All My Sons

Due to mercantilistic views and extreme financial deficits from multiple wars, Britain was scrambling to increase their revenues around the 1750s and 60s. England was in major debt from over 80 years of various conflicts and by the end of the French and Indian War, thought it made sense to have the colonies help pay for a war that was fought to protect their homes. Britain also valued the concept of mercantilism, which stated there was a fixed amount of wealth in the world and the more one…

make it sound as though war is not all that bad because you gain points for the dead but by mentioning the thousand corpses he shows how horrible war…

As a freemason he befriended Doctor Joseph Warren who contributed greatly to Revere becoming a patriot. Revere became a member of the Sons of Liberty soon after it formed in 1765. Using his skills as an engraver Revere made many pieces of propaganda. His two most famous engravings are British ships landing at Boston and the famous cartoon of the Boston Massacre. Becoming a major part…

In the frozen climate of Chicago, Richard Wright’s historical fiction novel called Native Son takes place. Bigger Thomas is a young African American man that grapples the challenge of living as a black man in America during the 1940s. Richard Wright effectively creates sympathy for Bigger by showing Biggers physical pain, along with the newspapers dehumanizing him, and by describing his family's condition. Wright uses the harsh winter climate of Chicago to inflict pain on Bigger multiple times…

Term: Anaphora- “In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence of neighboring clauses in order to achieve an artistic effect is called anaphora” (literarydevices.net) Context: Unaware of his family’s murder, Macduff has fled to England to plead to Malcolm, heir to the Scottish throne, to fulfill his duties as the new King and overthrow Macbeth immediately. However, the state in which Macduff finds Malcolm is wretchedly pitiful; Malcolm has resigned, even…

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Halloween is a tradition that goes back to an old Celtic festival called Samuin, which is the practice of wearing costumes in celebration of the end of the year as they celebrated a new year on November first. During Samuin people dressed up to impersonate the evil spirits. The Celtics believed that the end of the year which is October 31st, the living and dead world would overlap. This resulted in the dead having access to roam earth again. So by people dressing up in costumes they were trying…

“Sure Thing”: A Thematic Analysis The restaurant, the bar, the baseball game, the club, or the social plateau as a whole are all places one might go with a lurking inclination of meeting that special someone. In the short, single act, two-character, drama “Sure Thing” written by David Ives, one can analyze the plethora of attempts demonstrated by Bill, the single male character to gain the attention of the young girl. Although the play is short in length, one can identify several interesting…

The hit television show The Jeffersons was an outstanding spinoff from the series All in the Family. The Jeffersons features George and Louise Jefferson a newly rich African American family living in Manhattan. The television show was based off the family dry cleaning business, Jeffersons Cleaners which eventually grew into a small chain business. The success from the family business allowed George, Louise and their son Lionel to move to a “deluxe apartment in the sky”. The television series The…

Chapter 1 ♡ The Princess of Audacity My eyes flutter open and I immediately shut them again wishing myself back into a dream. Even though I can’t remember what I was dreaming about exactly, I know that any dream good or bad would be better than my real life. I can hear the soft whisper of voices behind my door and know that if I don’t get up now on my own, I’ll be woken up in a matter of minutes. I slowly sit up and let out a sigh. The stale air circulating through my room has a cold bite to…