Rant

The sweaty, weary kids filled the classroom and slowly plopped themselves into their seats. “Yo, Mr. Sun’s workouts are crazy man.” “I know dude, I swear he is trying to kill us or something. You saw when Jenny tripped over the curb and he didn’t even say anything?” “I know! I was gonna – “ The tall, lanky teacher strolled into the sweat-filled classroom and dropped his binder onto the organized desk. Leaning onto the wooden desk, he turned his back to the idle Smart Board and exclaims,…

Based off the title, you probably believe this is going to be an annoying rant, trying to persuade you to become a vegan. While I do believe that everyone should take an interest in a whole-foods, plant-based diet, that is not the purpose of my writing. Right now, my objective is to share my experience with the vegan lifestyle. It all started three years ago; I was fed up. I had been suffering from allergies for what seemed like forever, and almost everyday, my arms were covered in tiny red…

leave Tom, it was only just Nick on the phone. To sum things up, in the book Gatsby died frightened & in the film he died a winner. The movie did manage to save some elements from the book. Like the blatant racism. When Tom was making his racist rant. Yapping on about the book, Rise of Colored Empires. Which was not surprising because of the setting of the book. I give the director [Luhrmann] props on the portrayal of the Roaring…

read as a class we were introduced into the world of George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men. George and Lennie are two migrant workers who must leave their job because Lennie was falsely accused of raping a woman. As we meet the men George goes on a rant about how “if I was alone I could live so easy,” (Steinbeck, p 12). Here we see that George knows Lennie is difficult, and we learn that Lennie has a mental disability that impairs him in many ways. As the novel goes on we see more and more of…

truly is, and what it is mistaken as being. First he starts off with the definition of Divine Mercy, then its priorities, then finally its seven secrets. I thought he had a really good message because I expected it to be one of those boring, long rants about prayer, so I kept my expectations low. Fortunately though, it was actually really interesting and there were a couple various things that stood out to me or I liked. One spiritual insight that stood out to me that Flynn said was about…

to leave their home, many of which had lived there for decades.“Approximately 3.5 million Africans were removed from ‘white’ areas” (Clark 70). Entire communities were uprooted forcibly through military scare tactics. With being driven out of their homes, many people also lost some of their culture. Their way of life was infringed upon and their attitudes towards whites were becoming more and more unforgiving. Police intimidation was extremely prevalent during the apartheid. Whether it had to…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is perhaps the most iconic literary representation of the roaring 1920s of America in existence. Its perennial appearance in high school English class curricula signifies its lasting desirability, making the succinct novel difficult to translate to the big screen. Nonetheless, in the decades succeeding the novel’s release, several adaptations to screen have emerged; the most recent is the 2013 interpretation by director Baz Luhrmann. While the film…

uses consonance in “not...nor…come…good” to stress the “o” sound, intensifying the tone of hopelessness, and grief, and then suddenly slowing the line down to a period. In doing so, Shakespeare points out that it is futile for Hamlet to continue to rant regarding his bitter and depressed state. He can continue to go on “everlasting[ly]” and therefore, Shakespeare rapidly ends Hamlet’s poetic words, causing the reader to confront and understand that his despair presents itself to be continuous…

Marquél Jeffries American Literature 9-23-14 Christian Paradox Bill McKibben’s 2005 article, The Christian Paradox, is an attempt to notify our nation, The United States of America, about how people perceive it as a Christian nation, but the ideas of what one may label as American are contradicted. In the article, Bill McKibble represents the fact that if someone wants to call the United of America a Christian nation, the citizens here need to reevaluate the way our society is established.…

On the other hand, the movie is narrated by Chris’s sister (Carine McCandless) and his perspective. Chris McCandless in the book is portrayed as abrasive, where he rants against authority when confronted, for example in Chapter one when Jim Gallien, asked McCandless whether he had a hunting license, he responded with “Hell no,” “How I feed myself is none of the government’s businesses. F**k their stupid rules.” With…