Tom Kenny

The Hobbit and Abarat follow the Heroes Journey theme nearly to the tee. Both novels speak of adventure and transport you to a whole other world that touch your heart and will never leave you.“There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make,” (Baker,1). The Hobbit and Abarat show a different world that has no end in sight. “There in the distance appeared a glittering…

No matter what topic they cover, classic novels allow readers to dive into the unfamiliar world of the past. These stories allow readers to discover what life was like in the time period of each specific book, and learn about the people that lived in these times. One of these great classic novels is Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Written in 1885, Twain’s novel is narrated by a boy named Huck, who goes off on an adventure to escape from his abusive father and help a runaway…

education is more useful. Mark Twain presents his ideas on which form of education is better through the actions and attitudes of several of his books characters. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain characters Huck, Miss Watson, and Tom all have different views on education. Huck tends to use his common sense more often throughout the book, and also voices his displeasure of school often. When Huck is addressing his current education he says, “I don’t take no stock in…

This story introduces a newly married couple on a train heading to Yellow Sky, the groom’s home town, from San Antonio. This is a Western story set sometime back in the 1800’s. His name is Jack Potter and he is the sheriff of Yellow Sky. After having left his town to obtain a wife, he returned newly married without telling the people in his town of his marriage. When he arrived at Yellow Sky, he tried to avoid people because he thought that they would start to celebrate. To his surprise Scratchy…

In both The Odyssey and The Swede, a character makes a decision regarding whether or not to act the way society has taught them to. In The Odyssey, Odysseus decides not to fight Scylla despite the integral part of his identity that is a war hero. The outcome of this is positive, and Odysseus grows as a person. Whereas in The Swede Danny regreses as a person to fit in as a teenage boy. Both stories give examples of how society's perception of individuals can change how they act. In The Swede,…

Is Huckleberry Finn is a shrewd character in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain? Huck Finn is a very shrewd character because he is clever, cunning, and also street-smart. First of all, Huck is shrewd because he is very clever for a fourteen-year-old boy. He frames his death by killing a wild pig and making a trail of its blood, “I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe; and laid him down on the ground to bleed.…

Javier Pineda English 102 Professor Connelly 17 April 2017 Essay 3 War stories and movies almost always have some type of bias. Bias are present in both Saving Private Ryan, and All Quiet on the Western Front. Saving Private Ryan has aspects of an anti and pro war movie, while All Quiet on the Western Front is a true anti-war book. Just like a lot of the movies out there, Saving Private Ryan has a few overdramatized parts. Of course, without some exaggerated parts war movies would not be as…

The story “The jumping Frog of Calaveras County is somewhat different from the play form presented to us at ISU. One way they are similar is that they both had the story about Jim Smiley and his jumping frog. Although, the story form went into greater detail with Andrew Jackson and the racing horse, they both had the main idea. One way they differ from each other is that the play form did not start with the narrator wanting to gain knowledge of Leo Smiley. The story form did start with it. The…

“Going live in 3, 2, 1! We’re on air!” We all receive news through various sources, you can open twitter to check the trending topics or receive push notifications from different media outlets. The most common way we trust receiving our news is to turn on the TV to a news anchor. However, there’s a need to question the integrity of a certain news reporter Brian Williams, an anchor for the NBC news. Williams came under fire for embellishing his role in a helicopter incident in Iraq, leading…

On January 14th, 2015 The New York Times published actor, producer, and director, Tom Hank’s “I Owe It All to Community College”. In this publication, Hanks firmly credits inclusive and free community college as the institution that, “made him into the man he is today” (Hanks). Hank’s convincing claim can be acknowledged on the foundation of a tactfully simple use of pathos and ethos. Hanks understands his audience well enough to evoke agreement toward his argument. Readers of The New York Times…