Ember

The ember flickers and smoulders in the breeze, blackening the wood, illuminating the ravaged landscape in a post-apocalyptic world of decay. Fire sometimes is seen as a destructive weapon devouring everything in its path. However, in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, fire not only maintains the father and his son’s lives under harsh natural condition but also acts as a beacon of hope and goodness on the father and his son’s journey toward the south. McCarthy repeats the idea of “carrying the fire”…

meanings built around that differences are constructed. She continues to have a veiled existence, the veil signifying a barrier to reality and a metaphor for existence in a twilight zone. Women themselves sometimes come forward to extinguish such embers of resistance. They extend the codes of patriarchal ideology by denying voice and respect to the subaltern women. The feminine cultural traditions like these, though controlledand celebrated by women, are usually a manifestation ofpatriarchal…

In “The Federalist No. 10” James Madison, writing under the group pen name “Publius,” addresses the problematic role of factions in popular government in order to argue against a democracy and to offer up his solution of a republic. Defining a faction as “a number of citizens… united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community” (349), Madison contends that a “pure democracy”…

I was ecstatic to be completely stress-free with nothing and no one to bother me. I could stay there as long as I liked, no one would miss me and no one would come looking for me. I had an overwhelming desire to discover everything about the island right then. Was there anyone living there? I hoped not, I came here to get away from civilisation. Was it really an island? From what I could see, it was, but it could be part of a mainland. How big was it? I wanted…

Frederick Douglass in his memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass explores the idea of humanity and the choices we are faced in our lives. His choice was simply put. "I now resolved that however long might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I would be a slave in fact" (P. 55). Douglass refers to his idea that there is a separation, but symbiotic relationship between being free in form, but enslaved in fact. This idea was crucial for Frederick Douglass, but also…

his seat,” the man said sternly. “Then take mine,” I said determined looking at the Negro who had an expression of bewilderment. Looking as if he about to explode, the man stormed towards me with thunderous footsteps. Ready to strike, his face was ember and his voice is deep and dark muttering quietly. As he approaches his tattered overalls drag along the ground menacingly. As he got closer I could smell the overwhelming sent of alcohol on his breath and I can almost taste the sweat that drips…

The streets sparkled with shattered glass, gleaming with a crimson glow as the flames danced into the night. The date is November 9th, 1938, and this is the Night of Broken Glass, also known as the Kristallnacht. The embers of hatred have began to engulf the country of Germany, as the weakened loser of the first world war ignited the flames of bloodshed once again. This once powerful country had been dismantled under the Treaty of Versailles, oppressed by the allies that feared another war that…

Stop and Smell the Roses Robert Frost and William Shakespeare are both very different writers from vastly different time periods. Their individual writing topics also vary; Shakespeare’s writings focuses more on romance-oriented ideals, while Frost’s work highlights existential questions. However, Frost’s, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and Shakespeare’s, “This time of year thou mayst in me behold,” offer many similarities and differences when it comes to technical elements. Though…

Although the allies had defeated Hitler, and his third Reich, a much bigger conflict had yet to be solved in the world, which lasts to this day. Throughout the whole war, the allies had worked together closely, but a feeling of distrust permeated the air amongst them. After the war the Russians felt they should receive the bulk of the prize as they had barred the brute force of the German army. However, the allies thought otherwise and thought it should be equal amongst them all. As the…

There has been many historical figures in American history that has helped shape the slowly changes in America. America struggled with racial segregation where African Americans were at the bottom of the social class. During the Civil Rights Movement there were many important figures that help lead to desegregation, and two of them were Jackie Robinson and Wilma Rudolph. On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson made baseball history and became part of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Wilma Rudolph also was an…