Islands of the Forth

fear. Indeed, William Golding and Suzanne Collins both address the latter in their works. Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding is an intrigue regarding a group of boys left stranded on an island due to a plane crash. Shortly after their arrival, the boys try to maintain their…

Upon the edge of revolution, a country tottered, waiting for the final push. England had pressed upon a tired and loose colonial aggregate, and though these pressures were sometimes justified, they brought together a quite recently bickering populace with contempt for taxation and other misgivings. From the northmost colony of Maine to the buffer colony Georgia, all knew that contentions were stewing. However, though insurrection was on the mind of each colonist, this concept lie slanted in many…

On the island of Aeaea, Odysseus “urged and the men called out and hailed her. She opened her gleaming doors at once and stepped forth, inviting them all in, and in they went, all innocence” (10.252-254). This quote presents Odysseus and his crew giving in to the temptation of Circe. Entering Circe’s halls is a huge mistake…

What is the meaning of Freedom? Can one ever be completely free? The true definition of freedom becomes a question early in the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, when Pi argues and refutes the claims relating to the cruelty and restrictiveness of a zoo enclosure. Pi claims that an animal is no more confined in its mobility by a physical cage, than, by its survival instincts in which profoundly restrict an animal’s freedom. According to Dictionary.com, freedom is “the state of being free or at…

country destroy the land and lifestyle of another in the name of peace? Bikini Atoll is located 850 kilometers northwest of Majuro on the northern fringe of the Marshall Islands and it has more than 23 islands and islets. The four islands are Bikini, Eneu, Nam and Enidrik. Out of the four islands, Bikini and Eneu were the only islands that have had a permanent population. On August 1945, United States dropped two nuclear weapons in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 120,000 people immediately…

ridiculed, judged and misinterpreted but it does not defy one’s faculties of being astute. I am not Bilingual neither do I have parents who are. But, I can relate to Amy Tan when she said that she grew up using different “Englishes”. I come from an Island where it was first inherited by the Spaniards then the French and later the English conquered. My forefathers made or created a dialect called Patois which is a mixture of the three languages and that is how they all communicated and this…

him to make his own tribe “Far off along the beach, Jack was standing before a small group of boys. “We’ll hunt. I’m going to be chief.” () Once Jack becomes Chief everything goes downhill. We can see after Jack becomes Chief that everyone one the island becomes more violent. For example:“The savage addressed said nothing. Perhaps he made a gesture. Roger spoke. “If you’re fooling us—” Immediately after this, there came a gasp, and a squeal of pain. Ralph crouched instinctively. One of the twins…

“Real good,” screams Staff Sergeant Baker, “Real stinkin’ good, Guaman. Just take the easy way out and fucking die.” Recruit Guaman’s arms shake in the front leaning rest position over a puddle of his sweat on the quarterdeck. There’s nothing restful about that position. “Mountain climbers,” screams the drill instructor as his fists rest on his green duty belt, “in cadence, exercise: one-two-three.” Guaman limply lifts his left foot from the floor. The muscles in Staff Sergeant Baker’s…

was used in the western front. This defensive stagries was obviously an unthought planned because the point of fighting in war is to continue on to retrieve the land, in this case since they were in a hole there wasn’t movement, just shoot back and forth which overall was useless. Some other stagiaires used was the unusual weapon of poison gases, this thrown into trenches releasing mustard gas, which gave the people dead and basically rotten their body. It would take time for this to happen but…

many wars, set forth many regulations, influenced colonization, and developed commerce which all contributed to the British control of North America. England often used brutal force and intimidation tactics to defend their positions in North America. King Phillips war was a great example of this when the colonists in Rhode Island refused to share public grazing lands for pigs with the Algonquian Indians (AH, 95). Colonists for Metacom (or Phillip) to remove his pigs from “Hog Island” while…