George Packer

As Americans, we know that Thomas Jefferson was a founding father and was the United States third president. Although do we honestly know who Thomas Jefferson was as an individual, before and after the presidency? Thomas Jefferson was more than a president and was important in aspects of our government, American architecture, and the American educational system. He was a historical Politian, He designed and founded the University of Virginia, believed in equality in schooling (public school…

Huxley’s Brave New World "A Gramme is Always Better Than a Damn" (Huxley, 2006, p. 90) Aldous Huxley saw a fully aware and intelligent society the only way to obtain a government which would keep the people’s best interest a priority. In Brave New World it was clear the government had utter control of its people, which the government gained by supplying the population with Soma. Soma was a fictional recreational drug which caused euphoria, relaxation, and “an escape from… reality” (Hickman,…

Laws are placed to keep us, the people, safe. We even put people out there to regulate those laws, and to offer punishment to those who don't follow them. When people resist laws it puts the lawmakers in a bad place. People who are boycotting the laws because they don't want to support what goes against their values. You can't please everyone and keep everyone safe. Opposition to anything is almost always met with a wall of stubbornness from the other side. Take, for example, abortion. There are…

Chairman X is the complete antithesis of both Dr. Gift and Dean Harstad. Like Dr. Gift, his religion is also not specifically referenced in Moo. However, Smiley does include that Chairman X is a communist. Because of his belief system, Chairman X loathes both Dr. Gift’s self-helping, capitalist methods, especially the Costa Rican gold mining plan, and Dean Harstad, whose use of, “patience as a weapon” the passionate and driven Chairman X finds irritating to the point where he daydreams of…

Veteran Actress Mindy Robinson Works with Real Vets in Her Latest Role in Range 15 Robinson is one of the hardest working actresses in Hollywood with over 150 appearances on TV and film, and has no problem holding her own amongst the testosterone-fueled landscape of Range 15. Range 15 plays like The Hangover meets Act of Valor, with zombies to fight instead of terrorists. Intentionally campy and packed to the brim with surprising celebrity appearances, the action/horror/comedy also features a…

According to the musical Hamilton, in his early life he was an orphan. Alexander Hamilton was born out of wedlock in the West Indies. His mother died and his father abandoned him. Hamilton did whatever he could to get where he wanted to go no matter the cost of consequences. He grew up very poor from the West Indies and married into a family with money to a woman named Elizabeth Schuyler. He had a son named Phillip that he was not a part of his life because he was fighting the war in America.…

Depression is the best way to describe Valley Forge. Unhopeful is the best way to describe the soldiers there. Valley Forge is depressing, and the soldiers there are gloomy. I have fought my time in the war, and there is still no improvement on either side.The Members of Congress have created and signed the Declaration of Independence. If we lose the war they have basically signed their death. Britain will hunt them and all the remaining, living soldiers and kill them. I need to chose whether to…

The Boston Massacre was a huge riot in Boston, Massachusetts due to resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed five colonists. During this bloody event unlike every man in Boston, John Adams choose to represent the Soldiers because he believed everyone deserved a fair trial. By doing this John Adams is a man of great integrity, courage, and leadership. As John Adams stated, "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever…

Religion was traditionally very important in England and throughout Europe. However people did not always have the choice of religion because of the influence of the reigning monarchy. That was one reason why people left their homeland and took the long dangerous journey to the new land of America. This was the land where they felt free to practice the religion of choice. However, the American colonists were concerned about the expansion of Roman Catholic territory down to the Ohio river as…

In my essay I will look at how the theme of disruption from a higher power appears in The Tower of Babel (GHM 4.4) but also appears in The United States Government. In The Tower of Babel (GHM 4.4) people after the flood had one language and settled in Shinar. They further decided to build a city with a tower that went up into the heavens. Yahweh (the Hebrew name of god) saw the city and tower and expressed concern for the powerful unity of the people under one language. So Yahweh scattered the…