Foil

In the short story “Penny in the Dust” depicts a father that is seen an intimidating man, however he is often misunderstood. The story takes place in a rural area in which the main source of income came from farming. Wanting to support his family everyday the father worked hard on the farm so that he could make an income. Methodical is one characteristics shown in the father. He “worked all day long” and had a very set schedule. Because of his methodical ways the father appeared like “he was…

willing to do anything for you at any cost. When people think of heros they usually think of the main character in the story who saves the world and gets the girl in the end, They usually have super powers and stuff like that. But i’m talking about the foil character who does anything and everything for the other characters. Every story has one, And in the outsiders Dallas is the hero. Even know Dallas has done some bad things in new york here in tulsa he’s done some pretty heroic things.…

Hydrogen is an Alkali earth metal in group 1 on the periodic table. Hydrogen has an atomic mass of 1 and an atomic number of 1. Hydrogen has 1 VALENCE electron and 1 neutron. It has 1 ring, because it’s in period 1. Hydrogens state of matter is gas. Lithium is a Alkali Earth Metal on the Periodic Table. Lithium's state or matter is solid. Lithium has a atomic number of 3 and an atomic mass of 7 when rounded. It has 1 valence electron around its nucleus and 4 neutrons in the nucleus. Lithium has…

Prompt #4: To Be or Not To Be Inaction and action contributes to different perspectives of living life. These two concepts foil with each other to create a self-struggling environment that initiates internal conflict. Shakespeare’s Hamlet emphasizes the turbulence of a strong nation, Denmark, through times of death and suspicion among the main characters. Hamlet, the son of the deceased king, contemplates his role in the future of the kingdom while reconciling his defeatist attitude with…

empathy, thus suggesting that empathy can separate one human from another. However, if Rick does retire humans with “underdeveloped empathic ability” it is only because he lacks the ability to understand why they appear different from him. When the foil characters, John and Rick, meet for the first time as Rick hunts for the escaped androids where John refuses to give their location saying, “If you kill them you won't be able to fuse with Mercer”, to which Rick responds, “You won't take me up…

There are 2 types of strengths that materials can be tested on: Comprehensive strength and Ultimate Tensile strength. Ultimate Tensile strength is measured by how much stress can a material withstand, while being stretched or pulled apart before breaking, while comprehensive strength is how much van the material resists while being pushed in (together). There is also a Yield Strength- the point at which the material starts to slowly break and cannot come back to it’s shape. Before the yield…

It was about half-way through when I realized that I had messed up. I was left puzzled. So were my parents. I could not believe that creating money would be this hard. In fact, there was even a mathematical proof backing me up. Everything was in my favour, everything except my parents. They just could not believe what I had done with the five dollar bill. There is a mathematical theorem that needs to be brought to light. It is called the Banach-Tarski Paradox. In laymen terms, it states that an…

In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth strives to gain power, but eventually fails in his quest for ultimate authority. When Macbeth unleashes his “inner coldness” by murdering innocent people in order to take the throne, the “intoxication of power” overwhelms him. He begins to “lose direction” as he becomes “lost in the solitude of his immense power” (Marquez, 166). Macbeth can not control his lust for power, and becomes overwhelmed by his own emotions. A leader is characterized…

There are many prominent themes in the play Hamlet. One theme that played a very huge role was decay and corruption. In Hamlet, all characters are affected by decay and corruption in some sort of way. Some characters were introduced to us already overcome by corruption, some became corrupt over time. The character, King Claudius, is introduced to the audience as already being corrupt, as he killed his brother and married his sister-in-law for power. At first, the reader does not know that…

Throughout his novels, Charles Dickens uses symbols to represent emotions or desires, or to point out certain characteristics. These symbols come in a variety of forms from reappearing objects to elemental forces. In Great Expectations, the image of fire is commonly repeated throughout the novel and appears in most, if not all, settings. It materializes as candles, forges, and hearths. Fire is not just meant to set the atmosphere in this novel, but it conveys a deeper message about the…