The Small Assassin

Garfield's assassin. In Rochester, New York, in 1907, Houdini performed his first manacled bridge jump. In 1908, he performed the famous oversize milk can escape, in which he was shackled and then lowered into a large milk can full of liquid. Houdini became interested…

one of Tony Stark’s suits and before he even got within five feet of Thanos, Banner was teleported into a rock formation where he was trapped. Captain America was pummeled into an unconscious pile in a single punch by Thanos. Black Widow with her assassin training and weaponry attached to her suit made no impact on the villain and was thrown onto the ground with one hand and pinned underneath a pile of…

I am reading American Assassin by Vince Flynn and I am on page 402. In this section of the book, it starts off with Rapp leaving the country where he kills the man. The people in the U.S. that have more authority have just heard about the killing and they have a conference. The conference is about whether to keep Rapp in the program or to kick him out because he disobeys his orders and kills someone. They decide to keep him because of the fact that he kills the man alone and with no evidence and…

The World War ll historical fiction novel HHhH by Laurent Binet focuses on the life and place in the Nazi Party of Reinhard Heydrich throughout WWll and the Nazi regime in Germany until his assassination (in Prague) in 1942. Along these lines, the genre of historical fiction can be defined as a genre which illustrates a story taking place in the past during a specific time period. Going back to the novel, the premise of HHhH is rather interesting, even if one only reads the inside cover. As…

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” Carl Sagan was the man who had once spoke this quote. If we take time to look at the big picture, the human race and the Earth we inhabit really is insignificant when it comes to the whole scheme of the universe. This is one of the reasons why so many people wish time travel and travelling to other…

Ritika Chamlagai Mrs. Watson AP English 11, Period 8 7 December 2017 Naturalism: Environmental Effects on Characters in Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Ideas of nature governing human character date back to ancient Greece as early as the seventh century BCE, but naturalism as a literary genre only began in the late nineteenth century. Naturalist writers wrote about the role of the environment in shaping human character. Works of naturalism derived their principles from scientific theories such as…

Plutarch, a Greek writer, who lived from 46 AD to 120 AD under the influence of the great Roman Empire, wrote one of the more complete sources there is on the Egyptian god Osiris. Plutarch based his narrative of Osiris as the god of death and resurrection and his control over the underworld also known as Duat. Osiris is also seen as the god of fertility and its connection to agriculture. Osiris was first created human form and later became deified. Osiris has a long connection with the Egyptian…

land and stature while in the worst, vengeance, banishment and war. The Athenian embracement of democracy over monarchy can be attributed to the tyranny experienced under the rule of Pisistratus. The initial constitutional oligarchy was run by a small number of affluent upper class while the lower classes worked the land to pay their debts. If the debts were not paid they were then forced into a life of slavery by laws created and…

Song Analysis Title: Forever and Always Artist: Parachute It’s a song about two lovers who loved each other dearly. Clichéd as it sounds, but it’s a song filled with love and at the same time sadness. It simply tells the narrative story from the first verse until the bridge. It says that the woman thought of “December, she thinks of when he asked her. He bent down on his knees first”. It gives the assumption that they’re already engaged to each other. As the woman waited for her fiancé, she got…

As we view the evolvement of American literature, we begin to move away from the transcendentalist impressions of writers, and move toward a more realistic notion. The texts and authors of this era were greatly influenced by the circumstances around them: the American Civil War, the rush to the Alaskan Yukon for gold, or the Industrial Revolution, which incited them to see the world in a different light than those before them. To a reader with little to no knowledge on the background of the…