Mark Hoppus

“ Romans, countrymen, and lovers!” (III, ii, 13) is what Brutus said at the beginning of the speech for Caesar’s funeral. Marc Antony said something close to that as well. That is how they got the people’s attention during the funeral. The speeches were similar in certain ways, while other sections were different. Brutus spoke more about honour, and Antony said more stuff about ambition. Brutus spoke first, he started with honour. Therefore, he says to “believe and respect him with honor”…

The mississippi river is a dangerous place. Along the river Huck met the good and the evil in the river. This is about the huckleberry Finns hero journey. The adventures of huckleberry Finn is a book about a young boy and slave experiencing the hero’s journey. Hulk is trying to get away from his pap and Jim is running away from slavery. The call to hucks hero’s journey was he didn’t want to be around civilization and didn’t want to be in the custody of pap or mrs. Watson. The call to…

As many did not realize, there is much more to life than the civilized world and is bigger than any race or discrimination of others. Throughout the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain, Huck is always on the run from the ‘real world’ to live a free life with his black best friend, Jim. In the midst of this, Twain is continually evolving Huck as a character to expose the flawed thinking in the world around him. In the beginning of the story, Huck is very…

slighest possible defect-which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty-shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection". (645) He convinces his wife to allow him to remove the birth mark As time goes by Georgiana beings to hate her birthmark just as much as her husband does. She agrees to allow him to remove the birthmark but in doing so he kills his wife. The birth mark was something that was given to her by nature and was considered…

Is Marcus Brutus an honorable man? The word honorable is used to describe a person of dignity, selflessness and respect. Throughout Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar Brutus demonstrates many signs of honor. Although Brutus’ actions are questionable at best his motives remain pure and noble. As can be seen through what Brutus Brutus, on countless occasions, allowed his future as a highly ranked official in Rome to be sacrificed for the greater good of the very city in which he wanted to…

Julius Caesar Speech Analysis In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare two prominent characters, Brutus and Marc-Antony, give a speech regarding the death of Caesar. Who was stabbed 23 times by his closest friends and followers. The people of Rome are in shock and very vulnerable to persuasion after this incident, and both Brutus and Marc-Antony try to convince them of their beliefs in order to gain power. Both men give persuasive speeches, but Marc-Antony's is more convincing and better uses…

Aylmer, the protagonist in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark”, is a very skilled scientist, but he’s misguided. Georgiana is a very beautiful, passionate, noble woman and who has a flaw, the red hand shaped birthmark on her left cheek. Aylmer is an 18th-century scientist who is committed to his work. Aylmer’s entire life has been about figuring out the way that nature works. He recently married Georgiana. Georgiana is distinctive in that she has a minuscule red birthmark on her cheek in…

Did Antony not see the face of his well-known yet-to-be-assassinated friend, Julius Caesar, on the faces of Cleopatra’s children? One can assume the answer is no, as Antony delivered a rather informal burial for poor Caesar. Caesar, however, had acquaintances other than Antony; the loyal and influential Brutus. Nevertheless, death claimed Caesar and both Antony and Brutus felt compelled to offer an explanation to the crowd of Rome. Not just an explanation, but a persuasive speech. There were a…

men who were not yet defeated in Rome, due to the fact he had cheated. Augustus even revised the court system so that people could be assured of greater justice. However, he had no tolerance for the ones who opposed him, like many of his rivals like Mark Antony. For example,…

The Gilded Age was also The Golden Age, even though it was not so golden. Mark Twain stated, “The period was glittering on the surface, but corrupt underneath.” There are many differences and similarities between the Gilded Age and today. These similarities and differences were not the same for all types of people. Three types people that lived then and now that can be examined more closely are immigrants, Robber Barons, and laborers. Immigrants are a hot topic today, as they were during the…