Christopher Cox

The Titanic It was in the year 1996 when the Titanic gold digging team that was being led by Brock Lovett made a continuation of the search for the heart of the ocean. The team thought that they had finally found it in the safe, but they didn’t fount it. They were unable to find it after opening the safe, but they saw a drawing of the naked woman wearing a diamond necklace and the bank statements. Lovett believes that maybe the woman was hit and eventually die. I was the woman in the drawings…

The Caretaker The Caretaker is one of the plays by Harold Pinter. Harold was born in Hackney, 1930. He starts writing in 1949, by joining The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art. He was associated with theatre of absurd. He wrote a lot of plays but these are the famous ones The Collection, Old Times, No Man’s Land and The Caretaker. The Caretaker is an example of the theatre of the absurd, style of drama that was popular in the middle of the 20th century. The play is an example of this…

from Cadiz with a fleet of Spanish ships. The letter states that the ships made their way through the West Indies and got to the province of Central America within about five weeks. This would mean that Amerigo came across Venezuela a year before Christopher Columbus did. Amerigo and his fleets arrived back in Cadiz in October 1498. Then in May of 1499, Amerigo set off on his second Voyage. Sailing under the spanish flag, Vespucci worked as a navigator under the command of Alonso de Ojeda. They…

Shakespeare lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth l, commonly known as the Elizabethan era. The Elizabethan epoch is seen by many as the pivotal point in English literature; historians regard it as being the golden age in England’s history. A plethora of books, movies, and plays, including many of Shakespeare’s works, were based on ideas and interests of the time. Consequently, many of his works are reminiscent of values and ideals found throughout this time period. Learning about the…

As I am someone that has no interest in mountain climbing, Kevin Macdonald’s interpretation of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’s intrepid journey, ‘Touching the Void’, is a powerful film that is sure to turn heads and has definitely made me reconsider spending time mountain climbing. This docudrama follows a tragic incident that results in one man’s fight for survival after Joe and Simon’s descent up the unclimbed Peruvian Andes and ends with the audience questioning what they would do. To achieve…

Welcome to Leith In the video “Welcome to Leith,” Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker displayed Craig Cobb a white supremacist trying to take over Leith, a small town in North Dakota, where its residents no longer felt tranquility. They provide live videos from different kind of supremacist around the world and multicultural people who have been living in Leith, both describing each side of their story. In conclusion, these residents feel the need to take actions into their own hands…

Spain in the Americas Review In the Article “Columbus-Hero or Villain?” by Felipe Fernandez- Armesto, the author gives his readers the understanding of the accomplishments Christopher Columbus achieved in life, for example discovering the Americas, but also provides us, by going into depth on Columbus life and his beliefs towards slavery and other matters. In the article the author asks the reader one important question, was Columbus a hero or was he a villain? To help us choose what Columbus…

John Krakauer portrays a story about a young boy who goes on a trip to find out his true purpose.Using testimony of others and characterization,Krakauer,conveys Chris’s journey to finding ultimate freedom.The society in which he was in didn’t provide him enough happiness which lead to him leaving.Chris abandons everyone and everything that cared about him to do what truly made him happy.The author uses these 2 techniques to portray a message about finding what one can truly do leads to happiness…

The purpose of this paper is to compare two articles concerning the natives in the Americas during and after the Spanish conquest. The first article is, The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 by William M. Denevan who is a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin. His article is about the myths and ideas of the Europeans that the lands in much of America before the comings of the Spanish in the 1400s, were virgin lands, untouched by man with no man made environmental…

Deepan Patel December 9, 2016 Period: 2 ERWC Mr. Taylor Into the Wild Essay Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer, is about a young man from a rich family who hitchhiked to Alaska and walked all the way into the wilderness. Chris McCandless shows many personality traits. Chris is very intelligent in school, he is very strong willed, he is rebellious in his own ways, he doesn't like it when someone gives him advice or tells him what to do, and he is self involved, he is also very idealistic. He gets…