The Best Bet

“The Red Wheelbarrow” is a short poem written by William Carlos Williams that is broken down into four stanzas. After the first time reading the poem you see Mr. Williams’ ability to depict a scenario with sixteen simple words. The structure of the poem and word usage brings the reader closer to the scene being painted by Mr. Williams’. The first stanza brings the reader in and captures there attention by stating “so much depends upon.” You begin to wonder what can be so important. The…

The short story The Ransom of Red chief by O.henry the author uses humor to affect the reader. For example Red chief is not like all kids who want to go home. When kidnapped he likes it. The two robbers Bill and Sam feels weird about Red chief. Red chief likes to be kidnapped. ¨Äll right!¨ says he. ¨That'll be fine. I never had such fun in all my life.¨ Red Chief does not really care of being kidnapped from his home he likes it because he has soo much fun with the Bill and Sam. Another example…

Background Information Evil’s Destroyer is a person that is known as Aaron Whitener. Evil’s Destroyer was burned in a fire and was turned into half cyborg and sent to save the world. Evil’s Destroyer was born on the Planet Pleon, but his parents were killed by killer cyborgs. This made him have a vengence to save the world from cyborgs and all evil. He was influenced by the death of his parents to save the world. Evil’s Destroyer purpose is to save the world. He is 6 foot tall, blue eyes, and…

Cloaking in white calls back the previous two times Sansa was covered by Sandor’s white cloak: after she was stripped and beaten in court and after the failed “wife-stealing” of the Blackwater. So the bed in this passage becomes the marriage bed after the cloaking ceremony. It’s not simply a matter of “knowing what happens” in the marriage bed, but a place to confess her desires as a mature and enthusiastically willing bride. Eyes open and no cold feet! At the beginning of the chapter, we…

Abstract The movie Life is Beautiful is about a family that endures life at the concentration camp during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, Jews were taken away from their homes by the Nazis and put into concentration camps, in which they were treated brutally. The Holocaust left many victims dead and remains as an example that something like the Holocaust shall never happen again. Life is Beautiful, a movie about a family in a concentration camp, is an inaccurate representation of the…

upon various figures and misfortunes that illustrates the flaws in optimism. Seeing that optimism is focused on hope and happiness, Voltaire purposely places Candide in scenarios where he faces tragedy, but continues to believe that all is for the best. Voltaire makes it clear that his work on Candide is nothing more than a parody, rather ask the question how can an individual justify tragedies with optimism? To understand Voltaire’s reflection of optimism in Candide stems from a real world…

We all want what we don't have. Everyone would like to be living someone's else's life at some point of their lives. I wonder if that was what it was like for the half-bloods we always hear about. You know, the half-bloods like Percy and Annabeth, all those ones that we always hear stories about. You spend your time dazing off thinking did they spend their entire lives wishing they could be like regular kids, with no intensity and adventure in their lives? But here's the main question and…

John Wayne plays a stubborn, but strong willed man in Red River. Playing Thomas Dunson came off as one of the more believable performances. Wayne uses his voice much more than his body. Psychically he is a bit stiff, but that may be because he’s hardly moving around in the film. His expression are smooth just like his voice, all of the emotion the character is feeling comes out in the way he speaks and looks. Once things start to pick up, you can almost feel the difference in character because…

The Great Dictator, an American satirical political comedy written and played by Charlie Chaplin during the time the United States was still formally at peace with Germany. Chaplin's film advanced a harsh and controversial condemnation of Adolf Hitler, fascism, anti semitism, and the Nazis. Charlie Chaplin plays a poor Jewish barber, the main protagonist. The Barber was a soldier during World War I and loses his memory for about 20 years then becomes of the Fuhrer of Tomainia due to his…

In the story “The Finish of Patsy Barnes” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and the story “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” written by Ray Bradbury the main characters are plenty different but also the same in many ways. Both boys, Patsy from “The Finish of Patsy Barnes” and Joby from “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, are equally changed for the good at the end of each story. “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” takes place in the American Civil War at a Union camp in the middle of the night. Joby, the main character who’s…