Leon Rom

Sticking two black button eyes on our snowman, I turned and gave Charlie a high-five. "Finished!" I said. "And there's not a finer snowman in the whole neighborhood." But Charlie wasn't looking at me. He was staring at the snowman, his face almost as white. "D-d-d-did you s-s-s-see THAT?" he stammered... I looked but couldn't recall what he had seen. Then, I saw it. The snowman blinked! I wiped my eyes, took a deep breath, and forced myself to look again. Nothing happened. "I didn't see…

One way we are shown in this extract that the pigs are in control would be through the revelation that the pigs have been educating themselves in private, without the other animals knowing about it. The pigs “now revealed that during the past three months they had taught themselves to read and write” and the other animals were not part of this education, which suggests the pigs had control over how much they wanted the other animals to know and, if the pigs didn’t want the other animals to learn…

Dziak, John J., Chekisty: A History of the KGB. Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1988. Chekisty: A History of the KGB, by John Dziak, provides a descriptive background on why exactly state security was needed and formed under the Soviet Union. Dziak explains that there was a lot of suspicion and conspiracy initiated under the Bolshevik regime, causing the formation of the Cheka. He further explains how the secret police force was affected by changes such as the introduction of NEP, and the…

Non-Conformist vs Conformist Conforming and Non-conforming can be good or bad it is all on the way you use it.This essay is going to be about a non conformist Rosa Parks and a conformist a character named Boxer from a book called Animal Farm. Rosa Parks is a civil rights activist. They call her the “First Lady of civil rights. She is known for sitting in the front of the bus. She has some consequences from her actions. Now the other person I am going to talk about is Boxer from animal farm.…

How will a farm prosper with a fat, dressed up, over beaming pig whom always gets his way? Will his power always corrupt? Does absolute power always corrupt? Well Animal Farm by George Orwell, proves that in fact absolute power does always corrupt as a leader, as seen through the character Napoleon who is based on Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union. First from chapters 1-5 the author George Orwell has showed how the farm has gone from Jones’s hands to the animals hands. After Old Major…

Furthermore, Circe’s role as a generic representation of women in mythology supports the fact that women were created to be an evil burden rather than a benefit, except when they are using their bodies like Circe does after Odysseus negotiates with her. Circe may have expressed xenia initially (the welcoming of guests), but is discovered to be an evil entity as she “laced [a] potion with insidious drugs” when the crew is invited to feast (253). Since the creation of Pandora in Theogony: Work…

Social Comparison. The inclusion of social comparison within the TIM stems from social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954). According to Festinger (1954), individuals have an inherent drive to evaluate their opinions and abilities. When objective standards are unavailable, individuals seek out others to make comparisons. The outcome of such comparisons is partially influenced by directionality, that is upward or downward. Upward comparisons are proposed to occur when an individual compares him-…

North Korean 1 — WINTER that evening, was finishing tending pigs with sons when dogs began barking madly + growling intensely—someone unfamiliar + dressed in military uniform came up from winding staircase Wang Hao automatically knew he was North Korean mostly b/c of North Korean military uniform, but also b/c of skinny, thin, + malnourished body, desperate look in eyes, + scars on neck 1st time housing a North Korean surprised because encounter was so random + all of a sudden excited/anxious…

Frida Kahlo is such an interesting character in history; her life and work has inspired people from all over the globe. This nontraditional artist was born in Coyoacan, Mexico in the summer of 1907. Her father was a German photographer who had immigrated to Mexico and then married Matilde, Frida’s mother. Frida had three sisters; two older, Matilde and Adriana, and a younger, Cristina. Frida underwent many health complications all through her life which caused her physical pain. Through her…

Napoleon always focused on the future generations that were to come on Animal farm. He had worked behind the scenes and taught the young the ways of Animalism. While shadowing behind Snowball Napoleon had worked into recovering a litter of puppies that was not later seen until the day of the feuding debate between Snowball and Napoleon when they had come out as a half grown litter of vicious dogs. “ They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape from…