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A Tale of Two Cities “Kid Who Die”, by Langston Hughes explores the effects of indifference on the lives of children, who are unable to escape the confines of society. In “Kids Who Die”, the concept of forced division is echoed through Charles Dickens’, A Tale of Two Cities. The struggles of the French peasants before the Revolution mirrors a majority of the obstacles faced by the youth of the early twentieth century. One major struggle faced by the victims within both works is the unfair…

Victorian England and the Abuse of her children. Charles Dickens was not only a man who wrote about but had also experienced first -hand the hard cold reality of the abuse of children. You can rarely open a Dickens novel without having your heart bleed for the poor tortured souls who were the children of his time. Child labor in Victorian England was synonymous to the much despised word slavery. Therefore, children were exploited, tortured and neglected even to the point of death. Because they…

“Ring-a-ring-a rosy a pocket full of posies, a tissue a tissue we all fall down” and that’s exactly what everyone’s doing. The black death has been in Sydney for a while now and everyone is dying, including my mother. I have been forced to work for an undertaker cleaning up bodies and blood stains “You’ll never see a dead body Angelina, it’s not that bad!” What rubbish! I only get $1 a week, that’s only enough for two meals a day, whereas men get $2, how sexist! Father does not even contribute…

Jake the Snake: Jaques Plante “ How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo and yell at you that you suck!” The eldest of 11 children, Joseph Jacques Omer Plante, was born on January 17, 1929 on a farm near Notre-Dame-du-Mont Carmel, in Maurice Quebec. Plante began playing hockey at three ....he had no skates, he used a tennis ball instead of a puck and his stick was carved from a tree root by his father. His father also made his first…

The most important character among three Christmas ghosts in A Christmas Carol Christmas Carol was an influent novel which was written by Charles Dickens throughout one and half century about a life of Ebenezer Scrooge as a negative, penny-pinching and distasteful man in London. No one had ever wished to work as an employee in his office after his best business partner Jacob Marley died except Bob Cratchit. Nothing in the world would scare Scrooge if it wasn’t about the gold…

Millard Fillmore was born on Jan 7, 1800. Millard’s birthplace is a big debate. There are many different sources that place him in many different locations at his birth. He was born in Locke Township, New York, Summerhill, New York, Cayuga County, New York or, a region in New York known as the Finger Lakes. He was born to Nathaniel and Phoebe Fillmore. His odd name, Millard, comes from his mother’s maiden name. He had nine other siblings Millard Fillmore was born into extreme poverty. At…

Jaxton commonly known as Jax (Broinowski) has been a long term relationship for 4 years. He is contemplating marriage without the support of part of his family, or country. Since coming out he has been a big disappoint to them and is learning how to be free from their judging and discrimination. Since the age of 23 Jax has not lived his families Orthodox Judaism life. Jax is gay and has become a member of Dayenu. This organization which was founded in 1999. Dayenu’s is based in Sydney,…

Being Kidnapped seems like a situation that would be terrible to be in. For one kid, it was the best few days of his life and he did not want to leave. “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, is a fictional short story. Bill and Sam are the two main characters in the story. With much work they plan to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois. To do this they need two thousand dollars. These two men decide to kidnap Ebenezer Dorset’s child and offer a ransom. Bill and Sam take the…

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…

Great Expectations is a novel composed by Charles Dickens, this novel is set in early Victorian England, a period when tremendous social changes were influencing the country. It is a story told in the first person narration by a moderately aged Pip, who is glancing back at his adolescence and youth. The story takes its starting when Pip is just 6 or 7 years of age and is living with his sister and her metal forger spouse Joe in light of the fact that his parents are dead. Great Expectations…