Enemy

Jonah Halili 8-18-14 Literature Class The title An Enemy of the People is very twisted. While trying to help the people in the town, the protagonist, Dr. Stockmann, was being interrupted by his brother, Peter Stockmann, the editor of the People’s Messenger, Hovstad, and the printer, Aslaksen. When Dr. Stockmann gave out the truth about the pollution in the water to the people, they rejoiced him for being the hero of the town. What they did not know yet was the cost of the renovations to the…

McNickle, in his final novel, Wind from an Enemy Sky, is able to clearly convey to the reader his personal views regarding the future of Native American culture as it is subjected to the pressure of the American legislative system. These ideas are conveyed through both the progression of the storyline and the individual roles, with intertwined actions, of each of the story’s well calculated characters. This paper will first summarize the plot of Wind from an Enemy Sky and will then explore the…

In, My So-Called Enemy, six girls were taken to America to discuss the Palestinian Israeli conflict. Notably, a young girl talks about how when she sees the girls as individuals she loves and cares for them, but when she sees them as Jewish girls she doesn’t know how to…

In the play, An enemy of the people, you can easily see the tension that can arise between the primacy of the individual and the primacy of the group. In the play the main character, Dr. Stockmann, bounces between the role of leader a follower as he tries to convince the townspeople that the water used in the spa is contaminated and that the water system needs to be redirected, so it takes in clean water. However, he is meet with stiff resistance from the town's mayor, Peter Stockmann, and is…

biased, and this bias thus justifies them to discriminate against groups of people as a result. This is illustrated in George Takei’s book, “They Called Us Enemy”, in which he explores the life of Japanese Americans living in the internment camps during World War II. During this time, they were seen as a “collective body”—each considered an enemy to the nation due to their race. This highlights the innate bias within people because although a majority of these Japanese Americans have lived most…

In the hip hop piece, “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy, alliteration and repetition of certain words together communicate the theme that honest hip hop music is not just entertainment, but also a powerful political force that can be used as the voice of people who need to be heard. The second half of the first stanza reads, “While the black bands sweatin’/and the rhythm rhymes rollin’/got to give us what we want/gotta give us what we need/” (Ridenhour et al 1). In this first part of the passage…

The Best of Enemies starts off with audio recordings from the real life Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis. 1971, Durham, North Carolina, C.P. Ellis is a KKK committee president, this committee, titled the Youth Corps, aspires to preserve the rights and freedoms of the white race, as well as keep the United States a “white country”. Ellis has 4 sons, one who is admitted to a psychiatric hospital due to his Down Syndrome (this is important for future information). The scene after showcases Ellis’ Klan…

The enemy of the people focuses on the relationship between dr stockman and his brother there conflict , however a more important issue of the pollution of the baths seems to take a back ground position. Just as in the play today 's society debate and unimaginably deny climate change , we deny the effects of humans and or negative impact on the planet, we are a destructive force of nature because we do not work as a group or one global conscience that regulates or waste and works to being more…

Undetected in a massive world, humans are seized to be used as game pieces in the Immortal Game where the Immortals hold all the power. In Ann Aguirre’s Public Enemies, the main character Edith or “Edie” is the major pawn that immortals fight over. Edie was sucked in like a vacuum cleaner into the perilous world of the Immortal Game, where human belief makes your worse nightmares real. Her boyfriend Kian, struck a deal with a powerful Immortal, the Harbinger, who will protect Edie at all…

Inside Enemy Minds Moses Mahone just started a family with his wife Emily Mahone and there new child named Crystal. Moses is as smart as Albert Einstein and can read the minds of others. He didn’t find out about his powers until he was a Senior at Harvard University. He kept his powers to himself until he was married and had a child. Moses kept the a secret because he thought that kids would laugh at him and call him names. He was called on an adventure to the Amazon Jungle. Moses got the call…