Joseph M. Juran

In the beginning of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the protagonist name Marlow is accompanied by his fellow sailors on a boat on the Thames River. On the boat, Marlow begins his tale of his journey into the Congo and its eerie wilderness. Silence is the state or condition when nothing is audible; absence of all sound or noise; complete quietness or stillness; noiselessness. It is sometimes personified. Throughout the novel, the word silence appears thirty-seven times in total. The jungle is…

The Crucible Research Paper By: Ashley Cocayne Topics: McCarthyism & Family Teacher: Mrs. Firzlaff Period: 2 McCarthyism is an anti-communist movement. It was enforced by looking at the citizens political parties and views to see who would likely be a communist or have communistic ties. It was similar to the Salem Witch Trials in that to not be named a witch you had to give names of others, in McCarthyism you were forced to give names. If you did not give them names you were either believed to…

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is set in the African Congo, where white Europeans have gone to reap the treasures of Africa and ‘civilize’ the natives there. However, instead of the “delightful mystery” (59) Charlie Marlow, the novel’s protagonist, expected, he finds himself in a land where the lack of a strong, united government has caused the men to revert back to a life that is “nasty, brutish, and short” (Hobbes)--one of the core ideas explored in the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. In Heart…

Joseph Stalin once said “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” This quote kind of symbolized what Stalin did when he would keep throwing his own people at the German snot carrying about how many millions of his people would die. Joseph Stalin help his country win World War II, but at a cost of millions of his people dead and his people’s rights were ignored. Joseph Stalin, originally named Joseph Djuskashvili, was born in 1879 in Georgia, Russia (Mathews, 37).…

As a composer, Franz Joseph Haydn created many symphonies and refreshing pieces for the world to hear. He began his career after his voice broke; he decided to make a living off of teaching and playing violin. Haydn also studied counterpart and harmony. He became an assistant composer for Nicola Porpora and was named the court musician in the Esterházy family, and became accustomed to being isolated from other composers. Since he was isolated from the musical trends of the world, his works were…

Have there been that one or two people that affected your life in one way or another, and do you remember that story in your life? Well “The Glass Menagerie” written by Tennessee Williams in 1944 is a tale with many stories that are ties by family. The setting is the key to each one. The characters are also each independently living in a tale of their own even thought they are related. The time period is also a key to the story in the play. This is one of the most telling illusions that is being…

The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a self-contained play about a horrible period in America. Miller wrote the play during the time of senator McCarthy. McCarthy who was an anti-communist conducted with special congressional committees highly controversial investigations intended to find and execute communist sympathizer in the united states if they didn’t cooperate with them. The Crucible opened on Thursday October 19 in the Aaron Davis Hall located in the City College of New York. The…

believe that the start of WW2 was caused mostly by Nationalism and Famine induced by the end of World War One (WW1) which was marked by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and these points set stage for the rise of power for both Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. While both leaders were criminals responsible for millions of deaths I think that Hitler and Stalin should be…

could see directly, he understood what sort of damnation was truly occurring. He composed an open letter to King Leopold blaming him for oppression and remorselessness, and nobody paid heed. Another record, which Hoschild alludes to much of the time, Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." He took a steamboat work in the Congo and amid his opportunity spend there he shouted that he was so frightened by the insatiability and mercilessness among white men he found in the Congo that his view on human…

We always expect the hero in a story to be the main character-it makes sense. Most books, TV shows and movies follow this formula, although there’s an important exception. This exception is a book written 5,000 years ago, The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by Stephen Mitchell. The two main characters in this story are half-god half-humans: Gilgamesh and Enkidu. In the book, the king of Uruk is Gilgamesh, and he rules and terrorizes the many people who are under his rule. The overbearing gods and…