North-West Rebellion

Capacity for Rebellion Throughout history, humans had rights. These rights protected people and gave them freedoms, allowing for life to be lived freely and prosperously. However, throughout history, these rights have been snatched away for many reasons, and when this happens, rebellion acts as an essential way to move forward, since it occurs when a group of people perceives that their rights aren’t preserved. Weak and internally divided governments can act as catalysts for rebellions – on…

The consequence of Bolingbroke’s rebellion against Richard and stealing of the throne seems to be, on the surface, a great venture that has awarded Bolingbroke. The reality though, is that since Bolingbroke has wrongfully taken the throne and has risen up against Richard, there are prophecies which lead us to believe that Bolingbroke’s rule will not be smooth-running. It is prophesied by Carlisle “And if you crown him [Bolingbroke], let me prophesy/ The blood of English shall manure the ground/…

Chris McCandless’ actions can be seen as rebellious at first, but as time goes on, it is clear that there is hostility between his parents and himself that he does not want to face or try to fix. In a dysfunctional family, there are two extremes when it comes to the outcome of the children: the rebel or the conformist. Although the older child is typically the conformist and the younger child is the rebel, the McCandless family is a little different because both children are the rebels. Krakauer…

4.1.a. Non-progressive interventions/consequences In the article, Tips for Function Based Discipline in the Classroom, Gavoni (2016) characterizes non-progressive consequences by, “being the ‘same’ every time and are appropriate and function based that are related to the magnitude of the misbehavior” (para. 11). If a consequence is going to be affective in the classroom, it needs to be consistent; for this I believe the consequences need to be simple and are reflective of the behavior.…

Throughout history have people been slain by their own brethren for reasons of jealousy, anger and distrust, and even for self-satisfaction. Time and time again has the act of murder been identified either as a justified reason, or classified as senseless, cold, and unreasonable killing by the masses. The act of killing is not justified. In the story of “Just Lather, That’s all”, the protagonist of the story, the barber is faced with a, rather menacing decision that will affect his life forever.…

Perfectly captured in the title, the character being the unnamed narrator of this short story “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle. This story follows the narrator though a series of unfortunate events where He and his friends Digby and Jeff attempt to exemplify the persona that they believe would be considered in accordance with a bad or “Greasy Character”. These three boys at their last teenage year as they spin there wheels in a June summer of 1960’s suburbia. Just as many small towns there…

The Peasants’ War was a time of violence and rebellion; there is no question about that. But who can be seen as responsible for instilling the use of force as a solution for the injustice by the Church and lords? Arguably the two largest leaders in the Peasants’ War and the German Reformation were Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer. Although they both wanted to fix injustices, they used very different forms of rhetoric to do so. Martin Luther’s writings condemned violence and asked rebels to…

of a bloody civil war. After getting into a conflict with an enemy sniper, the republican eventually comes out on top, before coming to find the body and realizing that the enemy sniper was his brother. “Lather and Nothing Else” is set during a rebellion, where a barber, who is secretly an informer, is giving the anti-revolutionist captain, Torres, a shave. The barber debates whether he should kill Torres or not, and decides against it. At the end, Torres reveals to the barber that he was at the…

Before the revolution, the military dictatorship was the culprit that oppressed the Mexican people and it had removed. During the revolution years, the revolutionists aided the Federales in at times oppressing the general population. After the rebellion had been quailed, the constitionalists were not much different from the generals that preceded them. Azuela used the characters in The Underdogs with a great deal of expertise to tell the story of the Mexican populace during the revolution.…

Rebellion is the act of resisting or defying any authority, control, or tradition. In the texts A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the theme of rebellion is presented throughout the stories. For example, the characters in these texts rebel against higher powers and societal norms in order to achieve personal goals. Rebellion against higher powers is a common theme presented in the texts. For example, in S&J, the narrator,…