Leo Tolstoy

The Compromise of 1950 was made to avert a possible Civil War. The Compromise stated when a state was admitted, it was either a slave or free state and another would be free if the first one was a slave state, and vice versa. National Women’s Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court. After being brought to free territory by his owner, Scott sued for his freedom. The court ruled that he has never free, denied that he was a citizen, and denied him…

Heavy fighting has come up in Dublin between radical Republicans opposing the idea of the Free State (like the sniper) and those people who accept the dominion status of Ireland after the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922 (the Free-Staters). Killing some “enemies” – among them even his own brother – the sniper experiences the cruelty and senselessness of that war and shows feelings of Irish togetherness when he is forced to look into his dead brother´s face. 2. What different sections does the story…

Love, A Subject Revisited. "All, everything that I understand, I understand because love is." (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace) What is love? Webster's Dictionary defines love as: "a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person." Although the definition widely capsulated the feelings of the billions of people on this planet, the word 'love' is defined in a countless multitude of ways. The definition seems to change throughout the course of history developing as mankind does. Our definitions…

their 70s. Despite how you may feel about death, we can all concur that this will happen to all of us, and how we approach death, will vary from person to person. In the book “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Alborn and “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy paints the journey of two men and their inevitable date with the grim reaper. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss the similarities and the differences between the trials and conflicts, these men endured on their journey. In the…

Covenant “The Bible is a harp with a thousand strings. Play on one to the exclusion of its relationship to the others, and you will develop discord. Play on all of them, keeping them in their places in the divine scale, and you will hear heavenly music all the time” (White) While this song may seem too complicated for a student to master at times, dedicated practice and learning to decipher each note results in a peaceful, harmonious outcome. Learning to read the music that is the Bible requires…

Regret or Meaning In the novel Into The Wild by John Krakauer, published in 1996 the protagonist Chris McCandless (Alexander Supertramp) discovers his own meaning of life, or his sense of truth of the world. Told in the narrative of Krakauer, he addresses the theme by describing the setting of Chris’s life, establishing his main conflict of not having the right supplies, money, food, knowledge for his trip, and incorporating the literary devices, such as irony, to establish Chris’s unique…

No less an authority on literature than Leo Tolstoy wrote that there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. The same is true for English teachers: There are as many reasons to teach literature as there are teachers of literature. The most philosophical teachers could assert that fiction serves as a self-actualizing force, that people read “to set the darkness echoing” (Heaney 1463). Still more could posit that an English class serves as an introduction to the canon, ensuring that…

I am so sorry about what has happened to your son. I can only imagine the pain you must be going through. I offer my deepest sympathy to you and your family. I have put together all of the information I have found on Chris through recovered journals, mail he sent, and people I have talked to. I hope the information provided will offer you some closure. In this letter I have included a summary of where he has gone and what he has done, my opinion on why he has done all of this, why he was drawn…

Into the Wild describes the story of Christopher McCandless. He hitchhiked in 1992 to Alaska where he was found dead four months later in a deserted bus in the Alaskan wilderness. Author Jon Krakauer uses accounts from people who interacted with Chris and personal research to account the story of Alex Supertramp, another name proclaimed by Chris. The book starts with the description of Chris’s last day in society before starting his journey in the Alaskan wild. It shifts to the events that led…

According to the remembrance of his family and university friends, Christopher J. McCandless was a outwardly well-adjusted 21 year old at the time of his disappearance. Chris was a caring, nice and unique individual, but he also had a side that many people did not know about. "McCandless’s personality was puzzling in its complexity. He was intensely private but could be convivial and gregarious in the extreme. And despite his overdeveloped social conscience, he was no tight-lipped, perpetually…