George Ripley

Between 1790 all through 1860 America was a new country trying to learn how to run itself. The success of the American Revolution brought hope of a country with a just government; a nation where every citizen has a say in how things are run. I believe America had only started to envision that, with citizens like William Manning proposing thoughts on how American government could be, but with concern about how it could get corrupted. The way some citizens would stay oppressed while others stood on their work. Such corrupt systems in the future did in fact defile the motions of liberty America started on. Free American thinkers such as Orestes Brownson and Fredrick Douglas criticized the way America was taking itself. With the power going to the wealthy and the hypocrisy of the leaders in this so claimed free nation. America was a nation lying to itself on what it was. The consequences of the American Revolution sparked a sense of democratic freedom into many citizens of America. Citizens believed in the war and believed that it would bring about positive change for the country. After the war, in 1799, William Manning was a leading example of one. “And when the revolution began in America I was in the prime of my life, and taken up with the ideas of liberty and a free government.” (William Manning, The Nature of Free Government, p. 148). Manning describes himself as an everyday laborer who fought in the war because he believed he was doing the right thing. He states…

Field Work Complete, Analysis Begins. Well over two years ago, preparations for a project to identify a heroic but largely forgotten engagement outside the community of Lexington, Massachusetts began. During the preparation and daily methodical work both in the archives and in the field a partnership would be forged which would place Minute Man National Historical Park on the frontline of research for the 21st century. Park service archaeologists would join in the effort of park management,…

Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley” presents to the reader a sexually complex character, Tom Ripley. Tom Ripley, who plays both the protagonist and antagonist in the novel, possesses the gift of imitation, forgery and impersonation. He uses these gifts to his advantage whenever possible throughout the novel. The other two main characters of this book are Marge and Richard “Dickie” Greenleaf. Sexuality is a sensitive topic for Mr. Ripley, even when he was a young child. He does…

Her personality is the embodiment of the Badass sci-fi female protagonist Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) of the Aliens franchise. Mind you, this is not a prequel to the Alien films says Director Scott Ridley. But unlike Ridley’s “Rippley,” who sets out to eradicate all Xenomorph of the Alien movies. Shaw has a belief that life has ultimately a divine origin, and sets out to find the answers of it. Prometheus, does echoes many of the classic Alien’s technology such as hyper sleep chambers and a…

a trip returning to earth after going on a mission to find minerals within its ships you have seven passengers who are in a deep sleep. You have Captain Dallas, his second in command Executive Officer Kane, Warrant Officer Ripley, crew members Ash Science Officer, Navigator Lambert, and Engineers Parker and Brett. They have all been working together for some time in deep space forming relationships and co habituating habits. In Alien we how our main character our protagonist the person we as…

Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley and Anthony Minghella’s 1999 screen adaptation of the same name delve into the life of a man with a talent for impersonation, fraud and his desire to obtain a lush lifestyle beyond his means. Sexuality and eroticism play a key role in the film adaptation. The precursor novel does not portray Tom Ripley as an overt homosexual, it displays the character as a sexually ambiguous individual. However, in the film it is evident that Ripley would rather…

Tom Ripley is a young man in this film struggling to make a living like most of us. He was bribe to play a role of a Princeton guy who just broke his hand and couldn’t play. While playing the piano in this cocktail party he met Herbert Greenleaf a wealthy shipbuilder who mistake Ripley and believes that he attended Princeton with his son Dickie’s, because he is wearing a borrowed Princeton blazer for the cocktail party. Greenleaf recruits and pays Ripley $1000 dollars to go to Italy and bring…

What do you do when you love something so much you have to have it? When you envy someone so much you want to become it? These are the circumstances faced by Tom Ripley in writer-director Anthony Minghella's efficacious adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith’s thriller ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’, writes Freddy Wilkinson Tom Ripley’s character is masterfully created. I would even go as far to say that it is not possible not to root for him in some sense. Not to like him at least not, on some level,…

Highsmith depicts the behaviors of Tom in detail as well as reveals Tom’s inner thoughts explicitly, portraying the figure of Tom Ripley as a tactful while talented liar, who associates with the grey areas of the society and struggles to live a higher-level life, vain and calculating. For example, just after Tom accepts Mr. Greenleaf’s offer to go to Italy, he plans to cheat a last victim from his lists of prospects, Mr de Sevilla. “Shouldn’t he try just one more in these last ten days before he…

” Will believes that “the general shortening of sentences reflects, in part, a change in nature of Inaugural Addresses.” He refers to Teddy Roosevelt who called the presidency “a bully pulpit.” Later addresses have had an incentive to tell Americans how to behave with phrases such as “The only thing we have to fear…” and “Ask not…” A more popular phrase which was used by Kennedy and Nixon was “Let us…,” which according to Will means, “For Pete’s sake, pull up your socks and shape up.” The…