The Bare Necessities

to do. He was certain the reason for his despairs was due to the inability to attack Boston. Both parties of war were at a stalemate not knowing when to attack or if they even should due to the increasing severity of the weather and the lack of necessities from the American side was said to play a huge part. Washington wished to attack the British also, but the war council was too afraid of defeat, since they had just been defeated at Quebec. The council wanted to be careful and did not want…

The distinction between humans and animals in fact depends upon humans, as only beings that possess reason can be reasonable, and only those with such an ability that then fail to be temperate are reduced to a subhuman being. Human status is reached “not merely through struggle within the individual but also through the struggle between individuals,” and Lear relies on diminishing his daughters in order to maintain supremacy (Fudge 67). Lear emphasizes his daughter’s vices by comparing their…

As a recount of events unraveling prior to 1942 come to show that there was very little factual evidence to support the “necessity” of interning the Japanese Americans. As stated by the author “J. Edgar Hoover Wrote...that the public hysteria was groundless”.(7) regarding the American’s response toward the Japanese Americans. The author notes that J. Edgar Hoover’s opinion was…

A Singular Perspective In her speech, “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie used relatable personal experiences, pathos, dialogues, statistics, and symbolism to convince her audience to see the complication of human beings. The purpose of Adichie’s message was to provide another perspective on the danger of a single story. The single story presented is actually multi-faceted as many perspectives yield different responses. For example, people here ask Adichie about the weather…

the growing number of apartments in the US, there will continue to be a sprawl in moving inside of apartments. There are no current incentives that outweigh the cons for most millennials that are only trying to make it by in our economy through the bare…

“...You are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God’s place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things” (Christopher McCandless). Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a novel about Chris McCandless’ journey and his beliefs, which tie closely with a short excerpt by Ralph Waldo Emerson called “Nature.” In Into the Wild, Chris McCandless values the beauty of…

with nearly impossible working hours and brutal living circumstances. The animals’ inhumane lifestyles are described as, “They knew that life nowadays was harsh and bare, that they were often hungry and often cold, and that they were usually working when they were not asleep” (Orwell 113). The animals are not allowed basic necessities, and are struggling every day. Rather than receiving the easy life that was advertised to them, they suffer relentlessly from an easily avoidable situation. The…

One fine Sabbath afternoon, the eligible Mr William Postlethwaite and I took a gentle walk across the moors around Mansfield House. The views were as exceptional as ever and the landscape 's bleak, rolling hills inspired my imagination far more than the character of my escort. I had considered him a fine gentleman on first impression, yet closer acquaintance soon revealed an altogether cold and tedious young man, one with whom any notion of union still causes me to shudder. My tolerance of Mr…

This 2016 print advertisement from the London based financial information company taps into the need of people for leisure and calls them to thoughtful action about investments through pathos, logos and irony. The at first glance simple arrangement of a sentence fragment and clock parts creates a competition between money and time to entice adult readers new to the investment world to use the company for financial advice; cultured and expected responses are used in a negative light to engender…

almost two weeks, my eyes slowly opened to a ceiling that wasn't white tile. My body felt heavy with sleep and my brain still filled with fragments of my dream from the night before. I rolled over to tuck my solid black comforter farther between my bare legs and pushed my body deeper into the mattress, one that wasn't foreign, stained, and filled with metal springs, but rather my own familiar one, which was newer and packed with foam and feathers on the inside. My only desire was to fall back…