The Innocents Abroad

westernization of Iran. He was also hated by the Iranians because his police, SAVAK, killed and tortured innocent citizens (History). The Shah lost the support of many Iranian citizens because of his pro-Western outlook for Iran. Many Iranians felt that the Shah favored the rich but oppressed the…

an elderly woman, Miss Marchmont. Finally, Lucy finds herself as a teacher at a boarding school in Villette. Though Lucy always physically occupies a home-like setting throughout the novel, I do not feel as if these physical homes are meant to be “innocent” spaces for her, as Kate Ferguson alludes to. Rather, in treating the settings in the way that she does, I…

There are others who take advantage of the system in order to exploit children through begging. These Quranic teachers are getting rich. Some get so rich that they leave the country to live abroad. In addition, they choose the poorest, rural regions of the country as well as from neighboring countries, particularly Guinea-Bissau. Most of the parents who send their child to Quranic schools willing to send their child by a wish for the child…

What country do your ancestors come from? In today’s society, people are gradually losing their historical background on how each and everyone migrated into different countries. People deserve to know the truth about the past and present history of their country especially Americas. American generation needs to know that African- Americans today are descendants of slavery. Slavery was one of the darkest periods in the history of African and African-Americans lives. The term “slave” is defined as…

Death is used as a Tool One day or another, we all have to face death; there is no escape from it. One of Shakespeare’s most tragic plays Hamlet, is very prominent in displaying death and the advantages or consequences that come from a family member’s or a friend’s death. This play opens with a young man named Hamlet who has just lost his father, and his mother decides to get remarried to his uncle within two months of his father’s death. Hamlet discovers that his father was killed by his uncle…

A Descendant of Robert E. Lee and the youngest child of Amasa Coleman Lee, an attorney and a newspaper editor, and Frances Finch Lee, a pianist, Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. Harper Lee grew up in a very tiny southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville where her best friend, whom she enjoyed her presence, was the pre-pubescent Truman Capote who provided the basics of the character of Dill in her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. As a child, Lee was a tomboy, having developed certain…

Since a young age, I have always been a tremendously curious child. The passionate goal that I held as a four year old was to find out the truth behind the cold temperature of the refrigerator and when I had turned seven, I was fascinated by gravity. One of the notions I firmly believed was that if you beat your arms in the air like a bird, you would be able to fly. However, only when I had jumped off the family couch, I realized the truth and that my notion was a mere “delusion”. Throughout…

From the original thirteen colonies in 1776 to the forty-five states at the turn of the twentieth century, the land that makes up the United States drastically changed through fairly rapid and steady expansion to the west and south. Between 1889 and 1893, six new states entered the Union, which represented the most in any four year period of the country’s history. The history of growth and expansion helped shape American culture and the average American’s viewpoint, which was ready to move…

In E.L. Doctorow’s novel, Ragtime, Coalhouse Walker illustrates racial injustice and prejudiced indifference of social identity at the turn of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, such battle of injustice shows no sign of vanishing in today’s society. In the novel Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow vividly chronicles the intricate figure Coalhouse Walk, a victim of the institutionalized racism in the 19th century, who transforms from a well spoken, educated, passionate musician to a violent rebel who loses…

atrocities during the dictatorship. Playright and essayist Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden (1990, film version 1994) places themes of violence and memory at the center of the drama. The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heros do to Our Minds (1983) is a seminal work of cultural criticism that lays bare issues of media literacy, consumerism, cultural imperialism and…