Joseph P. Kennedy

In contemporary times, the word “myth” signifies a misrepresentation of facts, rumors, or imaginary stories. According to William Bascom, “Myths are prose narratives which, in the society in which they are told, are considered to be truthful accounts of what happened in the remote past (9). In other words, a myth narrates important historical, religious, and social aspects of a period, but contains a famous cultural hero that mirrors that society. For example, the life and death of the Volscian…

During the WWI and WWII, many of the Americans feared the Red Scare and what would the attackers possibly have in mind to do to the United States. The American government instilled much of their fear in its own citizens towards the communist government. The Red Scare started shortly after the end of the World War 1 and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia by the Communists. This scare went world wide after the Communists had…

Debora Arko-Mensah Ault AP Lang 07 October 2015 McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Stories Book The story , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is focused mainly on a peculiar individual named Mr.Singer and how his interactions with people affected them. When the story starts, it illustrates two deaf-mutes presiding in a Southern town who are very good friends. Their names John Singer and Antonopoulos. All is well until Antonopoulos becomes sick and the…

"The Founding Brothers", written by Joseph J. Ellis, can be described as a nonfiction that summarizes the events in the revolutionary generation and its great leaders, by incorporating them into six individual stories. The six stories in “The Founding Brothers”, talked about six completely different topics, which were all centralized around Ellis thesis in “The Founding Brothers”. Ellis’ main purpose in writing “The Founding Brothers” was to illustrate, the connections between the political…

left in search of “fame” or “fortune”. The men were “Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire” (P/2). The idea of men carrying “swords” or “torches” from the “ might within the land” would mean that civilization is the core of their expeditions. The “spark from the sacred fire” is a reference to how strong and willful the desire of those who…

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness represents this overwhelming divide between what we namely think of as civilized people and those who are not encroached by rules and regulations. Surprisingly, the sailor retelling his journey in Africa, Charles Marlow, realizes that in fact, there is little that separates himself from the natives living within tribal territories in the jungle. Furthermore, Conrad ironically denotes this fear that we all have of being free from society’s chains placed upon us.…

In William Paden’s chapter entitled “Myth”, from Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion, Paden explores the role of myth in relation to religion, and how the two create a reality that humans exist and partake in. Paden’s definition of myth indicates that myth is used as a way to explain what is difficult to understand and makes sense of the world by forming narratives. These narratives become integral parts of a culture and create a reality that gives truth to the myths told. The…

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson. Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson is a fiction novel about a kid named David. An epic, something like a superhero, killed David’s father and David will go to the end of the world to gain revenge on his father’s death. Sanderson mainly focuses around dystopian and fictional novels. such as well known authors such as James Dashner and Suzanne Collins. This book takes play in a city called newcago which is most likely present day Chicago. The world has no light thanks…

Harland Sanders Harland Sanders was by far the most unique entrepreneur we have seen so far, but I would argue he is nowhere near the top of the Pantheon. There was nothing extraordinary about Sanders that I did not see in any other entrepreneurs we have looked at, and there were many characteristics the other entrepreneurs possessed that Sanders did not. He was an entrepreneur, he was not a great entrepreneur. Growing up, he encountered adversity quite often, so he knew how to deal with…

Bruce Nauman: Malice Bruce Nauman’s Malice presents a lithograph that is very dark and underdeveloped. The print shows the word “Malice” at the top and is produced again in a mirror image on the bottom of the piece. While it’s easy to assume the meaning of the piece with the knowledge of the definition of the word malice, I believe this work is trying to acquire a deeper sense of interpretation. Nauman implies this with his dark line and almost hatch like application of ink and tusche. The work…