Richard II

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff demonstrates an attitude of extreme self-entitlement and an aggressively competitive nature to maintain dominance on Ship-Trap Island. General Zaroff, from the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” most certainly demonstrates the character of a typical gothic villain. Firstly, General Zaroff has a very attractive and compelling presence which masks his evil nature. Secondly, General Zaroff evokes a level of terror…

President Donald Trump has unleashed another early morning Monday Tweets attacjing Sen. Richard Blumenthal "vietnam record." This came as a result of Blumenthal's open support on CNN for the investigation into the alleged Russian collision tin last years election. Sen. Blumenthal said,"politicizing the Department of Justice for personal ends, I think, is a disservice to the law, and it’s also potentially a violation of the spirit of the First Amendment." This attack from Sen. Blumenthal got…

For my composer’s report, I decided to research the infamous works of Wilhelm Richard Wagner. I was extremely interested in Wagner’s work due to the fact that he was one of Adolph Hitler’s favorite composers. I was intrigued to hear what caught Hitler’s attention and to learn what affect his interest had on Wagner’s legacy. While doing research, I learned that Wagner was behind the very famous opera titled Tristan and Isolde. I had previously heard of that opera throughout my life, but I never…

Throughout “It’s Morning Again in America”, Ronald Reagan’s main point that he is trying to get across to the listeners is that the state of the country is at an all-time record high. Reagan uses many examples to show this throughout his speech in ways that the audience can relate to and agree with, thus showing associational identification. These facts and examples are used in order to cover up what was actually going on at the time when it came to the status of the United States. Through the…

mere thought of not getting something we desire and therefore not eating. But for Richard in the book Black Boy written by Richard Wright, hunger is much more than that. Richard suffered physical hunger in which he doesn't have any food to eat. Yet he also experiences mental and emotional hunger is which he wants to be noticed. This autobiography shows what hunger is like to Richard and what he does to end it. Richard is constantly battling physical hunger. When his father leaves him, his…

The lesser of two evils: that is how Hunter S. Thompson describes Richard Nixon in, “Fear and Loathing in the Bunker”, published in 1974. He argued that voting for Nixon was a better decision than voting for Humphreys. Thompson believed that both Humphrey and Nixon were both equally corrupt. However, he claimed that Humphrey would have been more competent and therefore would have maintained his corrupt presidential office for the full eight year term. Thompson’s claims initially appeared to hold…

As president, Nixon was more progressive than many might give him credit for. He pushed for renewal by Congress of Johnson’s Voting Rights Act of 1965 in 1970. Additionally, the Nixon administration established biracial committees to desegregate schools in the southern states completely, and also created a Presidential Task Force on Women’s Rights in order to help end discrimination on the basis of sex. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency in 1973, which continues to propose new…

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director Andrew McCabe altered Peter Strzok's 302 notes during his interview with then-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and destroyed evidence, a new report suggests. Conservative commentator and journalist Mike Cernovich reports McCabe changed official FBI notes Strzok took when he interviewed Flynn last February, but that he destroyed evidence of his revision history. In a series of tweets on Sunday, Cernovich reported the FBI…

Bill O’ Reilly and Martin Dugard took it upon themselves to continue their popular series with an attempt at telling the great story of Ronald Reagan. Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and his story is very remarkable including a defining moment in his life when John Hinckley Jr. took an attempt on Reagan’s life. In Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency, the authors use that event as a basis for the book and look to show the significance of that event.…

“Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, illustrates great significance with depression that reflects in today’s upper class societal issues. His poem is about a rich man that commits suicide and the thoughts of the people who encounter him during his everyday life. Outward appearances are not always, what it seems. Those who suffer from depression can appear to be happy and loving people on the outside, but on the inside, can be suffering from unrelenting nightmares. While money does not…