Miguel de Cervantes

King Arthur is a hero and continuing legend, who established the code of chivalry and the round table. King Arthur was the man who founded the Knights of the Round Table. Merlin and the lady of the like helped King Arthur become the hero and continuing legend he is today. King Arthurs right hand man Merlin helped king Arthur by helping discover the first Excalibur. After many years of searching Merlin took King Arthur to the lady of the lake, and she then gave King Arthur the real Excalibur.…

The first person to play the role of Marty Mcfly was Eric Stoltz’s. Crispin Glover did not return for the two sequels because he asked for too much money. Tom Wilson (Biff) gets asked the same questions so many times he wrote a song. The Executive producer Steven Spielberg sent back a thank you note for the “Humorous Memo.” Ronald Reagan was offered the role of the Hill Valley’s mayor in Back to The Future 3. Marty sees a clothes iron and a dustbuster in the window of the cafe. Elijah wood made…

Alexis de Tocqueville delivers a unique observation and perspective on the development of American identity. As a distinguished aristocratic Frenchman who was hit hard by the French Revolution, de Tocqueville does not use this book as an argument for anything, but rather he uses it as an opportunity to inspect American character and its evolving identity. He treats democracy in the United States comprehensively in order to relate it to America's history, national life, and perspectives toward…

Terrorism, bloodshed and power status sums up the focal points embedded within the movie, City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles, and Kátia Lund. These themes create definitions for several theories. The first theory in comparison to the movie is Strain Theory. Because of the economic strain of the people within the film, most turn to criminal activity. “Many families were homeless due to the flooding and acts of arson in the slums” (Meirelles, 2002). The government shipped their homeless…

Olympe De Gouse was a political activist, who was thought less of automatically because she was a woman. The hectic and shifting events of her era lead her to develop ideas that were evolving along with it. During the French revolution the rights of man and citizens was created which is sexist and leaves out half of the other population. The declaration of the rights of man and the citizen was written in 1879 during the climax of the French revolution and proclaimed that all men are born and…

Mr. Quepps was daydreaming about all the happy memories he had about the bakery but was rudely interrupted as security guards rushed in and reminded him that demolition was about to begin, pulling him out of the bakery and leaving the gold box abandoned on the counter. The bakery had existed longer than anyone remembered. It was the only bakery in the small town, and it had become a meeting place. The owner was Mr. Quepps, and he had kept his bakery open for as long as possible. His livelihood…

Andrew Chen Ms. Bergen AP European History 4 June 2018 Josip Broz Tito: The Rebel Communist Josip Broz, more commonly known as Tito, was born on May 7, 1892 in the village of Kumrovec in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Croatia). He was the seventh of fifteen children in a large peasant family, with a Croat father and a Slovene mother. At the early age of seven, he began working on his family’s farm. He entered primary school in Kumrovec at…

No matter the culture of a country, there are always remorseful people who detest certain features about themselves. Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano De Bergerac focuses on this idea by exhibiting the main character, Cyrano as an unattractive yet wise man who is severely disgruntled with his considerably large nose. The classic story of the brave and witty Cyrano expresses that Cyrano’s nose is more a source of pain than pride. Although people tend to grapple that Cyrano’s nose was a prideful factor of…

“The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant, is a story about a young married woman, Mathilde Loisel. Mathilde is infatuated with her appearance, so the moment she loses her old friend’s necklace she flips her whole life around to prevent telling her friend the truth. Guy de Maupassant uses third person limited omniscient as the point of view and Mathilde’s symbolic and stereotypical character to convey the central idea of vanity. Mathilde’s an egocentric and jealous character. Mathilde constantly…

Rhetorical Analysis of In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez, in her novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, emphasizes the humanity of the Mirabal sisters, that many portrayals of leave out, in favor of highlighting their heroism. In order to make the Mirabals more relatable and to show that there’s a hero hidden in all of us, she (Alvarez) shows us their weaknesses, their fears,and most importantly, their faults. Alvarez’s purpose in my selected passage (pages 108-112), is to show that…