False confession

Throughout all texts we have read, we have encountered a selection of antipathetic characters. Part of what makes these stories so compelling is the presence of these characters that not only challenge the protagonist’s, but also our own moral limits. Emma in God is Not a Fish Inspector, Cameron and Val in Forgiveness in Families, Laird and the father in Boys and Girls, are all examples of antipathetic characters that help us understand the plight of the protagonist. While each of these…

Defamation on Social Media Should Be Sued Defamation is an action of creating or spreading the wrong statement about someone. The defamatory statement is not in the form of opinion but in the form of fact. In order to claim a statement is defamation, the statement must be communicated to public. “Can You Be” (n.d.) explained that defamation is classified as either slander which is the spoken defamatory statement or libel which is the act of making written defamation. Defamation on social media…

Growing up in DeBill, Kansas, I always wanted to move, or I’d try running away every other week. DeBill was known to about four thousand people and a 2A State Championship win from 1966 that is still the talk of the town. I always nicknamed us, “Ghost Town, USA”. I absolutely hated and often wondered why we couldn’t just move the 45 miles down south to Kansas City, but Mom was adamant that we were not going to move away from the town she was from. Then she’d us the excuse of being a teacher and…

The book that I read was The House of Hades. The author is Rick Riordan. It is the 4th book in the Heroes of Olympus series. But it starts off from where the Percy Jackson series ended, so it is technically the 9th book. This book or series is played off from Greek and Roman mythology. This specific book was published in October 8, 2013. Currently, the 10th book is now out. The intended audience for this book are teenagers. The genre is fantasy adventure. But since this is the 9th book…

Conclusion The hypothesis for the best angle to shoot a paintball to achieve the farthest distance possible was rejected.The data from the experiment that supports this conclusion is, the distance of the paintball that was shot from a 35 degree angle traveled, on average, 126.56 meters. This distance is 2.84 meters greater than the average distance of the paintball shot at 30 degrees. The average distance of the paintballs shot at 35 degrees was also, 15.31 meters larger than the average…

Point of view is one of the most important aspects of a novel. It helps the reader understand what is happening in a novel and how different characters react. When a novel uses multiple points of view it gives the reader a chance to view an event from multiple angles. The novel Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich uses multiple points of view to show irony among other things of different events. There are many characters that can be considered the protagonists of the novel as well as the antagonists…

In order to achieve a goal, sometimes you must do the very opposite to achieve the aimed result. It sounds counterintuitive in the beginning, but it may lead to outstanding outcome. In “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, that is precisely what happened. The short story is about a man whose wife invited her old friend, Robert, to visit them at their home. He is not enthusiastic and annoyed about the visit claiming that the Robert’s blindness bothers him. However, he had an epiphany when he got to…

Napoleon Dynamite, a film about an awkward adolescent who has trouble fitting in with his peers. Making his new friends, Deborah and Pedro help him know what it feels like to be liked and wanted. Wanting to try to fit in with his new peers he helps Pedro run for president. At home he has his disruptive family making things anything but calm, his home is chaotic and unwelcoming, because of his grandmother who is physically never there as well as his Uncle Rico whom came to visit. The main…

Introduction: Boush et al. (2011) suggests that “consumers and marketers engage in what is best thought of as adversarial cooperation” (p.3). The earliest signs of advertisement bases on a 3000-year-old Babylonian tablet. Until the 20th century, advertising was used to provide information of a products performance, use, price, and advantages. The main aim of advertising was to leave positive effect on the customer and win them over (Al-Jeraisy, 2008). However as the technology progressed and…

entertaining show that educated viewers of the social classes in an American law firm. The reinforcement on the dominant ideology of equality has influenced me to respond against the how the women and men are portrayed as it an unrealistic and is giving a false image on law firms and how they are…