trained to monitor the ocean have sensors attached to their fur

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” -Albert Einstein. Thousands of people are in the debate if zoos should be legal. Zoos must not be legal because the animals can get an illness from being in captivity and get hurt or mistreated by the owners and workers. Zoos must not be legal because captivity drives the animals to get an illness called zoochosis. Humans and animals are very much alike. Zoochosis happens because animals

Nina Simone was born on February 21,1933, in Tryon, North Carolina. Her birth name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon, but later in her life Nina decided to change it to make a living. This was done to disguise herself from her family members as she had chosen to sing the style of jazz which was known as “the devil’s music”. Nina began her musical carrier at the age of 3 by learning to play the piano. Early on in her life Nina’s musical training emphasized classical songs like Beethoven and Brahmas. After

"I am not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps, I am the first Simone biles" Simone Arianne Biles. Because Simone Biles is confident, she became more determined to met her goals. In this essay you will learn about the life of Simone Arianne Bile and how she became the world's greatest gymnast. Abandoned Yet Found Simone was born in Ohio in 1997. Sadly at a young age she and her older sister Adira were place in foster care due to her mother's substance abuse. Luckily their grandparents Ron