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Two very similar, yet very different readings of two everyday working men with a scheme to put their profession over the top. “The Best Place” by A. F. Oreshnik is a story about a doctor who hypnotizes his criminal patients in order to steal their money and live the life he wants to. “The Alchemist’s Secret” by Arthur Gordon is a story about an alchemist that creates a poison for people who are looking to kill someone. The main characters in both stories are the average everyday people, with a…

“They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at-Elysian Fields” (Williams 95). In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche Dubois’ doom is hinted in the first scene when she asks if she has arrived at Elysian Fields. It is very clear that her desires are associated with sex and alcohol, however, it is questionable if the Cemeteries was the death of her relatives in Belle Reve or her own demise, and if her…

“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being” this is a quote Jackie Robinson once said. Jackie Robinson is one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He is the first African American baseball player of the 20th century. He had many problems and troubles, but that did not affect Jackie at all. He would would think of the negatives of life, only the positives. He help show that it is not about the color of our skin, it is heart…

In Bartleby and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, crimes are being committed from all areas of the text. Intentionally or not, each person are being punished in different ways. Crime is being committed against humanity (slaves) while these crimes were not against the law. Justice cannot be served to anyone because no one is fully guilty. In Benito Cereno, there is forms of innocence that differ. With the presence of innocence within the mind, there is lack of knowledge of wrongdoing, and,…

Lawrence and her family moved to Los Angeles, where she had small roles on the series Medium, Monk and Cold Case, before landing a part on the TBS series The Bill Engvall Show. While working on the series, she also appeared in feature films including The Poker House and The Burning Plain alongside Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger”(Jennifer Lawrence). This shows the way she started her career and can inspire other young ladies that it could start up any place any…

Actions speak louder than words, and in Karen Joy Fowler’s novel, We are All Completely Beside Ourselves, she presents many different themes regarding communication and its importance. Rosemary Cooke’s father, a psychology professor at the University of Indiana, suggests that there is a difference between communication and language by explaining that “language is more than just words” (Fowler 98). Fowler agrees with the professor, language is much more than words, but they differ when he argues…

Good Can Outshine the Bad “There’s still a lot of good in the world.” The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about two social groups, the Greasers and the Socs, who live in a city in Oklahoma. They do not get along and get into big trouble because of it. One character that stands out in the story is Johnny, because he encounters irony and lots of character development. He encounters irony mainly by killing a Soc, but soon after saving multiple children from a burning building. Throughout the book,…

"It's cool to meet some of your friends" Shelley says to Johnathan. They are walking up to Steve's front door. "Yeah, my friends" Jonathan says. He keeps his head down the closer they get. Starting to wish they weren't there. They reach the door and Jonathan reaches out to knock. Within seconds Steve is in front of them ushering for them to come in. They go in to Steve's living room where Nancy is sitting. Cards and board games were scattered through out the room. So where some beers. Steve…

refused to let them go home and day by day he would eat a brave warriors brains, So Odysseus came up with a plan to get them out of the cave, So Odysseus gave the cyclops wine and when he drank it Polyphemus fell asleep, an Odysseus grab a red-hot poker and stabbed the cyclops in his eye blinding him and when the cyclops asked for his name Odysseus responded with nobody so when the cyclops started making a lot of commotion other cyclops came to see what was going on, When the did they asked "…

The philosophical view of the Few and the Many, in relation to authenticity, is a prevalent notion featured in John Fowles’, “The Collector”. It targets the idea that the Few are those who are “the good, the intelligent, and the independent” while the Many are those who are “the stupid, the ignorant, and the easily molded”. In his book, Fowles seeks to express his perspective of this profound concept through the characters, Miranda and Clegg. Fowles admits that Miranda belongs to the Few, while…