Pursuer

When I was 10, children in my suburb gathered in one place late at night to play hide and seek with a flashlight. Do you know what is hide and seek with the flashlight? It is the same game, but it needs to play in darkness and seeker must use a flashlight to find hiding players. If seeker notices someone, all he or she need to do is call out this person’s name. Somber sky was a cover that killed every single source of light that day. Almost every house’s windows closed. For our game, it was…

trees. He is being chased by unseen forces. Although they are never seen, the terror on the boy’s face relays the danger of his pursuers. He runs and runs, stopping only to catch his breath before taking off again. Every time he stops, it is only for a short while, as the drums get louder with each break he takes. Finally, he is able to hide, and the drums of his pursuers fade away. His relief is short lived, however, for the boy realizes he does not know where he is, much less how to escape.…

Many people have at least read several novels that are classified as “horror”, such as “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. Yet, these texts would not have been possible if not for the authors during the Gothic era that laid the foundation for such works to be created by today’s novelists. The novels Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and “Sir Bertrand” by Anna and John Aikin, give excellent examples on this subject. It was these works where the architectural environment helped give the text a sense…

Summary: The Law is a well written piece by Frederic Bastiat on the defense of liberty, natural human rights, rule of law, and the importance of true justice. The context of the reading begins with a definition and a purpose of law. Law can be defined as the enforcement of rightful defense via a collective force. Bastiat stated that all purposes of law should be used to protect life, liberty, property and punish plunder. Plunder is defined by Bastiat as taking belongings from one inhabitant…

In Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, there is a recurring doubt that surrounds the true grounds for which colonization stands. Is colonization inherently evil? Conrad presents various stances on the revealing nature of colonization through the antithesis of Europe and Africa. This distinct juxtaposition of the two civilizations is deliberate in its validation of the violation of Africa. As a result, it highlights the continent’s vulnerability and exercises its right to dominate whilst…

admiration to the love of his life, though the unrequited love tortured him (Poetry foundation, 2016). He compared his love with other men by using the word “many” and “one” to build ethos, that his unique love to the girl was different from other pursuers. He also chose antithetical words to give a further comparison, including “false” and “true”, “beauty” and “pilgrim soul”, “your moments of glad grace” and “the sorrows of your changing face” (Yeats, 1893). The shifts in tone, from other man…

On the day of May 24, 1943, the Auschwitz extermination camp changed. They had just received a new, spine-chilling doctor, Josef Mengele; he had also worked in a few other camps. He was an infamous Nazi experimentalist. Josef Mengele was born on March 11, 1911 in Günzburg, Germany. In his early years, Josef seemed like a normal young boy and no one would guess that he would be the one to commit to this harsh work. He began to study medicine and found an interest in anthropology and genetics.…

The American pursuers led by Colonel Campbell arrived on October 7th and were unable to press the attack on the British until October 8th due to rain.8 General Ferguson now had ample time to establish proper defenses such as trenches or fighting positions, but he did…

“All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”. This excerpt from the US constitution shows the basis of the American national ethos of equal opportunity in a pursuit of happiness and fulfilment, this ethos having been manifested into an idea more recently known as the American Dream. The human experience in this instance is a parallel to the American Dream, also at its core…

great tragic novel composed by a standout amongst the most licensed creators of American sci-fi, Ray Bradbury. Bradbury's dominance and idyllic work consolidate perplexing bits of knowledge to make a shaking novel which still has a hold to stupor the pursuers and uncovers the reality that is endless. With outstanding character structure joined by verifiable impacts approaching over its plot and likewise goes about as a prescient record on the prospective human advancements subjugation by media,…