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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…

At the time Conrad wrote this novel the “Scramble for Africa” was taking place. Many Europeans nations were in competition with each other to see who could have the most wealth and power: this was accomplished through the colonization of Africa. Conrad had worked as a sailor and spent some time commanding a steamship along the Belgian Congo. The colony that had received the most brutal treatment was the one along the Belgian Congo. The natives received one of the worst treatments from the…

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…

Joseph Campbell was a scholar who studied ancient mythology for many years. He came up with the idea of the Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey says that all the heroes will come across many processes throughout their journey. Each of the processes gets the hero closer to his/her prize. Perhaps I am not a hero, but I have experienced many things on leaving my home state and coming to a foreign one. My life as a kid is just like Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey because I have had to leave my…

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 became a revolt between the Hungarian People’s Republic and the Soviet Union. The hotspot began October 23, and lasted until November 10th, 1956. It started when student began demonstrated against the Soviet Iron Fist rule. This cause attraction from thousands of citizens as they were marching through central Budapest to the Parliament building; they were trying to broadcast the whole situation and give the Soviet their…