Nickname

to spend more than “two times her yearly allowance” on her closet (Rhone). Marie Antoinette had developed the nickname “Madame Deficits” which attributes to her a lavish lifestyle (Rhone). Aristocrats had given her the nickname because they wanted to place the blame of France’s debt on Marie rather than make it well known that they pay little to no taxes (Covington). The aristocrats had easily placed the blame on her because she stood out, not only because she was a queen, but also because of…

Cao Lu was born on August 30, 1987 in China. was previously a solo singer in Mainland China after winning a 2004 CCTV sponsored singing contest. Her album, titled Cat, was released in 2005 under her former stage name, LuLu. Quick facts: Nickname: The Mood Maker Position: Vocalist Blood Type: O .Yezi was born in Gangneung, Gangwon Province and grew up there. She was a student at Kang Won-rae Dance School and learned dancing from Clon. She traveled four hours to Seoul every weekend to perform…

January 21, 2001, in Los Angeles, California. His full name is Jackson Timothy Brundage, and he is the middle child with 2 other siblings. Jackson’s older sister’s name is Keely, and his younger brother’s name Parker. He goes by the nicknames JB and Lil Jack. His nickname, Lil Jack, is good for him because he is only 5’1″. Jackson started professional acting in 2008, and is still doing it today. On the TV show ‘One Tree Hill’, Jackson played the role of intelligent little 5 year old kid, Jamie.…

In the beginning of Act I Nora and Torvalds marriage is a representation of society’s expectations between a husband and wife. Throughout the scene Torvald uses nicknames such as “little lark” and “little squirrel” towards Nora. These nicknames make it seem like Nora is a child under her father’s rule. Nora responds to these nicknames, for it is the relationship her and Torvald have established as if she must…

The Lord of the flies Almost every character in the lord of the flies has something good and bad about them, as far as we know Simon is the only character who is Pure Good, even people like Piggy, still have a bad side to them, in that example, Piggy is a very selfish and cocky individual who thinks that everyone else is much less smarter then Piggy thinks of himself. The first character to talk about is Jack, Jack is from the very beginning, known as the person who would argue and be the…

cherries and milk at a July 4 celebration. I was the second president to die in office. But before that, I met Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor, and we married. A little while later we had some kids. There names were: Anne, Sarah, Mary and Richard. My nickname back then was “old rough and ready”. Before I Became President I joined the army as a lieutenant and quickly rose in the ranks. My first great success was when the commander of Fort Knox fled. I quickly…

before Bernardo had met Homolka when he started to rape woman. His first act was in May of 1987 (CBC News, 2010). This was the start of Bernardo’s rapes that would occur in Scarborough, Ontario, which eventually lead to the nickname of the ‘Scarborough Rapist’. It was this new nickname that police had warned the public with in order to help find whoever was committing these gruesome acts. It is truly hard to say how many rape attacks Bernardo had committed since there are still some cases that…

The name Kelsey comes from an old English name given name Ceolsige which means “ships victory” or it could be a place name meaning “Cenels island” is a combination of the old English word cenel. Meaning “ fierce “ and “eg” meaning island. I wokld wo different stories about how my name was picked. My dad thinks my mom picked it from a person named Kelsey Grammer of the TV show Fraser. My mom said that's now how I got my name. She says I got my name from a list of names that they liked. My…

The fifth chapter of Interplay centers itself around the principle of language, and how it so greatly effects interpersonal communication. One of the concepts that stuck out to me from this chapter was the nature of language, and how language is rule-governed. There are both phonological rules and syntactical rules, which respectively mean “how sounds are combined to form words” and “the way symbols can be arranged,” which are simply how the language is organized and interpreted to their…

Ernest Hemmingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” he concentrates mainly on how allusion and word play contribute to the central conflict of the short story. The story mainly consists of the dialogue between the American and Jig. The choice of the nickname Jig, along with the repetition of certain words such as “know” and “fine” stood out to me while reading the story. In addition to the word choice, the train never comes at the end of the story, leaving it open for interpretation. The O’Brian…