Concealment

In the greater metropolis encompassing five counties referred to as Los Diablos darkness prevails. Daemons inhabited the remaining structures within the eighty-seven towns dismantled by massive super-earthquakes that rocked the entire region. The quakes were responsible for the destructions of the tens of thousands of buildings up to five hundred square miles including the downtown area. All counties affected heavily losses and causalities by the unexpected huge tidal waves and monstrous…

Young Canadians only represent 13% of the licensed driver population, they account for approximately one quarter of motor vehicle injuries and fatalities (Parachute 2016). The most common way for young people to die in Canada is being the driver or the passenger in a motor vehicle, the death rate for drivers ages 15-24 is higher than every other age group and about three times the rate of drivers 35-44 years of age (State Farm 2016). The safety of young drivers is a major concern to the public…

Anti-Semitism has always been lingering in our lives. From the medieval era to our modern day beliefs, anti-Semitism has created major ethical and moral concerns weather we consider it as a problem or not. Anti-Semitism is the basis of what most consider the escalation to mass murder that started with Christian anti-Semitism to modern and eventually Nazi anti-Semitism. Hitler and many of those that supported him used these characteristics to justify the actions of killing millions of Jews while…

To this day governments’ concealment of relevant information to the media morphs the impression of nuclear energy. Freedom to knowledge breaks down political secrecy, allowing to an extent transparency in information. With human psyche experiencing more disasters in the past millennium…

In the novel Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac discusses societal interactions in France in the early 1800s. Balzac investigates the jostling for power in different social classes. This novel is set after the French Revolution, where there was an increase in the fluidity between classes. This fluidity was caused by the restoration of the aristocracy, after it was mostly destroyed in the revolution. Rastignac is a young student, who is just becoming an adult in the real world. He wants to become a…

Twenty First Century Terrorism With the horror of the 9/11 attacks against the United States, the nation has become much more aware of the role of our government plays in averting crisis such as this both at home and abroad. The global crackdown on terrorism has effectively deterred organizations from launching large scale attacks on the US. But a another component of the terror threat is emerging. Even though the US has contributed greatly to the success of counter terrorism, the terrorists…

in the eyes of the Puritan community. However, while Hester lives with her guilt publicly displayed in the form of the scarlet letter and Pearl, Dimmesdale hides his sin from the community and tries to continue as their saintly pastor. Yet, this concealment is not without consequences, as Dimmesdale suffers from horrible guilt as he denies his sin from his community, and thus denies himself forgiveness for his sin. Finally resolving to tell the truth on his deathbed, Dimmesdale dies after…

A tribute to the housewives of the nineteenth century, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll’s House is more than a fictional tale of a woman establishing her legacy in a male-dominated society. Ibsen’s views extinguish the typical portrayal of women in early-day literature entirely. By providing female readers with a sense of empowerment, esteem, and individuality through the actions and beliefs of his strongest feminine roles, Ibsen has been named one of the greatest contributors to the rise of femininity in…

The Clinton (Democrat) administration’s military intervention foreign policy is in the ‘half-out’ category due to Clinton’s policies of “hegemony on the cheap” (“The Quiet Clinton Era of the 1990s: A Liberal Internationalist Strategy for Unipolarity?”) which emphasized multilateralism and avoided conflicts in which the U.S. had little to no interests, but wanted to “preserve an American-centered order” (“The Quiet Clinton Era”). Clinton wanted to maintain the status quo of the American unipolar…

Madness Overwhelms Our Narrator Madness (n) – The state of being mentally ill, especially severely. Edgar Allen Poe is notorious for creating characters who rapidly descend into this state, if they were not suffering already. Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes about personal experience, allowing her own mentality to shape the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper. It is impressive, to say the least. How do these two authors describe this intense mindset, without letting their characters become silly…