James the Just

with a violent flash of lightning. Brother’s clothes are soaked with pride and spitting rain. It is betrayal that is born from the web of arrogance and the doors of love. A young boy, driven by his own perilous pride, abandons his disabled sibling in James Hurst’s short story “The Scarlet Ibis.” Brother puts a lot of effort into improving his younger sibling, Doodle’s, athletic ability. Unfortunately, however, Brother helps Doodle for his own benefits, and his vain decisions result in the death…

In James Joyce’s Dubliners, readers can get a brief look into the world of Ireland at the turn of the century. In his stories, Joyce brings to light some of the struggles and disappointments that many of the Irish faced in their daily lives. Joyce’s stories are marked by epiphanies, specifically ones where the character realizes the absence of the divine opposed to the recognition of it. Examples of this can be found in “Araby” and “Eveline” in the way that both main characters undergo the…

I chose the book Heart Over Height for this quarter’s book report. This book was written by Nate Robinson with the help of Jon Finkel. Nate Robinson was a player in the National Basketball Association. He played and currently plays the position of point guard. Nate Robinson is short in stature according to basketball standards. He is five feet nine inches tall. He was the National Basketball Association’s first three-time slam dunk champion. I chose to read this book, because it is an…

Austin. William introduced himself as an attorney of Alabama that was single. Finishing a petition to stay the alcalde, Frank Johnson gave him permission to stay and show him to a little village named Anahuac where he was greeted by norteamericanos. Just some days in he began to work in Anahuac where we needed to learn about the Spanish language and Mexican law. By the same year Travis already had meet and had acquaintances plus he was favor and respected by the townspeople. Yet a problem…

essay in first person. The audience has the opportunity to relate towards what life is when not having a place to sleep at night, being tired from work and dirty because there is no home to go to and shower. Likewise, in the story "Sonny 's Blues" by James Baldwin, a black teacher living in the "ghetto" city of Harlem, explains in first person the struggles of his brother Sonny…

Throughout 1600 CE to 1850 CE there were many important aspects that interconnected the world in both positive and negative ways. In chapter 13 two of them stood out to me the most. The first one that stood out to me would be Global Commerce. The reason for this being one of the instances that interconnected the world is because this alone helped countries interact with each other to gain resources from trade that they did not have an abundance of. Global commerce allowed for…

administration, and therefore Hamilton’s economic program of business, elitist society, and close relations with Britain. Its counterpart, the Republicans, were more interested in a democratic self-governance, focused more on the farmers, all people rather than just the wealthy, and favored France instead of Britain. Another event in the importance of Washington’s attesting of political views was the Whiskey Rebellion, when…

The way George Washington wrote his Farewell Address helped guide the future presidents, however the next three after him followed after his ideas in a different way. Washington had the best foreign policy, while John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison strayed away from Washington’s pristine ideas to varying degrees of success. Washington’s Farewell Address talked about how citizens need to stay loyal to the country, and not the president or parties; how political parties split a country…

meaning of the First Amendment and of freedom of speech and press. Thomas Jefferson called the Alien and Sedition Acts “an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear all avowed violation of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson and James Madison helped draft the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions which both protested the acts through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. "That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend…

Congress. The Court ruled for Gibbons, holding that New York 's exclusive grant to Ogden violated the Federal Licensing Act of 1793. They also brought in the Commerce Clause in the Constitution. According to the Court, the word "commerce" included not just articles in interstate trade but also the "intercourse" among the states, including navigation. Chief Justice John Marshall concluded that regulation of navigation by steamboat operators and others for purposes of conducting interstate…