The Book of Eli

An excerpt from David P. Szatmary’s book “Shays’ Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection” reads the following, “For it is clear that Shays’ Rebellion played an integral part in the genesis and formation of the United States Constitution adopted at Philadelphia in September 1787…

First inhabited in the second millennium BCE, Olympia is located in the western Peloponnese. Lying between Elis and Bassae, it is on the coast with the Arctic being its closest ocean. It is ten miles inland from the Ionian Sea near a point where the Alfios and Kladeos rivers meet. Sitting right at the edge of the Kronian hill, it stretches for miles filled with intricate temples. With each city-state having its own characteristics, Olympia is one of the most unique. In the Alfios valley lies…

Movement dates back even before the 20th century, into the country's formation itself. The Civil Rights Movement had a great impact on American society that still persists to this day, But what were the effects? What did the movement change in history books? But before that can be understood, it is first important to understand what caused this movement, and the previous history of the tensions. All movements have a driving ideal, something that sparks the fire, something that creates…

Uncle Toms Cabin was highly influential on the abolitionist(anti-slave) movement and how the meaning behind racism of the book of impacts the nation. Slavery was introduced in 1620 and went to the 18th century. One dutch ship brought the first 20 slaves to Jamestow, Virginia, where they were sold and bought. They were brought to do the dirtywork of the slave owner such as to aid in the production of crops like tobacco and cotton. All slaves counted as ⅗ of one person for the population for…

believing that nature and mankind was naturally good, contrary to the views of most of society that believed in the fall of creation like the Bible story. He is famous for his works in, “The Scarlet Letter”, and, “The House of Seven Gables”. In these books he goes into the ideas of corruption, guilt, and forgiveness (“Nathaniel Hawthorne”). These authors helped to popularize the movement of Romanticism in using writing styles different from the age prior to…

Even with this amplified/elaborated standard, the court was still unable to cap the influx in obscenity cases. In Memoirs v. Massachusetts, a book titled Fanny Hill, had been found to fit the first two characterizations of obscenity, by appealing to prurient interest and being patently offensive. However, the court could find no evidence that the book lacked social value and therefore, could only be labeled obscene if it were marketed for prurient appeal. To further clarify the criteria for…

at its peak, to the individual.” Brooks supports this statement by providing evidence through the recently released book called, “The All-or-Nothing Marriage” by Eli J. Finkel, one of America’s leading marriage researchers. Brooks uses this book to support his claims as it focuses on building a marriage around the frame that Maslow designed. Brooks uses this evidence because the book takes a rather interesting outlook on how a good marriage and relationship is built. The core of Brooks` entire…

made to get that job. As our society is becoming more and more technologically advanced, what jobs are in the most danger? What can we do in response to this impending revolution in labor? This problem identified itself in Eli Ginzberg’s book, “World Without Work.” in this book, he describes a world where no one has to labor away all day, and robots have replaced humans as the workers of the world. When reading about this theoretical event, I realized that the process has already started.…

Through the characters Shane, Eli, Worru and Meena , the disconnection with their culture is represented, resulting in deeply entrenched, multi-generational loss of culture and place. Eli’s confronting dialogue, “Well, what’s on the programme for today? How about a bottle of gnoop?”…

Technology silences us mentally and in order to regain our voices we must regain consciousness.While revising this essay the first thought that came to mind was to not think at all. I decided to let my laptop do the work for me. I began my revisions by searching for synonyms and antonyms related to technology, knowledge, and awareness and in between jumping from source to source I came across the word vacuous, meaning lacking in ideas or intelligence. I suddenly realized that I was…