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Mother of the Pack In Justin Torres’ We the Animals, Ma is a major character that frequently gets dominated and oppressed from either her husband, Paps or the boys. Like a wolf pack, the boys are extremely high maintenance, constantly craving attention and following their father, the alpha male. Inevitably, Ma gets left behind and trampled on. The males of the family’s abuse deteriorate Ma into the shell of a woman, frequently unstable and manipulated. Throughout the novel, Ma’s role as a…

How does Priestley present the relationship between Mr Birling and Sheila? In the play an Inspector Calls, by J.B Priestley, the 2 generations end up with very different view on capitalism and socialism with the younger generation changing towards the more socialist attitude. The relationship between Mr Birling and Sheila symbolises the differences between these two world views. Priestley wanted the change to happen from a capitalist to a socialist society. Mr Birling…

“Of Mice and Men” and “An Inspector Calls” Society is not perfect, it never was. So it is not in any way surprising that many people would try to rectify these mistakes, and improve their society. John Steinbeck and J. B. Priestley wanted to just that. They produced works that show the effects of these mistakes if they are not rectified, in hope of raising awareness about society 's own impurities. Two of these works are "Of Mice and Men" and "An Inspector Calls", by John Steinbeck and J. B.…

Hitting Home “Scotty is in the hospital. Jump in the car and grab your brother. See you in five”. Well that was quite devastating when hearing those words spill out of my mother’s mouth at about the age of 16. It was a matter of 20 minutes that we had arrived at the hospital to see my entire family huddled around a trifling, little white hospital bed big enough for just his body and no wiggle room. I pushed my way to the front of the 20 people standing in the hospital room to see before my eyes…

It has been almost one month since that incident with Michael and his wife. It took about three weeks for me to even fill comfortable sleeping in my own home. I became so jumpy and paranoid getting in and out my car until I just had to tell myself, enough is enough. I was no longer going to let some women make me afraid to live in my own home. It’s not like Michael had a key or anything. I stop by the health food store today and picked up some miso paste, portabella mushrooms, spring onions,…

caller identification spoofing attack. Unfortunately, the security standards are not strong enough to detect and prevent such fake calls. They become dangerous conduits for Internet security threats to reach the telecommunication infrastructure. This paper aims at detecting the spoofed phone calls and preventing such calls. This scheme is implemented…

There are many lessons to be learned in life, lessons which are learned through conversations, mishaps, and great experiences. One experience I had was a little bit of all three. It was a conversation, started wrong, but nevertheless ended up being a great experience in which I learned an important lesson, that there are times to give up, and times to not give up, and sometimes even though giving up might seem like the right option, not giving up can lead to great success. My senior year of…

The wind howls like a pack of wolves on the prow, sending chills down spins of all those who face its powerful blows. Through the thin walls and old winds, it seeps into the homes of those who already struggle to stay warm. The wolves go after the weakest of any heard, and humans belong to the list of their victims. This reality lives in the parts of the world that have communist entities as their powerhouses. In the collection of essays, “How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed” by Slavenka…

Would you be able to survive in the wild? The Call of the Wild is an adventure fiction story about a dog named Buck who gets taken to the Yukon at the time of the gold rush. Buck changes from a domestic pet to being a wild animal. He has many different owners over the course of the story but eventually he meets the one he loves the most, John Thornton. The theme throughout the story is survival of the fittest. Buck learned how to survive by watching other dogs. Buck first got to the Yukon he…

There is a book and movie called Where The Red Fern Grows. The book was made in 1961, the movie was made in 1964. In the book a boy saves up money to get his dogs, he trains them, and goes to a contest. He wins the contest and brings home two cups one silver the other gold. He and his dogs get into a fight with a mountain lion the mountain lion died and so did the dogs. In the book it started off with Billy coming home from work and he takes in a dog. In both the movie and the book billy…