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election of 2016 will not be forgotten anytime soon. With a surprising turn of events of Donald Trump somehow winning. Millions of American citizens are in anguish with these results. The Best Man by Gore Vidal, November by David Mamet, All the Way by Robert Schenkkan, and Crucible by Arthur Miller share similar themes with the 2016 election. First off, The Best Man represents the cunningness between candidates. Secondly, November shows the ridiculousness of the election. Thirdly, All the Way…

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What Have I Contributed? (An analysis of each of the 4 Keats poems and their messages) John Keats is the last of the generation two poets, who wrote many influential writings. Throughout time Keat’s importance to the world of poetry has grown immensely. In Keat’s shorts life he feared that his writings would never grow to be significant, but his thoughts were completely opposite of reality. Dying at age 25, his world were definitely influential because of how although, he did not live a long…

One of Bruegel’s most alluring landscape paintings is titled, Landscape with the Flight into Egypt. Like many of Bruegel’s other compositions, this small landscape emphasizes the role nature plays in the lives of contemporary men and women. The jagged coastline along the estuary or lake stretches into the distance. The color palette of blues, greens, and browns, complement each other very well in that it creates an innovative way to give the impression of depth. Right off the bat, the viewer…

Editing the Prairies 1. According to the speaker, the prairies have many problems, such as its fences, skies, and flat landscape. The speaking states the land is “too long”, hinting to its flat landscape, that gives the impression that the fields go on forever. As well, the speaker said how the fences are disruptive to the flow of nature. This insinuates that the land looks untouched and natural, until the fences break the facade and show sign of human contamination. Lastly, the speaker…

There are times when life’s situations make us do drastic choices, to help us escape, find ourselves or even to heal the soul within. In the novels “Into the Wild,” and “Wild” both of the characters take an unimaginable trip out into the wilderness to escape everyone and everything that at one point in their life’s was important to them. Both “Into the Wild” and “Wild” are distinctly different from each other, despite wilderness being both of the stories it’s symbol. The distinctions between…

In the book, the Mice of Men George and Lennie are kicked out of Weed. They end up with a job at the ranch where they meet new people and learn new things. Lennie, George, and Curley have many different adjectives to describe them because they are so different from one another. Due to their characteristic Lennie, George, and Curley have conflicts between each other. That contrast them from each other. Each and every one of these charters is unique and special. In the book of Mice of Men Lennie…

have a work contract at a local ranch so that they one day might purchase property of their own; however, due to Lennie’s childlike mental state the goal seems far-fetched. In his poem, ‘To a Mouse’, which is also the source of the novella’s title, Robert Burns wrote, “The best laid schemes of mice and men / Go often askew,” which can be compared to George’s goals of achieving the elusive American Dream together with Lennie, but as the poem also suggests this will go askew, and this is Lennie’s…

Of Mice and Men is set outside the town of Soledad, California during The Great Depression, where two childhood friends make their way from the town of Weed to find work. Everywhere jobs are scarce and these men face many hardships on their journey. Throughout the story, Steinbeck hints that all will not end well; this creates a gloomy mood that winds its way to a dismal conclusion. In Of Mice and Men nearly every scene serves as foreshadowing for the inevitable tragic ending. In the first…

No, please tell me I’m not seeing this, Alexis thought. But she was. It was a back. A human back, with a black jacket on. The hill of a shoulder, a dip, then a small hump for a hip. From her angle, Alexis couldn’t see the face. All she could see was the back. A human unmoving back curled up in a bush. This thrilling book, The Body in the Woods, by April Henry, will keep you up all night. This book report will explore the amazing characters, intriguing plot, and fascinating setting of this…