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In the late 1720’s, Ireland had suffered from several years of substandard harvests. Farmers were having trouble paying rent, feeding their families, and the little money that these farmers would earn would go directly to England, leaving the Irish people in shambles. And while many may think that there was little to no way to…

Every person has his or her bad and good side, and they can live as what they want to live. Some people do not care about what others think about them and act bad to other people, in contrast, some people really care about the people around them and try to be good to everyone….

Kafka’s multicultural background greatly influenced his writings. A Jewish by birth, Kafka did his education in a German school and died as a citizen of Czechoslovakia. He could fluently speak the Czech, French and Yiddish along with German language in which he wrote. Kafka can, thus, be identified with the international citizenship. Today, he is…

Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness could be said to be written during a period of change, as the world was transitioning from the end of the Victorian age into the beginning of the modern age. This novella is considered to be one of the greatest fictitious writings in the English language that follows the…

Distinguishing Traits of Author Jon Krakauer is an American writer from Corvallis, Oregon. From a young age, his father, Lewis Krakauer introduced him to the dangerous yet exciting world of mountain climbing. Since then, Krakauer has attempted multiple climbs up Devils Thumb, the largest rock face in North America, and has written his account on…

Two of Flannery O’Connor’s masterpieces, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Good Country People,” mainly reflect the life and opinions of the South during the mid 20th Century. Also, these works of historic art possess several similarities and differences mainly on the subject of deceit, violence, and religion. The similarities that swarm in…

A habit is a regular or repeated practice that is hard to break or lose: “Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do” (Sean Covey). Habits are tied into morals. Morals are principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or impurity…

The novel, Fahrenheit 451, is a dystopian novel that is regarding the protagonist, Guy Montag. He is known as a firefighter in his society. His job is to burn and destroy books, along with the houses that has books within them. The cause for this is because books are illegal in their society and the…

There are similarities and differences between family life in Lowry’s The Giver and my family life here in Bellingham. To begin, family lives are similar between these two communities because families usually consist of adults raising children and not all adults end up with children in their life. But, the differences between our family lives…

Imagine this, a young guy has been making his way through the social ladder only to impress a lady he cherished for five years. However, he died loving the girl who didn’t even attend his funeral. This tragic tale was The Great Gatsby, portraying the fall of the American Dream in the Roaring Twenties. With…