Eric Leeds

Eric Foner’s “A Short History of Reconstruction” is an updated, abridged edition of “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution.” This book redefines how the Reconstruction Era is viewed, in ways historians have not done before. Foner chronologically starts with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to validate his statement that “Reconstruction was not only a specific time period, but also the beginning of an extended historical process: the adjustment of American society to the end of…

Are we at war? The once cheerful cartoons on the small television monitors get tuned into a muted vivid image of a plane heading toward the twin towers. Than another. Flames begin to blaze as smoke surges through the air, the oxygen we must breathe now. The buildings immediately tilt as our world starts to break, humans’ ordinary humans have a life or death decision to make. But do they really? Because, either way the ones attacked physically need to choose how they’ll die that day. The…

In George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm, Boxer is portrayed as a hardworking horse who wants the best for the farm by always working hard. Throughout the novella, Boxer display characteristics of being a hardworking, loyal, and humble horse. His mottos, “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right,” shows his dedication and loyalty to the growth of Animal Farm. However, his strengths of being hardworking and loyal are also his weaknesses. Boxer is easily manipulated by the pigs who profits…

In the story The Three Little Pigs, I believe the wolf is innocent of the murder of the Pigs because of his natural instincts, his sickness, and the pigs worked less to play more. While we may have personified the wolf and pigs, no living thing can ignore it's natural instincts. Every living thing has to eat to live and also has a “limit” to what they eat. These days we are also lazy and choose the pleasure principle, to work less and play more. When it comes to natural instincts you can’t…

Sukhi Akter Pr. John Remarek Sub: Language and composition Group: Topaz 7th December 2017 Caged Bird Caged bird means his feet are bound and he is thrown in a cage. He does not have any power for flying. In the poem Maya Angelou says that in the world many birds are living in the lockup and they can’t live by their wish. They always can’t think that they will go to anywhere. In the cage they sing something in their mind that if they could go out of this cage they can fly and they can live…

A mindset can change from good to evil by the power of greed. Power requires responsibility, and if an individual does not use their power in a positive light then they will destroy the people around them. Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory of animals based of the Russian Revolution leaders that rebel after being harshly mistreated by their owner. The leader of the animals, Napoleon, manipulates the farm animals to establish a tyrannical rule over the farm. George Orwell reveals how the…

At the start of the story Old Major gathers all the animals and tells them about his dream. He tells them that Humans are bad and cause them to have short and laborious lives. He teaches them the song Beasts of England and soon all the animals are singing along. Three days later old major dies in his sleep. Sooner than expected the rebellion happened. The animals had gone over 24 days without being fed and were extremely hungry so decided to help themselves. Mr. Jones heard them and came with…

Do you know what it takes to be a good leader? There are multiple given examples of being a good and bad leader in Animal Farm. In this book you will see these two sides of a good leader, snowball being the good leader and Napoleon the bad leader. With this they have given multiple things from each side to show how they are good or bad. There is one side where he is truthful, honest, never lies to or changes up on the animals. Then, there’s the other who lies, is manipulative, does everything…

Fear is the most effective means of governing. Fear can be used to manipulate people, bending them to what the person who is using it, wants them to do. Napoleon from the novel, Animal Farm, uses fear and manipulation to keep the others from questioning his orders and how he came to power, and it shows to have a powerful impact. The animals start to see Napoleon as a perfect, all-powerful being that they fear and even end up praising. Controlling others becomes easy when one knows their fears.…

The Cleveland Browns have been searching for a quarterback for what seems like forever. The Browns have won double-digit games just once since returning to the NFL in 1999, as Derek Anderson went 10-5 as Cleveland’s starter in 2007. To fix their issues behind center, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the Browns will try to trade for New England Patriots quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, depending on how their draft evaluations go over the next several weeks. But before we get into whether the…