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In Korea, after Korean war, almost facilities were destroyed. The soldier took the power and controls Korea. The government keep oppress citizens and media. They have no freedom, it finally cause 5.18 Gwangju Uprising. There is a relationship between John Locke and Gwangju Uprising. Based on John Locke’s idea, in his “Social Contract”, we can know that it is very similar with Gwangju Uprising, In this revolution, people resist from government and finally elect new president. In Locke’s idea,…

On September 11th, 2001, 19 members of the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda high jacked four airliners and executed suicide attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the pentagon in DC, and the last one was in a field in Somerset County in Pennsylvania. I am going to give a review on the two planes that hit the Twin Towers in New York City. At 8:45 am on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 was high jacked midflight and went on to crash into the north tower of the…

Passion for social class, desire for knowledge, and love of the material, captures the essence of the characters in The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. Set in the 1920’s the novel explores multiples characters’ journey through Paris and America. From minor characters like Sophie and Gray to main characters like Larry and Isabel. In The Razor’s Edge, Gray’s weary character is used as a foil to amplify Larry’s vibrant character to emphasize how a person is not derived from wealth and social…

Somerset Maugham said, “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life” which I think directly relates to the novel given that Luo and the narrator are put into a new lifestyle. They use reading…

Introduction The Disability Act 2005 defines disability in relation to a person entails a restriction in the capacity of a person to undertake a profession, business or occupation in the state or to engage in social or cultural life because of physical, sensory, mental health or intellectual impairment (National Disability Authority, 2014). To further elaborate intellectual disability is described as a disability identified by vital limitations both in intellectual functioning (reasoning,…

object is unobtainable, the more it is desired. The difference in each individual’s desire is the item and the severity of desire. In Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants and Cat in the Rain, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and W. Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge, the characters are hedonists who let their desires portray who they are and control their actions. Hedonists are people who want money, pleasure, and other worldly desires. They are selfish, self-centered people who…

lead me down the career path I am currently perusing. Biologically, I should have followed my father and became a mechanic, but I wanted to expanded my skill set, and have a chance to make a larger income; therefore, I decided to start classes at Somerset Community, to study Applied Science, where I hope to graduate quickly, and begin my career as a technical engineer, with the knowledge I accumulated on my own, despite my…

Quietly I sit staring, watching and wondering. My thoughts swirling through my mind, complete chaos right now. I contemplate even daring to write such a paper. I know the backlash that will come with an opinion such as mine. Even so, I am only passionate about one thing. Nothing else drives me. Nothing else speaks to my soul. Only one thing moves me forward in life. It is what separates me and yet joins me with the rest of humanity. It is love… A love so vehement and unabating. This…

Henry Fitzroy: The Lucky Bastard Henry Fitzroy was the product of King Henry and King Henry’s mistress, Elizabeth Blount. This parentage, although involving King Henry, means he was an illegitimate heir to the throne of England. But power was slipping from their hands, and Henry became their last resort (Loades 146). Although the life of Henry Fitzroy ended early, he was a key character whose existence gave fleeting hope to not only his father Henry VIII and his half-sister Mary, but the fate…

On September 11, 2001, four airline planes were hijacked, resulting in about 3,000 deaths and 6,000 injuries. As two planes ran into the World Trade Center in New York City, one jet flew into the Pentagon as the fourth plane was headed towards Washington D.C. Responsible for the countless deaths on that Tuesday morning was Osama bin Laden followed by his Islamic terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, and no one else (Elizabeth Purdy 12). Countless conspiracy theories come to life after impacting events…