save bullets. Everyone at the reservation was butchered and it means nothing to me? Oh yeah, I went into Lincoln to take Murphy’s head. And that’s when John Tunstall found me, and he took me in, and he taught me a better way to bury Murphy.” The silent film, The Great Train Robbery, also is a different source relating to the abysmal failure of the American West. This 1902 film that is primarily representing the myth of abysmal failure. Between the multiple injuries…
Space, Place, and Landscape Nineteenth century Russian literature is grounded in its attention to the national manifestations of life and nature. These environmental and personal references are ultimately further emphasized because of their prevalence in metaphors, intrusive narrators, events, and the intricate psyche of characters. Upon close explorations of the local landscapes within these visual texts, there is a conjunction of themes and perception, as these environments shape the events…
apartment windows, and see the smaller kids like me getting ready to have relay races and actually enjoy the sun, and my favorite which was seeing the coquito man come up the hill with his truck. A coquito in english is simply an icee, and during the summer for one dollar it was a gift sent from above. I was actually running down the hill to meet the coquito man, who we called Papa Juan, and I was stopped by a police officer. I remember feeling terrified…
At the end of 2014 on December 9th, J Cole released his album 2014 Forest Hills Drive which was the address of his childhood home, and this album had no featuring artists. Releasing an album with no features was a rare occurrence in the hip-hop industry and was only done by top-tier artists and even then it was difficult for their…
Collin Simpson June 21, 2016 Greek Final Part Two Professor M. Demos When a book is adapted into a film, it usually goes one of two ways. The first is that the film closely follows the source material, with a few minor variations. The second option is that the film takes a far different route from the book, with sometimes so many changes that it is almost unrecognizable from the original source material. The tragic Greek play, Iphigenia in Aulis, written by the playwright Euripides, when…
It was around eleven p.m. when a disastrous earthquake hit everywhere in the United States. It devoured several cities including Newport Beach. That Earthquake was the start of the end of the of the strongest country in the face of Earth and maybe of the existence of humankind. Families and friends were separated maybe for some time or for the rest of their entire life. Billy was only a 16-year old boy whose family was killed by their own house. Billy was in shock. He knew he had to be smart and…
Ray Bradbury, the author of “The Pedestrian,” writes, “And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.” According to Kathiann Kowalski, most college students in America use cell phones for 9 hours a day on average. The “Primal Screen” by Ellen Goodman is an editorial that gives specific facts and information about how much…
Nefreit, I swear, spazzed. She turned so quickly towards me, I thought she was gonna hit me. Her smile was wide, as she talked with her hands. Left and right. "It's, like, huge." Deen chuckled; pervert. "You sit with one person and you go up along a hill and it rests there, before dropping you. Each time is different so you'll never know when it…
Introduction Nathaniel Hawthorne had deep bonds with his Puritan ancestors and created a story that both highlighted their weaknesses and their strengths. His knowledge of their beliefs and his admiration for their strengths were balanced by his concerns for their rigid and oppressive rules.The Scarlet Letter shows his attitude toward these Puritans of Boston in his portrayal of characters, his plot, and the themes of his story. The early Puritans who first came to America in 1620 founded a…
Interesting Characters Shakespeare uses important events in the play to highlight the interesting characteristics of the main characters. Although Macbeth has many personalities, evolving consistently, the play reveals many intriguing characters. Each of them possesses qualities that make them unique. Lady Macbeth is an ambitious woman, yet as the plot unfolds, she becomes the exact opposite compared to her character in the beginning of the play . Also, Banquo is a character who remains pure…