William H. Seward

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Jonathan Swift was a highly satirical writer who often openly criticized politics and political issues. Due to the time they were published, their politically-focused themes, and the base from which most of his writings were inspired puts Swift and his works resolutely in the Neoclassical era. Even after the end of the period in the late eighteenth century, Swift’s work continued to influence writers and stories world-wide, even to present day. The Neoclassical period lasted from 1660 to the…

The Person Behind the Mask Every person is different and everyone has their own opinions. THe community that a person is born in is not a choice made by the individual. Two pieces of literature that really bring out these ideas are, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin and “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden. In both pieces the author brings out a situation where a person is unhappy with their life and how the people around them live. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”…

In The Time Machine, by H.G Wells, Wells’ view of humanity is shown as the Traveler advances into the future. When he reaches the year 802,701 AD, he encounters two different species of what seem to be the humans of that time period. The Time Traveller names these two species “Eloi” and the “Morlocks”. Both of these represent Wells’ view of humanity that will form as time advances. Although they are both organisms of the future, the way they live their lives are very different. The Eloi are very…

How do I Love to Stop All the Clocks “Stop all the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone” by W.H. Auden and “How do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are both poems that are expressing the author’s love for someone. However, with the aforementioned poems, the poets are in a different point in their experience of love. While Browning is writing for someone in that moment, Auden is writing in mourning for someone. Together, these poems show the power of love through life and after death. In…

storytelling and entertainment, people read books to learn life lessons and understand morals and values. People read stories and take into account what the characters learn, and apply those lessons to their own lives. In The Once and Future King, T. H. White teaches us three major themes; that while the justice system gives people a chance of being proven innocent, it is not always fair, that one can not always trust their family, and ultimately, no matter how hard one tries to prevent the…

Introduction H. G. Wells has long been considered the father of the science fiction genre with the publication of his first book, The Time Machine in 1895. This novel details a narrator’s travel through time. The unidentified narrator tells of his voyages through time to house guests of various professional backgrounds except one of religious background. To explain, there is not a minister or priest situated among the house guest. This essay will address the absence of religion in the novel…

The other original members of the first board of directors included co-founder Murray Rothbard, Libertarian scholar Earl Ravenal, and businessmen David H. Padden and Sam H. Husbands Jr. At the request of Rothbard, the institute changed its name in 1976 to Cato Institute (Cato, n.d.). This was named after the Cato's Letters, a series of British essays written in the early 18th century by John Trenchard and Thomas…

“The Veldt” is a short story written by Ray Bradbury on September 23, 1950. Bradbury, known for his science fiction genre, wrote many novels including: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine and more. The common theme of his novels is that humans can be manipulated by technology. “The Veldt” is about a family that has a very technologically advanced home that performs every task for them. The children eventually get revenge on their parents with their own technology – the nursery…

Rashaun Richardson February 17, 2016 In the story, “Shooting an Elephant”, the narrator is contradictory in his feelings, by supporting one set of people, the Burmans, but serving another, the British. The reader infers that he can’t decide who to fight for because in the text the narrator explains the treatment of the Burmans by the English, but then tells the treatment of himself by the Burmans. For example, the narrator states that the treatment of the Burman prisoners were…