The Silver Lining

Although not all the codes he experiences are the best, Jim gains an experience so that he too could form his own code of conduct on his own, someday. One of the codes of conduct Jim experiences is that of the pirates. In the story, Captain Long John Silver is a wonderful example of piracy and…

Long John Silver. In this scene in the novel he is seen as a ruthless evil man, due to the fact of him killing an innocent man. In the movie however, John Silver is portrayed as a man that wants to be redeemed and no visible evil traits are seen, just Silver’s immoral actions. This proves that although the movie, Treasure Island, is based off of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, slight changes can greatly impact the portrayal of a character. In this case, based on this scene, John Silvers…

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is a beloved tale that people of all ages have loved for its emotional and moral appeal. It is a story focusing on the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy and cold-hearted money-lender, who is visited by four ghostly apparitions who convince him together to change his merciless ways. At the beginning of this tale, Scrooge does not recognize the effects of his greed, so the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future take it upon themselves to show him how…

Jim, Ben Gunn, and Long John Silver are all overcome with a desire to search for the treasure and each is let down and unsatisfied by the end of their adventure. When Ben Gunn arrives on the island three years before Jim, he suggests to his crew that him and the “[b]oys…land and find… Flint’s treasure” (Stevenson 152). After living on the island for so many years Ben is now almost crazy and has been living in a cave all alone. His initial desire to find the treasure ends up with his captain and…

To what extent were the Populists of the late 1800s a liberal movement? Focus of Editing: Passive tense and Word Choice In the Gilded Age, as in any American political era, two polar views of the government 's role and power existed, conservatives and liberals. During the Gilded age, conservatives, then called classical liberals, held a political ideology that values the freedom of individuals, including the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and markets, as well as limited…

Contrast between Fantastic Four of 2005 and the Fantastic Four of 2015 “In American films, the first science fiction craze came in the 50 's, fueled by cold war paranoia, and produced a wave of movies about space exploration, alien invaders and giant, radiation-infected insects.”(Moss) Science fictions is a type of American genre that discuss human relationship with science and technology. It is created to introduce science and technology to the audience as a form of entertainment. Fantastic…

A bit of Pokemon history to begin, Pokemon has been around for twenty years. Pokemon was created by Satoshi Tajiri and developed and released by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures or better known as a trio joint company Pokemon Company or Pokemon Company International. Which was not official until 1998. The first sets of games were released in Japan on February 27, 1996, under the name Pocket Monsters Red and Green for the Nintendo Game Boy. While it has been here in the United States under…

Fairs. This traditional armor vest is made from rich suede leather and has a padding for extra protection. Comes with two buckled straps in the back for adjustable fit. This medieval surcoat is made from strong cotton twill fabric with polyster lining. It has a two-tone quarter…

Both movies Silver Lining Playbook and Mad Love depict Bipolar Disorder. Bipolar Disorder is defined as a mood disorder in which a person alternates between depression and the overexcited state of mania. In the movie Silver Lining Playbook, one scenario significantly portrays symptom of bipolar disorder when Patrick, who named Pat in the movie, angrily read Hemingway’s book at late night and suddenly broke the window by throwing out the book. His overactive behavior awoke his parents and…

That God has an abstract plan that only he knows and when my family and I come out on the other side we will see the silver lining. Nonetheless, it is difficult to find the silver lining in any situation, but I know that this silver lining was my sisters. When my sisters were born, I was already older, and had other interests than spending time playing dolls. However, now I believe that God realized I would need my sisters to…