Sinister Six

“BREAKING NEWS” seems to be the consistent thing to read nowadays. I stare at the screen with the words in all-caps and red ink and think, Does this truly get people to read? Another life gone from racism and brutality. I begin to cry, remembering a December night two years ago. I was riding the local light rail to Phoenix for a show. There were a handful of people on board. Two police officers were walking around, asking for our tickets. One didn’t obey. One told the cops to mind their own…

significance of the three-legged stool- as old as the tripod of the Delphic oracle, as new as the Christian trinity. For that which supports the present day box of meaningless and perverted superstition is the body of unexamined tradition of at least six thousand years of man’s history.” It represents how man supports old, archaic traditions and uses things like the bible in order to support his or her viewpoint. Even to this day, people still use the Bible to support their views such as…

The structure of the two poems is very different. ‘Dulce et decorum Est’ is basically a narrative. It tells a story. Owen divides it into three sections, which deal with events before, during and after the gas attack. The first section creates a sinister, tense atmosphere. The long lines seem to drag and feel exhausted. The second section opens with the dramatic contrast of the sudden gas attack: ‘Gas! Gas! Quick boys!’ The rhythms are suddenly more agitated and panic stricken. The…

Under the control of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. After Germany’s downfall in World War II, the Nazi Party was convicted of war crimes related to the murder of some six million European Jews during the Nazis’ control. But during his time, the Nazi created a program for the superior race this was called the Lebensborn program. This program was designed to breed the master race and stop the high rate of abortion which was at 800,000 in…

The Art of Persuasion An activist is a person who seeks for social or economic change; similarly, an extremist is someone who holds intense beliefs and acts upon them. An extreme activist is when someone has fanatical beliefs about social issues and seeks to change them in utmost ways. Two examples of extreme activists are Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. Henry David Thoreau was an American author that was motivated by his disgust with slavery to write the persuasive commentary…

until 1711 when it was burned by the great fire of Boston). The spot would later be the sit of the Old Corner Bookstore. The Hutchinson was soon granted Taylor’s Island in the Boston Harbor. For which they let their sheep graze. They also acquired six hundred acres…

Heart Of Darkness is one of the most important Joseph Conrad’s novels. It was written in 1899 in English, his third language, and its main topics are the relation between civilitation and savages and the evil side of the human being. It is considered to be one of the most difficult books to understand because the quantity of symbols that dull the reading. During the story, there are a lot of details we have to consider and think about them as messages the writter wanted to reflect. Let’s divide…

Totalitarian government has existed in the world since the first civilization. In the science fiction novel 1984 by George Orwell, the main character Winston Smith is just a regular citizen of Oceania who lives with basically nothing and is controlled by Big Brother every single day. Winston ends up being brainwashed and a perfect citizen of Oceania. In the book 1984, it shows the life style of being controlled by the government. Kim Jong Un and Big Brother are extremely alike. They are both…

Not wishing to have the close-up view of the three fighters on his doorstep, gawking into his home. Twisting the rusty knob, he acknowledged them some five or six feet from his home, staying close to their horses, staring at him like men of ice. Closing the door behind him, Eutropio was intent on getting it over with and sending them back on their way as soon as possible. The couple had no neighbours, nobody…

younger sibling, chances are you’ve probably switched on the television, and watched the popular kid’s show Phineas and Ferb, which happens to have a very catchy theme song that is nice to hum to. But if you listen to the lyrics, there is a more sinister, sadder message behind the theme song. For instance, the theme song is about all of the possible adventures Phineas and Ferb can do during summer vacation, and most of them are strange and unheard of, such as finding a dodo bird, because they…