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Lydia Mei 2/27/2019 Like Beowulf, J. R. R. Tolkien’s character Bilbo is “terrified of losing himself” and so rejects exile and embraces the warrior’s heroic code ( Anderson 226). Another work by Tolkien confronts the same issue: the character Frodo is told that he must resist going to a “cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten” (365). Magazine covers are often overtly political. Take the example of Time magazine’s most recent issue, which featured three swinging orange wrecking balls with yellow hair. (Time. 6 Nov. 2017) In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Dill is introduced primarily through narration: Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi, was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on. His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to Dill, who went to t...

Lydia Mei 2/25/2019 I can use academic writing to improve my writing skills. It will help my writing become clearer and more precise. Academic writing will allow my readers to understand clearly what I am writing about. This allows me to find unique ways to write and expand my horizons of writing. It will help me explore the different writing techniques and the best one for me.

Lydia Mei 2/11/2019 English The Greeks' belief in the underworld shows that they believe in a life after their time on Earth. The Underworld is known as the kingdom for the dead. After they die, everyone goes to the Underworld, where their soul can continue living. According to the article, there are four different regions in the Underworld, Tartarus, the Elysian Fields, the Field of Mourning and the Asphodel Meadows. Tartarus was where the worst souls went. The Elysian Fields was where only the most excellent men dwelled. The Field of Mourning were for those who were hurt by love. The Asphodel Meadows were for the souls of the ordinary people. Your soul lands in one of these regions depending on how you acted on Earth. Assuming everyone wanted to go to the Elysian Fields, this motivated people to do good on Earth. The Greek's belief in the underworld has similarities with Christianity. Both Christians and Greeks believed that you live on after death. However, in order fo...

Lydia Mei                                                                                                                                                 1/18/2019 English Last Quarter, one of the goals I set was to pass my piano test. My goal was to pass my test and begin playing piano for my church. I have completed my goal of passing my piano test. I also began playing for my church recently. My second goal was to pass all of my classes throughout my four years here. I am currently passing all of my tests and am studying hard for the upcoming midterms. Something I wanted to improve upon was my participation in class. I still h...

Lydia Mei                                                                                                                                   11/5/2018 English The literature I am most passionate for is the Greek literature. The foundation literature from Greek literature dating back to the early Archaic period. The Illiad and the Odyssey are the two epic poems set in the Mycenaean era. These two epics along with the Homeric Hymns and the poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, compromised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods. The Greek culture influenced the Roman Empir...