My Pregnancy Journey: From Conception to Overdue Delivery
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I didn’t think I was going to have a child – ever, but things change quickly once you meet the right person.
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I didn’t think I was going to have a child – ever, but things change quickly once you meet the right person.
Worst of the Worst
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In this essay I compare different aspects of two cities in Florida: Miami and Melbourne.
A narrative essay that recounts what happened on a Black Friday when I, eight-month pregnant, drove to the shops to take advantage of the holiday sales.
Talking about going green with my dad was quite interesting; a chance for us to disagree again!
In his short story “Young Goodman Brown”, Nathaniel Hawthorne creates an intriguing narrative in which a young husband, Young Goodman Brown, leaves his wife Faith alone one night.
What on earth would “Sonnet 130” from William Shakespeare written in 1609 have in common with “Those Winter Sundays” from Robert Hayden written in 1962, over 350 years later?
In this essay I compare different aspects of two cities in Florida: Miami and Melbourne.
It is interesting how plays illustrate the social relationships of the time they were written. Through those plays we can understand and see how those relationships and the role of members of society evolved through time.
Black Death and AIDS: Pandemic Diseases of the Past and Present
Throughout history, humankind has been afflicted by many different plagues. Two famous pandemic diseases are the Black Death in medieval times and the AIDS in recent years.
It took place in the fourteenth century in Italy, where classical humanists worked on recovering, copying, editing, and studying ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts.
La Primavera is considered one of the greatest works of Sandro Boticelli and one with greatest significance in the new age, the Renaissance.
The fragmentation of the Empire and the insecurity generated by the Viking invasions caused people of all social levels to attach themselves to members of a military nobility who were able of providing protection. That created a relationship based on dependency between lords and vassals.
It was only in 1990, with the passage of the National and Community Service Act, that we arrived at the service-learning concept that resembles what we have today, the concept that unites students, communities and educational institutions to achieve one single goal: the common good. And could we achieve the common good without educated, participating citizens?
Martin Luther read and studied the bible as part of his degrees and got to learn how far from God's teachings the Catholic Church was. He expressed his disgust in the 95 Theses he wrote which got the Church's attention at the time.
Considered a master of the High Renaissance, Michelangelo was an architect, poet, painter, and engineer. He studied anatomy in order to perfect his work in painting and sculpting the human body and its movement. His studies proved to be fruitful and visible in all his sculptures and paints.
