Capitol College Essays

Demonstrations of Courage in Cyrano de Bergerac Many people ask what the true meaning of having courage is. Many may say it’s the quality of having no fear or being extraordinarily bold. But, what is the nature of true courage? In the play, Cyrano de Bergerac written by Edmond Rostand, true courage is a quality demonstrated by each of the four main characters -- Cyrano, Christian, Roxane, and de Guiche. To begin, the first main character to show courage in the play is Cyrano. Courage is one of the

Katy Perry is known for her crazy fashion and catchy songs. Her life started on October 25, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California. Perry wasn’t her original last name, it was Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson. Katy’s singing career started by taking singing lessons around the age 9, by 13 she had learned to play the guitar. She soon became interested in pursuing a career in music. She began her career by singing gospel music in church. Katy Perry is liked by millions of people because they can relate to her

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Marquez has made many stories but in my personal opinion “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is his best one. The point of view for the story is third person point of view. This is a magic realism story which means basically the real world and the fantasy world and mix together. You can tell this story is magic realism because the story's title the old man with enormous

Whitney Houston was an amazing person. She was very talented and had a beautiful and amazing voice. She inspired many many people from all over the world to give them dreams that one day they might grow to be a big star just like she was. She won many awards in her career, and in public she showed she had a happy life. But there where secrets. This paper is all about Whitney Houston's life. Her early life and how she grew up to be a star, when she finally was a star and her adult life, and her accomplishment

In the first installment of the Hunger Games series we are greeted to the character Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and her family reside in the lowly District 12, the coal mining district, where the felling of death and despair is a guarantee. After the death of her father in a coal mining accident Katniss must do whatever she must in order to ensure the survival of her family and herself. Directed by Gary Ross the film was both a critical and financial success. In the beginning of the movie many of

In Gabriel’s Rebellion: The Virginia Conspiracies of 1800 & 1802, Douglas R. Egerton examines the events that led Gabriel to form his emancipation plan, and the subsequent aftermath that resulted. Through the use of a variety of primary sources—most notably trial records—Egerton paints an extensive and well written narrative. His account stretches from the American Revolution and the promise of freedom, to the end of the 1802 conspiracy and the Virginia Assembly’s bitter intentions to curtail the

CAI JUNYAN THE MANY SIDES OF HUMANMITY IN THE HANGER GAMES A game of life and death, a test of human conscience, opened. Named "The Hunger Games”, the twelve districts of Panem will choose one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in it every year. The game will be broadcast live in the form of television variety show, and the rule is that 24 contestants will need to fight each other to the death, with the ultimate survivor becoming the winner. He or she

The first Amendment is arguably one of the most important. It always us to take part in many of our daily activities, like debating politics, praying or not praying, going to GSA (Gay Straight alliance) after school, work where we want, go to church, burn the flag, and post on facebook. The first amendment is a strong, confidence inducing, way to open the United States constitution. Before the United States declared independence from Great Britain, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson

Magazine, Capitol, and Bruton Parish Church. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will make a commemorative coin honoring one of these historical structures. Among these buildings, the most relevant, historically influential, and the most related to Williamsburg’s vision statement is undoubtedly the Capitol. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation should make a coin commemorating the Capitol. First of all, the Capitol wasn’t only important back then; it is still useful today. Today, the Capitol stands

Bob Lee Swagger is the chief protagonist in the Bob Lee Swagger series of novels by American author of thriller novels, Stephen Hunter. We first get introduced to Bob Lee Swagger otherwise known as “Bob the Nailer” in the first novel of the series, the 1993 published Point of Impact. Bob Lee Swagger was in the military where he served as a sniper until his retirement, having attained the rank of Marine sergeant. The book series begins immediately after his retirement after a Soviet sniper in Vietnam

The Giver Literature essay I have read the dystopian novel “The Giver” (1993) which is written by the beloved American author Lois Lowry. “The Giver” is about a twelve-year-old boy with the name Jonas. Jonas lives a similar life as all the others in the community, until the Ceremony of Twelve when he got assigned the task as the Receiver of Memory. As The Receiver of Memory it is Jonas’ task to keep all the memories of the past so not everyone needs to keep this burden. Although Jonas received beautiful

In the article “Social Separation in Oryx and Crake” by Sarah Nielsen, Nielsen covers the main theme that surrounds the story of Atwood’s take on what could happen to our own world if we make decisions without calculating all of the possible outcomes. It begins by stating how the division in class in the novel is important because it is like a glimpse into our future. She briefly explains how the separation of class is an important factor as to how the world ended in Oryx and Crake. Nielsen goes

While this may seem as a measure of cleanliness, I see it as the way the Capitol presents their tributes, perfect, with no flaws. On page 61, Katniss states she is in the "Remake Center," where all body hair is removed and all dirt is removed from your body before you enter the Capitol. The second piece of evidence I present is when Haymitch says, "In public, I want you by each other's side every minute, (page 92)." Haymitch does

Suzanne Collins, is a dystopian book about Katniss, the face of the rebellion, who joins her friends and allies to lead a revolution against the Capitol and to save her boy friend Peeta.Katniss Everdeen, Finnick Odair, and Gale Hawthorne are in district 13 and take orders from President, Coin. They are going on their mission to rebel against the Capitol and kill their enemy, President Coriolanus Snow. In the end Katniss saves Peeta and continues her rebellion, but she kills President, Coin instead

She says blood drizzled on the capitol that symbolizes the fall of the capitol and people dying. Calphurnia’s goal is to make Caesar feel scared to go to the capitol. She even goes to the utmost level and stabs herself to try and persuade Caesar to stay. Calphurnia mostly uses pathos to try and persuade Caesar. She wants to to make him feel sad and

America, but after years of destruction, it eventually became Panem. In Panem, there are 12 separate districts that people live within, as well as the Capitol, which is another section of the country that people live in. It is fairly easy to differentiate the districts from one another and very easy to differentiate the districts from the Capitol. Those who live in the districts, live in poverty. Many districts are old, dirty, and falling apart physically and socially. Some districts are better looking

floor in The Pennsylvania State Capitol Building in Harrisburg are very fascinating. The tiles are fascinating because each tile is a mosaic that represent an individual topic. There are 377 tiles on the floor in the capitol building. The tiles were made in Bucks County by a tile maker named Henry Chapman. Most of the tiles are in the Rotunda Passageway. (Murphy). The cost of all the tiles together is $48,000. (About the Capitol) The dome in the Pennsylvania state capitol is very large. The dome is

debated all over capitol hill. Some people want there to be free college for a number of reasons, and, as always, some do not. There should not be free college because then there would be nothing special about getting into an institution that delivers higher education, secondly because if there was free college then people will only take advantage of it, and finally because if there was free college it would be on someone's agenda to make college mandatory. There all kinds of colleges who pride themselves

16th of March in the year 1751, he was later enrolled at Donald Robertson’s School. He studied there for seven years after which in 1767 he studied with Reverend Thomas Martin. After he finished his education with Thomas Martin he studied at the college of New Jersey in Princeton, where he studied through the year 1772. During his years there he received his baccalaureate degree. After he studied at Princeton, he returned to Virginia. Then afterwards he began his legal studies in 1773. A year

Recently in class we discussed the true value of a college degree. Is college really worth going into debt for? Or is college really that helpful in society now days? These are just some of the questions the authors within our readings try to answer. The next few paragraphs will summarize and synthesize the two readings. In the first reading titled “What is College For?’, Phyllis M. Wise- the Vice President of the University of Illinois and the Chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-