The Inheritors

Stephen Kings ‘Pet Sematary’ draws out the intersections between haunting, affect and Indigeneity. The plot follows the Creed family, Louis, the professor father, his wife Rachel, their two children Ellie and Gage, and of course their cat, Church. The story takes place in the Ludlow house, where the Creed family has just moved into from Chicago. The house and its surroundings conjure eerie feelings, as if nothing s truly ‘right’ in the setting. It is later discovered that behind the Ludlow house…

Aaron the Mountain of Strength He was the son of Amram & Jochebed, but he was most known for being the eldest brother of the Egyptian prince, Moses. Aaron was a powerful speaker; his name rightly fit him as a mountain of strength, or teacher in some interpretations; Aaron was both. Even though Moses got the credit for freeing the Hebrews from bondage, Aaron was actually the spokesman during the rescue of God’s chosen people. Aaron was a godly man who became a high priest but like all, faltered…

In Salman Rushdie’s story Midnight’s Children, offers an overview of events in India immediately following the nation gaining independence in 1947. Within the context of the novel, The Midnight Children are the inheritors of India’s lasting promise, and the evidence of its lasting strength. They each have an unusual power, which not only provides them protection, but more broadly signals India’s ability to rise, in a post-colonial era. It is their magic, that becomes the strongest thread for…

tries to toss Tegan aside for wanting to control her own life instead of letting him experiment on her, completely disregarding Tegan’s feelings and emotions. He thinks of her as an object to be used as he pleases. The Father, ruler of the cult Inheritors of the Earth and the main antagonist in the story, believes that Tegan is a moral abomination. He suggests Tegan kill herself for her sins and believes that reincarnation is only up to God, not at the hands of scientists. He concludes on…

her two daughters in Jamaica during the early 1900s. His own family legacy is credible because it shows that he knows how success works, and how it helped his family move through life rather easily. This was all because his grandmother “was the inheritor of a legacy of privilege” (pg. 280), which is one of the main points that Gladwell brings up in his argument. The fact that his relatives lived through this experience is also his relationship to the topic. He presents ethos by comparing many…

Egypt and Mesopotamia are both considered the “cradles of Western civilization”. These two civilizations helped shape Western and European cultures, though Egypt has slightly a lesser impact than Mesopotamia, which is considered the true origin of Western civilization. These influences have helped set what historians consider “the West”, both past and present, apart from other civilizations around the world. Though Egypt and Mesopotamia both had a profound impact and seem very similar, these two…

I. Introduction: This news brief will describe thoroughly the rise of South Korea’s mighty conglomerates, which are cornerstone of the economic, political, and social landscape. Part one indicates a series look upon how these conglomerates such as Samsung, LG, and Hyundai—saved South Korea from crushing poverty and defining a country’s role on the global stage. Moving forward this article was written by one writer called, Cho Mu-hyun, a native South Korea who lives in Seoul, working for…

Concurring with Frederick Taylor, in Ian Kershaw’s Why Did German Democracy Fail, Harold James argues that the depression alone did not engender the collapse of Weimar, rather a decade of economic volatility delegitimized the Weimar government in the eyes of the public. However, in contradistinction with Taylor, James callously argues that the bulk of this volatility was not caused by the periods of hyperinflation and massive unemployment, rather it was the ridiculous demands of the labor…

Many people believe that if they were rich that they would be happy, but there have been evidence and studies that say otherwise. There are many different views on whether or not money makes people happy: some believe that money does make people happy, while there are others that believe money does not make people happy. Csikszentmihalyi talks about ambiguous relationships between material and subjective well-being; that despite evidence showing that a link between material wealth and…

“MANASSEH AND EPHRAIM” The Egyptian children of Joseph were given two tribes among the children of Israel, and their tribes were known to be the tribe of Manasseh and Ephraim (Genesis 13:8, 11). These tribes became leaders among the Hebrews and Jewish communities. Moses was able to select two people from each tribe of the Egyptian sons of Joseph to spy the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:1-2,8,11,16). Manasseh was given his father's place, he took over the tribe of Joseph which was among the twelve…