A Series of Unfortunate Events

Water, as we know is one of our most coveted resources. We use it to cook our food, wash our bodys, and even our cars. Water is undeniably a resource we use every single day. Many people throughout the world undervalue the importance of this resource. As Americans, we have come accustom to having clean fresh water at our disposal, and not having the worries that several other countrys do. One American city, has been forced to learn the hard way about how valuable the water they once took for…

Ted Kaczynski Ted Kaczynski was a pro-nature terrorist using extreme methods to spread his message to the masses. His methods involved a series of bombings spanning almost two decades, his main goal was to spread his message, which he eventually did with a book he wrote called “Industrial Society and Its Future.” Seventeen years and fifty million dollars later, the FBI found Ted Kaczynski in a shed with live letter bombs, journals, homemade guns, and abandoned car parts he used to make bombs…

Nevertheless this would change over the course of various events. Between 1683 and 1699 , the Ottomans were unsuccessful in capturing Vienna the capital of the Habsburg Empire and they signed a treaty subsequently giving Hungary to the Habsburgs and the Aegean Coast to the Venetians. In the year of 1718 their…

Throughout his storytelling, Junot Díaz conflates magical realist fantasy with the factual truth of Dominican history to dismantle the dichotomy between imagination and reason. He shows the reader that racial categories are affirmed and maintained through hateful colonial fantasies by blurring the lines between fact and fiction in the novel. His use of historical moments demonstrates how the characters live in a lingering framework of coloniality—that which is sustained by our inability to…

Introduction Born on the Black Sea port of Taganrog, Anton Chekhov, one of the finest Russian writers to have existed in the nineteenth century belonged to a poverty stricken family that extended to his grandparents with whom he spent his early childhood. Chekhov’s days were spent roaming in the countryside satisfying his curiosity about human love for nature. Later he assumed the role of a student of medicine and simultaneously became an author by publishing his writings in the newspapers and…

for someone who is emotionally stable and whose leadership skills will not be affected by their personal events. Rather than someone who will breakdown after every loss, a leader must be able to endure the pain and fight through it. Katniss Everdeen has endured immense loss and tragedy in the course of her life, Despite this, she soldiers on stoically. At the very beginning of Collins’ series, Katniss had recently lost her father in a mining accident due to poor working conditions. It is shown…

Shared Humanity in Modern Literature and Films What does it mean to be human? To people being human can mean different things, but it can be broken down into six main traits called shared humanity. The six traits consist of relationships, loss, survival, choice, morality, and emotions. These specific traits are what make each individual human. All six traits play an important role in all humans lives like shaping them into who they are and how they react to certain scenarios. These traits are…

From the beginning Manischevitz is presented as a character who has lost his self-identity and has morphed into a hopeless human being after his entire world has collapsed. Manischevitz’s life crumbled and disintegrated after the tragic closure of his business, the unexpected lost of his son and daughter, and the deterioration of his wife’s, Fanny, and his own health. Abraham Maslow, psychologist, created a psychological theory, known as “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,” in which describes the…

have laid dormant for so long. In the graphic novel version of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Jane learns who she is through a series of macabre experiences. Jane’s character develops as she goes through many forces that try to threaten her liberty, integrity and happiness. Moods and tones that overall color the novel are gothic and romantic. Difficult and unfortunate events such as the deaths of…

operations of government, unifying the states as one, and distinguishing the country from any other nation in the world. The form of government and the geopolitical shape that the United States is taking today is the result of the same series of legal doctrine and conventional events that formulated the U.S. constitution in the past. The history of the…