EDMONTON - Russell Duff Brown. Jr., age 70, passed away on Tuesday, September 12th at his home. He was the son of the late Russell Duff Brown, Sr. and Phyllis Quaife Brown. Russell was a Maintenance Foreman with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.…
What would it be like to be caught on Ship Trap island alone? A man named Rainsford gets trapped on an island and has to survive against the "man catcher," General Zaroff, who is an outstanding hunter terminating everything he comes face to face with. While being on Ship Trap Island, Rainsford shows he is capable, intelligent, and resourceful against General Zaroff.…
If one had to describe Andrew Nafarrete in one word, he or she would be at a loss because Andrew cannot simply be minimized into one singular concept. After sitting down to take on this interview, he proved that he is an individual bursting with character, passion, and wisdom. With his relentless jokes, he answered the questions light-heartedly but with complete and utter honesty; creating not only a productive atmosphere, but a pleasant and entertaining one as well. With visible joy, he shared his accomplishments, his plans for his future, and the sentiments that are all derived from Andrew Nafarrete.…
Feeling sorry for someone, but not agreeing with them. As humans we have all felt this feeling at least once in our lifetime. In the book The Awakening, by “Kate Chopin” Kate Chopin sympathizes with the main character Edna but doesn’t pity her. I agree with Kate, because even though she’s married with Leonce a man that she doesn't love and has children with him, she is still free not attached to him at all. Another reason I agree with Kate is that she doesn’t pity Edna. She spends time and loves Robert rather than loving her own husband.…
In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the main character begins to question his life when he meets Clarisse. Before his encounter with Clarisse, Montag simply went about his business as a fireman and did as he was told. However, Clarisse challenges Montag to "think" about things, which results in Montag to question his life, his role as a fireman, and the illegality of books. This questioning of who he is and what his society has become separates himself from the norm and his wife, leaving him to be an outcast. Being an outcast, though gives Montag hope and happiness for what is to come for the future.…
Every person has been an outsider at one point or another. Many nonfiction writers such as John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood, use outsiders as characters in their stories.These type of characters help the writer to convey the argument they are trying to get across to the reader. In these nonfiction novels, outsiders play a critical role in the communities that they enter.…
Through out one of the greatest Christmas stories of all time, it is easy to find the symbolism through the book, A Christmas C’arol. But one of my personal favorite symbolism is what the man Bob Cratchet represents along with his horrible relationship with Scrooge. The only character you feel more for Bob Cratchet is his son tiny tim. Through the first arc of the story, all you can really think of is how the mean Ebenezer Scrooge treats poor Mr. Cratchet. But what does this sad man represent. Well he represents the lower middle classes and is a symbol of how they are treated by their upper classes. But as the story kept moving we learned that there was still hope. lt is not hard to relate to the sad story of Bob Cratchet. Though he is an incredibly…
In the play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard, the two main characters are destined to die. This is given away in the title. In the beginning of the play, they wander through a forrest flipping a coin. While strolling though the woods, they run into a troupe of actors called the Tragedians. They put on a show for them and the scene changes. They watch a play about their lives and realize that they will soon be murdered. The story of Hamlet is told through Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s point of view. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, though minor characters in Hamlet, are given their own leading roles, which gives the reader a different side of the story. The characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, have very different personal…
A new society that was created by science and technology. The novel, Brave New World, was written by Aldous Huxley. This science fiction novel was published by the publishing company HarperCollins in New York, New York. The original copyright date was in the year of 1932, but was then later copyrighted in the year of 1946 by the author Aldous Huxley. John is the main character, but he is also the antagonist in this novel. He has many qualities that makes him important. He also has people that motivate him to behave and act certain ways. However, John also creates many conflicts with other people in this dystopian society.…
“Everybody was finally equal.” This is what all people aspire to have, but true equality should never be attained. In the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the year is 2081 and the government has finally constructed their perfect world and made all its people equal. The government forcefully administers handicaps on those who are stronger and smarter than the average person. The character Harrison Bergeron passionately disagrees with this. With Harrison’s rebellious and forceful ways, he tries to overthrow the government because he feels this is unjust.…
I believe in judging someone by their actions and character rather than by the color of their skin and sexuality. This I believe because there is good and bad in all of us. The color of our skin does not depict the flaws we have. In the second amendment it states that all men are created equal, but we still do not treat each other equally. Defending Tom Robinson was not easy because I knew that from the minute Mayella opened her mouth Tom was a dead man. But everyone including a black man deserves a second chance. How could I ever tell my own children “You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” if I didn’t pick up Tom’s case because I was afraid of what people would think of me. When people say things about me like “Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets” why would I prove them wrong? You are only as good as you portray yourself to be. But when you are a black man in the town of Maycomb, Alabama you were never dealt the good hand to begin with. Sadly Tom never got a second chance. Tom was a good man but because of the color of his skin he was not treated as fairly as the rest of us.…
Many teenagers go through lots of different relationships and sometimes they get lost during their routes to become an adult. They find it hard to realize what the right thing is and what is being the right way. In the episode My So Called Life, the main character, Angela Chase, goes through many relationships. Angela was a student who did well, and pleased her family and friends around her. However, a change happens, when she meets Rayanne, a new friend, and she starts to act differently. She tries out many things, such as ditching class, dying her hair red or going out on school nights, which she never would have done before and develops a new personality (a bad one). Throughout the story, we see a variety of character traits from Angela. Although Angela is always herself, she hasn’t yet found her true self, her personality that is hiding inside her, and developing her relationships with others.…
While many dark sides were uncovered throughout the crucible, Abigail Williams is the most self-centered, dishonest and manipulative character in The Crucible because she lies to conceal her affair and avoid witchcraft accusations which therefore result in the many deaths of innocent people.…
Natalie Teeger who shops for Christmas Dinner in her negligence of buying grocery as a stranger put something on the grocery. Monk got poisoned by the…
In order to classify a story as a fairy tale, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the story must be a tale containing actual fairies, an imaginable artificial story, or an absolute dishonest story. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are not novels about fairies or are completely false stories, but they do contain imaginable artificial plots in which a young girl named Alice travels to different worlds in her dreams. Through the creative adventure of these dream stories, one could vaguely qualify them as a fairy tale. Tolkien's perspective opposes the label of fairy tales to Alice stories by which he states that dream stories may be a fantasy of the mind, but lose their realization when Alice wakes up back in the real…