The Inheritors

With the little we do know concerning the causes of the Vietnam War, it is for sure that it all began due to the works and effects of the Cold War. Before World War Two began, Vietnam was part of the French Realm. During the war, the country had been overrun by the Japanese. After the war had ended, the Allies gave South Vietnam (Viet Cong) back to the French while the North (Viet Minh) continued to be left under non-communist rule. In 1946, the French declared their plan to reclaim the North…

The case Loving v. Virginia (1967) was a turning point for interracial relationships. It prohibited laws that prohibited interracial marriages. The acceptance of interracial marriages began to progress, but at a very slow rate. Later on in time, the media began to show more interracial relationships, particularly through television. This was a good sign, but it still was not enough to cause a change, since other television companies chose not to act on the subject in fear of those who did not…

F. Scott Fitzgerald does a magnificent job throughout the novel with portraying the countless symbols in The Great Gatsby. The literary lens, Deconstructionism, will be used to depict the green light, the Valley of Ashes, and Gatsby 's Mansion. Do these symbols actually represent what the audience reads into? Symbols have multiple meanings to different readers. Therefore, these symbols need to be broken down one by one by deconstructionism to portray the understanding between what society thinks…

together, however when they are separated, both succumb to torture and full heartedly believe in everything the Party wants them too. When O’Brien tells Winston, “ 'if you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone?’” (Book 3, Ch 3) he crumbles and starts to train his mind to think as the Party wants him to think. His fear of being completely alone is stronger than the desire to stick with his morals. After…

Stress is ubiguitous and simply cannot be avoided. “Stress is a pervasive societal challenge that affects the social participation of people of varying ages, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status” (Stallings-Sahler par. 1). Meaning that stress is perceived as a significant risk in our society, bar none, bringing in our lives numeorous health issues and making each of us susceptible to it. No one is free from stress, regardless of their socio-economic status, intelligence, and…

Within the past couple of years, the news has been filled with stories on the terrorist group, ISIS. ISIS is a jihadist terror group in Iraq. ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It is also referred to as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (also ISIS). ISIS was formed off of the Sunni terrorist group al Qaeda, which is less extreme than ISIS itself. They have began to overshadow the less extreme groups. ISIS is one of the…

The Berwick Church in Charleston, England houses some of the most notable pieces of art manufactured by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant from the mid-twentieth century. The two were part of the well-known Bloomsbury Group, and their home in Charleston as well as their work on the Church constitute the remaining evidence of the group's involvement with each other outside of London. Grant's painting Christ in Glory sits above the Berwick altar, demonstrating how the Bloomsbury Group took traditional…

Kent is where Ford “met Joseph Conrad and discovered that they shared a fundamental agreement upon the role of technique in the novel. Over a period of five years the two fledgling authors collaborated in a partnership and produced two novels, The Inheritors and Romance.” (“Ford Madox Ford”) Conrad contributed a lot on Ford’s writing because Ford had a deep influence on Conrad. In addition, this collaboration gave Ford a boost upon the society of writers. In other words, Conrad helped increase…

The world is an amazing place with amazing people; people who sacrifice morals, rights and lives for the sake of power and prestige and greatness and renown– pursuing them as though they are their own lives running from them and they must capture them at all costs. Laleh Khadivi 's The Age of Orphans (set in Iran) recounts the enduring story of these amazing people and those who suffer under their greatness hunt, focusing on the loss of identity and the effects of forced assimilation through…

The hustle of every-day life takes place underneath the surface of the ocean instead of on land. The shrinking ice caps that David Kramer talked about in the Physics Today magazine have all melted. “The melting of the Antarctic ice cap may have reached the point of no return and threatens to raise sea levels by more than three metres, according to a new study.” Now the world is covered in water. There is no longer land available to live on. Phil Pauley designed a self-sustaining dome for people…