Mary Harris Jones

Often times, in the court of law, and in society, murderers and crime offenders are often viewed as “hateful, malicious, and vicious” by the general public; and honestly, it’s easy to view them as such. You had said so yourself early this week about a certain case that occurred in which you asked, “What would make someone turn so evil?” However, I believe that our society has caused us to highlight and view criminals’ bad nature, rather than looking at the root of what caused them to go awry. At…

In the past few years, Brazil had gotten their hyperinflation under control and it was estimated to be 8% in the future. Brazil was the second largest trading partner with the US and the nation’s economy was going to be the sixth largest in the world by 2015. For Wiley and the automobile industry Brazil’s 3-4% growth rate in the next few years presented a great opportunity given its influence in the Latin American economies. Other advantage and disadvantages of locating its operations in Brazil…

Those who get hurt by others, tend to hurt the people that they are hurt by. In short, hurt people hurt people. The motivation is revenge, and this is not because humans are evil, but because vengeance is part of the innate survival instincts of an elaborate social species. The desire behind getting revenge is seen as, to the person who is getting revenge, an act of justice. But for some, the act of revenge is way more diabolical than what is seemingly necessary. Some people will go to any…

The novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, brought a new era to the writing industry. Shelley’s novel can be described as dark, mysterious, and perplexing due to the actions faced and made throughout the book. Inspiration for writing such a novel arose from Shelley’s personal life and incidents endured throughout it. Although she didn’t directly experience certain events written in the novel, she did experience the same or similar amount of darkness and melancholy in her life. The novel…

“Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn 't original sin. He 's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don 't have the courage to do it.”(Hayes) In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein the monster who is her antagonist like in Helen Hayes’ analogy was born tragically and had to adapt to this tragedy throughout his life. The monster is totally isolated, rejected by love and treated terribly throughout his life; due to his horrible life it is…

There are numerous things that play into a child’s development. In the case of donyaeh their or a few key things holding his development back. This factors are poverty, role of mother, and education. The area a child is raised in plays a key role in their development as in the resource they have around them. Living in poverty there are numerous outlets to gain access to drugs. Love and Diane both had addiction to drugs and love still uses drugs. The fact they are so many action of doing drugs…

Knowledge has brought the human race to many of its brightest moments, as well as many of its darkest: the discovery of the atomic bomb and chemical warfare, among others. This begs the question, how far would you go in the pursuit of knowledge? Mary Shelley investigates the concept of ¨too far¨ in her novel, Frankenstein. She chronicles the path of a scientist, from his initial thirst for knowledge, to his creation of an artificial creature, to his eventual death because of the Creature.…

Standing up for what a person believes in is a matter of life or death. It can determine how strong or how weak an individual is. It can also determine how they will be remembered, or how their lives will carry on. In Arthur Miller’s drama The Crucible, this is exactly the case with a man named John Proctor. This story goes back to the time of the Salem witch trials, where telling the truth was rare, and accusing innocent people was at an all time high. John Proctor happened to get in the middle…

Mary Shelley was was born on August 30th, 1797 in Summertown, London, United Kingdom. Mary Shelley 's mother died shortly after Mary was born. Her father was then left to care for Mary and Mary’s siblings. Mary’s mother was a famed feminist while her father was a philosopher and a political writer. In the later years of Mary shelley’s life she had three children, two sons and one daughter. Her daughter 's name was Clara, her first son 's name was Percy and her other son 's name was William.…

In the 1690s Salem broke out in hysteria, innocent people were accused of being witches, neighbors turned their backs on each other, and families were torn apart. The person most to blame for the chaos is John Proctor, John took advantage of a young woman named Abigail Williams when his wife, Elizabeth Proctor, was ill. John used Abigail as a distraction from his sick wife and when Elizabeth found out about the affair she fired Abigail. As a child, Abigail witnessed her parents being murdered…