J. Willard Marriott

Cinderella Man is a movie that tells the story of James Braddock, a boxer living in the time of the great depression. Throughout the movie James Braddock goes through many trials and tribulations because of his financial situation which is greatly affected by the great depression. The film “Cinderella Man” is an accurate representation of the great depression because they properly represent the economic instability, Hoovervilles, and relief offices that existed in that time period. The great…

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first novel in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, tells a story about the importance of combating evil despite the consequences. For this reason, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone serves as a book of great importance and has greatly affected me. During their pursuit of protecting the sorcerer's stone from professor Quirrell, and the evil wizard Voldemort, Harry and his friends face physical and mental challenges, as well as risk the chance of…

The Life of Douglas Macarthur Douglas Macarthur was a man of honor, stature, pride, and a love for his country, and I’m here to tell you about it. He lived a long life of military service and with forever be remembered as “The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces.” I will be explaining the years of his life; young to old. Though he is an amazing commander many lives were lost in world war 2 long forgotten by youth but haunts families. The early years of Doug was always about…

The great American novel The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger, accurately portrays American society through the eyes of its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Upon being published, this novel was one of the most controversial of the time, causing adults to rise up in outrage over the ideas the novel represents. What these people were not willing to accept was that this novel in fact represented American society and its ideas. Some may say that the view of America that Holden gives in the novel is…

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger centers around a boy named Holden. Throughout the book Holden is depressed and is having a hard time fitting in. He lost his brother at a young age. He has been expelled kicked out of four schools and is scared to face his parents. He then goes to New York to try to escape the loneliness. In Holden’s case, all of these events bring him down and lead him to self harm and depression, but as J.D Salinger shows us this can all be overcome by letting someone…

The Catcher in the Rye is a book that has been famous for years, for its main character Holden Caulfield. The book is about a series of events that took place in his life told by himself in the past tense. By writing this book through Holden’s point of view, the reader gets a much deeper sense of who Holden Caulfield is as a person. Right from the start, it is made obvious that Holden is struggling in his school life, his social life, his romantic life, and with his family. Holden resents…

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger features a boy named Holden who gets kicked out a school. In the Catcher in the Rye Salinger uses many different objects to symbolize Holdens anguish and happiness. Most of the objects being symbolized, have a deep meaning to Holden. A meaning that goes back to his childhood. One of the things that Salinger uses as a symbol in this book is a red hunting hat that Holden carries around with him all the time. Holden has had this hat since his childhood, and…

The world hasn’t changed or gotten worse you just finally took the time to realize what the world has to offer but is it worth knowing the evils and truths or can you stay blinded by child like innocence? If it is worth being blind than who will take the burden of blinding you? In Catcher In the Rye written by J.D Salinger we get to see Holden a depressed teen struggle to identify himself in the world that he hates but still wants to help by protecting the innocent ones. Through the course of…

In the book, “Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone”, Rowling uses topics that relate to other pieces of literary work, specifically it connects to the poem, ”Escape to Freedom” in both of them the topic of freedom and restrictions are covered. In the book Rowling refers to how Harry is trapped in his Aunt and Uncle's house and he is not allowed to do normal things because he is different. The author states, “The room held no sign that the other boy lived in the house[...] had a dream about a…

The character of Inspector Goole is the main character of ‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B.Priestley, which is set in 1912. The play was written in 1945 and set in 1912 as Priestley believed that 1912 was a very different time to 1945, this is because 1912 was a time that people thought it would never change, such as the inequalities between men and women. Priestley uses the name Goole to represent many key features that are linked to the play such as the name referring to ghoul, suggesting that the…