Mark O'Connor

Joseph Brant was a Mohawk Indian during the revolutionary war, but what had made him special was his story. Of course he was a chief of the Mohawk tribe who served as a loyalist and assisted the British in many different ways during the war but he did much more than that. He was an enemy to the Americans, but he would have been a bigger threat to the world if he were to have lived a little bit longer because they didn't call him "Monster Brant" for nothing. During the war, Joseph was known and…

Technology has shaped the world in many ways. People have no more time to just sit down and read a book, or even just sit down and reflect on the world and think about what this planet has become in the past 200,000 years. Ray Bradbury really shows us this in his novel Fahrenheit 451. To start off, Bradbury warns society of the dangers in technology, and how it can take over anyone’s life by using the television. He shows us this through the life of Mildred and how she finds that her true family…

The Atchafalaya River is the United States largest continuous river swamp at about one hundred and seventy miles long and is located in south central Louisiana. The Atchafalaya Basin was formed when the Mississippi River gradually began to change its course. It flows south in a channel that used to be a part of the Mississippi River and it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The Atchafalaya is very important to agriculture and…

In Mark Twain’s era, people generally agreed that both a good-for-nothing kid and a slave were worthless. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is from the perspective of a good-for-nothing kid, Huck, that attempts help a runaway slave named Jim escape to the North. These two worthless characters went against the stereotypes the South had given them. Huck was able to prove these stereotypes wrong and force people to listen to him, all while having an adventure. By shifting the point…

Texan author, John Graves in his memoir, Goodbye to a River, published in New York on 1960 addresses the topic of the Brazos River getting damp and argues that putting a dam in the Brazos River is not good. He supports this claim by illustrating his memories then he describes his memories and the environment, he was camping near the Brazos River with his dog. Graves’s purpose is to keep the Brazos River how it is and by not changing it. He adopts a serious, information tone for his audience, the…

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn fakes his own death in order to get away from his father: the town drunk. While escaping from his father, he encounters the slave of Miss Watson, a woman who insists on Huckleberry Finn becoming a pious, righteous young man. This slave, Jim, is now Huckleberry Finn’s only companion on a journey to escape his father. However, while on the Mississippi River, they encounter two men known as the king and the duke whose…

to calm them down and convince them Caesar was a tyrant. But, Anthony had to worry about the conspirators killing him if he talks bad about them, defend a Caesar’s corpse, and convince the crowd to go against conspirators. This was a lot of things Mark had to defend against. In addition to defending a Caesar’s dead body Antony had to go back in the past to things he has done for the people, and he is not even defending himself. Not alone that Antony has to worry about the conspirators, he even…

Druids existed since the classical era of 500 BCE. Historical documents about the Druids primarily came from the Roman civilization and old Irish sagas. The most infamous historical document is Julius Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico. Commentarii de Bello Gallico is a compilation of journals about the Julius Caesar’s Gallic War. The direct translations of these journals are titled the Commentaries on the Gallic War. These journals talk about Julius Caesar impressions and experiences in the…

The well-respected Greek philosopher, Plato, once said, “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” In William Shakespeare’s tragic play, Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus clearly contemplates this idea when he considers whether to join Cassius and the other conspirators in murdering his friend Julius Caesar. Caesar has just triumphantly returned to Rome after defeating the sons of Pompey, the last of his enemies. Through this and other military achievements, he has steadily risen to power.…

In the novel "Julius Caesar" by. William Shakespeare I feel that the noblest character is Brutus because he was the analysis {{is this word a typo? Do you mean "opposite"?}} of Julius Caesar and he felt that he loved Rome more that Caesar. Brutus knew that Caesar doubted his power and that worried him, in act one Brutus told Cassius "What Means This Shouting" I do fear the people choose Caesar over me. Everyone else killed him out of envy not because they loved the people and Rome more. Despite…