The Fray

Demons. Simply the name of these soulless creatures brings an unsettling feeling that makes most people cringe in fear. For Clarissa Fray, otherwise known as Clary, it is the very name of these creatures that brings her a sense of thrill. Clarissa Fray is the protagonist as well as one of the few people of this world to know about demons. She has been tasked with a heavy burden – a shadowhunter. What is a shadowhunter? The Shadowhunters are Nephilim – humans with angel blood. The world that Clary

The article by Cicei (2015) discusses one of the greatest challenges to families in today’s society, which is work family conflict. In the workforce today, and in numerous households people struggle with being able to balance family time and the responsibilities of their chosen career without creating disturbance within their home. As a way to lessen these disputes corporations have begun to provide certain benefits, organizations, and flexible work arrangements to their employees. However, in recent

year in a high school, I made the foolish the decision to take three Advanced Placement courses despite my counselor's warning; only three other students my age chose this course of action, yet I was guileless, headstrong, and ready to move into the fray. The three classes were Advanced Placement Biology, Chemistry, and World History combined with a rigorous cross country eight-mile cross-country run, and a demanding pre-calculus class. I went into AP Chemistry not knowing a thing about chemistry

Before you is a battlefield. The land that bears this violence is deprived of the beauty it once held. It is riddled with craters, mostly likely created from bombs, grenades, and other explosives of the same caliber. Trees once filled with life are now black small traces of heat, and flames linger on the now charred remains of the tree. Few have broken down from more or less likely a body that was sent flying during the battle to then crash and destroy the charred remains. A few odd slash or bullet

"How to Save a Life" by The Fray is a song that recalls an important moment in my development when I was eleven years old. As a young immigrant, I was unaccustomed to the new environment and its cultures, but the school became a heaven-sent piece of the extraordinary puzzle in my life when I attended Fifth Grade. I loved the time when my mother walked me and my brother who was in First grade to the school together. My mother was in her mid-thirties, she had long, black, and smooth hair, and a melodious

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Xenia is a Greek concept with a broad of meaning and a rather interesting history behind it. Xenia can easily be defined as guest-host reciprocity but that would not be enough to tell its history, enunciate it’s meaning and warn of the retribution that comes along with breaching of Xenia. Xenia is an institution as important as any other in the culture of a community, is empowered by the Greek god, Zeus, the protector of travellers. Along with the respect of the god, Zeus and fear of angering him

His famous piece was the Fray Botod (Big-Bellied Friar) which he wrote when he was 18 years old. Fray Botod introduces the stereotypical Spanish friar who uses religion as a tool for oppressing others in order to satisfy his appetite for food, money and women. This friar stereotype later became the symbol of the

tragic event, a fight broke out leaving two men dead driven by rapiers. Mercutio slain by Tybalt, Tybalt slain by Romeo, leaving Romeo of house Montague banished. The brawl between house Capulet and house Montague arose again, Tybalt had begun this fray. Citizens said that Tybalt approached Romeo in Verona Square demanding for a duel. Tybalt was ready to pull out his sword and battle Romeo. Romeo being a gentlemen, declined the battle, he did not want to shed the blood of Tybalt. According to citizens

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas. His father, Andrew Jackson died shortly before he was born, whom he was named after. Jackson’s two older brothers, Hugh and Robert died due to the American Revolutionary War. Jackson's mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson raised him until she died when Jackson was only 14 while she was caring for injured and sick soldiers. Jackson’s parents’ death left him an orphan and so his uncles raised him. He began studying law