A World Lit Only by Fire

Greek Philosopher, Plato wrote a symbolic depiction of people’s perception of reality in The Allegory of the Cave. Plato believed that true knowledge can only be found though education. He also believed that the role of teachers were to guide the scholar on the road to enlightenment, not direct their paths. The role of the government was also to be questioned to ensure that it was serving the greater good of the people. Plato wasn’t afraid to challenge the status quo and provided a powerful…

The Trinity by Johnathan Fetter-Vorm depicts the history of the making and drop of the first atomic bomb created during the World War Two era. Fetter-Vorm effectively creates a highly crafted argument that is designed to elicit a response from the readers while illustrating an unbiased and educational story. He challenges the people of the future to remember the previous mistakes of the past so that they will not follow in the footsteps of the ones before them. Fetter-Vorm’s use of specific…

orchestrate these acts Adolf first had to get to a high point of power, he achieved this primarily in three ways, the Reichstag fire and the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, the Enabling act and the Night of Long Knives. The fire was lit on the 27th of February at 9 Pm 1993, and it burned down part of the Reichstag building in Berlin the capital of German(Source I). Soon after this fire Hitler addressed the German President Paul Von Hindenburg telling him that radical communists,…

ordinary child-- Innocent, who finds tranquility in the isolated life she lives in the convent. As a child, Antoinette was often found alone and left to discover the world both tranquil and frightening. Her father, Mr. Cosway, was a former slave owner in the Caribbean, and when the Emancipation Act was passed, the Cosway family was not only ruined but also vulnerable to abuse from the local black communities. Antoinette recalls that one day a little girl followed here, chanting “Go away white…

excitement that filled their little faces as I flipped from page to page. There was an abundance of curiosity and desire to learn in that classroom that made me happy that I decided on skipping recess to read to the younger students. There was a fire that lit in my ten-year-old body that day. That was the day where I finally had an answer to all the “What do you want to be when you grow up?” questions I had been faced since kindergarten. My answers were once a doctor, a nurse, or a policeman,…

Misfit a yellow shirt with a bright blue parrot. BubbaJay and Hiram were told to take the mother and her two children over yonder by The Misfit. The mother said “thank you.” The Misfit felt jealous of the mother. She was going to be freed from this world. The grandmother and The Misfit were left by themselves. The old women sounded like a broken record. She began to say, “Jesus. Jesus.” The Misfit nodded and said, “Yes’m.” He thought it was about time to give the old woman a piece of his…

vivisections and assessments of biological weapons. They were starved, brutalized, and used for forced labor. The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors…

to create life (Taoism). The myth begins by stating that it was a time of darkness, and the world was like an egg. The world remained like that for eighteen thousand years until suddenly, the egg unhatched, a colorful light appeared, and life was born. The heavens and the earth formed and they created two natural forces yin, the earth and yang, the heavens. Each alone are capable of destruction but only together can they keep peace. Together the four seasons and the five elements were created.…

William Manchester’s A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and The Renaissance indepthly describes the lives of the commonfolk, the nobility, and the Catholic Church. Each lived very different lives from each other yet still shared similar aspects. The commonfolk were poor, limited to less than basic hygiene, lacked a respectable education, and were ruled by Christian dogma. Heretics were burned at the stake; no one dared to oppose the Catholic church. The people were “Shackled in…

In the book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses what it is like to inhabit a black body. He draws upon his memories of his childhood, his teenage years, and recent times in order to illustrate the changes he has faced in how he views himself and others. Coates first discusses his childhood, claiming that being black in Baltimore was to “...be naked before all the elements of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease,” (17). People often carried guns…