.... was a beautiful place where all food and other necessities were very easily obtainable and that the Native Americans were very friendly. Many of them also thought that the New World was full of riches and now that they had emigrated, life would be much easier than it ever was in England. On April 1607, three ships sailed into the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Guiding their ships along the river they found a spot to build a village. They later named it Jamestown after James I. Most of the settlers from Jamestown faced many hardships. They fell sick from drinking the river water, and out of the nearby swamps came mosquitoes carrying a dread fever. Hostile Indians lurked in ....

.... terrorist activities around the district to hamper the enemy's progress. These including blowing up a bridge on a major convoy route, attacking an important bay used for supplies and in Darkness, Be My Friend, the teenagers set out from New Zealand to assist a small group of elite New Zealand soldiers attack the new airbase that has been built in their town. In this book, the New Zealand soldiers disappear without a trace and the teenagers have to attack the airbase themsleves... I think that this book is as much about adventure and survival as it is about emotions, friendships and relationships. The book is written as the diary of the unofficial leader of the group and ....

.... weakened religious values behind chivalry. An interesting parallel to t is the story of original sin in the Garden of Eden. Gawain’s temptation correlates to the temptation of Adam, which is rooted in the sins of the flesh. The women in the story seem to accentuate the downfall of Gawain, which mirrors the downfall of Arthur’s court, as well as man’s fall from grace in the garden. Originally, the first duty of a knight was to be at the service of his church. However, with the rise of courtly love, knights began to give their devotion to their mistress rather than God. This elevated the church’s mistrust of women and the flesh. The characteriza ....

.... look at pictures of people and make up stories about what they are doing in the pictures. This test also proves that Charlie is not very smart. 6. Who is Algernon? How does Charlie race against Algernon? Algernon is a mouse. Charlie is given pictures of a maze that Algernon must run through to get food. Charlie must draw the proper route out of the maze in the picture before Algernon finds it himself. 7. How is Algernon special? Why does Charlie need to do this race? Algernon is 3 times smarter than other mice because he has had an operation. Charlie must race against him now so that after his own operation, the doctors can see how much progress Charlie has made. 8. What ....

.... in many ways. The speaker in “Homage to my Hips” carries a very proud and self-confident attitude. The best example of this would be when the speaker says, “These hips are mighty hips. These hips are magic hips. I have known them to put a spell on a man and spin him like a top!”(Pg705). That line is so powerful, it portrays the image that she thinks that bug women are better than men. The speaker in this poem is also a very brave and daring type of women. “They don’t like to be held back. These hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go”(Pg705), that line shows how brave the speaker is. It conveys the message ....

.... pretend to be a tree sprite. Wisest persuades Wise to let the tree sprite decide how to divide their profits, and the tree sprite says Wisest should have a double share. The Bodhisatta (Wise) fills the trunk with straw and sets it on fire to see if the tree sprite is genuine. Wisest's father is half roasted by the flames and pulls his way out by grabbing a branch. In the end, the Buddha explains that he was the merchant named Wise. In "The Hare's Self-Sacrifice," the Bodhisatta is a young hare. The day before fast day, he tells his friends (a monkey, a jackal, and an otter) how to observe the holy day. (p. 952) He tells them to sacrifice their food to beggars, and the on ....

.... the lull in tempo that is attributed to the measured awareness or ambivalent feelings felt towards the “ goat-footed balloonMan.” The poem’s rapid and then measured tempo creates an artistic tension that coincides with the speaker’s account of a remembered spring. By employing white space, alliteration, compressed conjunctions, and some unconventional capitalization, e. e. cummings creates a dream vision of a remembered springtime- revelry that reads with both excitement and a measured awareness. White space is used after the first line, “in Just-”, by cummings to emphasize the speaker’s observation that only in spring do the following things happen. The whi ....

.... many other cultures are based on the thought of curiosity and on scientific expansion. Arnold believed culture was based on the expansion of the individual's mind; only through education can a perfect culture be reached. In his writings, Arnold stated that for a man to be cultured he has to be versed in both religion and classic literature. Although Arnold's culture sought the advancement of the human mind; he did not want people to get wrapped up in technology. "Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery" (23). Arnold believes his culture is "more interesting and more far-reach ....