Great Plains

One example of this is when the doctor wouldn't help kino because he had very little money and he didn't like kinos race, but once kino had the pearl the doctor wanted to help. The narrator and doctor explain,“ And when it was made plain who Kino was, the doctor grew stern and judicious at the same time. ‘He is a client of mine,’ the doctor said. ‘ I am treating his child for a scorpion sting.’ And the doctor's eyes rolled up a little in their fat hammocks and he thought of Paris”…

The main character in The Catcher in The Rye, Holden Caulfield, has multiple flaws that make him a bigger phony than Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby. Holden lies constantly in the novel, he is a hypocrite, he lies about his age and identity, and he lies about having certain feelings for people. Gatsby, still a phony, does not exceed Holden’s phoniness. Gatsby has a type of reasoning for why he does what he does. Love is in the picture when Gatsby makes decisions. Holden on the other hand does…

Hamlet and The Great Gatsby, both tales of infinite woe; tell the timeless stories of two tragic heroes with their tragic flaws and their tragic falls, respectfully and unforgettably. The tragic heroes in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby; bring about their own demise from their actions, which are greatly influenced by love, and with assistance from their own differing tragic flaws as both result in consequences. The love that Hamlet holds for his dear…

Chandragupta I was the first great ruler of this dynasty who ruled from 320 AD to 335 AD. He expanded the empire by conquering kingdoms of Prayag, Magadha and Nepal. He made use of matrimonial alliances to expand the empire along the Gangetic plain. Samudragupta, the son of Chandragupta I, ascended the throne of the Gupta Empire in 335 AD and ruled till 380 AD. Samudragupta was known for his military prowess and is known as the Napoleon of India. He carried out a series of military conquests…

cunning, that's all'(WSS,11), only marks out what is not there and makes plain the impossibility of any appeal to the past against an equally feared future. It is a past only existing in the parenthesis; 'My father, visitors, horses, feeling safe in bed-all belonged to the past'(WSS,5). The novel's figure for its own narrative is Antionette's dream, with its twice delayed near the conclusion and its dreaded but inevitable forward propulsion. The dream in a sense suggests a subsuming of the…

Novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel the Great Gatsby, addresses the demanding lifestyle of Americans in the twenties and the impact it had on art, literature, and culture. Fitzgerald’s purpose was to expose the truth behind this lifestyle and the damage it had on the people living in it. He adopts a glamorous yet eerie tone to convince young adult and adult readers that while their fantasy of fame, money, and glory may seem exhilarating on the outside, it lacks the happiness that the…

Philip the II of Macedon came to the throne after a colossal defeat within a year of him coming to the throne by his brother Perdiccas III, within a year of coming to the throne Philip began to evolve a new Macedonian way of war. One of Philip’s great contributions was to create the army with which Alexander conquered the Persian Empire. He was the first Macedonian King to rearm the Macedonian infantry with a sarissa a long spear 18 feet long, nearly twice as long as the usual spear carried by…

propose to her. She “accepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment" (Austen 119). She gave up trying and decided to marry a man who can keep her secure throughout her life. Her love life was important to her, but she was plain-looking and not as beautiful as the…

on the frontline. With permission, he led a triumphant charge against the British in the Battle of Yorktown. Cornwallis's surrender during this battle would eventually lead to two major negotiations in 1783: the Treaty of Paris between the U.S. and Great Britain, and the two treaties that were signed at Versailles amongst France and Britain and Spain. In 1787 delegates met in Philadelphia to repair the weak Articles of Confederation, which were failing to hold the union together. Hamilton…

daughter Anna Marie also known as And-Ongen, have traveled across the Great Plains and undertook the journey in a caravan with several other Norwegian immigrant families. One of Per Hansa’s wagons broke down, and he insisted that the other families continue ahead of him while he gets his wagon repaired. He thought that he would be able to catch up to the other is a couple days. Per Hansa seems like a natural pioneer. He shows great courage and a man of action during the troubled times. Now…