Ian Read

Wikipedia is one of the most useful tools on the Internet that every child growing up is told not to use for his studies. However, writing on Wikipedia is much more than meets the eye. Over the last few weeks, I have realized that Wikipedia is a very intricate site and after learning more about how to use Wikipedia and actually performing edits, I believe Wikipedia deserves more credit than it is given by academics. I believe that this unit was beneficial to my relationship with Wikipedia and…

Spy fiction is a common genre when it comes to books and movies. Stormbreaker is one of those many spy fiction novels that most of us have read at least once. The novel was written by Anthony Horowitz and has been the winner of many awards. Stormbreaker has also been produced into a film, directed by Geoffrey Sax. The following pages will be discussing the question, ‘Why is Stormbreaker a good example of spy fiction?’ and it’s main character Alex Ryder, the villain Herod Sayle and the novel's…

released as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in 1971. For instance, Roald wrote a screenplay called You Only Live Twice. You Only Live Twice was about a private agent tries to stop space jackings. This story was adapted from Roald war friend Ian…

wanted to talk to your friends it had to be at a public place. However, with technology advancing so much there is little to no communication between people. Everything is now done online, there is no more social skills, only technology skills. In Ian Bremmer’s “Democracy in Technology”, he wrote about how technology has helped us bring the world together as one. However, in Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together” she explains how technology has lowered our interaction skills and has minimized the…

some drinks. Chapter 5 As the Nazi forces flooded outwards, in different directions, to facilitate the maniacal territory acquisition plans of Hitler's Germany, all that the majority of the people in the invaded Countries could do was to read the headlines in their…

of the necessity to regulate the powerful,but despite his best efforts he was unable to convince the archbishop of the errors of way of thinking. nonetheless others who have read these letters realized the importance in his words. realizing the dangers of allowing an individual to gain absolute…

Plagiarism is a serious offense in universities, it is often committed by many students in order to pass a class they have been struggling with. Some courses in universities are challenging, and some students are blinded by their desperation to pass the course and resort to negative alternatives such as plagiarism. This disciplinary action can be prevented in many ways by students and professors. The main reason students commit plagiarism is due to the education system, it focuses on…

loss, he will continue to fight the system and make differences just like he did with Walter McMillian. Bryan sets a theme of life and good, no matter how much racist police officers or judges there are. What’s most important is how he talks when you read the book. You don’t hear anger or rage, but instead you would hear disappointment, and then hope. He was himself a target of racial profiling and still was able to have faith to continue to fight for his clients. Another big example he uses to…

Atonement is a novel written by Ian McEwan and first published in 2001. Atonement might be considered an historical novel since most part of the book is set in England and in France before, during and after World War II, but it is most often considered a metafiction novel. Many events of Atonement are related to events that really happened during World War II: fought between 1939 and 1945, the Second World War has been certainly the most terrible war to be fought in history and the number of…

children and commit horrible crimes. Another case of a woman pedophile working alongside a man is the case of Myra Hindley (Female Pedophiles: Why women sexually abuse children, 2015). Hindley murdered and sexually assaulted five children with the help of Ian Brady (Female Pedophiles: Why women sexually abuse children, 2015). We all like to think that pedophiles are strangers who abduct children off the street. Unfortunately pedophiles are also people we trust with our children such as…