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Muhammad Ali is insisting that ‘impossible’ is used as an excuse to avoid taking on new, seemingly difficult endeavors. In one part he says that ‘impossible’ is used by people who “find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” This indicates that people use this word to do what they know they can in this world, and count everything they supposedly can’t as impossible. Ali says that they have the choice to validate more activities as…

was born on August 24th, 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is an american author and he also does some acting. His impact on American Literature is romance. One of his first novels was Looking for Alaska, which had won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Awards. But John Green’s book The Fault in Our Stars is his 6th novel, but one of the best selling books. That novel alone had a gross “more than $300 million worldwide and certifying his status as a YA rock star.” according to (C+A). Which later…

As hinted by the quotation, Offred felt guilty for having enjoyed the sex she had with Nick. At first, Offred agreed to have sex with Nick because of a pact she made with Serena Joy. Getting pregnant by Nick would save Offred from shipment to the colonies. However, after the act transpired, a revision occurred within Offred, which saw the return of her old identity. The identity that Offred had throughout most of the novel was a precarious one that Offred created to conform to Gilead society. It…

Is Everyone Ready for Fun, this book illustrates for children. In this book, all the characters were a cartoon. They all looks like they were drawn by color pencil. A writer of this book is Jan Thomas. Also, the writer focusing on helping the children to teach the physical activities like jumping, dancing, wiggling, and taking naps. The book tells that the rowdy cows come to the chicken house, and they start doing those activities. Jumping, dancing, and wiggling done by cows make chicken fell…

In Rod Serling’s “The monsters are due on maple street.” the events and character actions advance the plot. In the beginning tommy talks about how in the story there were aliens that looked like humans as this selection implies. “That was the way they prepared things for the landing. They sent four people. A mother and a father and two kids who looked just like humans...but they weren't.” This drives the people to search for the aliens Tommy starts the rejection of the call to the rest of our…

Growing up with nothing and ending up with everything. This describes exactly how Audrey Hepburn’s life played out. For those who don’t know, Audrey Hepburn was a famous actress, model, and dancer in the late forties and fifties. Even though Audrey Hepburn faced challenges early in her life, she rose to fame and left a dazzling legacy behind. Audrey Kathleen Ruston was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She was born to her mother and father, Ella van Heemstra and Joseph Ruston. However,…

The quote “Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all” from Alfred, Lord Tennyson applies to Dexter Green from “Winter Dream” by F. Scott Fitzgerald in many ways. While Dexter and Judy were together they truly loved each other. Judy says “I like the way you love me”(7). The quote shows that the relationship was enjoyable for both partners. Dexter experiencing love and loss in the long run helps him out in life. People who’ve not loved view the world differently than those…

In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the Commanders run a society lacking authentic emotions and relationships. They use threats of removal to the colonies and death to fulfill their desire for order. A Handmaid’s only purpose in life is to produce offspring for their Commander, and they have no connections or feelings for each other. Offred says that Handmaids like her are for “breeding purposes” and are merely “two-legged wombs…sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices” for their Commander’s…

In the movie, Awakenings, there were many actual depictions of what happened during the trial. The actual events of the drug trial were performed by Dr. Oliver Sacks who asked that his name be changed in the movie. During the 1920s there was an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica that spread worldwide. Symptoms of encephalitis begin with high fever, headache, and sore throat. Progression of the disease has symptoms of muscle pain, tremors, slowing of physical and mental response as well as…

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian world of Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale, we are introduced to a totalitarian world in which fertile women are captured and it is their duty to have children for elite couples. Throughout the novel, the primary handmaid and protagonist, Offred, reminiscences on her former life as she reveals the realities of her new life with a somber tone. I argue that Offred being stripped of her purpose and being suppressed into someone she is not intensifies her desire for…