Carpenters

In his short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” J. D. Salinger highlights the internal struggles of a war veteran, Seymour Glass, as he readjusts to life at home. Seymour’s actions, a result of his homecoming, display a personal triumph where escapism seems the only path. Muriel, his wife, as well as her mother, are both fully aware of his deteriorating mental state (Salinger, 3), but neither of them sees his state as a threshold for any form of personal violence, the mother more concerned…

Mario debuted as "Jumpman" in the arcade game Donkey Kong on July 9, 1981.[24] He is shown to be a carpenter and has a pet ape called Donkey Kong.[25] The carpenter mistreats the ape and Donkey Kong escapes to kidnap Jumpman's girlfriend, originally known as the Lady, but later named Pauline. The player must take the role of Jumpman and rescue the girl. Jumpman was later renamed "Mario" in the 1982 arcade game Donkey Kong Junior, the only game in which he has been portrayed as an antagonist. In…

Works of philosophy eventually succumbs to the passage of time. A way of thinking can be accepted in a period of time; however, that is frivolous. In the grand scheme of things, it needs to be remembered in history; it needs to continue through countless debates without losing merit. Few have managed to overcome this adversity, but those that do left a permanent mark on humanity. One of these survivors is the most influential philosophical doctrine from the ancient Mediterranean, The Republic by…

The carpenter prayed for his whole life to win a Jew for Christ. One day in 1938, Richard Wurmbrand, and his wife Sabina arrived in the village where the carpenter lived. As they were Jews, the carpenter saw this as an answer to his prayers. He led both Richard and Sabina to Christ. After his salvation, Richard became a pastor. Seven years later , in…

My father, Willy Loman, was the youngest son of the family. In his early childhood, his father, who was a salesman, had left him for the Alaska adventure. My father saw his older brother, Benjamin Loman, who had “walked into a jungle, came out at the age of twenty one, and became a rich man”, as a great man and role model (“Death of a Salesman”). My father was not a finest husband and father. But then it does not mean that he did not love his children, he always took care of us in his own way.…

Farm City Reading Journal 1 In the introduction of Farm City, Novella Carpenter writes, “I have a farm on a dead-end street in the ghetto.” This sole sentence, while unusual at first, summarizes what Novella endured during her life in Oakland, California. Her farm initially started as a means to make a living, a way to produce food but then it became something more. The community around the plot of land started to coalesce and work together to build something that was once just weeds and dirt,…

Australia had enforced the criminalization of football match-fixing. In Australia, particularly in Victoria new criminal offence for match-fixing is start out in legislation relating specifically to match-fixing was passed. The charges are entrenched in the new criminal offences for match-fixing under the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) (the Crimes Act).These offences were introduced by the Crimes Amendment (Integrity in Sports) Act 2013 (Vic) which came into effect on 24 April 2013. The new offences…

at the time. Alonso Ramirez and Marcus Rediker were two writers that explored the world of piracy in the 1700’s. Ramirez was born in Borrinquen, Puerto Rico—current day San Juan, Puerto Rico. Following in his father’s footsteps he became a ship carpenter (López Lázaro, 106). His accounts of piracy encounters, show his readers the type of pirate he was and how he distinguished himself as a pirate as well. Marcus Rediker examines the Anglo-American pirates who were active between 1716 to 1726…

Dependability Imagine that you’ve asked your brother to let you borrow their car because you have a job interview that you must attend on Friday. You let your brother know about your interview and request permission to use his car a week prior to your interview. When Friday comes, you cannot find your brother anywhere in the house. When you call him, he picks up and says that he is truly sorry and that his girlfriend wanted to go out to the movies. You are obviously affected by his absence…

The Tale of Pearl-harvest demonstrates the cultural aspect of love at first sight. This is proven when Abu al-Hasan is telling his story and says “But when she asked the price of one particular bracelet, her voice was as sweet as a babbling spring and I looked up without a thought - and instantly drowned in the standing water of her eyes. My poor soul clung to the long curling black rushes that fringed each pool, but could not swim against the current of love, and it drew me down into the black…