Musketeer

deprived of his life and success for fourteen years, takes away the happiness of those who took his. According to www.biography.com, Alexander Dumas is a “celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers…

The Struggle to Find Real Friends in a World of Counterfeits I learned from a very young age that making friends was not going to be easy for me. My parents, originating from the modest, genuine Canadian countryside raised me in Miami, the superficial capital of the world. My definition of friendship did not align with most Miamian’s definitions, to say the least. By six years old I had realized the importance of making friends based on their personalities, while every other six year old had…

Imagine yourself, sitting on one of the many transport ships heading towards an unknown island about to reveal yourself to an unknown amount of enemy troops. The morning before your arrival you are prepared a gourmet meal and briefed on how the plan was expected to go down. 7:00 strikes and you are now being guided down to your tractors to make the rest of the way to your destination, your mind is going wild with thought but you do know one thing for sure: you are part of a team, a band of…

“How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” is a personal memoir of John Holt’s recollections of being an English teacher. Holt remembers the times when he was the teacher that made children dissect books until their minds no longer held the real meaning of them. Their minds were drilled into finding the ‘correct’ answer and moving on as fast as possible. After multiple arguments with his sister telling him his approach to teaching reading was wrong and hurting the children's love for reading, he…

Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, reflects life within death, propaganda's lie, and how Erich's life is similar to Paul's. Paul is the protagonist in All Quiet on the Western Front and he endures the most horrid war our nation had ever gone through, World War I. It was the war of wars, it is the cause of World War II and it was a battle for life throughout the miles upon miles of trenches. Paul's view of World War I is similar to Remarque's because the author's…

Once upon a time, those adventures were everything to me. Ven, Silas and me. Everyone knew we were the three musketeers, the three amigos, and to some’s surprise, the two boys were content with my never-waring presence. Looking back now, I realize how lucky I was. Most older brother’s barely bothered with their younger siblings, let alone a little sister. They would occasionally spend time with them when pressured by their parents, but never out of their own choosing. Silas seemed to always want…

Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor during WWII, President Roosevelt feared for national security and the large population of Japanese-American citizens living on or near the coast. He ordered all citizens and resident aliens to be moved inland. Fred Korematsu was arrested on May 30, 1942, in San Leandro, California for being on public streets and not complying with the government’s orders for individuals of Japanese background of any kind to evacuate the coast and move inland to detention…

Author/Speaker How does the author or speaker (narrator) let us know that he/she is credible and trustworthy? Does the author come across as knowledgeable? How do you know this? Does the speaker’s reputation convey a certain authority? Explain. In the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five, the narrator speaks in first person. He claims he was there and asserts that the events told in the story are true. In the first paragraph he affirms this by saying, “One guy I knew really was shot in…

new Parliament should be called. Once again Cromwell tried to mediate between the two antagonists, but his sympathies were with his soldiers. When he finally came to the conclusion that Parliament must be dissolved and replaced, he called in his musketeers and on April 20, 1653, expelled the members from the House. He said they were "corrupt and unjust men and scandalous to the profession of the Gospel"; two months later he set up a nominated assembly to take their place. In a speech on July 4…