Pitchfork

who kidnap the son of a mortgage fancier in order that they get ransom money. On the first morning with the boy, Sam looks at the landscape and thinks, "Over toward Summit I expected to see the sturdy yeomanry of the village armed with scythes and pitchforks beating the countryside for the dastardly kidnappers." (page 16) He…

You are travelling out on the open road, the sun shining above you and the smell of manure thick about the air. After completing another successful quest as a mercenary you cannot help, but feel content with your lot in life and how it has turned out. Escorting the family of merchants through the dreaded forests of Plymouth had a been a breeze, with nothing but a few scratches to show for your effort. And now you are finally journeying home to a well-earned rest, when you hear shouts and screams…

This past election has aroused vehement animosity towards and vilification of immigrants. K’naan, Snow Tha Product, Riz MC, and Residente’s song “Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)” uses allusion and a candidly aggressive tone to expose the xenophobic misconception of immigrants in America. North America has been inhabited by immigrants from the time of its “founding” during colonial times, but in recent years the word “‘immigrant’ has somehow become a bad word” (5&6) in light of the demonisation…

Sigmund Freud’s Three Different Aspects of Human Personality Sigmund Freud is a world renowned psychologists, and he is mostly known for his psychoanalytical theory of the human mind. Few of his theories are criticized but most of them have made a tremendous impact on the study of the unconscious brain. Sigmund Freud developed a theory of how human’s personality and conscious develop and work together. According to Sigmund Freud, “Psychoanalysis shocked most of the world by postulating, a super…

Especially in the scene of pitchforks and machetes versus rifles and canons. He managed to assemble troops of similar mind sets from around South America and also with international help. Exposing themselves to the harsh winter conditions as they cross the Andes Mountains to make it…

the twisted system. When you look at the novel from this point of view there is a clear message, it is to never stop fighting. The Joads never once give up, there are weak links, but as a whole they never stop fighting. The Joads don't fight with pitchforks and fire but they work and drive forward, they push themselves on and on. Rose of Sharon spends most of the book wallowing in self pity. She complains and cries and clings to things that are impractical. But she never stop. Rose of Sharon…

as “fun” in the eyes of some people, it is all apart of the human condition. Sick jokes that Stephen King had told us in the “Why We Crave Horror” essay is also a peculiar fun mostly because it’s about unloading a truckload of dead babies with a pitchfork. Considering that all of us may be insane on the inside, makes us all feel a bit more…

marched past the wagon and the buggy. Red nickered. The horse moved its rump against the rail and swished its tail. Jake scooped a handful of grain from a bin and dropped it into Red’s feed trough. The horse, he could depend on. At last, he found a pitchfork behind the stairs leading to the loft. He would have voiced his disapproval, except the wranglers were in the corral. They darted out, by way of the tack room door, the minute he stepped into the barn. Who could blame them? He’d been in a…

It was said that while the United States wanted to invade the main islands, Japan was sending up to two million soldiers to war and also millions of auxiliaries to defend their homeland. They would defend their land with their life, using sticks, pitchforks and rocks to keep away the invading force. The casualty rate from fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa had cost over 100 000 lives and it was estimated that…

Ancient Greece is one of the most fascinating time eras. It left behind concepts to build the foundation of what we call “western civilization.” Smart Greeks were very loyal to their gods and goddesses since they were believed to control the sun, the moon, and the workings of nature. In the following paragraphs I will be writing about the Trojan War, Mount Olympus, the ancient Olympics, the Greek goddess Nemesis, and the Greek god Hades. All of these things are the things that will be…