Nemesis

Django Unchained Introduction Django Unchained is an award-winning American film produced in 2012, directed and written by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Shultz, Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, Kerry Washington (Broomhilda) and Samuel L.Jackson (Stephen). The film set and plot is based in the Deep South in the winter of 1858 which was two years before the commencement of the Civil War of the United States. Additionally, the film follows…

Within the IC there are 16 separate member organizations, with each falling within or under one of the following groups: independent intelligence agencies, military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments. Within this maze there is a direct line of authority and a line of coordination connecting these elements into a manageable soup. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who reports to the President of the United States, leads the…

CHAPTER NINE Tramp through Terror I packed quickly for our road trip, taking only the essentials, like a change of clothes, and three pairs of socks. Oh, and the usual sundries: a comb, small bottle of hand sanitizer, shampoo, first aid kit, soap, and a flashlight. I also crammed Zeke Bartholomew: Superspy into my bag, just in case I got time to read. After I was done, I tossed my bed together and tugged on a pair of jeans and a shimmering skull T-shirt. Then I ran a brush through my long,…

Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” is about vengeful pride and hateful revenge. It is a tale of how the main character, Montresor, having been insulted numerous times, plots to murder his friend, Fortunato. The hierarchy of conflict between the two men are the insults, then the issue of Montresor murdering an upper-classmen like himself, and lastly, the faint hint of sympathy by Montresor when he hears Fortunato’s pleas for pity. The theme of the story is pride, and it is…

run for reelection. Hamilton, disliking Adams, ran a secretive campaign against him in order to get a different Federalist in office, however, this backfired completely and caused Adams to win the presidency and Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton’s arch-nemesis, to become vice president. In the very beginning of the Adams presidency, America was forced into a conflict with France in an event that Adams dubbed the “XYZ affair.” This marked the start of the Quasi-War and a major point of contention…

Wolves, corns, and bananas, what do they all have in common? Selective breeding. It’s a process by which humans can select desirable traits less precisely than methods used today. For example, dogs weren’t the lovely creatures that we have today. Rather, they were vicious scavengers, quite hostile to humans (Lange). However, everything changed once humans learned to manipulate gene expression by only allowing less hostile breeds to reproduce. Although this method of changing behavioral gene…

urine’ (Swift, 1992, p. 54). Gulliver is not only subverting the authority of Lilliputian propriety he is also asserting himself, albeit unwittingly, as the dominant male, marking his territory; the significance of Gulliver’s display not lost on his nemesis Flimnap. A feminist reading, perhaps, might conclude that Gulliver’s phallocentric display symbolises the dependent female rescued by unashamed, swashbuckling, machismo; the ‘othering’ of the vagina by the colonial penis. Moreover, the…

The novel “The Castle of Otranto” is written by the well-known predecessor of the gothic fiction – the author Horace Walpole. He contributed greatly to the Gothic genre and inspired a lot of famous authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Daphne du Maurier. His novel was published in 1529, but it is well-known that it was written a lot earlier, supposedly around the era of the first Crusade. In his work, Horace Walpole attempts to combine Old Romance with New Romance – supernatural elements and…

Title Many Germanic tales were lost throughout history, but one of the tales that survived was that of the Nibelungenlied, although the author of the tale is unknown. The tragic ending of this medieval heroic epic seems inevitable. The traits of the characters and the breaking of the web of kinship lead to the confusion of signs and ultimately to the inevitable doom of the Burgundians and Huns. The union of Kriemhild and Siegfried disrupts the order of the world of signs, which only progresses…

casualties on the Russians, showing the rest of the world how weak the Red army was after Stalin’s purges. Britain and France had even briefly considered helping Finland and declaring war against the Soviets. It was clear to Hitler that invading Russia was not only inevitable but also possible. Hitler began preparing for such an invasion, despite the pleas of his generals not to do so. Many of the military advisors in Nazi High Command had served in Russia in World War one, and knew firsthand…