Walter Scott

Prompt: How would Curley have acted if he were placed in Tom Buchanan’s situation in ch. 7 of TGG? The Wrath of Curley Ballcannon It was a brutally hot day. Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Jordan Baker, Curley Ballcannon and his wife, Daisy, were all gathered in a muggy New York hotel room and the tension in the air was thick. Everyone knew Gatsby and Daisy had been having an affair for a couple months, but Curley had a mistress as well. No one dared to address either of their infidelities, until…

Money- some say it’s what makes the world go round. Small green pieces of cloth fiber paper are what control how someone will live and act. Money has caused war, death, problems, depressions, and anything in between, making many wonder what the point of money is anymore. In The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, money is a key factor in the novel and especially affects characters such as Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, causing many twists, turns, and even fatalities to happen. The way money…

On Sunday June 12th, I attended the Oklahoma Community Orchestra Concert. This event took place at the Oklahoma Christian University Pavilion. The Concert started at 7:30pm and it was free for everyone.this was my first concert in a long time, since middle school. I got there exactly at 7:30pm, which made it hard for me to get a seat and a clear view of the concert. There were a lot of people there which meant that this was going to be a very good concert. The concert started of with the band…

For many, The Great Gatsby is a story of two thwarted lovers. However, upon deeper analysis, the Great Gatsby is a work written by F. Scott Fitzgerald that criticizes the American dream at a time where it was unbelievably corrupt. The Great Gatsby occurs in the jazz age, in the middle of the 1920s. Fitzgerald bases it in New York, where the jazz age was strongest. This gives us a perfect setting to see exactly what becomes wrong with the American dream when people take it too far. The novel…

Symbolism is when a person, place, or thing represents something bigger than what a story, or book says it does. These symbols can be the tiniest objects in the smallest of places. In the two novels, The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, and A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, there is symbolism to represent and help show the theme for each of their stories. In Crane’s novel, the main character, Henry Fleming goes to war looking for his own red badge of courage. When he does receive his own…

Heinrich Böll was one of the best known German authors of the 20th century (Michaels). He became internationally known around 1971 when he was elected president of the International PEN Club. He went on to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972. Some of Böll’s most acclaimed works are Billiards at Half-Past Nine and And Never Said A Word. Like any author, Böll’s works are influenced by his own experiences. In Billiards at Half-Past Nine, the inspiration from his life impacts the novel in…

Hrafnkel’s Fate Randee Glosch MDVL 1450: Heroes and Villains October 10, 2017 Hrafnkel started this tale by finding an unclaimed valley and taking control of it with the help of his father who gave him half of his farms supplies to get Adalbol running. When he got his farm Adalbol built he gave the people of the area land to live and farm on. The only thing they had to agree to was to let Hrafnkel become their overlord, he became their priest and chieftain and was given the nickname…

Ethan Couch, Juvenile Court and Affluenza Arkansas Technical University Ozark Campus - Christopher Rambo Charlotte Waterman Ethan Couch, Juvenile Court and Affluenza Ethan couch became infamous at the age of 16. He was the son of millionaires Fred and Tonya couch, a Burleson Texas. on June 15, 2013 Ethan and some friends, we're drinking and partying unsupervised at the second residence of Tonya and Fred couch. Ethan and his friends decided to leave. Ethan, while driving his truck while…

“Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller Ambition scours free in America. During the 1950’s, the reputation of the American people became reliant on strength and determination to procure dreams. Arthur Miller’s book, “Death of a Salesman”, shrouded the contemptuous nature of a family living their dreams, revealing the truth and phenomena behind the cloaked society, where everyone is xerox copies of each other. Coming home every day from work, Willy Loman, in the comfort of his wife Linda, does…

In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, two men: George Milton and Lennie Small both land jobs at a ranch in the Salinas Valley and plan to pursue a dream of earning enough money to buying an acre of land and living the rest of their lives together. George has one major issue of making this dream come true. Lennie, who has a mental disability, struggles to act like a normal human being and cannot distinguish right from wrong. His innocence combined with his mental limitations make us feel…