Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining Essay

When one thinks of a witch, who could fit the mould for Mistress of all evil? Many could bring to mind the image of Maleficent. While this may be true for the 1959 movie Sleeping Beauty, this can not be said for the 2014 adaptation Maleficent. In the film Maleficent,it is through Maleficent’s actions that she helps the audience to deconstruct some female stereotypes most commonly shown in media; in particular around witches, and females in general, in the fairy tale genre. The stereotypes shown…

Nobody is perfect. A phrase often spoken to people who make a mistake and are being comforted. Everyone has heard it before, right along with “Everyone makes mistakes.” It’s true, everyone does make mistakes, and no one is perfect; it’s a fact of human nature and something we all have in common. Another phrase we often hear a lot is “Every mushroom cloud has silver lining.” The Apollo 13 mission is known as NASA’s greatest successful failure. Although so many things went wrong, the crew onboard…

Throughout history there has been numerous accounts of cultures being oppressed by another. There is one that stands out above all: oppression of African-Americans. However, we do not refer to this era as oppression but rather segregation. Segregation is defined as “a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group,” in this case from Caucasians (“The Definition of Segregation”). From the day the first slaves arrived in America until 1964 when President…

5. Ethan’s misery is both a result of the uncontrollable circumstances around him and the unwise decisions of Frome. Starkfield itself was a place where a dead community contrasted the vital climate (Wharton 7-8). Frome belonged to this dead community, and his emaciated look was obviously not the result of poverty or physical suffering alone—in fact, the unnamed narrator noticed that Frome’s refined interest in the sciences sharply contrasted his outer situation, proving that his misery came…

The Fall of Ah-Q(ing) In The True Story of Ah-Q, Lu Xun uses satire to compare the misfortunes of Ah-Q, a poor handyman, to the intrinsic problems of the Qing Dynasty that led to the Xinhai Revolution in 1911. Lu argues that the Xinhai Revolution was unsuccessful in implementing any positive changes in China because it was an unorganized rebellion, without a clear plan. Lu also contends that the lack of defined leadership throughout the Revolutionary Alliance hurt the party’s chances of success…

not a place you would expect a Catholic Chaplain to serve and fight in. The Catholic Church preaches that you should always “ Love your enemies” and not resort to violence and killing to achieve a goal. Throughout the centuries however, The Church has changed its views of fighting in a war. Through the later 19th to early 20th centuries the Church believed that a “Just war” could be fought.The New Catholic Encyclopedia defines a "just war" as “a shorthand way to the set of norms or criteria…

literature a minority makes in a major language” (Deleuze, Guattari & Brinkley 17). Kafka writes in the language of the powerful to express his hopelessness, thus undercutting the importance of the language in power. His writing “exists in a narrow space, every individual matter is immediately plugged into the political” (Deleuze, Guattari & Brinkley…

number of the human population, using it to escape consequences that would have resulted if the truth of their actions or feelings were to be discovered. The fear of being reprimanded and punished for something which is seen as unacceptable in society has lead to many people concealing their true selves thoroughly, some of them to the extent that they ended up deceiving themselves, believing they weren't dissimulating anyone, not even themselves. A single word can be used to describe all this:…

Heroism The prince is a hero! He has rescued the princess, and now they are going to live happily ever after! In reality, that’s not exactly how heroism works. Heroism happens to be a lot more than saving the damsel in distress, slaying the dragon, and banishing the evil villain. As nice as that sounds, being a hero is about a person’s character. Often, heroes are determined by small acts, rather than large, headliners, such as “Save a Cat from a Burning Building” ones. A hero is someone that…

It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.并非胡子使人成为哲学家。 Every cloud has a silver lining.黑夜漫漫,终有尽头。 We all know that western countries and eastern people have different beliefs. Most of us don’t believe in God, but we trust in Republican Party, so that our filial duty will follow the republican party. On the contrary, western people will follow what God ask them to do. They more pray before doing something. And most of the times they will obey the Bible. So we all have faith in our different…