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Document Analysis of 140. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech to the Democratic National Convention (1936) This document was created by a man who has worked with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Samuel Irving Rosenman was Roosevelt’s speechwriter and he edited speeches that the president had to recite publicly. This really makes me believe that Roosevelt really trusted this man. Rosenman was also a lawyer, even though he was very close to Roosevelt doesn’t mean that the author will be biased to…

Day by day, many people fill a day full of talking, laughing, and listening without thinking anything of it. But, what would life be like if you could not hear or speak. In Carson McCullers’s, “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” the reader is introduced to what is thought to be the protagonist of the novel, Singer. Singer is just like any other, except he is a deaf mute. He has a strong connection with his friend, Antonapoulous, who is also a deaf mute. However, it seems that, “the two mutes had no…

himself in order for them to keep living their excessive lifestyle. He never gave up on his dreams, and because of that he wrote his third novel, The Great Gatsby. It was not as successful as his first novel had been, but it put Fitzgerald back in the game and made…

problem with hard to believe?” Explanation: Martel says that any ideal has an unreasonable element to it. The Japanese officials only believe what they see and this baffles Pi. Pi’s belief is deepened as through his journey he saw many things with a great unreasonable element to them but however they were real to him in his animal story and therefore, he believes if such unimaginable things like that can exist so can God. Transition:…

In the book The Good Earth, the character O-lan—wife of Wang Lung—asked her husband for two pearls that she would like to keep. Wang Lung acquiesced, but he did not understand why she asked for them. Later, Wang snatched the pearls away from O-lan and gave them to his concubine, Lotus. The pearls held some meaning to all three of these characters, but it held the most importance to O-lan and affected her the most. First of all, Wang Lung, O-lan, and Lotus all regarded the pearls differently.…

E. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie all fit into the category of American literature that examines the ability, “of the individual to transform him or herself-to be self-made”. All three texts portray personal transformation as the process of breaking free from society’s expectations towards the self-made aspiration of a more contented identity. Fitzgerald presents Jay Gatsby as being restricted by the class system and the…

As America began to recover from the Civil War, the country was jolted into a second industrial revolution. The Homestead Act encouraged thousands to move to the West and Great Plains and take up farming. Railroads connected the country, making America linked like never before. America was quickly becoming the world’s biggest industrial juggernaut as all corners of the nation became occupied with people looking for their own slice of the American Dream. Most of them however, never saw those…

The Struggles of Life In the book The Good Earth, A poor farmer named Wang Lung along with his family face a series of challenges in life. Wang Lung is a farmer who is married to a slave from the House of Hwang named O-Lan.Throughout their life they face a series of ups and downs. Pearl S.Buck writes this book on a common factor that we all share, the struggles in life. That is why The New York Times book review states, “A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age…

Scene 3 of Act 4 is an intense one. Belize and Louis has a confrontation with each other and on the surface, it is two people who dated the same person before fighting with each other, but to dig in deeper, Belize makes a statement about the hypocritical America and white America. Belize says Louis is, “[u]p in the air, just like that angel, too far off the earth to pick out the details. Louis and his Big Ideas. Big Ideas are all you love. ‘America’ is what Louis love” (Kushner 96). He says that…

John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839 and was very serious minded and religious. Early in his life he decided he wanted to start a business career so him and his friend went into the trading business. Later on in 1867 Rockefeller entered the oil business. Rockefellers actions in the oil business showed he was a captain of industry. Rockefellers actions showed he was a captain of industry in many ways. Rockefeller helped his country by selling kerosene which helps heal certain…