A Study in Scarlet

school across the street called us “boat people” and “stinking Haitians”” (Danticat 66). Amidst all of these challenges, Sophie still thrived in America, getting good grades and even getting into a college. Sophie said that her responsibility is to study hard and do nothing but school and prayer (Danticat 67). These qualities exemplify the traits of the daffodil, how strong and flexible Sophie is amidst her…

“Those books you read. Common Sense, Atlas Shrugged, all of them?” “Yeah?” “I had their contents stored in my brain when I was born. Every word of every book has been in my memory since I can remember. That’s how I knew they even existed. And also the location where the Mother Country stashed them. When I was fourteen, I broke open the storage unit containing them, and stole every single last one of them. The Unite was furious, but never made the heist public knowledge, and they never found out…

The study confirms a lack of representation of POC in top grossing films from 2007-2014: “12.5 percent of speaking characters are black, 4.9 percent are Hispanics, 5.3 percent are Asian” (Smith 2014). In those statistics, the roles that are given to POC only…

Ethics and Behaviorism Psychology made remarkable transformations throughout the years, from the early beginnings of philosophical thinking to the more modern scientific method, psychology has been relentless; constantly changing and growing into the psychology that is known and respected today. Though all branches of psychology are important, behaviorism has its own special place in history. Behaviorism took over the world in the 1900’s, more specifically the world of psychology, and the man…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a classic Arthurian tale upon first read, but has an interesting hidden motive beneath the entertainment. Throughout Gawain’s adventure we are introduced to nobility demonstrated through the chivalric lifestyle these knights are to lead. The poem incorporates Christian beliefs and symbols, both subtle and forthright, throughout the entirety of Gawain’s escapade. The Christian undertones are used to help readers separate the morally upstanding characters and…

This room was possibly used as an aviary, and housed many types of birds. Most notably, a large number of scarlet macaw skeletons were found. This bird is indigenous to Central and South America, and this evidence confirms trade, if not travel, with peoples located in those southerly areas. Possible use for an aviary strongly suggests religious and ritualistic…

The Scarlet Letter is not just a story of Hester Prynne but it also tells the story of Roger Chillingworth, a man who enters into a town shaken by sin and lies. Chillingworth is a character who was meant to studied Hawthorne gives Chillingworth the task of discovering and interpreting all that has happened. The only person fit for this task must want to “feed the hungry dream of knowledge”. After spending years living with Native Americans Chillingworth returns to a town where everyone is a…

Tropical forests are found near the equator in Central America, parts Africa and Asia. They are very hot and humid and contain a huge variety of plants and animals round half of the entire world's species. Trees are mostly hardwood. “The world's largest tropical rainforests are in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia” (Line3 TR), this explain as to why the temperature in these places tend to be humid. Tropical forest is a great place for many different species of plant to grow because of…

that happened in the meat packing industry. In Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, Sinclair argues the horrors of the meat packing industry and how corrupt capitalism has become. From the chapter, “Living and Dying in Packingtown, Chicago”, Sinclair studies the lives of the workers and writes about their struggles. The author claims three main points that are crucial to understanding the industry. The first argument is the conditions and sickness, then the meat…

folktales and fables. 1.3. "Ngambika" and the Commitment of African Female Writers. Ngambika is a word that captures the totality of the African woman’s feminist thought or need. This phrase is used in Carole Boyce-Davies’ coedited work Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature (1986). African feminist discourses are made largely possible through female authored literatures by African women. Closely tied to stiwanism is the commitment of the African female writer (it has been said that…