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people of the city. The bombing caused hysteria among the people, they were traumatized and constantly afraid. Prior to the bombing, mass air raids were common and people had become accustomed to seeing a plane or small groups of planes so they payed little attention to them, but “after the atomic bombings the appearance of a single plane caused more terror and disruption of normal life than the appearance of many hundreds of planes had ever been able to cause before” (“The Atomic bombings…

there is no snake or any scary animals, but I thought what if I cannot get out from here and die here today. Tears came out from my eyes unexpectedly… I did not know that I was that weak. I tried to calm down by drinking water and sitting down for a little while. After I calmed down and thought what if I die here today, I found something I had forgotten. That was to appreciate what I have today. These days, I kept complaining about things I could not do or I didn’t have and put responsibilities…

Niki Caro's stoical mystical charming movie Whale Rider introduces newcomer Keisha Castle Hughes in her acting debut as Pai. Gender and Sexism are entrenched in many of the scenes in this movie. For instance, in the very first scene, it shows Pai’s family waiting for the birth of Pai and her twin brother. Koro, Pai’s Grandfather and the current Chief of the Maori People waited with bated breath for the next male to be born who was destined to become the future Chief of the Tribe. However, the…

A young boy riding a camel with the caravan, hoping to across the Sahara Desert in search of his Personal Legends. This image gives a concise and precise description of the theme in the book "Alchemist". The Alchemist is a book Written by Paulo Coelho that elaborates the journey of a young shepherd named Santiago, who decides to give up all his possessions and travel to the Pyramids in Egypt in search of treasure after his magical dream. Through his adventure, he was able to experience about…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

The Little Mermaid was written in 1836 by the Danish Author Hans Christian Andersen. The story was very popular at that time, It was about one little Mermaid. The little Mermaid was the youngest one out of her five sisters. She was the prettiest and talented out her five sisters. However she had no feet, and her body ended in fish's tail. When she reached fifteen years old, she got a permission to rise up out of the sea. All the conflicts started that moment. One day, she was one young prince…

In this essay, there will be numerous topics covered within the main topic: the atomic bombs being dropped in Japan. There were multiple targets, but only two had been picked out in the end: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hiroshima had been the first to be bombed, Nagasaki being the second after the Emperor chose not to surrender to the United States until after the bombing. There were hundreds of thousands dead after the bombing, most being the civilians who died on impact. Many people had gone…

boost my confidence levels greatly. A goal I would want to achieve during this summative would probably be to put forward a large amount of effort. Last year part of our summative was just putting answers from a book down on our sheets. I required little effort to complete. If I can put forward a level of effort that I have never seen before, I will feel great about it and probably impress myself at the same time. A timeline for this assignment would probably be to plan when certain aspects of…

Andersen 's “The Little Mermaid " is a story involving one of the princess of the sea royal family that tries to change her nature through magic to gain the heart of the prince but also to achieve immortal soul , with the help of the sea witch . Unfortunately she realizes that the prince does not have similar feeling toward her and soon finds herself with a dilemma where she has to kill him otherwise she dies. She refuses to kill him and die, but luckily she joins the Daughters of the Air who…

When I first watched Disney 's version of "The Little Mermaid" when I was younger, I knew there was something wrong with Ariel giving up her voice. I was so annoyed at her for making that decision -- Why would she give up her talent and her ability to talk for Prince Eric? What was even the point of doing that if she couldn 't talk to him? After now having read the original Hans Christian Anderson version, this time with a feminist theoretical lens applied to the story, I better understand why…