Richard Connell

This book, Up Close: Ronald Reagan, mostly focused on the fact that Ronald Reagan was awesome. Ronald grew up with an alcoholic father, this one time he came home to his father passed out in the yard, so he brought him inside and took care of him. He had a girlfriend who left him when things were getting distant, she got engaged to another man. Then Ronald hit the big time, Hollywood actor. Then his father passed away after his second heart attack, but Ronald kept moving forward, living his…

In Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s Think Like a Freak many key aspects of challenging unconventional thinking and “thinking like a freak”. One piece of advice the book offers is to incentivize people, but don’t manipulate them. This is valuable advice, which many people will find to be a beneficial resource to getting what they want. Incentives can be useful in achieving goals that would be otherwise unattainable without the help of others. Humans are inherently selfish beings, not…

Victor Frankenstein’s solitary work leads to selfishness because he is solely responsible for his creation and would receive all the glory for his creation if it is successful. Selfishness is defined as an individual becoming consumed with the prospect of success that they neglect their social relationships. Unlike Frankenstein’s solitary work, Smith’s proposed division of labor promotes harmonious relationships between individuals because multiple people are working together to create something…

The Globe Theater was one of the most famous playhouses in the Elizabethan era. Actors performed many Shakespearean plays at the Globe. In 1599, Shakespeare and his company built the original Globe Theater. It flourished for nearly 14 years.In 1613, a fire took place at the Globe Theater and burnt it down. The company rebuilt the theater the following year. However, in 1642, under Puritan rule, the English Parliament suppressed all forms stage plays and theater. The Puritans destroyed the…

In the text, “Notes of A Native Son” by James Baldwin, a story is told about his father’s life and death. The beginning of the essay discussed the day timeframe of when his father passed. This timeframe explained that during that time riots were breaking out in the streets due to injustice in the city of Detroit. The day of his father funeral was also the day that the after effect of the riots were shown. The author explained that driving to the cemetery, you could see broken glass and remnants…

To honor our past president, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of Great Britain, delivered a eulogy to the American people on June 11th 2004. As the prime minister of Great Britain, Thatcher spoke respectfully of Reagan and their deep friendship they had, symbolizing the tight relationship between America and Great Britain. Thatcher delivers this eulogy in the purpose of praising Reagan for his great accomplishments, including saving america. With patronizing and…

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which is a traditional soul food in African American and South-East American cuisine. In particular this reference can be attributed to influential leaders at the time slowly approaching the topic of integration only when it was necessary. Though Richard Nixon took the first steps to start desegregation in the south it was a long process and was far from the integration of culture that many civil rights leaders wanted. In particular his Vice President Spiro Agnew took no action when he was given…

Australia followed the United States footsteps in this anti-war movement and on the 8th of May 1970 around 200,000 people throughout Australia, took part and marched in Moratoriums calling for an end to the war in Vietnam. Many have called it ‘the greatest single demonstration of strength that the peace movement in Australia has ever achieved’, Melbourne gathered the largest numbers which is estimated to be at least 70,000 and even as many as 100,000. The media and conservative politicians had…

He is failing to see reality in one way or another . In the story he is invited to repeat his valedictory speech in which he said that " humility was the secret , indeed , the very essence of progress" (449) before the white leaders of the town. These men, however, humiliate the protagonist and some other black youths by forcing them to engage in a "battle royal," a blindfolded fist fight in which the last standing participant is victorious and tempting them to fight for counterfeit coins tossed…