Joe "King" Oliver

"Throughout our life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise."- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born February 7, 1812, in Ports Mouth, on the southern coast of England. Charles was the second of eight children. During his early years his family moved to Chatham, at this time was the happiest time for Dickens and he refers to this time alot in his novels. Charles and his siblings were free to roam…

February 7,1812 in Portsmouth England. He was the second born out of eight children. John Dickens, his father was a naval clerk and his mother, Elizabeth Barrow, aspired to be a teacher and school director. During his lifetime he wrote six novels; Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. Charles moved a lot in his childhood because of his family’s poor status. In 1816 they moved to Chatham, Kent, close to the…

in the life of an ordinary country gentlemen, Oliver Cromwell. The English Civil War started in 1642 and ended in 1651. During those nine years, Oliver Cromwell rose in rank to the position of Protectorate because of his relationship with his capable troops and military skill in battle. While historians debate his role, Oliver Cromwell was an effective leader in trying to create a better England. Before the English Civil War of 1642 began, the king of Great Britain and Ireland was Charles I.…

A Christmas Carol is a short novel by Charles Dickens, published for the first time in 1843 that takes place in the Victorian London. The main characters are Scrooge, Jacob Marley, The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and The Ghost of Christmas Future. But other characters can also be found such as Fred, Scrooge’s nephew; Fezziwig, who was Scrooge’s mentor; Belle, a woman who Scrooge loved; Bob Cratchit; Scrooge’s clerk, and others. The story begins by stating Marley’s…

Most people would think that “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is about Christmas when it was originally written to prevent child labor. The novella tells the story of a wealthy and greedy man named Ebenezer Scrooge. He is not the nicest gentleman and he is mean to his poor servant whose name is Bob Cratchit. This book teaches us that money does not always make us happy. This message can still apply to us today. around the time that ACC was written, children did a lot of work in the mines…

ultimately, it will get you nowhere in life if you keep chasing after dreams. Oliver Tambo, one of the ANC’s greatest beneficiaries, unfortunately passed away before he could manage to cast his vote for one of the best race equality movement that could happen in South Africa, the general government election, which enabled all citizens to vote regardless of their nationality (Mandela 609, 616, 617). It could be stated that Oliver wasted his entire life in order to help support the ANC, but the…

in infamy in any realm of English Society. Charles Dickens embodied every aspect of the industrial revolution through his work, “Oliver Twist”, as he used his life experience and primary observations of life in the cities. His work depicts the social aspect of every class distinction while bringing great attention to the lives of children. In Roman Polanski’s film, Oliver Twist (2005), Polanski takes Charles Dickens’ original work and captures the key aspects of Dickens’ theme throughout the…

From the readings in the text book “Western Civilization Volume II: Since 1500” I found out that Oliver Cromwell was a strong leader with also strong religious beliefs. He was also mentioned to have been a Puritan who formed the New model Army and defeated the forces supporting King Charles the first, thus ending the first phase of the Civil war with his capture. Even after all of Cromwell’s victories and the new model army, which was made mostly of serious Patrons known as the Independents, who…

More important than a person’s identity, is what a person identifies as. The difference between these two is that identities are constantly being assigned and replaced throughout our life by society and biology, while identifying is a process independent to each individual. Individuals have little control over the process of being labeled and defined by others in ways that sometimes do not reflect their inner self. However, through identification, individuals are able to decide which and to what…

Charles Dicken, fully known as Charles John Huffam Dickens is an English writer who has written well known books such as Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol and many more. Even though he had little formal education, he still came to fame by his mid-twenties. After the loss of his brother and the family’s move to london, Dickens had to starts working at a shoe factory. He worked to earn money which was later used to pay for his room and board while his siblings stayed in a prison…