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The Color Black and Symbolism in “The Lottery” People are influenced by a variety of different sources – their parents, their friends, and their communities. While everyone must learn to make their own decisions, they often follow the beliefs of the people around them. Teenagers register to vote as a “Democrat” merely because their parents…

Victor finds out that William, Victors youngest brother, was killed and he suspects that It was the monster’s doing, but rather the people accuse Justine of killing him. After Justice’s death, Victor begins to feel guilty for Justice’s death because he created the monster that had killed William. Victor now must find a way to…

“The freak show was all I could think about that night. I tried forgetting it but I couldn’t, not even when I was watching my favorite TV shows. It sounded so weird: a snake-boy, a wolf-man, a performing spider. I was especially excited by the spider…. ,” –Darren Shan. In the book Cirque du Freak…

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 numerous regions worldwide, the preservation of a family’s lineage holds significant value, often necessitating the successor to be male. “The Abandoner” by Ma Jian is a short story that explores the vice-chairman’s commitment to the one-child policy. When the policy was implemented in 1979, the vice-chairman and his wife welcomed their first daughter, Miaomiao,…

“The Glass Menagerie” takes place in the Wingfield family’s apartment, which is described as a cramped and dingy space, comparable to a jail cell. Among the various apartments in the neighborhood, this is just one of them. All members of the Wingfield family have no desire to reside in this particular apartment. Their poverty is…

One of the most outstanding names environing the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who used non-violent protests to contend for the equality of Afro-Americans. In the non-fiction book The Autobiography of Malcolm Ten: as told to Alex Hayley. which was published by Ballantine Books of The Random House Printing Group…

As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students, Mark Edmundson utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos to effectively deliver his argument that the current educational system, especially in college, revolves around consumerism which in turn has negatively impacted students, teachers, and universities in general. Although Edmundson presents an overall logically sound argument, there are few instances throughout…

Introduction: A Brief Summary of the Book and Its Author             In 1971, after eighteen long years of thinking and preparing for his expose, Colonel David Hackworth went out on national television to criticize the role of the United States of America on the Vietnam War. Before doing this, the author was one of the…

Jared Diamond’s (Diamond) book Guns, Germs, and Steel, won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and was made into a documentary by the National Geographic Society, broadcast in 2005. The documentary was shown in three parts: Out of Eden, Conquest, and Into the Tropics. The series builds towards the ultimate conclusion that geography, and the…