Receptor antagonist

Buggers in Ender’s Game plays a major part of the novel’s plot. The characters, setting and plot revolve around the ploy to develop children to become soldiers to kill the buggers when they attack. The paranoia is what makes the story revolve around a child named Ender Wiggin, who was allowed to survive because he was the perfect combination of his siblings, Peter and Valentine. Ender’s balanced personality is what will make him the perfect commander to kill off the buggers. What if the buggers…

In the gator-ridden waters of Florida, a river tour guide gets entangled with the smuggling and sale of powerful synthetic drugs. BRIEF SYNOPSIS On the Withlacoochee River, RONNIE WAYNE WAINWRITE (38) attempts to flee from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conversation Commission and takes them on a wild chase with his airboat. They eventually arrest Ronnie for selling wild alligator hatchlings. In jail, he meets PANCHO LOPEZ who tells him about how he killed a large gator in the river. Ronnie…

The London Portrayals A twig snaps to your left. You quickly turn, the wind passing through your hair. You see nothing but the trees’ shadows. Snap! Another twig, this time to your right, and once again you turn, but this time you see two wolves. They both howl, then jump. You fall to the ground, the wolves clawing at your very soul. Both the book The Call of The Wild, and To Build a Fire by Jack London, focus on dogs and large ideas. While both books focus on large, metaphorical ideas, they…

For years the spotlight has been on the men of the film industry, but even back in the silent era women filmmakers were creating impressive pieces of art that surpassed many of the more “important” male directed movies. From Lois Weber’s Suspense (1913) to Ida Lupino’s Not Wanted (1949) female directors have made films that focus on women and the unexpected plights that life brings. While watching these two films it’s interesting to see how the men are portrayed, which includes the male…

In American society, the traditional monster is viewed in a multitude of ways, but there are some overlapping themes. Most Americans view monsters as large, scary, reptilian, and demonic. A few Americans think of vampires and werewolves when they hear the word monster though. When Americans are asked what form monsters usually take in their stories; they believe monsters take on the form of mythical beings with human qualities or creatures with multiple forms to transform into. Most Americans…

In the musical “Where’s Charley”, the main character, Charley, dresses as his aunt to shapparon his and his roommates dates. The show was set in the late 19th century and for the two young women to stay with two young men they had to have a shapparon. Charley’s aunt was suppose to arrive the morning of the lunch date, but she didn’t so, using the costume from his school performance, he dressed as a woman and pretended to be his aunt. The only reason the two young women, Amy and Kitty, met…

A Perfect Night to go to China by David Gilmour, and A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, both share and have differences in their elements of fiction. While David Gilmour’s fiction story and Ishmael Beah’s non-fiction story both follow the theme of the loss of innocence, Ishmael Beah’s story adheres more closely to these conventions by allowing its main character to mature, while David Gilmour’s character experience has no real growth. As understood when comparing both…

protagonist’s fate, and it is also what moves the plot along. However, in the end, Shakespeare and Belfoure decided to veer off the story into two opposite direction: One is a happy ending and the other, not so much. If the writer decides to save the antagonist, it will be a tragic ending, just like what happened in Macbeth. Macduff has the honor to end Macbeth’s life. In the other hand, The Paris…

“Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of nature. But there is an even more powerful dimension of nature which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again,”-Vikas Khanna. In the story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, the main character failed to have courage and intelligence. With these qualities along with following the 12 steps in “Deep Survival” by Laurence Gonzales, he would have…

In the book Tangerine the antagonist or villain, Erik Fisher stands out in the novel as the worst villain. Erik was very sneaky for stealing all their jewelry and house belongings from innocent people. On the contrary, Paul would never steal anything from anyone, Paul would be trustworthy…