Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

The book Little Men by Louisa May Alcott is the third book in the Little Women series. Little Men takes place around the 1860’s and 1870’s in Plumfield, where it can be assumed is in Massachusetts. As with many books, there will be a few differences between the book and actual time period with the way people act, what they wear, and how they speak. Back in the 1860’s and 1870’s the clothing they wore was very formal. Men would wear long trench coats with high waisted pants, vests…

Part seven, Prompt eight A common theme throughout the novel, French resistence, was especially demonstrated in part seven. Etienne joins alongside Marie-Laure to oppose the Nazi party’s occupation in France. They work together to oppose the Facist regime in every way possible. Through several small actions, sending radio broadcasts to fellow allies, they take major steps towards ultimately defeating the German soldiers. “He says, “The war that killed your grandfather killed sixteen million…

has the fame of a solitary and hard worker even though he was not able to reduce the Netherlands revolt, also lost the whole Invincible Spanish Armada because of bad planned strategies of war and the Spanish Royal Treasury Went bankrupt five times under Philippe II 's rule. He also got to a point were supporting the costs of the Spanish Military became impossible. He was able to expand the Spanish Imperium the biggest empire in terms of extension. First he conquered Sicily and Napoli in 1554…

radio reading her braille copy of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to her great uncle. Werner goes to Saint-Malo to listen to the radio. His first encounter with her is on the streets of Saint-Malo as she goes to get bread. This is also Marie-Laure’s encounter with Von Rupel shortly after. Werner's second encounter is when she tracks down her house and finds the man in her house. Von Rupel, the man in Marie-Laure’s House, was tracking down a “cursed” diamond, The Sea of Flames, said to…

Natural History located in Paris, and they entrusted him with an incredibly valuable diamond, the Sea of Flames. As rumors of Germany wanting to engage in France swells, Marie-Laure and her trusting father left Paris to…

civil war 1961-1965. It was a war between the Confederacy and the Union. They fought over slavery rights. Leading towards the Civil War, 11 states succeeds from the Union. The Union Army under Gen. Irvin McDowell. They suffered a defeat at Bull Run. Abraham Lincoln was made the 16th president of the United States. He also wrote the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865. He was wounded badly and…

Wayne Westerberg’s was stressed about being shorthanded on work, because Chris McCandless did not come. McCandless spent four weeks in Carthage, where he worked simple, yet gritty jobs. McCandless befriended Gail Borah, Westerberg’s on-again off-again girlfriend, though he was hesitant at first. McCandless revealed that he left because he had repeatedly clashed with his father and his parents did not take him seriously. In contrast, McCandless was friendly with most people in Carthage and showed…

all the peoples who owed him allegiance.” Speaking to the prowess of the Persian Army, Peter Green writes “That Juggernaut, the Persian war-machine -- nothing so formidable had appeared since the collapse of the Assyrian empire.” The Persian Army, under General Mardonius, first moved in 492 BCE conquering Thrace and Macedon without much resistance but was delayed when Mardonius’ fleet was…

reflect the legacy that still stands as a significant and popular interest worldwide thousands of years after they were first occupied. Being one of the earliest centres of Christianity, Egypt was Islamized in the seventh…

One of the key similarities between the two stories in All the Light We Cannot See is the presence of a particularly fortified, loving relationship between certain characters. Marie-Laure LeBlanc was extremely close with her father, Daniel LeBlanc just as Werner Pfennig was extremely close with his sister, Jutta Pfennig, and their caretaker, Frau Elena. The Marie-Laure and Werner came to test and justified that the relationships they had with their families was unbreakable. In the novel All the…