Raised Fist

Gabriel rules the family with an iron fist. Fear and violence is what surrounds the Grimes’ household. Gabriel dominates his wife Elizabeth and their children. Even though Gabriel is a lay-preacher who was born again in his early twenties, the house is one of fear rather than a house of…

efficiency.”(Orwell, Publisher’s Note) This essay will look at the portrayals of the living and working conditions of the British working class during the 1930s found in “The Road to Wigan Pier”. It will examine the comparisons made by Orwell in the fist part of the novel and how these were depicted in the “Saddler…

By the end of Edward Birch’s second year in office, the free-market approach to public education was thriving. Marginal and failing schools closed. Charter and magnet schools cropped up in every corner of Virginia; online and distance learning programs thrived; and private and parochial school enrollment boomed. Students became clients - schools that served their clients well, survived; schools that failed to serve their clients well, closed. In less than two school years, districting based on…

The four sub schools, Social Learning Theory, Social Control Theory, and Dramaturgy can be used to understand a criminals behavior. In 1983 film, The Outsiders, examples of all four sub schools can be interpreted. The Outsiders is a movie about a group of teen boys who consider themselves to be "Greasers" the boys misbehave, have knife fights, and commit crimes. Out of all the boys, Dallas Winston, is the boldest. Dallas has been troubling his whole life. He 's known for being a delinquent and…

Defying Hitler Considered as one the respectable and most established authors, Sebastian Haffner in his book Defying Hitler brings forth to the reader an eyewitness account of a nation that was in constant influx. The influx ranged from rising of the First Corps, Hitler Youth Movement right-wing military forces set up to suppress communism and the rise of Hitler to power. The publication allows readers to be informed of the German history indicating how the German nation was forced to grapple…

... Why had Okonkwo withdrawn to the rear?...As the man who had cleared his throat drew up and raised his machete, Okonkwo looked away. He heard the blow. The pot fell and broke in the sand. He heard Ikemefuna cry. ‘My father, they have killed me!’ as he ran towards him. Dazed with fear, Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of…

Although slavery was abolished in the United States in the nineteenth century (and is no longer legal anywhere in the world), various forms of slavery persist in modern-day society, financially benefiting some, while adversely impacting the physical and psychological health of others. Main points: 1. What is modern-day slavery? 2. How did it become so embedded in American society? 3. Describe the various forms of slavery that exist in America today 4. Why do human traffickers prey on the…

June, the month of the Dyad moon, the time the God and the Goddess become one. It is a time to seek harmony in all things: light balances dark, heat balances cold, and good balances evil. Brenna Lindsay stood silently in the circle she'd formed of white beeswax candles. The full moon bathed the clearing with silver light. Cool night air met the still-warm ground, creating wispy patches of ground fog blanketing the earth like a sheet of transparent white cotton. Her wolf, White Star, sat on his…

When the 1970s came to a close the families of the baby boomers were evolving and most families now had a teenager within them. In the 1970s teens were of the counter-culture who were of the baby boomers. The new teens of the 1980s were raised by these counter-culture individuals and had created a new culture of their own. In the 1980s the emergence of cliques within schools and among teens were starting to appear as well as the new popular culture that movies were demonstrating. I believe that…

The Effect of Conflict on the Theme of Fictitious Works Thomas Paine has said “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph,” meaning there is more to be gained from a conflict that takes a lot out of you rather than one that doesn’t. Conflict is the foundation of fiction text, it is what the story revolves around and where the lessons learned at the end of the story stem from. In the case of the stories by Herman Melville, Franz Kafka, and John Steinbeck conflict, whether internal or…