Group Captain Essays

With the death of the empire and his son rising the gangs of Verman have been calling for a ceasefire in our war for we do not piss off this new emperor. But with the messengers of the other gangs stopping and the more violence to anyone in the opposite gange stepping on their land. It seems like this ceasefire has been called off, but if I’m right a whole city war will bring us to much attention from the empire. Someone is knocking on my door. “ come on in.” “ Racheal, my spies that were located

That Chink at Golden Gulch (Film 1910) It is one of the D.W. Griffith’s one-reelers made for Biograph which deal with “other race” subjects, this time the protagonist being a Chinese. Charley Lee (Anthony O’Sullivan in yellowface), “the poor chink” (according to the “Biograph Bulletin”), works at miners’ hamlet Golden Gulch as a laundryman (of course!). His old father returns to their homeland, the “Flowery Kingdom.” Before leaving, the father warns the son not to cut his pigtail, considered a sacred

In the film Wall-E, both the robots and the humans are governed by a directive. The role of a directive is important in the film because it helps to guide the actions of the various robots aboard the Axiom. One of the important questions raised by the film is: What is the role of a directive in Wall-E, how does it impact the actions of the various robotic characters seen in the film, and how do the actions taken by robots in the film as a result of their directive impact the humans onboard the Axiom

THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN AHMAD ROBAI PERGURUAN TINGGI TEKNOKRAT Have you ever heard about Golden Mountain? A mountain made of hundred stacks of gold bars in circle, surrounding a big pole in the center which is also made by gold. Nobody knows who build or where does it come from, but what people know is that the Golden Mountain lays on the island far away from urban city. It takes 2 weeks trip using a ship from the nearest city if you want to go to Glodius Island, the island where the Golden Mountain

the house. I shut it off before we went inside.” Twist’s shocked expression was replaced by intrigue. “The screams sound human.” “Precisely. I figure as the captain plummeted down the stairs he screamed,” I paused, choosing my words carefully, “and—” Seth frowned. “Are you suggesting that the screams we heard last night come from the captain as he fell? Come on, Madison. That’s impossible. He died, like a zillion years ago.” “Maybe they were magical reverberations,” Twist considered so sincerely

Morality and The Picture of Dorian Gray “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” C.G. Jung The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, was first published in 1890, right in the middle of the Victorian Era, an era that was characterized by its conservatism. Ever since, and due to the content of the book, it has been condemned as immoral. Furthermore, on 1891, Wilde published a preface protecting his book from public punishment in which he

as the secondary character, or a side-kick, or in general someone who does nothing for the story. While Captain Nemo and Monsieur Arronax (and even Ned Land) take the spotlight in the story, Conseil plays an underrated part in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. With the condition that if it wasn’t for Conseil, Monsieur Arronax most likely wouldn’t have lived to even see The Nautilus or meet captain Nemo, let alone later survive being trapped in

Introduction Even wonder how children would act like without adults? Would they have a leader or rules? Would they act like adults or made choices on their own? These two fictional stories compare and contrast in the way that they show children’s behaviors without adults while building a, or several societies, overcoming difficulties and having different conclusions. These two stories are Peter Pan and The Lord Of The Flies. While both Peter Pan and The Lord of The Flies portray the actions of children

The following is a reprinting of the 2010 TIME MAGAZINE article by Pulitzer Prize and Chancellor Award winning journalist CHRISTINE EVERHART, documenting her one-on-one conversation with Rebecca Barnes Proctor, as the jury in the controversial “Winter Soldier” trial begins deliberation on Friday at the International Court in the Netherlands. - I click record on the digital recorder. “I’m the last Barnes left, you know. The very last one.” Rebecca Barnes Proctor is the kind of woman that

“What is worth breaking the rules for?” “As you well know Julian, this is an illegal investigation. The Cold Peace forbids cooperation with the Fair Folk, and certainly forbids what amounts to working for them, no matter the inducement. It’s to our advantage to figure this out as quickly and cleanly as we can, so the Clave has as little opportunity as possible to find out what we’re doing.” “And when it’s done?” Julian said. “And Mark’s back? How do we explain that?” (148) The Hunger Games

Throughout history, women have made a name for themselves. By rising up and fighting for something that they believed in, the Mirabal sisters made a name for themselves in the Dominican Republic and in Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies. By applying a theory to a novel, readers can relate the book to the world they are living in today (Davidson). Feminism can be defined as a dynamic philosophy and social movement that advocates for human rights and gender equality (“Feminism”).

