HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I

great country of freedom. The residue of the separation that once took place in America still lies thick across the country, coating neighborhoods like dust on a coffee table. In the book The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas, the narrator of the story, Starr, faces living with the consequences from the mistakes of the past. Starr is an African American teenage girl who lives in a predominantly black community, yet attends a school that draws…

STUDY PLAN I. The range of my interests Throughout my whole education, I have developed numerous academic interests of which several are still relevant; some of them have also inspired me to take the path I am considering today. In not distant past, I was supposed to study medicine to become a physician; however, I finally decided to change the subjects and specialise in the field of Humanities. But my curiosity for the Natural Sciences has not faded away which is the reason why I have…

political scene for nearly 35 years. Warren, serving from 1953-1969, presided over landmark cases of segregation (Brown v. Board of Education) and criminal rights (Miranda v. Arizona); Rehnquist, who is the fourth-longest serving chief justice in court history (1986-2005), steered the Court to a more conservative approach and presided over the nation’s second presidential impeachment trial. The two men alike made their mark on the lives of Americans and the stories of their reign over the court…

Although the story revolved around an extreme dystopian, the point was still clear and the readers could take away the themes and see the parallels the book makes between today's society, past and present and the World State. I believe that Huxley was uniquely successful in his different approach to dystopia and the issues he wanted to address. Contrary to most dystopian society novels that use military overthrow and extremely police state…

egardless of family history, race, or religion simply by working hard enough. Frequently, “success” is equated with the fortune that the independent, self-reliant individual can win. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald examines and critiques Jay Gatsby’s particular vision of the 1920s American Dream. Though Fitzgerald himself is associated with the excesses of the “Roaring Twenties,” he is also an astute social critic whose novel does more to detail society’s failure to fulfill its potential than it…

Guérillères” in itself is already a conundrum that spares no time in illuminating one of the major essence of the novel, providing the reader with a glimpse into the fantasized Amazonian world in which “the women” are at war to make room for their future Utopia with the use of language, as seen in the title. Monique Wittig demonstrates a fantasy world of Amazonian women who fight for their freedom from the shackles of the binary genderism and its sexual counterparts. The subtext reverberates in…

issues that audiences can make a connection with and apply the issues to their personal experiences. This method of writing has been effective for years because it is easy for people to engage with the pieces of literature. Through the course of history literature has continuously challenged the socially and psychologically constructed stereotypes in society. Some authors have searched for ways to make their pieces something special, something that is more difficult to read, and something that…

verb that is conjugated into simple present: Angela ________ carrots for her salad. (cuts) Which sentence is written in the imperative? (Listen to your parents.) Select the verb that is conjugated into present continuous: Rather than shoes, I _________ sandals. (am wearing) Identify the verb tense or mood of the bolded word(s): Don't stop believing! (imperative) To discuss activities that are currently in progress, which verb tense would you use? (present continuous) Identify the error…

In the works The Great Gatsby and Chicago, the characters Gatsby and Amos wanted to recapture elements of the past, while the women were more concerned with how people thought about them and they weren’t ready to settle down with the man they planned on being…

How best should pastors present the Gospel to their congregations? This question plagues every pastor. Effective communication of the Gospel should be the primary goal of any local pastor. One cannot effectively communicate the Gospel without taking the dynamics of their hearers into consideration as part of the preparation of delivering a sermon. Tisdale advocates for careful congregational exegesis as part of any good sermon in her book Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art. Tisdale suggest…