What goes through your mind at the very moment you know it’s over? You probably ask yourself‚ “How did it come to this?” Your mind starts racing‚ thinking about all the choices you made and all the things you could have done differently. In A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes‚ Captain Jonsen was surely asking himself the same questions when his fate was sealed. Captain Jonsen’s failure to rid himself of the children‚ his bad reputation‚ and trusting Emily to tell his story ultimately lead to
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Ryan Downing Francis Williams Engl 1301 16 Oct. 2012 “The Island in the Wind” Critical Analysis The island of Samso converted their fossil-fuel-dependent island completely into a clean energy island in "The Island in the Wind." Elizabeth Kolbert goes to Samso to visit Jorgen Tranberg and his wind turbine. The community of Samso used to depend on fossil fuels‚ but now‚ after embracing the power of clean wind energy‚ Samso now produces more energy than it uses. At the rate gas‚ oil‚ coal‚ and
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The Great Depression caused many people to struggle and children to grow up faster. The book No Promises in the wind by Irene Hunt and the passage “Loss of Childhood” by Robert McElvaine shows how people struggled during the Great Depression. The Great Depression had a positive effect on children while having a negative effect on adults. Mr. Robert McElvaine is correct when he wrote a quote on how the Great Depression forced children of non wealthy families to work and try to help support their families
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In William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind‚ the setting‚ point of view‚ and irony demonstrate the theme that persistence is necessary for reaching goals and having a successful life by showing the consequences of giving in to adversity. William lives on a farm in the village of Masitala in Malawi. Life for him‚ his family‚ and the villagers is not easy because they have to deal with hunger‚ drought‚ deforestation‚ and many other hardships. In addition‚ there are frequent power outages
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Doing the dishes and vacuuming the house are simple everyday chores‚ but adult tasks are like stepping into a whole different world. I have had some experiences stepping up into the adult world‚ and it was not easy. In the book‚ No Promises In the Wind‚ Josh had some experiences dealing with adult responsibilities. When Josh left home with Howie and Joey he did not have people to help and take care of them. He did not have someone to help him get food‚ and needed to get money on his own. He had plans
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Yoo’s continued fabrication of constitutional cover with his memos abetted the executive to excel in policies that dramatically reduced the civil liberties. Stellar Wind‚ for example‚ was initially maintained through his legal opinion that the “Court’s jurisdiction over electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence” to be “an unconstitutional infringement on the President’s Article II authorities” (112). Greenberg also discusses the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001‚ which “privileged intelligence collection
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Both Cates‚ in Inherit the Wind by Lee and Lawrence‚ and Procter‚ in The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ are both subjected to unjust laws. Both demonstrated that ‚ "if the law is of such a nature that it requires one to be an agent of injustice toward another‚ then I say break the law‚" as stated by Henry David Thoreau. When a law is put into effect that will convict a person who is a free thinker then it is a unjust law. One might as well break it because if no one stands up for the principle then
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It is common knowledge that winners write history. In Inherit the wind‚ by Lawrence and Lee‚ this is obvious by how they portray religion and sciences. Theology‚ the side that lost the case‚ is shown as a deleterious force‚ smothering all ideas that disagree with it without reason. The religious town of Hillsboro causes the setting to put a negative connotation on religion. When it is described as being a “sleepy‚ obscure country town” (Lawrence 3) it implies that this is what happens to places
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McCarthyism in the 1950s echoed the outrage caused by the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial” case‚ as people in both cases were fighting either for or against the right to hold varying opinions. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee wrote the play Inherit the Wind in response to McCarthyism and based it on the Scopes Trial‚ warning that threats to freedom of thought will continue in the future if such hysteria is repeated. The play follows fictional characters based on the real participants of the trial as Bertram
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India 2011-Winds of change and its impact on our lives. In India‚ corruption is something we all learn to live with. We have been breast-beating over the sorry state of affairs from the times India marched on a Sovereign nation. Why do I start my essay with a negative note of corruption? We need not be resigned to it or remain cynical about the issue. The economy of India was under socialist-inspired policies for an entire generation from the 1950s until the late 1980s. The economy was characterized
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