The Robbers

This portrait is a painting of tycoon Jay Gould painted in 1896 by American artist Eastman Johnson. Johnson is a somewhat famous artist known for his paintings of high ranking Washington officials from the time period and several other of his portraits are featured at the National Portrait Gallery. From an early age, Johnson manifested a natural taste for drawing and sketching, and used his talents to draw portraits of his family and friends. When his father earned a high post in Washington D.C.…

Gun Ownership Gun ownership is an issue that has been debated since the 1960s. There have been diverse opinions about this topic. The right to gun ownership is the right of any individual to the possession, use and transport of weapons for defensive purposes, sports, hunting, private escort or otherwise, without prejudice to other legal activities to be carried out with the same. Gun ownership is a necessary action that needs to be taken. Thus, there are social, legal and political reasons in…

This story is about a kid name Huckleberry Finn. Hims and his friend Tom Sawyer found money that robbers in the cave. It was six thousand a piece all gold. Judge Thatcher took it and put it at interest. It gave him a dollar a piece. Widow Douglas took Huckleberry as her son and Huckleberry disobeyed her. He left the house to feel free again, the out of nowhere he saw his friend Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer told Huckleberry if he were to go back to the Widows house and respect her, then he will…

sorrow heaped at his door/ By hell-forged hands, His misery leaped/ The seas, was told and sung in all/ Men's ears" (Page 28 Anonymous). Kirito took on the challenge in GGO by going through an Amusement-like game where he had to kill the robber before the robber killed him. Well everyone has guns, but Kirito has a laser sword. No one thought that he would win, he went through and blocked the bullets then sliced the head of the robot off. Winning all the gold. Then he bragged to Sinon. First try…

Perception, attention, and memory are slippery subjects. Perception is the process of recognizing and interpreting sensory stimuli, which is everything taken in through sight, sound, smell, touch and taste (Matlin, 2012). Consequently, it is an imprint that is left in the mind. Attention is the concept that refers to how specific information is processed in the environment (Matlin, 2012). It allows focus on specific items while filtering out other less significant stimuli. Memory is the…

Many heroes have been very iconic to a colossal amount of people around the world. People across the world love to imitate other heroes for the hero’s tremendous acts. Superheroes influence people everyday, just by the smallest things. Superheroes are very influential in many people lives. Children around the world watch the superhero movies and the episodes. Many iconic superheroes carry similar characteristics such as tremendous superpowers, unique villains, and wears vibrant suits. Something…

The Single Shard! The single shard is a nonfiction book. It tells about a boy named Tree-ear that lived under a bridge with Craneman and he only had one leg. And Tree-ear watched a man named Min do his work. And one day tree-ear started to work for him because Min had an order to make. And one day Craneman was pushing a grocery cart and the grocery cart was to heavy and the bridge collapsed on Craneman and he was holding a monkey in his hand when he died. When Tree-ear got back Min told him that…

they are really not that different. They both lie to achieve what they want, and the lives of others are nothing more than dollars and cents. His character also reflects on the theme of hypocrisy. Tom tell Huck that “he was going to start a band of robbers, and [Huck] might join if [he] would go back to the widow and be respectable.” Tom has invited Huck into his gang, where the aim is to steal and kill others, for the price of behaving well. A gang such as Tom’s screams “rebellion,” but Tom…

“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding is a political satire on society and humanities capability for savagery and violence. “Lord of the Flies” tackles that subject of the nature of humanity by telling a story of young, impressionable, boys who are wrecked on a deserted island. The main conflict for the children in “Lord of the Flies” is their struggle between their instinct to create and obey rules and their more base instincts for supremacy through violence. By being put into an environment…

In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, The Great Law of Human Action plays a big role in the behaviors of the main characters. Tom Sawyer is a trouble maker. After he gets in trouble, he is ordered by his Aunt Polly to whitewash their fence. When his friends see him painting the fence, Tom pretends he loves the chore to make his friends beg to help. This is an example of the trouble he gets into. Part of the novel is devoted to the romance between Tom and Becky Thatcher. An event from…