Puppet Master

the exquisite horror of their reality.” Ladies, gentlemen, and lovers of poetry; behold the wondrous and darkly disturbing mind of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was a man, born in Boston in 1809, famously known to dance with the mad and peculiar. He was a master of macabre, father of the detective story and captured the imaginations…

Leez Everyone is running out of time, I’m drowning in it. I cut myself and feel the bright red seconds bloom into peonies. I glare at the clock and the hours shatter at my side into a million nothings. Everyone moves on, everything moves on. Mocking me, while I’m stuck inside the walls of claustrophobia. It’s been six years since I’ve been fixed in the same position, the same room. Two thousand, nine hundred and ninety days, three million, one hundred and fifty three thousand, six hundred…

In the novel The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, the narrator is on a journey towards finding his identity as a black man in America at a time where black people were oppressed by whites, during the civil rights movement. This journey in the novel is one of education and development, we see how the narrator develops while trying to find his identity and how he deals with his experiences that affect him in different ways. The notion of invisibility and furthermore the motifs of blindness and…

such unhealthy influences in a democracy that so blatantly uses ads condemning opponents that receive these large contributions that we Americans have been trained to distrust our leaders when every is seemingly accused of being in cahoots with a puppet master in the…

Alfred Hitchcock, also known as Hollywood’s master of suspense, has influenced Hollywood today immensely through his creative movies. Out of the many of his films, there was his 1959 film called, North by Northwest. The main stars of this movie, Eve Kendall played by Eva Marie Saint, and Roger Thornhill played by Cary Grant, go on an adventurous journey. Viewers see the recreation of this in the 2008 movie called, Eagle Eye, where Shia Labeauf as Jerry Shaw, and Michelle Monaghan as Rachel…

quiet and discrete appeal to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. In The Republic, Plato, as Socrates, constructs the allegory to explain the philosopher’s search for truth. People become trapped in the darkness of the cave, staring at fake shadows cast by puppets and convinced that what they are experiencing is real. When they finally break free, it is a long and arduous task to rip themselves from the safety of a lie into the truth of the sun outside. Leapor attaches this message to her opinion on…

The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet can be held accountable by fate and destiny. A predetermined course with an inevitable outcome is fate, which all individuals must meet. Fate is not the only factor contributing to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet; many characters with unintentional doings can also be blamed for the deaths of these lovers. Furthermore, the enmity and the pressure created by the parents of Romeo and Juliet can also hold much blame for their downfall. Hence, no one factor or character…

How Ray Bradbury Portrays Technology and Society In Fahrenheit 451 Technology and society are drastically changed for the worse the more society evolves. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, people are banned from reading and owning books. Those found with books will get sent to an asylum and the books will burn. The government tries to kill all originality and personality while trying to form a utopia. Not only that, but they create artificial happiness so that nobody knows sadness. Since they…

occupation reinforced by Churchill and Stalin’s secrete agreement on spheres of influence negotiated at Yalta. It is hard to separate the Hungarian and Soviet governments when analyzing the events of the Hungarian revolt. Hungry was in essence a puppet state of the Soviet Union. Much of the Hungarian leadership had spent years if not decades in the Soviet Union and these communists were installed after the war. The revolt can almost be viewed as an internal struggle of the USSR due to the…

RETURN OF THE WHITE MAN "A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace." -- Kwame Nkrumah The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines imperialism as a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through colonization, use of military force or other means. Hans-Ulrich Wehler states that “imperialism was intended to flatten the extreme fluctuations of the business…