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The Islanders did something they have never done in their storied history last night at Madison Square Garden. By defeating their rivals, the New York Rangers, 4-1, they swept the season series (3-0-0-1). An accomplishment that honestly, probably means more to the fans than the players. What the Islanders lost in this game was not two points in the standings but could end up costing a whole lot more. With the playoffs due to begin on either Wednesday, April 13 or Thursday, April 14, Anders Lee…

For Equality 7-2521 to have freed himself from collectivism, he must overcome many obstacles. Anthem is a dystopia about a person named Equality 7-2521 who lives in a place where “I” is gone and “we” has taken over. The thought of one is punishable by death in their world. While the passage “The Soul of an Individual” talks about how people fear change and act against it. In the book Equality had struggled to win, but had done so at the end. Equality 7-2521 finds a way free himself from…

Ishwar Singh finally enters a house where he murders several people and then makes a grab for a young, pretty girl and carries her some distance with the purpose of raping her at an abandoned place. It is his intention as he describes in his words using a metaphor from a game of cards to “shuffle her a bit”. It is only after a while he realizes that he has committed rape on a dead girl. During his next meeting with Kalwant Kaur at her house, he indulges in a flirtatious banter with her…

been more or less blame… everyone of us, excepting Fanny" (Austen, 174). Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism offers an excellent clarification for the 19th century English novels as an accomplice to Empire, while Tony Tanner reveals, in "Original Penguin Classics Introduction" of the novel itself, the using of symbolism towards the controlling ideas that the novel intended to…

Dante The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory. Great Britain. The Penguin Classics Heinze, T. (1996). Answers to my Catholic Friends. United States of America: Chick Publications Online Rabiipour, N. (2017, November 1). What Do Catholics Really Believe About Purgatory?.Getfed. Retrive from https://www.catholiccompany…

the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1977, and he has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction. The book was first published in the United State by Berkely Book, New York, 1982 and is copyrighted 1982. This edition first published by Penguin Books 2002 and distributed by Pearson Education Limited and it has 40 pages. I choose this book because my language art teacher recommended it to me and also because of a desire…

They "display the basest elements of nature... and lack all sensitivity, all compassion for those more helpless and weaker in mind and body than they are" (Johnson 16). Curley is extremely competitive, a trait that is evident in his desire to prove himself in a fight with Lennie and in his constantly asking where his wife is, as if he is competing with the other workers for her or demonstrating his "ownership" of her. Jealousy consumes him, and he lives as if he is subject to Darwin's theory of…

Tragic Friendship Killing your best friend is tragic, but it might not always be the wrong decision. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie have a long lasting relationship. They both aspire to have a farm with a garden, rabbits, cows, and chickens. Due to disastrous events, Lennie and George will never have the opportunity of owning their dream farm. George is justified in killing Lennie because it’s for Lennie’s own good, he spared him a harsh death, and he prevented…

The idea that an insane offender is not liable to be punished under the criminal law is stated surprisingly often in this text. Early on, in Chapter III of Book I, Don Quixote has gone to an inn that he takes to be a castle. The innkeeper, whom Don Quixote thinks is the castellan, is amused by Don Quixote’s lunacy and hopeful that he might make money out of him. The innkeeper goes along with Don Quixote’s delusions and promises to dub him a knight. He garners interest in Don Quixote among the…

Emma McNamara Huntington ENG1D 29 March 2017 Quite often, people say things they do not really mean, or make promises they cannot keep, but one’s actions are what overpower their words and reveal a person’s truest self. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the main characters George and Lennie prove the saying “actions speak louder than words”…