The Stoop

him on, knowing the barber would do nothing. The barber held his composure by saying a simple, “Yes.” He was trying so hard to hold his composure because he didn’t want to lose his character. The barber was good at his profession and didn’t want to stoop down to the Captains…

One of the most time tested pieces of culture, literature reflects the culture of its writers and their nation. Within literary works of The Wild Honeysuckle and The Indian Burial Ground by Philip Freneau, Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet, and To a waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant can be seen the developing character of being an American. Many of these poems show less to be desired traits found in everyday life. Within the pages of these poems can be…

The way the setting is described in “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” creates a foreboding mood and reflects a character’s feelings through the mood by using vivid sensory details. The setting works to create a foreboding mood throughout “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by using vivid sensory details. An example of this is when the author says, “Greg had noticed that the door, once boarded over, had been slightly ajar . . . He reached the house just as another flash of lightning changed the night to…

The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in a small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Maycomb is a small town that has a lot of poor people with families who lived there from generation to generation. With segregation going on around the 1930’s a lot of people in Maycomb are racially divided because some think they are better than African Americans, while some say they are equal. For example, Atticus is a good man because he took a case supporting an African American man…

The play Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare took place during a period of Roman political disturbance which parallels to the monarchy Shakespeare was in when he wrote the play. Like most playwrights in that time, Shakespeare created plays that reveal adherence to the throne. However, in Julius Caesar, Shakespeare uses the play as an opportunity to express his criticism for the monarchy by sympathising with the conspirators who were against the throne through the actions of the…

In clergyman Johnathan Swift’s essay, A Modest Proposal, Swift presents a proposal that small children should be sold for food. Swift supports his proposal by providing examples of how selling the small children would be beneficial, describing how his proposed system would be set up, and also by supporting his proposal with logical evidence that shows he spent time creating a well-crafted argument. Swift’s purpose is to present an absurd proposal in order to show how absurd the poverty level in…

Galbatorix's name, from murder to slavery, to turn his back on the Empire.’’ He feels that it is his responsibility as the only other Dragon Rider to fight against Galbatorix. From these quotes, we can deduct that there is no limit to how low Galbatorix will stoop to fight his opponents. Without realising, Galbatorix is actually inspiring the Varden to fight against him. This is how the theme good vs evil is portrayed in this…

Let's imagine if self-driving vehicles are hacked by a criminal or even a terrorist group, they can stoop to any level to harm the citizen for their selfish goals. In that peculiar situation, we can not do anything to turn the tables. Vehicles can be turned into potential lethal weapons than they are today. Computers can cause chaos if they are unable to make correct decisions, additionally, they can cause unimaginable destruction if they are fallen in the wrong hands. When the world already…

main character Roger Gets taught respect. A quote that shows he got taught responsibility is “The boy wanted to say something else other than “Thank you, m’am” to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, but he couldn’t do so as he turned at the barren stoop and looked back at the large woman in the door. He barely managed to say “Thank you” before she shut the door. And he never saw her again.” (hughes,3). This quote shows that…

When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the tree. The Blue that was before her stood inches from a boy in an Aglionby sweater. There was a slight stoop to his posture, and his shoulders were spattered darkly with rain. It was his fingers that Blue felt on her face. He touched her cheek with the backs of his fingers. Tears coursed down the other Blue's face. Though some strange magic, Blue could feel them on her face as well. She could feel,…