The Rascals

“My Wish” by Rascal Flatts – The final track, of course, goes to the final death of this particular generation – Remus Lupin. Rowling often explains that there had to be an orphan at the end of the series – because war leaves behind parentless children. Lupin, while…

Circumstances can be used for one's benefit or failure. They can shape a person into a wiser and refined person, or they can crush one's character and soul. St. Claire and Legree from Uncle Tom's Cabin are examples of such a case. How are they extremely contradictory yet so similar? Not only do both of them have similar beginnings alongside being slave masters, they develop into almost complete and utter opposites. St. Claire and Legree are dramatically different in how they treat their slaves.…

An analysis of “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright shows the internal and external struggles that the main character Dave endures in his quest of becoming a man. Through the use of dialogue and symbolism, the author depicts Dave’s quest for manhood through his struggle for personal and economical freedom as well as respect. Dave is persistent in his desire to prove to those around him that he is becoming a man, which justifies his yearning of economical freedom, personal freedom,…

The sun beat down on us as we drew squares on the crumbled street and numbered them with the chalk we had stolen. We played lagoori with a pile of stones and a dirt-covered ball. Each day, our bodies grew, our minds expanded, the streets crumbled some more, but the chalk was always stolen and the stones were always free. My mother’s cold palm gently woke me. A sea of bored, excited and curious faces moved in an unseen current. There were plasma screens of arrival and departure times and people…

cannot make any decisions, he overthinks everything. Hamlet is a confused character he is an actor, a play writer, a student and the Prince of Denmark who is seeking revenge. Hamlet sees this problem in him and says, “Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, and can say nothing- no, not for a king.(II.ii 550-553). Hamlet says this after watching the players deliver a passionate scene. The word “muddy-mettled” means dull spirited, it points out that…

For my paper I am going to focus on the movie Singin’ in the Rain and incorporate a quote from the reading stating “From the very beginning of Singin’ in the Rain, the technology responsible for sound reproduction—technology that is usually hidden—is displayed” (Reader, 182). The clip from the film I am going to discuss and analyze is the opening scene of a premiere for Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont. I am going to discuss everything leading up to their arrival. The scene starts off with a big…

cruelty they had not seen before. They show Huck the new world of theft, manipulation, and conart. However, Huck proves to be an empathetic person because when the Duke and Dauphin are punished for their burglary Huck “was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seems like I couldn’t ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another” (174). Even though they did horrible things and are now getting what they…

The soliloquy of act 2 scene 2 is focused on inner struggles with revenge. Earlier in this scene, Hamlet asks the actors to recite the story of Priam. While viewing this play hamlet realized the flaw in all that he has been doing, or hasn’t been doing, to act revenge on Claudius. Claudius killed Hamlet's father and stole the crown and hamlet is the only one who knows so he hatches a plan. He has made a few attempts of Claudius' life but failed. He is beating himself up at this point. As the play…

Personal Statement 4. Explain unicorns. “What do you know about unicorns?” the man across from me asked, pushing up his glasses. I blinked, caught off-guard by the question from this new chairman. What was he talking about? “Unicorns?” I stuttered. He only nodded. “W-well, I don’t know?” I hesitantly replied. Did he really just pull me out of class to ask about unicorns? Is he crazy? He watched me, his sharp eyes narrowing before shaking his head sadly. “You must think I’m crazy…” Bingo. You…

What do Al Capone, Jesse James, and Ted Bundy all have in common with each other? All these men are infamous criminals in the United States. However, Capone, James, and Bundy each have different reasoning for their actions, but one common pretense aligns them together, desperation for a self-fulling life. Capone was originally poor and became a gangster to provide for himself and a family; James was inspired to loot because of the disorganization of the South and the effects onto the West;…