Gauntlet Essays

  • Losing Touch with the True Meaning of Body Piercings

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    Throughout the world, many individuals have body piercings. Various parts of the body can be pierced, including the navel, earlobe, eyebrow, or even the septum. The many different areas of the body that can be pierced have caused major controversy. While many believe that piercings are an exquisite form of art, others believe that piercings are tacky and a form of self-mutilation. Permanently marking ones skin to insert jewelry has become a hobby that the American culture has become obsessed with

  • Body Piercing, Tattooing and the Public School Dress Code

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    Body Piercing,  Tattooing and the School Dresscode Body piercing in high schools definitely isn't a new subject to me.  I have had many run-ins with my school administration about ear and other body piercings.  Because of my multiple piercings in my ears, the counselor and the principle have told me before that I cannot have any body piercings.  Under other circumstances, I might except that answer.  However, since the school dress code does not touch on body piercings in the handbook they cannot

  • Death Bringer's Gauntlet Monologue

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    Prologue The Death Bringer’s Gauntlet. One of the most coveted things in this war infested world. More wanted than diamonds, but only one in the entire world. It is said that the person who has the gauntlet controls the world. Abandoned in battle the owner not knowing it’s true worth, the gauntlet is ready to rise once more. Part One Ben put on his gauntlets. Another day of bloodshed and murder greeted him. He sighed. Was all this killing necessary to restore earth to the utopia it once was? A peaceful

  • Salmon Running The Gauntlet: Documentary Analysis

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    Policies are often put in place without regards for the effect it will have on other areas, people, or wildlife. Several examples of these unintended consequences are shown in the documentary Salmon: Running the Gauntlet, which explains the effects that human activity, dams, and attempts to repopulate the salmon species have been implemented and failed. With proper evaluation at the onset of a major project, these severe consequences may be avoided. The PBS documentary begins by explaining the

  • Tobias Smollet's The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle

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    and Godfrey Gauntlet. During this time period, emotional issues were less important and less cared for than maintaining a high reputation in society. Both Mr. Pickle and Godfrey Gauntlet convey feelings of loathing towards each other since their first encounter. They decide to handle it in a socially acceptable war, rather than expressing their feelings verbally like one would do now in days. Smollet uses dialogue to show the initial uncontrolled emotions felt by Mr. Pickle and Gauntlet. Feelings

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of American Captivity Narrative

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    At its most basic level, the American Captivity Narrative is a biographical or autobiographical account of an individual’s captivity at the hands of the Native Americans. Though understood to be an accurate account of the individual’s experience, these narratives contain a number of common rhetorical features that serve to augment the emotional impact of the events described. Frequently, the customs and practices of each individual’s captors are the source of these notable occurrences. Common themes

  • Tracker Research Paper

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    werwülfs jump out of the buildings taking two of them by surprise pinning them down, taking huge bites into their necks and tear off furry flesh. The assassin is wearing silver Lorica Segmentata illuminating a neon glow followed by talon arm and leg gauntlets with a black leather codpiece. The Eutheria Kingdom of Feliformia operates under a representative democracy by the Consultative Congress of Feliformia displaying a peaceful and gentle dispassion. The kingdom has a living spacious complex composed

  • Film Analysis: The Fifth Element

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    complex structures. In the movie, The Fifth Element, there is a scene that takes this technology to the extreme and manufactures an entirely new human. The process used in the movie starts from a sample of one cell, preserved inside of a metal gauntlet, and then proceeds to recreate the person whose cell that used to be. The print in the movie is physically done by creating one part of the body, such as the skeleton, at a time. The entire print in the movie only takes around two minutes. The

  • Carstian Luyckx Still Life

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    The strong horizontal of the table gives depth to the objects spilling over into the foreground. The plain, dark space of the background doesn’t distract from the main focus of the spread which contains further strong verticals in the gauntlets and wine glasses. The diagonals leading backward in the window and curtain allow the room to have space and depth. The background in “Basket of Grapes” is presumably a table, but lacks any real distinction, continuing past the picture plane in all

  • Black Ops 3 Research Paper

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    and the map looks to be a delight to the eye. Your everyday player might say it looks nice but I, a video game connoisseur say that again, this map seems unneeded and a waste of memory on your console. Another map to be played and forgotten about. Gauntlet however caught my eye, could this be some sort of new game mode? The first thing that game to my mind was the Goblet of fire from Harry Potter and the Hunger games. I immediately have taken a liking to the Dystopian type feel of the map. It again

