William James

All things truly wicked start from innocence- hemmingway(use this as conclusion) The obscurity of one’s character can prove to be an essential trait. In the novel, East of Eden, John Steinbeck dramatizes the ongoing conflict between good and evil in the society of the Salinas Valley through the individuals of the Hamilton and Trask families. Caleb, in particular, stands out to be the epitome of a morally ambiguous character. Having the versatile ability to express conflicting intentions; good…

James Joyce's "Araby" is about an unnamed narrator who remembers the days of his youth and tells the story of his first love. North Richmond Street is where the narrator would grow up and develop feelings for one of his friend's sister, who is also an unnamed character in the story. The narrator explains how he would spend much of his time thinking about his crush, thinking about her in the most unlikely of times and places. One day, the narrator presses himself to talk to his lost interest,…

In the 1997 film Titanic, the director James Cameron exerts to act the historic disaster of the damned ship. In the scenes of the ship's sinking, Cameron shoots the camera at a distance several times in order to show the mass scale of the disaster. He provides a viewpoint of the lifeboat survivors’ from their distance of the ship. He also thrives on capturing a visual in a bird's eye view of the incident during its occurrence. This view would provide the viewer with a sense of how isolated the…

What is Batman’s single most guilty pleasure? Hey baby, come back to my place and I’ll show you ____? What has been making life difficult at the nudist colony? Seemingly weird questions with not so obvious answers! No? Well, Cards Against Humanity may have the answer! We all have to have conversations. And sometimes indulge in outrageous ones – ranging from funny to outrightly dirty! We are horrifically imperfect people and the problems are so big and seemingly insurmountable that when placed…

In the short story “Your Move” by Eve Bunting the main character James is very irresponsible. Even though he shows positive characteristics such as being protective of his brother, he can be easily influenced, self-conscious, and most of all unintelligent. He is easily influenced because to get into a “club” he had to climb a super high sign and risked his life to do so. The “club” leaders (Kris + Bones) told him that when you're on the sign write K-BONES over the SNAKES symbol in spray…

In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” the author uses the bird as a symbol for doodle to foreshadow what's going to happen at the end. When they first see the bird the dad says “”It looks tiered,” daddy added. “Or maybe evan sick”” When the narrator is teaching doodle to run he says “I purposely walked fast, and although he kept up,his face turned red”. This relates the two through being tired and worn out. The bird had flown from florida to North carolina and doodle was pushing himself harder…

In Chapter 32 Chernow explains the least popular piece of legislation of Adams presidency. The Alien and seditions acts not only brought back distrust between neighbors paralleled to that of the Salem Witch Trials. But the acts were made into a scape goat for many politicians to fight against each other. The acts pretty much brought the downfall of the federalist party for many years to come. Hamilton in wanted revenge against the author who released information about the Reynolds affair and…

Throughout the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Solitude becomes an important role in both Victor Frankenstein and his creatures life. Mary Shelley tries to incorporate how solitude effects both characters throughout the different changes in the novel. Over the course of the novel, Victor becomes very passionate about science to the point where he becomes sort of obsessed with his experiment on the creature. As time passes by Victor dislikes the outcome of his experiment and tries to get away…

James Bond, a man of many adventures, the star of several books and movie’s, has become the picture of British masculinity. This British masculinity can be defined by the rigorous consistency, sophistication, social elegance, physical and intellectual superiority, and levelheadedness with which Bond gracefully and timely saves the world from its unknown offenders. This ideal man is the height of British superiority and his adventures are the epitome of Anglo-centric world views during the cold…

Adams “midnight judges” and he never received his commission, or papers from the secretary of state. James Madison was the assistant of Thomas Jefferson, the new president, who won the 1801 election against John Adams. By Thomas Jefferson being a republican, he wanted to prevent the federalist from becoming justices of the peace. Therefore Jefferson instructed his secretary of state whom was James Madison to refuse the appointments. They passed a law of the Judiciary Act of 1801 in extension of…