A Man of the People

Hammurabi’s code The world's first laws were written by Hammurabi. He was a powerful righteous leader who ruled Babylon for 42 years about 4,000 years ago. Hammurabi had a great empire that was about 350 miles in length, so he needed something to keep his people in line. He carved a code of laws on a giant stone pillar-like object called a stele. (BGE) Hammurabi's code: was it just? Hammurabi’s code was not just because it treated classes differently when applied to families, property laws, and…

the world that the winged man lives in the poem "the old winged man" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The vulnerability that this "angel" has represents humanities society and all its imperfections. Humanity not only has imperfections but also has perfections, which is represented by the drowned man in " The Handsomest Drowned Man" by Marquez as well. Marquez focuses on the aspect of humanity and not so much the interaction of the main characters but on the villagers, the people, us. The complete…

they’re innocent, just like Atticus,Tom and Boo are, while living in a town full of prejudice. Boo Radley represents the mockingbird throughout the book. Boo Radley was always misunderstood. No one knew anything about him and assumed he was a scary man who looked different. There were stories about him spread throughout the town. The children believed what they heard, even though it was…

Invisible Man Book Report Invisible Man is a thrilling narrative about a young African-American man who narrates his life during the 1930’s in the South and then in Harlem . The young man is not physically invisible but, refers to himself in this way to symbolize how he is not seen for himself due to the racial stereotypes and prejudice were present in this area and forcefully surround him and the pigment of his skin. Invisible Man is well crafted by Ralph Ellison a native Okie born in 1914…

When walking down the streets we usually will not remember the face of other people who walk pass us, since they are all ordinary people who have nothing special for us create a memory for them. However, when a beautiful/handsome looking woman/man, wearing a fashionable dresses and walking towards us, we might slowing our steps and pay more attentions to those special individuals; we might even talk to our friends about what we saw afterward. Advertisement is the type of person whose creators…

I. A, a thin, sickly 28 year old man, has been checked in a plague hospital for the past 6 months. Recalls the new plague-like sickness that hit 2 years ago, how it took out millions of people, and caused the world to change. People spread out and cities became much smaller. Mentions how he was a filmmaker, who made documentaries about various groups of people, where he learned a lot. He meets another sick person, an old man who seems senile and claims to be extremely wealthy. He tells lavish,…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the mockingbird represents the harmlessness and kindness in people. They are the people who do no harm, and only want to help people and live their lives. Tom Robinson, a crippled kind hearted and hardworking black man, embodies the ideals of the mockingbird. Mr. Robinson is wrongly accused and unfairly tried for supposedly raping the daughter of Bob Ewell, a spiteful and cruel white piece of trash. Tom Robinson’s innocent and hardworking…

unify all of China. Confucianism tried to take a very peaceful way of ending the war by making the people believe that one should follow a strict moral code. This moral code is called the ‘Junzi” or the “The Gentlemen.” The junzi was meant to have men act good towards one another by insuring that it was the only way to be successful. But what if Confucius was not trying to make the perfect man but make a man that could push Confucius’s ideas through the government? Confucius exploited the junzi…

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain,” Colin Wilson makes many interesting evaluation of the common man. He says they are conformist, meaning they conform to fit what is easiest, most comfortable, what most people are doing. He goes on to say that the average man accepts miseries and disaster, comparing them to cows, standing in the rain. This paints the image that Americans accept miseries and disasters with the…

and the unfair treatment of the black minority. He goes on to describe how white america has made it its job to keep all people especially african americans believing they are inferior to and less than the white man whether that being through the breaking down the black man subconsciously or physically. In the text, Ta- Nehisi goal was to explain to his son and other people of african descent that the it was America’s racist history that created a system that oppresses and dismantles the black…