Charles August Lindbergh

Even thirty years after junior high school you can still find adults playing the game of wanting to be socially accepted, filling pressured to fulfil certain social criteria to be considered a respectable individual. One's respectability is typically based upon their occupations, whom they associated themselves with how they look. Variables such as Occupation, Prestige, and Income can determine one’s outlook in life and social mobility throughout society. Society has this tendency to flock to…

Foreshadowing is the warning or indication of a future event in a book. Great Expectations is a classic American novel written by the famous Charles Dickens. Pip, the main character that we watch grow up, meets a convict and is forced to help him by getting him a file and food. This experience with his convict stays with him throughout his life, because it was such a strange and dangerous memory. He also meets an old lady named Miss Havisham who influences many of his decisions, because he…

F. Scott Fitzgerald has a very critical view of the world and he illustrates that in the short story “Winter Dreams”. The main character Dexter, lives a life full of want and contempt, longing for Judy. This story is six sections long which infold the unlikely lives of Dexter and Judy. F. Scott Fitzgerald loads his story with lots of symbolism, starting with the title of this short story. Fitzgerald uses the seasons throughout his story to create a depressing mood to help develop Dexter. The…

Over the course of Hinton’s novel ‘The Outsiders’, the ‘Greaser gang’ who live on the east side of town, were commonly standardised as juvenile delinquents, who struggled to make a living as a result of being and impecunious and underprivileged, yet persevered to value companionship over accessories. The Greaser gang have it rough. Living amongst the Socs in a society where they were characterised as being “poorer than the Socs and the middle class ” (page 3), Hinton makes it clear to the reader…

An English naturalist of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, made a theory of human evolution. Darwin published his work called The Descent of Man, he suggests the origin of man came from a lower form. Mark Twain, an American writer of the nineteenth century, set out to test Darwin’s theory of human…

A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol is a wonderful play. It was worth doing, because it had amazing characters that made the play real. A Christmas Carol play was directed by Henry Wishcamper. The directed had worked hard to make this play so perfect and interesting to watch. I understood everything that director wanted to say. This play is old, but every new director wants to make it classical, and also add something unique to it. This director didn’t change the play, but he made it so…

In 1 Henry IV, Falstaff is seen as comic and tragic. He is often referred to as the “play’s clown” (Bedford 91). Falstaff lives a life of sleeping during the day and thieving at night. He is often seen as a drunkard. Not to mention the scene where Hal wakes him up and he has a wench in his bed (Norton 1192). Falstaff lives as if every day is carnival or holiday time. Even Hal knows that Falstaff is the Lord of Misrule in the carnival. When Hal is speaking out loud about his plans to appear…

Have you ever felt like you were trapped? In the play “ The diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Mr.Van Daan is a non trustworthy person because he is a selfish, impolite, and dishonest man that no one can trust. Mr.Van Daan can first be described as selfish. Mr.Van Daan goes to the food safe and takes out a half-loaf of bred. Late at night Mrs. Frank catches Mr.Van Daan taking the food from the food safe and Mr.Dussel shoes everybody the loaf of bred and says “ you…

“ Nature and Our Innate Destructive and Primitive Qualities” On The Road by John Kerouac explores the spiritual and physical experience of his narrator, Sal Paradise, travelling with his friends in a post-war era imbuing the spirit of anti-conformity and rejection of materialism. Sal Paradise, along with Dean who is a very close friend, explore America through hitch-hiking, reckless behavior, and moments of brief and unusual stability in their lives where they settle down. John Kerouac uses Sal…

Victorian culture and the conditions of its rediscovery during Victorian period. It leaded to reveal many scientific and historical debates. Those arguments still ongoing in the late nineteenth century. In the context of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and Charles Lyell, either, it had been like one "big bang" in explaining the mysteries that the earth presented. The theory is that the earth is formed through slow change over millions of years. On the orther hand, when the eleventh tablet of…