Scott Adkins

Rayah Robbins The best song lyric I ever heard was by artist J. Cole. In the song “Love Yours”, he explained the most essential things in life. He talks about poverty compared to wealth which is interesting. He says “There’s beauty in the struggle…” This inspired me due to the fact I been through struggles before. The struggle made me a more humbling person and also see the world more beautiful. This lyric arguably is the most amazing lyric I ever heard. J. Cole’s song “Love Yourz” begins by…

“INTROVERTS AND EXTROVERTS AROUND THE WORLD, ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?” “NO.” “OH, OKAY.” Simon Ratcliffe Pd: 5 11-20-2017 What are introverts and extraverts? What are introverts and extraverts? Introverts and extroverts are very different from each other, as Carl Jung the popularizer of the 2 terms introverted and extroverted says”The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” The terms of introvert, extrovert, and…

Hopes and dreams play a role of great importance in the novel Of Mice and Men. The author, John Steinbeck, uses the motivation provided by the dreams of characters to keep the novel progressing. In many ways, the individual dreams of the characters and the so-called “American Dream” provides the basis for the novel. Towards the end of the novel, many dreams are crushed when the characters were actually finding real hope. George and Lennie are two men who dream of having their own land with a…

When creating a story, symbolism can be a crucial factor that helps represent ideas and morals that build onto the characters and the work as a whole. Things Fall Apart and The Poisonwood Bible both use a great amount of symbolism to create a picture for the reader and connect ideas throughout the plot. In Things Fall Apart, the harvesting of yams is used as a symbol to represent wealth and fire is also used to describe Okonkwo’s aggressive behavior. The Poisonwood Bible uses a parrot named…

Social and cultural development is the progression of both the social and cultural ways of living of particular people and a country. People catalyze the growth in the society and in our case Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, and Henry Ford participated in the cultural and economic development of their countries. In the 1920’s people spent most of their time partying rather than working and thus athletes were heroes as they were the only source of the people's entertainment. The Model T, sports…

This quote in Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, emphasizes the bond between George and Lennie, the two protagonists of the novella. From this point on, the two attached their dreams to each other for the sake of a better future. Because they attached their dreams to each other, in the end their goals were not achieved. Just like how you attach an unrealistic dream of living happily and possibly creating a family with Daisy, George and Lennie create an unrealistic dream attaching each…

In the classic novel “Brave New World” by the 20th century English author, Aldous Huxley, Huxley questions the values and goals of 1931 London through the use of irony and satire to portray a futuristic version of the world in which the social trends of Great Britain and the United States are taken to extremes. The world Huxley writes about, since the setting is still on Earth but an unknown amount of time in the future, is still able to resonate with readers today. Within Brave New World,…

Emotions as expressed towards one another In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, many characters are introduced; among them Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, their eight children, some interesting guests, and housekeepers. As the day goes on more and more characters interact with one another, sprouting some very entertaining and frightful emotions. Through interactions with Mr. Ramsay and James, Mrs. Ramsay and James, Lily Briscoe and Charles Tansley, and Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay it is obvious that all of these…

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children significantly shaped the course of Indian writing in English. This great work of art gave Rushdie a prominent position in the literary canon. He got a definite place in the readers‟ heart. Midnight's Children is a typical example of a postcolonial novel that integrates the elements of magic realism into it. The author‟s intentional use of magic realism helps in bringing out the surreal and unreal dimensions of the Indian subcontinent and thereby making it a…

the American ideal. In a period were everyone possesses the innate ability to succeed and supersede the middle class quality of life, there lies the ultimate object in gaining and grasping the future, the American belief. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald imposes the fact that through the power of one’s mind to excel, he or she may be successful in a time of the twenties. Main characters Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway and George Wilson become the representing…