The Butter Battle Book

became famous for her secretive underground railroad that led an enormous amount of slaves to freedom by following the North Star. Fredrick Douglas became famous for being able to read and write an intelligent book about his life. George Washington Carver became famous for peanut butter. What they all have in common could be found in their rebellion or shown that they knew more than what they masters’ thought they…

Christianity, 193). Each religion has its form of “Original Sin”. Zoroastrianism’s “Original Sin” is the Shaoshyant, Yama, thinking a bad thought and releasing the Evil spirits on to the world, which brings the end of human immortality and starts the battle between good and evil; whereas, in the Christian religion, Adam and Eve partake in the forbidden fruit and lose their immortality, home in the Garden of Eden, and have to atone for their sins (a form of good vs evil). In addition, the…

it may seem like women are insignificant in this book and exist for the sole purpose of being dominated by sex. The limited time women appear they are placed disempowering and typically oppressive situations. However, during the time women are present their behaviours and effects prove them to be powerful. When being scrutinized, culturally weakened, and disadvantaged, Ellison depicts women as wielding power to hold their own with men. In the battle royal a white stripper is brought out to…

Before Butter” Private Kniptash, Private Donnini, and Private Coleman are prisoners of war with Corporal Kleinhans as their German guard. The POWs make a habit out of exchanging and creating recipes together while the corporal scolds them for thinking about food while they are on such low rations (Vonnegut, page 75). The corporal begins to identify with the three men through food and as they slowly bonded over food, the corporal accepts punishment for having Donnini and Kniptash’s recipe books…

in the 19th century was wrought with the battle for women’s rights, specifically the education of women. In his poem, Jenny, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s narrator makes various references to books – those on his shelf, and how pressing a flower into a book can “crush the flower within the soul” (256). He appears to make a social commentary within his poem about the unknown thoughts of a common whore about the debate on women’s education. Rossetti uses the books to symbolize the…

Liberty is an interesting topic that few people truly have a solid understanding of, but through research and consideration, one will realize that liberty refers to one’s ability to live freely within society, free from the oppression of others, including the ability to own property and make an honest living. With this realization, one will also realize that not everyone through American history has had liberty and that still today, there are people who do not have liberty. Throughout all of the…

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In Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes introduces a world that has succumbed to lawlessness (anarchy), a world without institutions and enforcement; he calls this the law of nature, and claims that it is the result of human nature. Hobbes believed that people desire peace instead of anarchy. In order to maintain peace, society needs to introduce a social contract or covenant. The contract establishes that there must be a transfer of ones rights to someone else, allowing for the escape of the…

in attempts to find success. He struggles with finding his identity in this new environment. Arnold sees himself as having two different halves, Junior the outcast from the reservation and Arnold from the white high-school at Reardan. Throughout the book, Arnold struggles with how different cultures of traditions shape his identity. Within the novel, Arnold describes the traditions of his Native American culture. These traditions create problems as Arnold wants to move away and…

American Idol, a television series where Americans participate in a singing competition, which has been produced for almost sixteen years. People from all around the country audition for and eventually the judges narrow the contestants down to the top twenty four supreme singers. Finally, only two singers remain, both showing impeccable singing talents, where the audience is faced with a difficult decision of who they want to win. Just as the audience is faced with the decision to choose a…