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Even though they already eve hundreds of pounds of equipment to carry, they still choose to carry these things. This is very justifiable however, because most of these items are something from home, something to remind them of what they have back home, and gives them hope that they will someday return there. Hope is…

I, living in the 21st century, would be inclined to agree with the above statement, but a 17th century audience might be more likely to disagree due to an increased belief in the supernatural – therefore I believe that the question that needs to be asked is, to what extent is Macbeth responsible for his…

The French Revolution and Industrial Revolution had an important influence on the fictional and nonfictional writing of the Romantic period, inspiring writers to address themes of democracy and human rights and to consider the function of revolution as apocalyptic change. Romantic poets presented a theory of poetry in direct opposition to representative eighteenth-century theories of…

This book was vary informative to me. This book mainly talked about theaffects of nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by thefirst atom bomb ever dropped on a city. It speaks about how even if you didsurvive the blast you were so badly injured that you would die soon anyway. Ittalked about…

In the novel ​Speak​, the author depicts a young girl who undergoes a traumatic situation that impacts her life and affects her interaction with her family and the peers at Merry Weather High School. Laurie Halse Anderson bases the novel on the life of a young girl, Melinda Sordino, who faces a life-changing ordeal while…

In The Great Gatsby, the Valley of Ashes prominently displays the color gray, symbolizing despair in this desolate location. Fitzgerald describes it as a peculiar farm where ashes grow like wheat, shaping ridges, hills, and strange gardens. The ash-gray men tirelessly swarm with heavy shovels, forming an impenetrable cloud. The Valley of Ashes is inhabited…

Critics have made a lot of accusations against the amount of racism and anti-feminist comments in Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness. These critics have well crafted their arguments on why their point of view on the content of the novel is the correct opinion. Across all the accusations, there seems to be one common…

After finally watching Lord of The Flies, I have decided that human beings will always form some sort of a political system. This is to provide us with regulation in our lives, which, I believe, we need in order to survive. In the movie, we see that rules and a code of behavior are desperately…

During the dissenter period, youths often become self-centered and argumentative, rebelling against authority and feeling vulnerable. However, as they enter the leader phase, they begin to develop a sense of security, confidence, and capability. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, love, embodied by Romeo, acts as the guiding force that leads Juliet through the stages of…

While the setting of Shirley Jacksons, The Lottery, takes place on a clear,sunny, June day, it does not take long for the skies to turn gray as sheintroduces the readers to the black box. The black box is the central symbol ofthe short story. It suggest both death and necessity of change due to acombination…