Cyrus the Great

Our main character Holden in the book called catcher In the Rye By J.D. Salinger is missing love and being cared for. He ends up feeling very lonely and depressed and feels as if no on is their for him so he seeks love and care from others. He doesn't get the love and affection from the ones he wants and the people that he doesnt one it from he refuses it. Leads him to be more depressed and feel empty and lonely. Throughout the book Holden seems very depressed and really down as if he just…

Along the coast of the a great sea,4 Amore had all the toys she could ever want. She could go down to the beautiful beaches and build sand castles. Most of all, however, at seventeen years old, she had grown to be the prettiest woman in the kingdom. Now, with the ability to choose…

Golden glasses of expensive champagne clink as a lavish party roars in the background of the era of an emerging wealth. The 1920’s: a period in which the world, but the young and reckless America especially, struggled to get a grip on what true success and happiness were. Then, there were neither in the 30’s when the Depression smacked the world with harsh reality.W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge follows a young writer (a character named for himself) and the trials of his social…

The Alchemist has various types of Stages that either have encouraged or disheartened the main character as he voyeurs out on his journey to complete his mission. The Alchemist is about a boy named, Santiago, who is a shepherd because he wanted to travel to various places with his sheep. That was until he had a reoccurring dream about treasure that was located in Egypt. He embarks on this journey after discussing with an old king who claims that it is his Personal Legend that he must accomplish.…

Old Major’s speech was a huge excitement. My siblings and I scurried across the barn trying to find a place to sit. We took a place next to Clover. Our mother had died and Clover was our only mother-figure on the farm. She put her leg around us so we wouldn’t be stepped on and we fell asleep shortly after. We weren’t asleep for long when we woke up by the sound of Old Major’s booming voice. He talked about a dream he had where man had vanished and animals ruled the land. After his speech we…

In the book Of Mice & Men, written by John Steinbeck, the novel concludes by one of the main characters, George, killing his best friend and counterpart, Lennie, after Lennie accidentally kills a young woman. I believe that George was justified in his decision to kill Lennie. Lennie was a character who caused harm and destruction throughout the book, despite not meaning to. He also prevented George from living his life because of the way George had to take care of him and nurture him, much like…

In the novel, Warren portrays the state of Louisiana as poor, deprived, hopeless, and susceptible to the charms of populism and demagoguery. Set during the Great Depression and centered around political figures from the rural South, it was bound to deal with rampant poverty, but this deprivation serves a special purpose for the novel; it helps provide a context for both Stark’s popularity and Stark’s authoritarianism. The poor in this Louisiana need a savior, and Willie Stark fits the mold. From…

I saw the 11/30 showing of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”. It was a play about two World War II veterans named Bob Wallace and Phil Davis who meet sisters Betty and Judy Haynes. The four go to rural Vermont where they run into Bob and Phil’s former commander in WWII, General Waverly, who owns an inn but is struggling financially. The four aim to help the General. The show was at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, a Proscenium theatre. The stagecraft of the play was like most plays I’ve…

Dreams, Challenges, Hardships When people travel to America what is the reason for it, to live a better life, attain money, become something better than how they were etc. The common reason people travel is the ideal aspect for the American dream. In 1931 James Truslow Adams refer the American dream as “life should be better and richer and fuller with opportunity for each accordingly to ability or achievement". In old times that was their dream, leaving home to travel to a new land for an…

estate scandal that came as a result led to the former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis to be ousted from power in October 2009. When a new government was formed, there was little money left in the government’s coffers so they had to come clean about the true state of things. The revelations coupled with the new higher interest rates which the country was forced to pay caused panic among investors. Mr Lewis uncanny ability to weave stories into a sharp-edged narrative gives people a full…