The Birth-Mark

inside of a carpet to be given to Caesar. Cleopatra 's plan to gain Caesar 's favor worked without a hitch and she was given the backing of Caesar in her case for the throne. This backing was even further established nine month later as Cleopatra gave birth to Ptolemy XV Caesar, also known as Caesarian (Little Caesar). Caesar 's backing of Cleopatra led to the Battle of the Nile where Caesar defeated Ptolemy 's fleet, leading to Ptolemy XIII 's drowning. This relationship with Caesar landed…

It was the start of my 11th grade year, and my English teacher told me that we were going to be reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I became familiar with the book in 10th grade when my English teacher had our English class answer a few questions about the book. She handed out three different copies of the same passage from when the book was banned and then modified. Each one of these copies changed the “n-word” to “slave” and “robot” in order to make the story more appropriate for the…

Do you ever feel your life was decided on the day of birth? Most people will answer “no”. Because nowadays people understand that possibilities and chances are for everyone. But there is a time period that everyone’s fate is already written down? The story of Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain tells people the life by the Mississippi river in that time era. The story happens before the civil war. It describes a list of stories that happened on a white boy named Huck and many people Huck…

Helen Keller Disabled Rights Fighter Symbol of triumph, enthusiastic, and overachiever are three words that people think of in connection to Helen Keller. Many people know Helen Keller as a blind and deaf women, but she was so much more. As a member of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller showed the world that through determination, persistence, and positivity anyone can accomplish more than the usual. She left a legacy as a mute equal rights fighter. Many people did not…

me to gain a better understanding. I actually have a couple favorites and some that really stuck out to me. For instance, “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks is about abortions and what the aborting mother will never experience both during and after birth with the fetuses she’s aborted. It’s sad, and quite heartbreaking, but very real. Another good and pretty fun one is “Homage to My Hips” by Lucille Clifton. It discusses mainly bigger and more voluptuous hips that don’t seem to fit within…

language which the deaf can hear and blind can see” (Twain). For many years people in society have discriminated against a person who has a different life: different color, different gender, different beliefs, different cultures, and different morals. Mark Twain was known to be one of the greatest writers of all time but he was also quite a revolutionist. Through his writing he conveys a common ideal in order to enlighten his audience and help them recognize what equality is. Twain recognized…

Savior, counselor, friend, redeemer, shepherd, and I Am, are only some of the names brought to mind when confronted with who Jesus is, with a key one being Immanuel, or God with us. The exhaustive list should speak for itself in that Jesus encompasses every plausible Godly characteristic fathomable to man. While the human race assigns numerous titles to describe Jesus, personal introspection of who Jesus is might differ from that of a worldly viewpoint. Thus, deliberating on Jesus in a biblical…

Ernest Hemingway, one of the great American novelist, once said that one of Mark Twain’s novel was one book from which “all modern American literature came from”. Although the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a story of fiction, many real truths can be extracted from it. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a young boys’ journey named Huck that grows up in a society that attempts to influence and pressure individuals to act in a “civilized way” and to do the “right thing”. When…

Commentary Commenced by Caesar William Shakespeare shows the underlying theme of decision making of a human being within Julius Caesar. The process of decision making of a human being is based upon the way one is able to be persuaded. This is shown through Shakespeare’s use of characterization and response to that portrayal, diction, foreshadowing, and rhetoric. Characterization gives the character a chance to express one’s view based upon how they see the situation. The reaction of the…

Scholars have widely agreed that the Gospel of Luke has a special focus on the concern for the poor. This concern for the poor and marginalized first becomes obvious in the account of Jesus’ birth. In the Gospel of Matthew (2:1-12), it is the Magi, wealthy men from a distant country that come to worship Jesus, while Luke tells readers about shepherds- lowly men working in the fields coming to see the baby Jesus. Also, Luke has women, Elizabeth and Mary who as the focal point of the infancy…