Barry O'Callaghan Essays

A wife who sacrifices everything that she likes, wants, aspire and dislikes in order of maintain the image of the perfect family. One of the crucial moments of the plot is when Torvald found the letter that Krogstad left on the letterbox. After reading the content of the letter, Torvald refers to Nora as “she who was my pride and my joy- a hypocrite, a liar-worse- a criminal. Oh, the unfathomable hideousness of it all! Ugh! Ugh!” (Ibsen, p. 39) Nora was ready to come out with everything in order

The Catcher in the Rye The entirety of the novel The Catcher in the Rye is told from the point of view of a sixteen year old boy named Holden Caufield, where he nostalgically recalled what happened one winter. The novel begins with him leaving his prep school Pencey and going on an eventful and insightful journey before returning home to tell his parents that he flunked out of school yet again. Throughout his journey, he comes across several internal and external conflicts, including his mother

“Hate destroys the hater” (Martin Luther King Jr.). In the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the two most malicious, vengeful and barbarous characters are Madame Defarge and the Marquis St. Evremonde. The pair were both inhabitants of the French town of San Antoine; he is an aristocrat and she is a citizen and a revolutionary. Madame Defarge and the Marquis have a unique history; one that is dark and cruel, heart-rendering and acrimonious. Though they have their differences, this sinister

“Mumbling fool”…. I’m the mumbling fool? When Lord Capulet is standing over there, shouting his head off in a long, drawn out soliloquy. Oh good lord! What kind of “father”, not even a father actually, would cast their one and only daughter to the filthy streets of Verona, then let them rot there like unwanted scum. I have cared for her all her life, from the very beginning, it was all me! Not Lord Capulet, not lady Capulet, me! I have served in this household my entire life and I have never- and

In today’s society, a large amount of emphasis is placed on getting good grades. Day in and day out students are told that getting good grades is detrimental to their future. Unfortunately what many students are not told is that their intelligence is not defined by the marks they receive, but rather intelligence is defined by so much more than a letter on a report card. Albert Einstein once said, “Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole

Juan Resendez Ms. M. Medellin English IV/ 3rd Block December 8, 2016 ? The themes of excessive ambition are still, very common to our society now. Many people crave power, recognition, fame and money. Shakespeare did a good job with Macbeth, his story still applies to today's world, in which ambition is quite prevalent. There are many real-life figures and events that demonstrate extreme ambition or greed as seen in Macbeth. Greed and excessive ambition usually bring some successes and then followed

Throughout the story of Soldier’s Home, the main character, Harold Krebs, goes through a dynamic change. He starts out as a World War 1 veteran who recently returned home. He wants all the attention as he tells his war stories. He soon realizes that the people around him have lost interest in the stories from combat. He is determined to gain back the attention he thinks he deserves from making lies about the war. Krebs finds that not even his ludacris lies will get him the attention he desires. This

Inequality is and has been a huge problem in societies all over the nation. Whether it revolves around race, sexual orientation, age, or gender, inequality is a term that relies on prejudice and discrimination. In this case, female inequality is based on preconceived notions following the role of women in many situations. Thus, could include the role of a woman during childhood, during everyday life, while in a conjugal relationship, or during motherhood. Sylvia Plath’s poems “Morning Song”, “Lady

#1     Young Goodman Brown’s journey symbolizes his eye-opening of what the real world is. He realizes that the people he knew weren’t the people he once knew.  At first, something that may strike a reader is the devil saying to the catechism teacher, “Then Goody Cloyse knows her old friend(80).” first showing that some aren’t who he thinks. Throughout the story we find the word devil scattered, and not just on its own, being the person he met first when walking through the woods, calling people

On thursday night I went to see Jerry Finnegan’s Sister. The play had two actors which were Morgan Fox and Genevieve Craven. They played the roles as Brian Dowd and Beth Finnegan. Brian is in love with Jerry Finnegan's sister (his best friend’s sister) ever since a young age, but can never tell her. He is in the conflict of wanting to tell her, but his window is closing. As they like to call it “the point of no return.” The set depicted two neighbor houses which was Brian house next to Jerry house

