Dynamite

Hemingway once said “All thinking men are atheist” perhaps this way of thinking is what inspired the development of his character Harry in his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Harry was a writer who had fallen ill in the plains of Africa. His body began decaying from the outside in, and he would later fall into a sleep where he would never awaken. We are also met with the character of a leopard who dies, but instead of dying stinking in the plains, he dies in a frozen coffin of immortality…

The 60 minutes documentary of Children in the Fields is a clear-cut, unbiased film that shows various sides of the situation surrounding children working on farms. On one side you have Carlos Casares and his two children Carlos Jr, age seventeen, and Cody, age thirteen, who work the cotton fields each summer to support their family. While on another side you have a North Carolina farmer, Jeff Darnell, who is also under heavy financial stress. Darnell is one who hires the help like Carlos Casares…

The first dictionary definition of the word ‘terrorism’, ‘ syste`me, re´ gime de la terreur’, was offered by the Acade´mie franc¸aise in 1798 in the light of recent French experience. In order to understand how the term ‘terrorism’ originated, the author immediately started discussing the French republic. The French republic already have recently dealt with the execution of King Louis XVI in the fall of 1792, was under threat from foreign invasion and internal rebellion. In July 1792, the…

Imagine a young, innocent, 11 year old boy. Now imagine a young, innocent, 11 year old boy with a military personnel helmet on twice the size of his head, holding an automatic rifle that is almost the same size as his frail little body. Imagine this boy looking left, right, up, down, and all he sees is blood, bullets flying, and dead bodies all around. All he hears is the sound of gunfire and screaming voices, trembling as he runs and hides in fear of his life. What is going through this child’s…

Ever since 1787, 11 years after America officially became a country and separated from England, America has decided who to elect for president of the United States by the electoral college. Over this past election, more and more Americans showed a discomfort in the system more than ever before. Too a point to where for a day, it was one of the trending topics on Twitter about how voters we’re almost mad at the system. America was almost confused and shocked about how the system can change an…

When you think of SeaWorld you probably picture people having a great time making memories with their families. A great getaway where kids get to learn a little bit about oceanology. And of course, how could you forget Shamu! When you first heard about them removing orcas from SeaWorld, you were perhaps shocked. How could they turn their back against their iconic feature? Over the years, people have been oblivious to the overall picture, think of it as how a magician focuses your attention on…

Drawing on their college Greek, they adopted the term for circle, "kuklos." They added the alliterative word "klan," and the "Ku Klux Klan" was born. Their nightly rides, in which members disguised themselves in masks and flowing robes, soon became a political successor to the prewar slave patrols in controlling newly freed blacks. Particularly across the upper South, Klansmen sought to overturn the new Republican state governments, drive black men out of politics, control black labor, and…

A closer look at the two respective partnerships shall now reveal that Mrs. Miller and Eula are the men's active and vital partners as well. Admittedly, both women are to an extent dependent on their male partners. Yet, as one will see, whereas in the classical Western film, as noted before, it is usually only the women who are dependent on the men's help, both films under consideration here present the men as being also in the need of the women's help. In Rooster Cogburn, Eula certainly…

In many of the stories we have read in class there seems to be a common theme amongst a few of them. The theme that is noticed is that of escapism. Escapism is the tendency to look for a distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy. In a few of the stories there is at least one moment of self-imposed escape for the characters. The characters seem to try and escape either mentally or physically or both. From Sammy in A&P, to the…

Much of the therapeutic processes that originated from Dianetics have made its way into Scientology as religious practices. One of these practices that most “preclear” Scientologists go through is the therapeutic process of auditing (Anderson). Hubbard claimed that the reactive mind contained painful and traumatic memories that are the source of many of physical and psychological weaknesses known as “engrams” (Reitman 52). Scientologists claim that, through the auditing process, they can…