Cyrus the Great

them living together, and Zainab, bashful, lies, and says that it is only for a short while. As the film continues, prejudice disappears quickly, and a bond forms between the women, as they get to know each other better. Walter is the possessor of great privilege. His privilege, as I see it, is that Walter gets to shape the destiny of both his own growth and experience with the visitors. His choices to join the two in the various parts of their lives allows him to experience their culture,…

each valley symbolizes a down part in her life. For example, two mountains in Esperanza’s life would be in the beginning of the story, despite her not fully understanding the idea of the blanket, when she had her papa and everything in her life was great due to her love of her father. The next example comes towards the end of the story when she discovers that Miguel has come back with Abuelita herself. Bringing Esperanza’s life together and allowing her to feel at home. The valleys however…

people recognize these times as the “Roaring 20’s”. Symbolism is an ingenious way for authors to link their works with that adventurous time in history. Moreover, F. Scott Fitzgerald created the ideal function of this literary device in his book The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the East and West Egg, a green dock light, and a towering billboard to symbolize paramount themes and to influence significant events in the plot. One of the first symbols the reader comes across in the novel is the…

Death was gentle when handling different souls, like Liesel’s sick brother, Werner, Rudy, and Hans and Rosa Hubermann. Death showed his softer side when handling Werner’s soul. He held the spirit very softly and treated him like a valuable object. “He warmed up soon after, but when I picked him up originally, the boy’s spirit was soft and cold, like ice cream.” While in Death’s arms, Werner, Liesel’s brother, was held gently,…

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech for Kenyon College, referenced here from the text They Say I Say, differed from the cheery and laudatory reassurances that typically mark graduations. Rather he used his speech to impart the more momentous advice that by living intentionally one can escape the rat race that consumes and devastates many adults. Wallace’s main assertion is that most people operate on a “default setting” of unconsciousness, letting their thoughts roam freely and…

programs that set up a land tax, that had to be paid in specie, to pay off the nation’s postwar debts. The issue with this land tax was that yeomen farmers did not have specie since they generally bartered to get goods. The harsh land taxes caused great tension, because while the yeomen were paying very high taxes the merchants and towns people payed very little since they owned little to no land. Tensions rose even more when the yeomen became unable to pay these taxes and “creditors tore…

During the 1930s there were many social issues that affected the world as a whole. Aldous Huxley presents these issues through his 1932 novel Brave New World. He uses in many occasions repetition to illustrate the unethical procedures that are used on children of that era, diction to represent the attitudes of the people worldwide, and imagery to deliver the idea of what exactly is going on back in the 1930s. Huxley use of repetition is vital in displaying the immoral social problems of the…

The conclusion of World War I signified the beginning of an era of great material wealth and newfound prosperity in America. Such conditions provided the platform on which the social class of “new” money was built during the 1920s. The rising class of “new” money greatly contrasted with the aristocrats of society, who had inherited the prosperity of their ancestors and had never known the economic struggles of the average person. The juxtaposition between these two classes is eloquently conveyed…

Gatsby’s Heart The classic American novel, The Great Gatsby, is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This story takes place in New York City in the 1920s. The story is narrated by Nick Carraway and is centered around Jay Gatsby. Gatsby supposedly falls in love with a lady named Daisy Buchanan, who is Nick’s cousin. This was a time long ago when they were both young. Now they have both changed, but Gatsby wants to repeat the past. Gatsby loved Daisy when they first met, and then he became obsessed…

certainly true. For example, when the stock market crashed in 1929, President Hoover believed that it wasn’t the government’s job to fix the economy. Therefore, he did little to nothing to solve the money issue. This resulted in what is known as The Great Depression. The important lesson learned from this is that although doing nothing is a choice, that doesn’t mean that the consequences are not going to be severe. If we don’t learn from this grave mistake, our nation could be in huge trouble. …