Oliver Cromwell

Oh! good morrow to you, sir Henry. So good to see you again. How is the dagger I made for you last week? I worked long, hard hours on that dagger to make it just right for you. I take pride in all my work. Good was it. That’s good. Is there anything else that you would like to buy from us? I’ve got spears, axes, horse shoes, shovels, anything with metal. An Axe thee sayeth? Well we shalt do that for thee. At which hour would thee like to pick it up. Next week? Tis fine. My dad and I shall make…

Being Kidnapped seems like a situation that would be terrible to be in. For one kid, it was the best few days of his life and he did not want to leave. “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, is a fictional short story. Bill and Sam are the two main characters in the story. With much work they plan to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois. To do this they need two thousand dollars. These two men decide to kidnap Ebenezer Dorset’s child and offer a ransom. Bill and Sam take the…

OLIVER TWIST by CHARLES DICKENS OLIVER TWIST or THE PARISH BOY’S PROGRESS is a novel written by Charles Dickens and was serialised in 1837-39. The novel revolves around an orphan named Oliver Twist, who was born in a workhouse and was sent to a parochial orphanage where all the children were ill-treated and underfed. Twist runs away to London after escaping from the orphanage and there, he encounters with The Artful Dodger, one among the gang of juvenile pick-pocketers who are under the…

Lovable Villain Once upon a time there was a man that went by the name of “Lil’Dawg”. Nobody ever knew his real name because he never told anyone. He didn’t feel comfortable with people knowing his real identity. So one day Lil Dawg get’s a call from the store manager at Mc’donalds and gets the bad news that he got fired for coming in late all the time. The manager said he was tired of letting it slide, that all Lil Dawg was doing was slowing his business down. He doesn’t know what to do…

When Oliver was 3, a parent questionnaire told me that I am “about average in warmth and affection displayed toward Oliver” and “more disciplined than average with Oliver.” (“My Virtual Life” 3 years) At age 4, I was rated, “slightly above average in terms of affection and warmth displayed toward your child,” and “in the top 15% in terms of control and discipline exercised with your child.” (“My Virtual Life” 4 years) At age 6, Oliver noted that I was, “‘nicer’ to him than other parents are to…

Oliver had found the prize in the cake and it was a golden crown. Then he was talking with his friend Charlie from New Jersey about the differences of their school's. For Oliver French school was very hard and he had to do many projects. One project in particular that he hated was the one for his rhetoric class that it was important for the French but confusing for Oliver. Before Oliver was going to sit down and do his paper he had a something drink and decided to practice shadow puppets in the…

Anton Chekhov wrote the short story A Problem. The story is about a young man who takes a loan illegally and gets caught, leaving his uncles to decide his future for him. In the story, Anton illustrates 4 characters, which personalities vary greatly. He decided to use both methods of characterization to portrait them to us, direct and indirect characterization. Chekhov does a really got job at it, so we’ll discuss how he displayed each one of the characters. The first character we’ll discuss,…

Do you have a need to belong? Do you want to be part of a certain group? Do members of this group except you? What are you willing to do to belong? People every day make the decision of changing themselves to belong. Many authors depict how the characters need to belong. Many things influence what you belong to. Your personality can let you belong or it can keep you out of the group. What you look like or what you like to do can influence what you belong to. Everyone has certain groups they…

you, Begleiter, for the Exclamation Point in Oliver! Lionel Begleiter wrote and composed a 1960 stage musical inspired by the Charles Dickens’s book Oliver Twist; this was eventually released in 1968 as a film musical (Oliver! Background). Under director Sir Carol Reed’s supervision, an unlikely selection for directing this heartfelt film based on his previous works of war movies as of The Third Man and the Hitchcock-styled Night Train to Munich; Oliver! became a sensation for its time and won…

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens focuses on an orphan child, Oliver who is very poor and in an orphanage that didn't actually care for any of the kids there. Then when Oliver asked the cook for more food and fled to the streets of London when he wasn't given the food he asked for. Later on Oliver met Artful Dodger who leads him to Fagin and his “gang” of pickpockets. The orphanage hears about Oliver's escape and go into the streets of London to retrieve Oliver and bring him back to the orphanage…