One day there was a girl named Belle, and she loved to read and always love taking selfies. The same day she came out her house and heard it was dance mob and everybody was doing the whip and nae nae. Then while she was walking she sees a man named Xavier, the selfish, bodybuilder that always drinks a lot of ale. Then his sidekick Josh, who does everything for him, and looks up to him starts making fun of Belle’s father. While Xavier tells Belle bad things about her father and his inventions,…
The Outsiders Essay Are the Greasers and the Socs really that different or are they more alike that they realize? Greasers are a gang of kids, who live on the East side, that banded together because of a series if likenesses that they share. Socs are a bunch of rich kids who live on the Southside and have all the best cars, clothes, and alcohol possible. These two groups think that they are different, but their similarities outweigh their differences in 180 pages of literature by S.E. Hinton.…
Plantation Worker Letter Home Aloha, or hello (that's what they say on the plantation). I miss all of you back in Japan, I miss Okasan’s (mom) cooking, I miss watching the little ones play, but I mostly miss father. Tell him that I will come and visit him at the ulter soon. I left home to pursue a new life, to live in a warmer place, to get a job, and live in free housing. From what I understand most people came to Hawaii for the same reasons, sadly most of those promises were not fulfilled.…
What is the feeling of being dehumanized? How dramatic do actions towards other humans have to be before it is called dehumanization? Elie Wiesel, the author of the book “Night,” knows what dehumanization feels like. Concentration camps where millions of Jews-including Wiesel and his family-were forced to stay until they died of illness, shot by Germans, or lived long enough to be rescued. In Wiesel’s book “Night,” a tragic theme is dehumanization. Examples occur when they first arrive at…
When most people wake up they hope something good will fall upon them, but most don’t think of the burden that might lurk behind the blessing. This statement could be used as the moral for John Steinbeck’s book The Pearl. The Pearl is a story of a fisherman named Kino whom found a pearl beyond price and doesn’t at the moment understand the dangers that might result from it. As mentioned earlier I believe John Steinbeck paints a very noticeable moral. Kino is a family man that wants nothing but…
An advantage of this source is the detailed images that accompanied the inscribed curse. The drawing of the horse-spirit with a chariot whip and wheel leaves no doubt of the connection between chariot racing and curses. This particular curse tablet was found with fifty-six other tablets, suggesting the placement in this tomb brought success to several other curses. The majority of the curse…
Written in the early 1880’s, Frederick Douglass captures the life as a slave in order to educate the United States at the time. By 1860, there were 3,953,761 slaves living in the United States, making up 12.6% of the entire population. Douglass writes about being captive as a save in Maryland from the time of his birth in 1818 to the age of 20 in 1838. Using ethical and emotional appeal, he writes to educate people about the real life as a slave and also to persuade the need for reform.…
Frank Underwood is a Protagonist in the TV Series House of Cards. Frank Underwood presents himself as an intellectual hegemonic male because of his job as a house majority whip, his character is also educated, very formal language and influential. As people see him as a person of a high status due to how influential his job is, people feed off him. Zoe Barns is a Jounalist that works for the Washington herald. Zoe’s connection…
In the night one is frightened trying to determine whether one should undergo the perception of being fearful and unattended or to be hopeful and wanting to get through the position one is in during war and the separation of loved and dear ones. This is the darkness and negativity affecting people who may have been in the holocaust. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, portrays such graphic and traumatizing experiences one may have gone through in the holocaust, which establishes night and…
Slave Short Story Today was one of the gloomy days. It was already hard enough to work out in the fields but in addition to that it was pouring down rain. I had just left the slave cabins and I was already drenched. My little brother, John and I trudged towards the plantation with our parents. We were only wearing rag-like clothes and walking barefoot to the fields. I had already stepped on more than a dozen rocks. “Ouch,” screeched John. He was having the same problem as me. Since he was only…