Duty to retreat

Happiness” (Jefferson). The pursuit of happiness is an odd right, when considered. It may be interpreted as the right to live wherever and however we think we can best profit. If we can benefit and flourish, we make new ventures. If we cannot, we can retreat back into the current society, which may support us. In a way, the whims of society are just as unknown as the whims of nature. It could be that social frontiers now exist where frontiers of settlement do not. Society is always in turmoil,…

On February 26, 2012, Zimmerman called 911 to report a suspicious person in his neighborhood of Twin Lakes. There had a couple break ins in the last month or so, and a couple cases of vandalism and Zimmerman as the neighborhood watch captain was eager to catch the offender or offenders. He was given instructions by the 911 operator to stay in his truck and wait for police to arrive. Zimmerman ignored the instructions and left his truck to investigate the suspicious person and follow him (CNN,…

paralyzed me for a while. Then I began to struggle. But my body, hurt and painful, could do nothing against the fearful strength which overwhelmed me. (112) Thus, men think themselves the proprietor and they consider their wives their property. The only duty of all the women is just to please their husbands: “Everything in a girl’s life... was shaped to that single purpose of pleasing a male.” (163) In the India it is a rule for a woman just to obey the order of her husband blindly and if she…

Sliding Doors (1998) explores the two distinct outcomes of the life of a woman who misses her train. Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow), the woman in question, is fired from her PR job for trivial reasons and goes to take the train back home. In one outcome, after missing her train, she walks back to the street, calls a cab, and goes home after a couple delays, to her boyfriend Gerry (John Lynch) who comforts her after her tough day. In the other, she catches her train, meets James (John Hannah) then…

1. Introduction Our company has decided to bring “The London West Hollywood Hotel” into Singapore. Basically, this hotel is a five star hotel from Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, it is built in a city that allow the guests to have a wonderful view from their room, the floor plan in the hotel provides a majestically and appealing feeling to the guests. They even provide superb food and drink as the chefs they hired is full of experiences. Guests will even entitle to breakfast when they stay in this…

World War II was a difficult time for everyone. World War II happened roughly between 1939-1943. Some believe it wasn’t a real thing. The Nazis did a very good job hiding the fact that they were persecuting those who they did not believe were of the perfect race. Hitler was the leader of the Nazis and his presence as the leader of the nation made it possible for the Second World War to be such an insane ordeal and slaughter. Hitler was an exceptional leader; he had the people rallying…

As an ironic story that focuses on many problems dealing with philosophy and theology, Voltaire’s “Candide” stands to clarify and possibly teach a lesson to the people that would hold too much faith in these philosophies. Many catastrophic events happen to the lead character, Candide, as well as just about every other character in the story, in order to focus on the problems that lie in detaching yourself from responsibility of their own actions leaving it to God, to fate, or to nature when the…

Frederick Douglass, the famous African American abolitionist, was once quoted as saying “[He] who would be free must himself strike the blow.” This quote is particularly relevant in the figurative and literal sense when it came to African American soldiers fighting in the Civil War. All African Americans had an uphill battle to fight when it came to getting the chance to prove themselves as adequate soldiers, and an even tougher battle to get recognition for what they had achieved. The first…

launched up and then being throw forcefully by gravity, back to the ground. I imagined it was probably from some sort of explosive being dropped, or thrown towards him. I was just a combat medic in training, I guess you could say. It was my first day on duty. This soldier was my first patient. I was so stunned, that I didn’t hear what Michael was saying until about the third time he said it. “Comrade,COMRADE, can you hear me? We need some anesthesia for this man, and then we need to get him on…

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller seeks to address the loss of identity as well as the inability of a man to embrace change within society. The play addresses some of the challenges and problems facing society and the people through dreams, arguments, confrontations, and a montage of memories (Sterling 98). Lowman family is at the center of all events and actions in the play. Willy Lowman’s suicide and ultimate burial mark the end of the play Death of a Salesman. The author uses the Lowman…