The earth seems beautiful to the naked eye Not until the unseen forces of Mother Nature are kicked into full gear and a pounding life sucking form is created that is able to eat humans alive is the true nature of the earth revealed A nice sunny breeze is considered great until a strong gust of wind comes along and tears away anything in its path A gentle warm fire is always loved when the weather is cold until this warm fire is transformed into a scorching weapon of mass destruction The stunnin
Civil Disobedience Civil disobedience is a public nonviolent political act contrary to law usually done with the aim of bringing about a change in the law or policies of the government The idea of civil disobedience is deeply rooted in our civilization with examples evident in the life of Socrates the early Christian society the writings of Thomas Aquinas and Henry David Thoreau and theIndian nationalist movement led by Gandhi The many occurrences of civil disobedience throughout American histo
T he year is 1775 and social ills plague both France and England Jerry Cruncher an odd job man who works for Tellsons Bank stops the Dover mail coach with an urgent message for Jarvis Lorry The message instructs Lorry to wait at Dover for a young woman and Lorry responds with the cryptic words Recalled to Life At Dover Lorry is met by Lucie Manette a young orphan whose father a once eminent doctor whom she supposed dead has been discovered in France Lorry escorts Lucie to Paris where they meet
Nelly Dean the principal narrator of Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights relates the tale of two houses Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange She tells the story as a first hand witness of the events but to what extent can the reader trust her narration Being the servant at Wuthering Heights and later on at Thrushcross Grange Nelly becomes very involved and interferes with many of the characters She also acts as a mother figure to many of the younger characters which leads to bias Nellys depicti
Books Reading and Learning in Wuthering Heights In Emily Brontes book Wuthering Heights books reading and learning seem to play a pivotal role in each characters persona Heathcliff and the elder Catherine seem to despise reading Catherine does say after all that she took her dingy volume by the scoop and hurled it into the dog kennel vowing I hated a good book Chapter III page 26 The real objects of their resentment however are the moral and religious lessons that are forced upon them via books
Johnathan Ronald Reuel Tolkien is one of the greatest British writers that the world has seen Better known by his writing name J R R Tolkien he has written many novels in his lifetime One of his most famous series of novels you have probably heard of Lord of the Rings However not many people know that Tolkien set the scene for Lord of the Rings with a novel called The Hobbit or There and Back Again Tolkiens novel The Hobbit was published in 1937 for the first time while he waited some time to w
The Apology In the Apology Socrates was on trial because he was accused of mainly three different things He was accused of being an atheist corrupting the youth and being a false teacher Socrates thinks that he has to defend himself from the people of Athens because they say he is an accomplished speaker who makes them believe what he speaks Socrates defense to that is that even though he is an orator he is not an especially good public speaker Socrates also states that since he is elderly and
The Green Girdle During the start of the poem King Arthur celebrates Christmas merrily with his knights in Camelot During the festivities an elegant green skinned knight wielding a holly branch and a monstrous axe crashes the party He challenges the legendary Knights of the Round Table with a test of bravery and strength Sir Gawain nephew of King Arthur courteously accepts the challenge and subsequently chops off the Green Knights head Much to everyones shock and dismay the Green Knight picks u
Santiago and the fish he chases and eventually catches have a very simple relationship Santiago respects the fish and views him as an equal They are alike in many ways He views the fish as his brother and loves him like one too Santiago has a fish on his line for many strenuous days and nights Over the course of this time he begins to love the fish and have great respect for it When the old man was still strong and nowhere near tired he was the master of the line and trying to get the fish to j
Hemingway uses imagery of human suffering from the Gospel of Matthew in The Old Man and the Sea in order to argue that society should be based on subjective truths and not on objective truths revealed by Jesus experiences Lessons are learned through experiences and are limited subjective conclusions reached by the individual who goes through that experience There is no reason to believe that everyone who has a painful experience will draw any conclusion from that experience The old man initiall