Enemy at the Gates

was edited by Seamus Heaney for “The Norton Anthology English Literature” book. “Beowulf” was written based on Anglo-Saxon beliefs and values. Christianity also played a big role on how “Beowulf” was structured and created. Beowulf is a warrior from Gates who travels to Heorot Hall to repay King Hrothgar with a favor. King Hrothgar is the king of Danes. Beowulf is asked by King Hrothgar to find and get rid of a monster that has been causing…

1. Law and the language of power: Compare the language used by Sophocles, in his Antigone, and in the Code of Hammurabi to describe law and authority. King Hammurabi had used harsh retaliation liberal language in the code of Hammurabi. The reason why Hammurabi used the harsh language in the Code of Hammurabi has to come with the time period of Babylonian society. The ancient Babylon had a high agricultural productivity and it results in a superior ability of supporting population dependents…

Confederate generals and officers would routinely disregard blacks among their presence, which in turn provided a perfect atmosphere for espionage. It has been quoted that General Robert E. Lee himself concluded, “the chief source of information to the enemy (Union forces) is through our negroes.” (Rose, Black Dispatches,…

celebrate and gift to others and the less fortunate annually. Purim was to be celebrated every year by every Jew in every city in remembrance of the possibility of their destruction and that through faith it was overturned with victory against their enemies. Esther’s regulations in regards to the days of Purim were recorded explaining their times for fasting and mourning. Mordecai was ranked second to the King and was promoted highly as he looked out for the greatness of his…

from being forced to be a girl and not being treated like her brother. Her father went to go look for her and killed her. While they were eating her father made a remark, “Anyway it was her fault Flora got away” (154). Her father knew she opened the gate and let her free. She starts crying at the table and feeling bad. At the end of the story her father said “She’s only a girl” (154). By him saying that, it seemed like he did not value her because she was a girl. By parent’s making gender role…

Empire of the Summer Moon is about the 40-year battle that ensued between the Comanche Indians and the first American settlers that tried to inhabit the West. The author of this book is S. C. Gwynne. He has been writing for a better part of 15 years or more and has been the writing for The Dallas Morning News, he also has served as bureau chief, a national correspondent, and senior editor for Time Magazine. He has won many awards for his books and articles over the years. He now lives a relaxed…

Rockefeller. An extremely wealthy man, Rockefeller felt it was his moral duty to help the worthy less fortunate. He developed the Rockefeller Foundation as a way to purposefully distribute his wealth, he hired Frederick Gates, a former minister to lead his foundation. The Rockefeller Institute became a major research facility and contributed to global health as workers expanded its ideas to China and Mexico. Rockefeller was part of the Social Gospel movement and was a scientific…

successor. The great leader later died in 2011, allegedly from a heart attack, and North Koreans in the capital mourned and wept for their deceased leader. Kim Jong Un’s birth is even more shrouded in mystery than his father’s. No one is aware of where he was born, and his age is a mystery as well. He is thought to have been educated in Switzerland, and his mother was an opera singer married to his father. He became leader of North Korea in 2011, and when he did this, it is believed that he…

heroic persona, Beowulf displays his bravery and valor, vital qualities of a hero, through his multitude of dangerous quests in which he defends the safety and lives of others. Beowulf declares that he “can show the wise Hrothgar a way to defeat his enemy and find respite- if any respite is to reach him, ever” (21) during the Dane’s struggle with the monster Grendel. His actions on the battlefield; whether it is in the halls of Heorot with Grendel, the fiery waters of hell with Grendel’s mother,…

‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort’ (pg 3). In J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit, there is a world just like ours. But what two worlds are exactly alike? No matter the similarity, each world is as unique as a snowflake. This world, born of Tolkien’s imagination, resides in Middle Earth; this…