Ian Read

However, literature allows us the opportunity to inspect and understand the way a single story can affect the actions and experiences of a set of characters, through understanding what they feel and how they react. Through the texts Atonement, by Ian McEwan, Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harry Potter…

Africa and is about to enter North Shore, a public high school, after being homeschooled for her entire educational career. Initially Cady is unfamiliar with the norms of the high school, but she soon learns how to navigate the social scene from Janis Ian and Damien, a duo of low social status. Soon after meeting Janis and Damien, Cady is noticed by and eventually recruited into the most well-known clique, the Plastics. The clique is made up of Regina George, Gretchen Weiners, and Karen Smith,…

In my work I’ve tried to read the interesting me information as much as possible from different sources and compare them, make a common summary and explain in my own words. If the information was from the results of the laboratory or experimental works, or statistical analyses…

John Press points out that it was, perhaps, the common soldiers who first apprehended the horror and suffering of the war in its full intensity, and the officers saw the conflict in a more heroic light than the other ranks (1969, 135). Life in the trenches was miserable for Rosenberg, not only because he was a private, but he was a Jew and an intellectual who did not have anyone to talk to about art or literature. What also makes him different from the other poets is the fact that he was a…

[his] heart’ (p. 39) at the sight of the animated Creature. Constructed from death itself, the Creature adheres to the Kristevan idea that ‘[t]he corpse … is the utmost of abjection. It is death infecting life’. Frankenstein’s response, then, can be read as an expulsion of the abject, the literal ‘throwing off’, the abandonment, of a creation whose cadaverousness he is ‘unable to endure’ (p. 39). The implication is that natural laws of life and death cannot be transcended; indeed, the…

villainy” (Knight and Lund). Shakespeare’s use of Holinshed’s potentially untruthful account of King Richard popularized an image of a mean, evil, heartless villain. This, in turn, influenced modern day film adaptations done by Laurence Olivier and Ian Mckellen. Society remembered Richard exactly as how he was characterized by the numerous stories told by authors and directors alike. However, the discovery of Richard III’s body changed the initial perceptions of the public. Richard’s bones…

absolutely perfect due to the fact that humans make up the system and with humanity comes racism and hate. We can strive to make it as good as humanly possible. People present in this book such as Walter McMillian, Ralph Myers, George Daniel, Evan Miller, Ian Manuel, Joe Sullivan and Bryan Stevenson have all had a large part in bringing up the problems of the U.S. criminal justice system. I believe that with time the system will only make strides forward and excel. The world around us is…

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’s movie was an adaptation of the book by J. R. R. Tolkien, who believed that, at the time of his death in 1973, the Lord of the Rings book could not be turned into a film. The movie was released on December 19th, 2001 in the fantasy and adventure genre according to IMDB. Most everyone has seen this movie and we all seem to love it. This movie gives us a sense of adventure by just sitting there and watching it while Frodo (Elijah Wood), and his…

accolades and has saved many lives one famous line from Kyle is “I don’t have to psyche myself up, or do something special mentally – I look through the scope, get my target in the cross-hairs, and kill my enemy before he kills one of my people” (Aldrich, Ian.…

Is Karl Marx theory of class conflict relevant for understanding contemporary Chinese society? Since China started the economic reform in 1978, Chinese economic influences and power are stronger than before. But in the meanwhile PRC/CPC governors also felt the great anxiety about rapid change of society structures. The major reason was after the reform, China is not simply made by labor and farmer classes, but more and more people getting wealthy and joined bourgeoisie class. That challenges the…