What we don’t realize is that Tom Buchanan has a dark side. He is currently having an affair with a lonely shop owner’s wife. Myrtle Wilson is not all that smart; if she were, she would have seen right through Tom’s good physique and perfect jaw line. She, like Gatsby, is trying to better her life by striving…
village, due to pregnancy. Uncle Cricket also manipulated Smoking Devil to stay in the village. Later, Fan Shen began to use the corrupt bureaucracy to his advantage. By working the system, Fan Shen was moved to a factory job, using his connection with Moon Face. He also used many connections later to get his passport and exit slip to escape China. Obtaining the exit slip, which usually took eight to twelve months, was only possible through bribery of three different department…
Hailey and the Comets, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and on this side of the Atlantic, craftsmen, for example, Cliff Richard, Marti Wilde, and Billy Fury. With such different impacts as any semblance of Lonnie Donegon mixing American roots music with an English inclination and building up the sound of skiffle. From these early beginnings any semblance of the Beatles, the Rolling stones, and different gatherings drawing on impacts from both sides of the Atlantic grew popular and rock music. Numerous…
Sun sign Style advice A woman’s wardrobe is a riot of colours and dresses. The never ending options on the other side of the shopping counter makes it difficult for any woman on the planet to make a choice. What would it be like when you know what exactly going to match your character. Yes! That's possible ladies, through the medium of astrology. Astrology ascribes to each and every sun sign style statement of it's own and that surely going to well coordinate with your stars. Here we going…
Mary Rojas-Bueno 11/15/2017 Astr101 Uranus There are many planets out there in the vast expanse of space. There are eight planets in our solar system, barring pluto which is a dwarf planet and not an actual planet. I will be discussing the seventh planet of our solar system, the lovely ice giant Uranus. The first ever sighting of Uranus was in 1680 by John Flamsteed, he categorized it as 34 Tauri, he thought it to be a star or comet. It wasn't until William Herschel and John Elert Bode…
#3 As I Lay Dying – Character analysis: Cash Bundren Conflict is an inescapable reality in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. Sibling animosity, opposing viewpoints, hidden secrets, ulterior motives, Man vs Nature: wherever you look conflict arises from the selfish and senseless characters. However, Cash Bundren stands out as a character whose dedication, compassion, and sacrifices contrast with the widespread self-interest induced conflict in the rest of the novel. Cash Bundren’s heroic actions are…
Pakal, was buried in a tomb in a pyramid and is believed to be an ancient astronaut. What leads the astro-theorists to believe Pakal was in fact an ancient astronaut was actually his sarcophagus lid. The lid has intricate carvings along the top and sides. On the top of the lid shows a picture of what is presumed and accepted to be Pakal. Now what Pakal is doing leads to debate. Historians and most people agree the events happening on the lid is Pakal descending into Xibalba or ascending to the…
A dystopian society is one in which the government enforces a certain lifestyle upon its people without giving them a choice to live their lives otherwise. Their main goal is to control everyone and make them conform to these expectations. This type of futuristic society was created by Anthony Burgess in his novel A Clockwork Orange. In the book, the reader can identify one main theme; the importance of free will. The reader is taken through the book by 15-year-old Alex whom along with his…
For as long as we have known, authors have used opposite characters or themes to show contrast and depth in the world they create; Evil vs Good, fire vs ice, light vs dark, the sun vs the moon, the list goes on. Sometimes it is the protagonist and the antagonist that reflects these similar themes and sometimes it’s just two wonderfully written foil characters. Arthur Miller, the classic American playwright of The Crucible, is no exception to this well used tactic, especially with the characters…
It is understandable it is a storyline based off a classic as well, Romeo and Juliet for example. There are two people in love but because they are from opposite sides, they should not be together, but somehow they defy the odds and end up together anyways. The two people are the human and the vampire, the opposite sides are because they are two different species, and somehow they always end up together. This is that romantic love story every looks for in their life which is why when they…