In an emergency would you panic, or would you be calm and prepared? The short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is about the hunter, Rainsford, stepping into the shoes of the prey. He needed to know survival skills to avoid being caught and killed. Like the character, people should know the basics of survival in case of such emergency. It is an important skill to learn because catastrophe is unpredictable. You never know when you could need it. Concerning the above, it is…
Kohlberg and The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell’s short story The Most Dangerous Game exhibits a morally undeveloped character who owns an island. The character, General Zaroff, shows characteristics from the Theories of Moral Development by Lawrence Kohlberg, which describes how a human being progresses through six moral stages. In Connell’s story a man named Rainsford is shipwrecked on an island where the madman Zaroff hunts him. General Zaroff displays the moral stages of zero and one…
If someone were to ask, “what are the kind of words are you NOT allowed to say called?”, how would you respond? Cursing? Swearing? Cussing? Having a foul mouth? There are many different variations of this peculiar part of the English language, but one thing is clear about them: you may get in trouble for saying them. Along with having many different names, this part of the language that will be called profanity originates from many different subjects of what is considered taboo. But just who…
If nothing else, Bernstein and Woodward were persistent with finding all the information they needed to support their story. One of the difficulties they faced when writing their article was getting the appropriate people to give information on the issue. The two would often find the people who had the information, but they would not be able get their source to speak on the subject. To take it further, when they did find people who wanted to speak on the topic, they would often refuse to go on…
Richard Wagner is known to be an influential and controversial composer. Richard was born in Germany on May 22, 1813. He is famous for his operas and writings. His operas were very complex and his writings were very famous. Surprisingly, as a young boy, he did not show an ability to play music. However, he was very ambitious and worked very hard to be a great composer and writer. At the age of 11, he wrote his first drama. By the time he was 16 years old, he was writing musical composition…
Scooby-Doo plush was the best thing I could ask for. One day, when I was 12-years-old, at a carnival, my uncle Ray, helped me win a game and we won that plush as the prize. My plush looks like Scooby, from the most recognized show Scooby Doo, Where Are You!. He is a brown dog, with two black spots, floppy ears, two crossed-eyes with black eyebrows, a cute black nose, and no scratches. Scooby is sitting on his hind legs, with his left front paw up like you are going to shake his paw and the…
Richard Charles and Oscar Hammerstein Richard Charles Rodgers was a composer. Richard wrote over 900 songs and did 43 broadway plays. He was born june 28, 1902 near long island, New York. He died december 30, 1979. His father was successful physician and his mother was a amueture musician. Richard started music when he was six, he played the piano. By the age of fourteen he had written two popular songs. His first song that was published was “any old place with you” in 1919. Richard met…
John Winthrop was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and gave a speech in 1620 on the trip to America on the ship Arabella due to low morale and fright. Reagan had ended his second term in 1989, and gave a farewell address to summarize his term and send America off the its new president. Reagan and Winthrop both created the image of a “city on the hill” to prompt perfection and devout faith in their respective communities, and appealed to brotherhood and the common identity of their…
presidents. The two presidents of the twentieth century that provide the most contrast in this regard are Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served from 1933 until his death in 1945, and Republican Richard Milhous Nixon, who served from 1969 until his resignation in 1974 (“The Franklin”; “The Richard”). Roosevelt is widely considered to be a much more effective president than Nixon since Roosevelt helped lead the US out of the Great Depression, maintained good relations with Congress in…
Robert Bork was nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court on July 1, 1987 by President Ronald Reagan. He was a Senior Judicial Advisor to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and solicitor general under President Richard M. Nixon. He fired Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, in what became known as the “Saturday Night Massacre”. He opposed the Supreme Court’s one man, one vote decision on legislative apportionment. He wrote an article opposing the 1964 Civil…