The Great Bear

In Charles Dickens Great Expectations, Thomas Hood “I Remember, I Remember”, and James Payne “A Hopeless Passion”, the authors use major plot events, conflict and characterization to arise the concept and impression that one who obtains strength by conquering obstacles acquire stronger hope and ambition in the…

It is rare when a book comes along that transcends its genre and elevates itself to seminal status. Books that have the power to impact entire fields of thought should be revered, but also healthily feared, because of their influential nature. Machiavelli’s distinguished classic, The Prince, is one of those thought defining works. Niccolò Machiavelli was a high-ranking Italian diplomat for the Florentine Republic. He was removed from office and exiled when the Medici family returned to power in…

George is forced to endure a difficult, potentially life changing situation. George was to decide between ending his best friend’s, Lennie, life or to leave him alive but face the consequences of this decision later. The reason for this was because Lennie had committed something ethically and morally wrong, a crime. He had already killed a mouse and his own puppy but he had also killed Curley 's wife. Lennie had done this when he attempted to keep Curley’s wife quiet from all her loud screams…

In the novel, “The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author writes about a collection of characters and their pursual of desires, which reveal the flaws in each character and inevitable tragedy. The story follows the protagonist, Nick Carraway, a middle class outsider who travels to West Egg seeking wealth, prosperity and gratification in order to fulfill his ambition of becoming a successful business man of bonds; all the while, he covertly observes the conflict between aspiring…

The Great Depression was a time of collective societal awakening and disillusionment from the Roaring Twenties. The years leading up to the Depression was filled with hedonism with no oversight, so its arrival led to national disenchantment, causing everyone to escape the whirlwind of the past decade and plunged themselves into a new era of hardship. Margaret Laurence’s “Horses of the Night” shows the mental deterioration of a boy who wrapped himself in self-made lies to make his despondent past…

alongside his friend George Milton, during the great depression in California. Consequently, through his journey it is recognizable how personality and traits affect his goals and ambitions. A built massive white male, who is unbelievably strong, is unfortunately mentally retarded. “Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, and wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws” (2). With a…

Of Mice and Men Essay Does achieving a goal take a lot of hard work? Of Mice and Men is a novel written by author John Steinbeck. This book has many meanings, basically, the story was about two displaced migrant which were friends and they had to move from place to place to work and have different job opportunities. After a while, they had some problems in their work which made it little hard for George and Lennie, to achieve their goals. George, Lennie, and Candy had to face some obstacles and…

Over the dark horizon’s of Tristania, a peculiar breeze shuffled the lands, and set its destiny on a course for change. Change that would go down in the land’s history for centuries to come. In the dead of night, King Maximillianus sat in the dimly illuminated court to which he could call his own. Under the pyre's light his youthful face remained unembellished while he observed the doorway before him just across the regal halls. Which from above murals depicted his ancestors clashing…

taboo by the elite now, we should be able to make it so. The 2nd amendment is a controversial subject recently due to the use of guns for recreational killings of both animals and people. The second amendment states that we have the right to keep and bear arms, however it is so vague in the language that we’ve been relegated to semi automatic weapons, which would essentially be of no use against the military grade automatic rifles that are standard issue to any deploying military personnel.…

criminals from killing innocent people. Lastly, he is ignoring the fact that the right to bear arms is a constitutional…