Artful Dodger

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens focuses on an orphan child, Oliver who is very poor and in an orphanage that didn't actually care for any of the kids there. Then when Oliver asked the cook for more food and fled to the streets of London when he wasn't given the food he asked for. Later on Oliver met Artful Dodger who leads him to Fagin and his “gang” of pickpockets. The orphanage hears about Oliver's escape and go into the streets of London to retrieve Oliver and bring him back to the orphanage. This is basically the whole plot and structure of the book. England, London in the year 1830 is the primary setting world of the workhouse, the criminal world and the Victorian middle-class. Dark, gloomy, cold and wet weather throughout, except for the country village where it's perpetually bright and sunny. The signfancy choice of the setting of this particular story because London is not jolly tea-drinking paradise some people might think. In fact the city is repeatedly described as a labyrinth or a maze—once you get into it, it’s hard to get back out. The city itself serves as a kind of prison. It’s filthy, foggy, and crime-ridden, and things aren’t always what they seem. So since the author chose this area to show…

“Ring-a-ring-a rosy a pocket full of posies, a tissue a tissue we all fall down” and that’s exactly what everyone’s doing. The black death has been in Sydney for a while now and everyone is dying, including my mother. I have been forced to work for an undertaker cleaning up bodies and blood stains “You’ll never see a dead body Angelina, it’s not that bad!” What rubbish! I only get $1 a week, that’s only enough for two meals a day, whereas men get $2, how sexist! Father does not even contribute…

Arrow follows the story of a young adult called Oliver Queen who is the son of a multi billionaire. Oliver is stranded on an island called Lian yu for 5 years when a boating trip goes horrible wrong. The boat was tampered with and only Oliver, his father Robert and one of the crew make it onto the life raft; the rest of the crew and Oliver’s friend Sarah Lance went down with the boat. Oliver was compelled by his fathers dying wish so he made the promise to one day, right his father’s wrongs. But…

many Native Americans already living in America. A similar situation occurred with beloved Dodger Stadium. Home to many championships, and Hall of Famers, Dodger Stadium has become one of the best-known baseball parks in the nation due to it being the third oldest ball. It is home to the Major League Baseball team The Los Angeles Dodgers, who once played in Brooklyn Dodgers. The Dodger Stadium only stands where it does because of the many homes lost in the late 1940s in what is called Chavez…

revolutionize American society and politics.” Confronting the war machines: Draft resistance during the Vietnam War connects directly with the draft resistance movement and how it affected the outcome of the Vietnam War. Foley suggests that draft resisters helped in mobilizing “the local antiwar community to take positive action against the administration and against the war.” The resisters were a main stopping force of the war and Foley argues that the resisters were the ones to end the war.…

Crime, murder, KKK activity, poor education systems, bias justice system, and corrupt government are just a few of the issues Americans are completely capable of tolerating (“Here’s to the State of Mississippi”). He feels that instead of doing the right thing, working to grow as a single human race, watching out for each other, and fighting against injustice, Americans just bury their heads in the dirt and don’t bother. In the line “And I’m sure it wouldn’t interest anybody outside of a small…

Though Muhammad Ali was not one to skirt with the concept of breaking the law and resorting to aggressive means to ensure his survival outside of the ring, but he was known to stir controversy when his opinions, often strong, were to clash with the established norms and issues of the time. One of the most notable examples was his eventual arrest and conviction upon refusing to serve in the armed forces during the Vietnam War. An institution that was one of the primary elements of the…

In 1959, Chavez Ravine, a small rural community found just north of the heart of Los Angeles, was gravely disrupted as it’s occupants were displaced to make way for construction of the Dodgers Stadium. There is no doubt that the decision to build a new stadium on the site of the former area caused serious repercussions for the newly arrived Los Angeles Dodgers,their owner Walter O’Malley, and the predominantly Mexican-American community forced to leave and relocate their homes and lives…

league for themselves since they were banned from the major leagues which was run by all white folks. Peter Dieter quotes an African American star and says “Good enough to die for his country, but not good enough for organized baseball." As said on kshs.org “Very few blacks during this period had the educational opportunities that would allow them to hold positions much higher than common laborer. Baseball offered an escape from poverty and into middle-class status”(kshs). For a long time during…

and equal, according to the Constitution, there was still segregation. Blacks and whites could not use the same bathroom, water fountain, or even be in the same school. These were all know as Jim Crowe laws. This was very wrong but was considered ok because of the Supreme Court ruling of separate but equal. White baseball players played in the MLB while black baseball players played in the Negro Leagues. No one ever thought about having a black man play in the MLB until one team owner decided…