  • Persuasive Speech On Organ Donation

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    I am an organ donor, are you? Organ donations can help many people around the world, all you have to do is tick a little box at your local Department of Motor Vehicles (D.M.V.). People do not ask to have organ failure, they just do. Who are we to deny someone else the chance to live, if all we have to do is just share our organs when we are finished with them, we can not take them with us so what are you going to do with them? Lives may come and go, but organs can be passed on to the next person

  • How Does The Dead King Get Revenge In Hamlet

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    How does a dead king get revenge in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark a play by William Shakespeare? This tragedy about Prince Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, seeking revenge for his father’s, King Hamlet Gertrude’s murder. A dead king makes a scene in front of guards to get his son. In the following passage, the ghost explains why the former king wants revenge. Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, a serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark is by a forged process of my death. Rankly abus’d: but

  • The Effective Satire of Voltaire's Candide

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    The Effective Satire of Voltaire's Candide In Candide, Voltaire sought to point out the fallacy of Gottfried Leibniz's theory of optimism and the hardships brought on by the resulting inaction toward the evils of the world. Voltaire's use of satire, and its techniques of exaggeration and contrast highlight the evil and brutality of war and the world in general when men are meekly accepting of their fate. Leibniz, a German philosopher and mathematician of Voltaire's time, developed the idea

  • The Unexplained Massacre

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    move but she couldn't. He... ... middle of paper ... ... hid it well. “You need to die too” he said slowly. All of a sudden she was terrified again. She felt something hold her down as the black figure approached. She felt the cold metal of the gauntlet on her skin. Then the Black figure moved his hand and she felt the icy tips pierce her neck. She barely had time to scream as the figure ripped her throat out. The Prophet watched, unmoving. The girl's aura was fading, as was common for her people

  • Tybee Polar Plunge Research

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    reborn in 2015 as a performing arts and movie venue. • The whole thing began as a dare between friends. The year was 2000 when the event itself was born as a tradition. Tybee Polar Plunge founder, Don Ernest, says that he and a few guys threw down a gauntlet while at a New Year’s Eve party and dared one another to jump in the ocean the next day at noon. The five of them did, and the rest – as they say – is

  • Hazing Through Groupthink

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    dignity of the individual…the implied or expressed consent or willingness of a person or persons to hazing shall not be a defense under this section.” (Allen, 2011) Popular types of hazing include forced alcohol consumption, humiliation, running gauntlets, and forced sexual activity. While hazing through groupthink happens within many avenues, the focal point will be college campuses across America. The perplexing reality is that college fraternities haze new members in various forms of condoned

  • The Black Arrow Essay

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    Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Black Arrow depicts the life of Richard Shelton, a man on a quest to rescue his lady, obtain justice for his father’s death, and become a knight. The book takes place during the War of the Roses and spans from May of 1460 to January of 1461. Richard and his companions venture through and around medieval England which at the time is under the reign of Old King Henry VI. After an ambush on Sir Daniel Brackley from the outlaw fellowship known as the Black Arrow, a

  • Imagery In Dubliners

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    constantly using imagery to convey how mundane the young boy’s life is, and how dark it is living in Dublin. An example of Joyce’s word choice to create a dull image would be the line “…through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses, where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens…” In “Araby”, the young boy is in love with his friend’s older sister. In a way, he stalks her. He secretly watches and waits for her to leave for school, just

  • A Closer Look at Hannah Dustan’s Affair

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    were then given over to a smaller tribe, along with a previous captive named Samuel Lennardson, and forced to move with them to north Central New Hampshire. During their captivity, there were threatened with running through a gauntlet naked. Instead of running through the gauntlet, Hannah asked her fellow captive, Samuel Lennardson, to help her steal the Indians’ tomahawks while they were sleeping. They then killed most of the Indians in the camp, scalped them, and sold the scalps for a bounty. Jonathan

  • Asian Influence in Gaming

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    Mortal Kombat, a one versus one American video game, developed by NetherRealm Studios as a whole seems to have much influence from the one versus one video game series Street Fighter made by Capcom, a Japanese video game developer. This influence is especially seen in the development of the characters of Mortal Kombat, The character Kitana (Figure 2) from Mortal Kombat displays much influence from Street Fighter’s Chun Li (Figure 1), from colors to a spin off of her clothing. Chun Li (Figure 1) has