Leo McKern

Entwined is a novel by Heather Dixon. The novel follows the main character, Azalea’s life as she struggles to keep herself together after recently losing her mother. Being the oldest of 12 girls, Azalea feels obligated and promises her mother on her deathbed that she will care for her 11 younger sisters. Azalea is also next in line to become queen after the death of her mother. Soon after the death of Azaleas mother she discovers that the palace she has been calling home is magic. Azalea…

Anton Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860, in Taganrog, Russia. Chekhov died of tuberculosis on July 15, 1904, in Badenweiler, Germany. Anton chekhov was born on the feast day of St. Anthony the Great (17 January Old Style) 29 January 1860, the third child of six surviving children, in Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia. ... He sang at the Greek Orthodox monastery in Taganrog, and in his father's choirs. He has five siblings, which is four brothers and one sister. Russian…

Thoreau, however is not so optimistic. He believes that what ever happens in Atlanta does not affect other people or in that matter another city that has nothing to do with it. He also believes that one person's vote or participation can make a difference. Thoreau holds that majority and nothing can change that. Both men were put in jail for very different reasons. Thoreau was thrown in jail for crime that he believed was unjust. He didn't pay his poll tax. No matter how…

When a government overwhelms its people, it is a citizen’s responsibility to be conscience of corruption and refusing unjust laws. In the articles “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau and “Letters from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr., a person must acknowledge if a poor government has created unfair laws and call their people to take a stand against it. King tries to define what a just law is and has a similar position with Thoreau. He believed that America was being unfair for…

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned for marching through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. In response, eight clergymen published a letter in the Post-Herald criticizing his presence and his strategies by naming him an extremist. From the cell where he was imprisoned, he responded by writing what has come to be known as “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. In this letter, Martin Luther King Jr. uses many rhetorical strategies to retaliate against the claims the clergymen make, and prove…

one court case that captured all issues of class, gender and race in the 1910s, the famous Leo Frank Case in Atlanta, Georgia, truly represents that. In the article “The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism,” author Nancy MacLean discussed the turbulent court case, which was from the beginning, designed to find a Jewish wealthy businessman named Leo Frank guilty, simply because of racial hatred by southern whites, the growth of industry in…

Leo Tolstoy and James Joyce both use the aspect of light and darkness as symbols in their stories to represent the characters and their feelings. In The Death of Ivan and Ilyich, one of the symbols Tolstoy uses is the black sack. This sack was a long narrow sack that was never ending and the character in the story, Ivan, experiences going through this black sack twice. The first time he experiences going through this sack was right after he was given a medicine, opium. Ivan falls into the black…

When I first started the semester, the only real exposure I had to any of the arts was the music I listened to, two art museums and Bharatanatyam, a classical dance from India. Many events and readings later, I find myself with more insight in the arts. I have much more appreciation for all of the various arts, specifically ballet, opera, and the orchestra. Prior to this semester, I always held a biased disinterest in these types of performances due to the fact that I didn 't feel the need to…

Makai Knights, a loveable Alchemist, and the Slow-Cooking Presentation Notwithstanding, Garo is not a good description of the Makai Knights in general, these noble warriors serve deities who are neither lovable nor efficient. I appreciated the conflicting nature of these Knights: Sworn to never use their power against normal humans, these Knights oddly enough use the same power of the horrors in their armor that they fight against. Not to say Garo convolutes morality in this world, only which…

There are many competing notions regarding what it means to be human. As humans, we strive to get the most of this life, thus to live “the good life”. The question arises, what type of life brings us the greatest meaning? Many philosophers and thinkers have tried to answer this, and have composed strikingly different conceptions. Some of the most notable thinkers are Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Hobbes. Both try to provide the most accurate representation of the human being. Through…