Post–structuralism as Storey (2012) suggests it rejects the possibility of a basic structure where the meaning can be secure and ensured. Meaning is always being generated and when people perceive meaning as content it is only a momentary stop, which continue to flow, and produces more meanings (Storey, 2012). Michel Foucault is one of the post-structuralism that this paper will make reference to. This essay is a detailed analysis of the film “The Truman Show” (1998) directed by Peter Weir using

It is not fair to make a hero out of a real person. Some people who are considered “heroes” are actually not very good people behind the scenes. A lot of the time, all we see is that “hero” in movies or on a field, and we never see them, or think about, what they may be doing while they’re not on a field or on camera. It’s not rare that you find a person that you’ve always looked up to, that has been putting on a mask of good character, just for the public. The very well-known, former baseball player

Performance-enhancing drugs otherwise known as PEDs are drugs that are commonly used by athletes to enhance their level of play. Performance-enhancing drugs have been around a long time, and were initially introduced in 776 BC - 393 BC. The Ancient Greeks used PEDs during the original Olympic Games in order to have an advantage against their opponents. They were used on and off throughout the years, and became prominent again during the 1900’s where they were used in the modern day Olympics from

My Hero’s Journey A hero’s journey consists of the separation, initiation, and return of a hero. This is the main idea of a hero, but many people have journeys that consist all three and are not heroes. In Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Odysseus is a perfect example of the literary hero’s journey. When Odysseus left his home, all odds were against him to return. Although he did not change a lot, at times he showed signs of greatness. My life is not as interesting or exciting, but I have many parts

Nate Cornwall English I Mrs. Toews 1 Oct, 2015 Baseball Greats “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful” ~Eric Thomas (qtd. in ). When you want to be very good at a sport you have to try and work for it. For some people just being good isn’t enough. One person who being just good isn’t enough is Lawrence Peter Berra, but you probably know him as Yogi Berra. According to the article “Yogi Berra,” Yogi died 9/29/2015, at 90 years old of natural causes. The

can end up in the hall of fame. They want to be the Mark McGwire or Barry Bonds were the players can produce record breaking stats without training or working for that title. Any MLB player that as ever doped or has taken steroids should banded from professional baseball and not allowed in the hall of fame. History shows that steroids due produce extraordinary results when used in the major league baseball. Players such as Barry Bonds the man who holds the record for the most home runs ever hit

banned in the MLB since 1991, the league did not take league wide performance enhancing drug testing till 2003. The lack of testing in earlier years allowed many players to get away with taking steroids. During the 2001 Major League baseball season, Barry Bonds hit a MLB single season record of 73 homer runs. This amazing number of home runs occurred during the time of the steroid era. In 1996, Mark McGwire of the Oakland Athletics led the majors with 52 home runs despite being hurt for most of the

Barry Bonds has the most home runs by any Major League Baseball player in history with 762 home run. He surpassed legends of the game like Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth. Barry Bonds went to Arizona State university for college. He was drafted in 1985 by the Pittsburgh Pirates and started his career in 1986. In 1993 he signed with the San Francisco Giants and finished his career there in 2007. Barry Bonds was a great hitter, he hit a lot of home runs. In 2003 Barry Bonds had to go to court for being a

Professional athletes are always in competition with one another. Whether they want to be the leading homerun hitter in the MLB or the fastest sprinter in the Olympics, some athletes will stop at nothing to be the star of their chosen profession. Often times, if strict training doesn’t help, athletes turn to other, often illegal, solutions, such as performance-enhancing drugs. There has been speculation and confirmation about athletes using drugs to further themselves professionally since the late

The arbitration document between Alex Rodriguez and MLB explained how the player committed violations of the Joint Drug Agreement (JDA) and Basic Agreement leading to a substantial disciplinary penalty. Through the document the MLB provided different evidences demonstrating the Alex Rodriguez used three different banned substances such as IGF-1, testosterone and HGH during three seasons at three different points in that time. Also, there was enough evidence that Alex Rodriguez impeded the progress