Crazy Boy (Scary Story) Author: Aman Honnawarkar Once upon a time, there was a ten year old boy named, Jacob who was camping with his friends in a forest in Illinois. Suddenly, out of nowhere Jacob heard crashing from the bushes to his left, ”Gggggggrrrrrrrrrr!” A big, furry grizzly bear attacked their camp in broad daylight. “Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!” Jacob stood there frozen, screaming. Then he fainted. When he woke up, he was stranded in the middle of nowhere with his clothes ripped up and bleeding

The Declaration of Independence states: “that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." The Declaration of Independence is a written version of our rights as humans in America. It is saying that every person is equal, with equal opportunities. The people are given rights at birth that can not be taken away. The document gives all the “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

Martin Luther King Jr., a pioneer for the Civil Rights movement, wrote an inspiring letter while imprisoned at the Birmingham jail, in Birmingham, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr.’s main point of this letter is to show the effect of non violent protests to combat racism. He is doing that because he wants African-American people to be patient because nonviolence is the best answer, and in the end they will get what they want, eventually getting the equal rights they deserve. One time in the letter

Though the film is supposed to be taking place in the present-day, the screenwriter, John Logan, decided to use the original text of Shakespeare minimal changes like cutting short most of the scenes and altering the order of the character’s lines and entire scenes. This techniques work for most part of the film but in the first scene, for example the speech of Menenius to the angry people is reduced to merely two lines and through a TV broadcast so the audience cannot realize how gifted he is using

4.3 Feminist Heroine or Sexualized “Hussy”?: Criticism on Marston’s Wonder Woman While Wonder Woman is one of the most revolutionary character, there is also a lot of criticism regarding her appearance, different motifs in the comics and the message the character might send. Primarily Marston’s many depictions of bondage, as previously discussed, and Wonder Woman’s choice of weaponry are often considered inappropriate, especially since Wonder Woman was initial marketed as a children’s comic. The

2. Sweet Movie (1974) This film was directed by a Yugoslav director named Dusan Makavejev. This is one of the weirdest movies you can ever watch. Sweet Movie was faced with fury when it was first out in theaters. The story described the strange, chaotic discovery of communism and sex. This film was basically a tableau when one weird scene was released on the screen after another surreal scene. 3. L’ Age d’ or (1930) L’ Age d’ or was a strange black comedy film that was considered to be one of France’s

The reasoning made sense; animals can be unpredictable and children are harder to train. In practice, however, I felt discarded, unable to contribute due to something utterly out of my control. I couldn’t help but believe that if there was an entire group of students who wanted to help, it seemed like a clear waste of their drive to simply turn them away. Teenagers never even had the chance to explore their passions before they were shuffled into a set path. I wanted to believe that anyone could be

Under the Sea ' tells the story of three guests on board the Nautilus, a submarine whose capabilities match the torment of its captain. !!!Summary of ' 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ' ' Written by __Jules Verne__ in 1870, ' 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ' ' tells the story of three accidental visitors to an underwater world hosted by the mysterious Captain Nemo. From their arrival on board the Nautilus, the scholarly Professor Aronnax, loyal Conseil, and adventurous Ned Land are

The novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is about a young boy named Santiago who is trying to pursue his personal legend. Along the way he meets many people, sees many omens and faces many challenges. He has to discover the language of the world to be able to find his treasure, but little does he know the treasure is no ordinary thing. Sure, there was a chest of gold coins but he also gained knowledge of the soul of the world. Paulo Coleho uses characters including the crystal merchant, the gypsy