The Great Dictator

Everyone has a different vision of happiness but it consists of the same basic elements: money and success. In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, all of the characters exhibit how tough it is to find pure happiness. Just like the average person, finding happiness is their goal in life. Comparing these characters to everyday people reveals the harsh cruelty of the journey to success. Happiness, which is characterized by contentment, joy, and pleasure, is constantly shifting due to the…

Despite society’s expectations of others, the way someone is, is how they were born. One can try and fill empty holes with values, people, house, etc., but once born, that is his/her place in the world. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, it emphasizes the way americans are obsessed with this idea of social hierarchy. Daisy, a gorgeous, nit-witty, blonde haired girl, and her husband Tom, a formal athlete star, who is a big, cheating, and abusive man live in an enormous white…

known for his writing about the American West. He was born on January 13, 1901 and Passed away on April 26,1991. The Bargain is throwing out hints about how Knowledge is power, and how doing the right thing is the best thing to do. The bargain is a great historical fiction story that has focused on three main characters which are Al, Baumer, Slade , they each have their own personal backstory. Al is a young boy who goes to school and works at the general store with Baumer, Al’s father is dead.…

Between 1792 and 1750 B.C.E., Hammurabi was an emperor of Mesopotamia. Hammurabi had a great army when he was emperor and was able to keep his empire strong. He had such great war tactics that he was able to gain control of Sumer and Akkad once again and reunite Mesopotamia to almost exactly how it was under Sargon. Not only was he good at war tactics, but he was good at keeping peace among his people. He made sure to make sure Sumerian ways would continue to exist. Hammurabi came up with a set…

A good speech can leave a positive impact on the listener. This is true for many great speeches such as the Gettysburg Address, President Reagan's Challenger Speech, and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. All three of these speeches come at a time of despair in America. Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. Reagan gave his State of the Union Address the same day the U.S. Space Shuttle, the Challenger, exploded. President Kennedy’s inauguration speech came at a time…

would fire you or kill animals if they or you were of no use to them. In ‘An Inspector Calls’ Priestley uses foreshadowing to create another technique which is dramatic irony. Mr Birling is making a speech about how the capitalist world is heading for great things such as the Titanic, he says ‘-the Titanic…and unsinkable, completely unsinkable’. The play was shown in 1914, after the titanic sunk, however the play was in 1912 obviously before it sunk. By using foreshadowing to create dramatic…

in writing 30 volumes, 300 stories, traveling books, articles and poems. Today, I felt fortunate to have read one of the many short stories by Maupassant called “The Necklace,” which was written in 1884. In my opinion, the story was written to such great perfection that it captivated my interest. It was far more than I expected in a short story. An important “Necklace” theme is the danger of vanity and pride. It is Madame Loisel’s vanity that causes her to want to live beyond her means and her…

The present book Outcaste: A Memoir is an expanded version of Jadhav’s best selling Marathi novel Amcha Baap Aan Amhi written in 1993.This memoir is a multilayered saga of the social evolution of the Dalits in India. It is a tribute from a son to his father as well as an appraisal of the caste-system. It tells the story of the awakening of the Dalits through three generations. The caste-system represses even stupefies the Dalits so that they grow into the dutiful lambs that need no shepherding…

however, he was still not good enough when it came to a society like Gattaca. Eugene expresses this by saying, ‘With all I had going for me, I was still second best’. Eugene was second in the swimming competition, which would normally be considered a great achievement. However, Gattaca is a world perfection is the norm, therefore, second best was unacceptable. Eugene’s genetics are supposed to be ‘perfect’ and it should’ve been enough to win, but it isn’t, and society taught him that perfection…

Raymod Carver’s “So Much Water So Close to Home” and Rabindranath Tagore’s “Punishment” are two stories that talk about death and how the feeling of guilt can take over your mind and create a war inside of your head. Carver’s short story talks about a husband going fishing with his friends, and finding a dead girl, but not reporting it to the police until they finished their trip and got back home. On the other hand, Tagore’s short story is about a brother and husband, Dukhiram, whom kills his…