Uncle Tom

September, although his role was not immediately announced. With only a month away from the mid-season premiere, TVLine has just broken the news that Berkeley will portray Gregory, the leader of the Hilltop Colony which includes Paul "Jesus" Monroe (Tom Payne). Comic book fans are now excited over the introduction of Gregory, who may not be as vicious as the baseball bat-wielding Negan but proves to be just as dangerous to Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his group. In the comic series, Gregory…

Singer’s argument for lobbying against animal cruelty is highly respected and is used for most scholarly debates. His published book, Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals, is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas. Many, however, do not agree with Singer’s argument that nonhuman animal suffering should be taken into consideration when compared to human suffering. Their argument is mainly that animals…

If society opposed what you believed in, would you push it, or hide it? This is a problem faced by a young boy, named Huck Finn. Huck lives in a vastly racist society, in which it is deemed wrong to help slaves. Throughout his adventure, Huck experiences a change in how he perceives African Americans. By showing us Huck’s experience, Mark Twain is able to show us his feelings about the matter. Through point of view, Twain is able to express his feelings towards racism. Twain strategically…

Satire in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a young boy leaves home and embarks on a journey. In his time, people of higher status were seen as more intelligent than others. Through satire, Twain suggests that class does not correlate with intelligence. First, the high class’s limited intelligence is exposed when Buck incorrectly spells Huck’s alias. When Buck’s father asks for Huck’s name, he says, “George Jackson, sir” () Huck…

The value of growing up or maturing from childhood to adulthood is determined by the way one understands the lesson to be learned. Sammy is the main character in the short story A & P by John Updike. Sammy was the protagonist, but a round character in the story. Which was written in the 1960’s? During the 1960’s the media was starting to grow as well as situations like hippies and drugs was starting to form. Not to say that sexual freedom was happening to. It gives the background of why the…

Everyone knows the stories that changed history. Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Jungle both pioneered for social reform, Animal Farm provided a strong cultural criticism, The Great Gatsby showed the flaw in the American Dream, and To Kill a Mockingbird describes the trials and tribulations of growing up. Stories like this form an elite society of literature that spoke of the unspeakable and pushed forward a new mindset that many had overlooked. Among these ranks falls The Adventures of Huckleberry…

Dear Ishmael Beah, I am writing to you in regards to your bestselling memoir A Long Way Gone published on February 13th, 2007. I have been a fan of yours for quite some time, but have been convinced by clear evidence gathered that there are some inaccuracy in your memoir. I firmly believe that this memoir contains embellishments and exaggeration on your experience as a child soldier. Several articles have been published explaining controversial facts mentioned in your story that don’t seem…

The Man with a Movie Camera, a 1929 silent film by Dziga Vertov, illustrates the typical life of an average citizen in the city. Through its visual images, without a plot, Vertov allows the audience to make their own interpretations of the events in order to construct an overall meaning of the film. Vertov uses editing, specifically rhythm and continuity, along with cinematography, to convey the theme that life has two sides, birth and death, marriage and divorce, and lastly the young and old.…

Nothing is more interesting and adventurous than a boy who is infatuated with a girl who doesn’t notice him right? It sounds like a typical teenage novel but the New York Times best-seller Paper Towns by John Green will make you rethink that. This book is about Quentin “Q” Jacobson on a quest to find the girl he is in love with, Margo Roth Spiegelman, after they went on an adventure. When Q came to school the next day, excited to be friends with Margo again after quite some time, he found out…

Rory Bremner, a British Comedian once said “Location is everything, I’d rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel.” This demonstrates the importance of location and how nature’s purity is better than the corruption in society. In the novel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the plot takes place on the Mississippi River and the shore, where Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, try to escape their past and become free. While on the river, Huck and Jim…