Benni McCarthy

It is known that Miller wrote The Crucible as a reaction to the critical period in our country’s. There are several parallels between the McCarthy era and the Salem witch trials. The Crucible along with McCarthyism involved claims that were made with little to no proof, with the use of a scare factor, and the creation of hostility and paranoia. McCarthy was well known for the list of “a list of 200 names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and…

Being thin, I never thought that I can win a fight with anyone. Until a gangster taught me this, “You are thin so don’t engaged in a fist fight. Use anything that you can get hold of and turn into a weapon. Because no matter how big they are you can still hurt them with it.” He taught me further, “Always wear a belt; it can be turned into a weapon for protection.” I still wear a belt today but only to hold my pants up. In the light of this incident, let me share my deepest demon with you. I have…

The Army-McCarthy Hearings took place between April and June of 1954. Joseph McCarthy, Senator of the state of Wisconsin, wrongly accused people of association with communism to further his political career. When Joseph McCarthy was up for reelection, he turned his investigations on communism in the Army to gain public support. Because Pvt. G. David Schine, former staff member on McCarthy’s team, had been drafted into the army, the Army then accused McCarthy of trying to seek out special…

The film “No Country for Old Men” describes in West Texas in the 1980s. Because of the evil (a fail drug deal) invasion of calm town, it results in a cat-and-mouse chase story of people’s. They chase each other all because of money from drug deal. Llewelyn Moss is a poor white former Vietnam veteran. Anton Chigurh has a mushroom head and carries a fire extinguisher new weapon like a killer. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is an old sergeant in west Texas. The killer Anton Chigurh is a good example to…

Two Sides of Compassion “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” -Dalai Lama XIV. In this dystopian novel, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a father and his son must make their way along an abandoned road to arrive at the coast, where there was hope for survival. The idea of survival in the novel exemplifies the different forms of compassion an individual is able to take, ultimately portraying that innocence is the fundamental source to pure…

1. The story begins with a father and his son in the woods, the boy asleep. The two are making their journey along the road in a post-apocalyptic world. The date and place are never said, though you can kind of tell it takes place somewhere in the United states because the father tells his son they’re walking the “state roads”. Neither the man nor the boy is given a name; this anonymity adds to the novel's tone that this could be happening anywhere, to anyone. 2. The biggest theme I…

Paranoia is a frightening thing. It completely alters the way someone lives and thinks. Harsh judgments can be made when we suspect the worst is coming. A famous example of this was Senator Joseph McCarthy. During the late 1940’s and 1950’s, he believed over two hundred communists had hacked the United States Government System (McCarthyism). He desired to find and uncover the ‘communists” hiding in the United States. This was an ongoing subject of quandary and chaos for many years. Most…

present situation. McCarthy writes, “He pushed open the closet door half expecting to find his childhood things. Raw cold daylight fell through from the roof. Gray as his heart” (McCarthy 27). Struggling to put the past…

Hope is a feeling of expectation or desire for a certain thing to happen. In The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, the Man and Boy are forced to rely on hope and persistency in order to survive in the apocalyptic world they’re living in. Throughout the novel, there are many symbols to represent hope; such as the bunker, the ocean, and the fire. Having hope can give one the ability to persevere through hardship. First, the bunker gives them hope to overcome starvation. Hunger was one major issue…

in a post-apocalyptic world without the presence of a woman. Throughout the novel with the use of allusions and vast imagery, women can be presented as ‘weak’ whereas it is the father and son who continue along this post-apocalyptic road. The way McCarthy presented women is very misogynistic. Throughout the journey, the father is constantly telling himself and his son that what they are doing—‘plodding’ to the coast ‘is what the good guys do.’ The mother is seen as being…