We Didn't Start the Fire

scouted by the NBA. Henry Kidman the son of the poorest family in Dallas. Now about to be drafted into the NBA straight from high school. Now that’s what you call a dream. High school finals, big day. Going against the rivals, Austin Wranglers. We played hard first half, 51-54 them. Second half I walk out onto the court and there’s NBA scout! You know what that means, showtime! No room for mistakes, can’t be stopped. Fourth quarter, clutch time, crunch time. 6 seconds left 98-96, them.…

The work of Hunger Games Catching fire is definitely original. I have never read a book quite like it. The book is something I’d never read before, it makes the government all twisted and corrupt and all messed up, they have people kill each other for “revenge” for the revolution that was tried many years before. The characters in the book are very well rounded and believable, they really show how messed up the games make people who are in it and also the ones who win and get out. The winners…

New look into Empowerment in the Movies: Water and Fire Empower can be termed as self-strength, control, self-power or your own decision making and fighting for one’s rights. With these ideas in mind, this paper shows women’s empowerment and challenge to the opposite dominant sex, displayed in Deepa Mehta’s films Water and Fire. Water "Water" concentrates on the social state of a woman in Indian society, especially on the social position of a widow. The film tells us about a small…

around the world for many years. Terrorism is known as an unlawful act of crime of viciousness. Terrorism takes action to threaten government or society to seek an objective level in political, and or religion. How the collapse of the tower created. We all know terrorism is a conspiracy theory but the terrorism only do what they do because of the US and its government. The government had all rights to take action on terrorism due to the September 11 attack. Since the September 11 attack…

In the story, The Magic Bus, Thomas is one of the most disturbing and evil characters we encounter from any of the stories. A sociopath is as “defined as a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.” The website Pyschcentral.com says that sociopath is a “pop psychology” term used to describe antisocial personality disorders. Many antisocial personality disorder share similar traits such as breaking the rules or…

Literary Analysis Research Paper Golding’s Lord of the Flies is clearly a story about a return to primeval human instincts of savagery and fear in the face of isolation and danger rather than just a story of the dilemma faced by teenage boys stranded on an island. Throughout the novel, underlying tones such as political ideologies are reflected by the boys’ actions. However, as the novel progresses, it is clear that expansive symbols and motifs largely mirror attitudes of the boys and on a…

Cunningham is a mockingbird. The mob has the intention of lynching Tom Robinson before his trial. Scout sees Mr. Cunningham and she starts talking to him about about his saying he’s “a real nice boy. We brought him home for dinner one time. Maybe he told you about me, I beat him up one time but he was real nice about it. Tell him hey for me, won’t you (Lee 205)?”. Scout then goes on to say that “Entailments are bad…

shelter a family of Jews. Even with the fact that she was poor, and little is known about her life, we do know that she saved a family. For deciding to help that family of Jews, she was recognized as Righteous among the Nations (Wikipedia) and is also known as a Woman of Valor (Vashem). With that in mind let’s go uncover what she did. Let’s start with some basic information, Holocaust means “sacrifice by fire” if you trace it back to its Greek origin (Ushmm). Germans wanted the purest…

being the death of his Mother, Father, and sister. All of the challenges he faced shaped and changed Elie in a way that affected him throughout his life. This shows that when we are faced with problems we try to adapt and change to solve them. In the beginning of the book, Eliezer was a very religious teenager. At the start of the book Eliezer was talking to Moishe the Beadle, one of his good friends, about wanting to continue his studies in a deeper way with Moishe. For example he said “One day…

change so much that they actually killed 3 kids. The author wanted to make it seem as if British boys can go savage too. The book before Lord of the Flies made it seem as if the natives on the island were a lower class than the whites. William Golding didn't feel that way so he decided to make a book about the savagery inside British boys. He also placed the the boys in the time period during World War II which was ironic because the boys ended up fighting their own War. The book is described as…