The Last Letter Home

were tired of waiting for changes to happen, and decided to finally stand up for their rights. Martin Luther King was protesting in Birmingham when he was arrested for not having the right permit. While in prison, King wrote his “Letter From A Birmingham Jail”, the letter was a response to the clergyman who were criticizing King’s actions. Through parallel structure, passionate diction and personal experience, King gives a detailed explanation for the reasons why African-Americans can’t wait for…

Montague John Druitt: The Case is Closed He craved to write the first letter with the blood of his victims, but realizing it was too difficult, John Druitt cleverly selected a red liquid to resemble the blood in hopes to frighten the police. The letter read: “I am down on whores and I shant quit ripping them till I do get buckled (“Jack”).” Three infamous letters were believed to have been sent to the police by Jack the Ripper, who was a mysterious serial killer in the streets of Whitechapel,…

John Reginald Halliday Christie was born in Northowram, England in the district of Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire on April 8th 1899. He was the 6th of 7 children in his family and the 1st son born to his parents, Mary Hannah Halliday and Ernest John Christie. His father was a carpet designer. He was an extremely strict man, punishing his children for the most trivial of acts, as well as uncommunicative. He displayed very little emotion towards his children, which sometimes made Christie…

Angelina Grimke was a white Southern woman who lived during the nineteenth century. During this time, the abolitionist movement was gaining momentum, especially in the North. As a young adult, Grimke left her luxurious life in the South and moved to the North to fight for civil rights. She quickly became one of the most revolutionary abolitionists of the time. Throughout her time in the public eye, she fought on the side of a multitude causes. Grimke was an advocate for civil rights, suffrage,…

custodian at the Christ Church Common Room. He stayed at the job for 10 years. He wrote magazine pieces called “Knots”. They were a combination of humorous stories and math puzzles. Carroll retired from the common room in 1892. In 1893 he published his last fiction…

To people who are not familiar with the subway, the letters and numbers at the top of the painting mean nothing. However, the specific letter and number combination reveals that this painting is about Times Square. Even though many of the letters and numbers are cut off, the audience is able to fill in the blanks. One thing is certain, this train station is in the center of a very populated area.…

Right now Plato's close to home intercession in Sicilian legislative issues stops. The squabble in the middle of Dion and Dionysius regularly went on, and Dion, whose one extraordinary flaw, as Plato lets him know, was need of "flexibility" and savoir-faire, decided to recuperate his rights with the solid hand. Enrollment went ahead in the Peloponnese and somewhere else, with the dynamic simultaneousness of huge numbers of the more youthful parts of the Academy, and in the mid year of 357 Dion…

scene 5, Malvolio reads a letter that Maria, who is pretending to be Olivia, wrote and quotes these famous lines: “…In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.” This paper will focus on the meaning and concept of this quote, examples of all three, and how Chihiro from Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and Nausicaa from Nausicaa from the Vally of the Wind not only fall into the last category, but also…

pinch my arms many times, but I was still in school. I had begged my dad fully but he said, “no”. My tears were flowing down my cheeks, and my nose turned into red as a kid. I didn’t care about people who looked at me, I just wanted to go back to my home. So, I told my dad I hated a summer camp and also told him that at camp we just studied and studied which means it wasn’t fun. He held my hand and said, “I know it’s not fun, but if you keep learning, you can be smart enough to pass the test,…

riots and incoming Chinese Immigrants, pressured Congress to act upon its white, American citizens’ wishes. In the last decade, the the Chinese were blamed for the economical depression and drought among the land. The reason behind the Chinese immigrants being blamed for everything, was because they were easy targets due to their cultural differences. The Xia family was one of the last worker families excepted in the country. The Clarke family was one of the people to lose their jobs due to the…