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Animal Farm Compare and Contrast In George Orwell’s illustrious novel Animal Farm, he writes about an animal society that plots to over throw the human race. In the story, the leaders of their communist like society, abuse their authority and in their end the pigs fall from power and ends with a devastating effect. This…

Importance of Ambition In the play, Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, it is evident that ambition plays a very important role in the play. Ambition is when someone has a strong desire for success, achievement, or a goal. It is a motivating factor that drives one towards success. This is a big part of this…

It is apparent in our class readings, that when the gods are angry at the humans they created, these gods unleash unforgiving rains to flood the earth, and kill the human race. Over the years, there have been various texts about these floods. While the occurrences of the floods themselves are continuous throughout these texts,…

Will Rogers was born November 4 in 1879 on a large ranch in the Cherokee Nation near what is now present day Oologah, Oklahoma. Will Rogers was taught be a freed slave how to use a lasso as a tool to work Texas Longhorn cattle on the family ranch. When he grew older, Will Rogers’…

Freedom of Speech in a Religious Assembly Let Freedom Ring “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (KJV Psalm 9:17). An average of over 160,000 Christians have been killed every year since 1990 (Colson). Statistically speaking there have been more recorded Christian martyrs in the twentieth century than…

One of the most important things in life is the relationship that exists between parents and their children. This is a relationship based on unconditional love and which never ends. For there to be peace in this relationship, there has to be mutual respect between the child and the parent. The two must also value…

One of the recent news items is that Borders declared bankruptcy, while over at Australia, Angus & Robertson is similarly in danger. I’m not here to discuss what Borders or Angus ; Robertson did wrong. What I do want to talk about, however, are Philippine bookstore chains. Until the mid 1990s, there were two major…

Representation of Civilization warrens Heart of Darkness is a highly complex novella, as it does not provide the reader with an ending that satisfies his or her expectations, though the implications are rebounded more powerful and unsettling as it destabilize the reader’s notion of humanity. Conrad deconstructs the notion of western civilization being “a shining…

‘Poem at Thirty-nine’ and ‘Piano’ explore melancholy emotions while ‘Remember’ does not in my opinion. The reasons I do no completely agree is because the three poems all have hidden feelings and meanings. ‘Poem at Thirty-nine’ shows melancholy emotions because it presents the loss of the persona’s father and ‘Piano’ portrays how D. H. Lawrence…

“A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka Analysis Through a Single Element “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka is a story of a “hunger artist” that wants to show the public the art of fasting, but along the way, peoples’ interests declined and caused the hunger artist to join the circus. At the circus he was…