Great Dividing Range

Old Major’s speech was a huge excitement. My siblings and I scurried across the barn trying to find a place to sit. We took a place next to Clover. Our mother had died and Clover was our only mother-figure on the farm. She put her leg around us so we wouldn’t be stepped on and we fell asleep shortly after. We weren’t asleep for long when we woke up by the sound of Old Major’s booming voice. He talked about a dream he had where man had vanished and animals ruled the land. After his speech we…

In the book Of Mice & Men, written by John Steinbeck, the novel concludes by one of the main characters, George, killing his best friend and counterpart, Lennie, after Lennie accidentally kills a young woman. I believe that George was justified in his decision to kill Lennie. Lennie was a character who caused harm and destruction throughout the book, despite not meaning to. He also prevented George from living his life because of the way George had to take care of him and nurture him, much like…

In the novel, Warren portrays the state of Louisiana as poor, deprived, hopeless, and susceptible to the charms of populism and demagoguery. Set during the Great Depression and centered around political figures from the rural South, it was bound to deal with rampant poverty, but this deprivation serves a special purpose for the novel; it helps provide a context for both Stark’s popularity and Stark’s authoritarianism. The poor in this Louisiana need a savior, and Willie Stark fits the mold. From…

I saw the 11/30 showing of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”. It was a play about two World War II veterans named Bob Wallace and Phil Davis who meet sisters Betty and Judy Haynes. The four go to rural Vermont where they run into Bob and Phil’s former commander in WWII, General Waverly, who owns an inn but is struggling financially. The four aim to help the General. The show was at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, a Proscenium theatre. The stagecraft of the play was like most plays I’ve…

Dreams, Challenges, Hardships When people travel to America what is the reason for it, to live a better life, attain money, become something better than how they were etc. The common reason people travel is the ideal aspect for the American dream. In 1931 James Truslow Adams refer the American dream as “life should be better and richer and fuller with opportunity for each accordingly to ability or achievement". In old times that was their dream, leaving home to travel to a new land for an…

estate scandal that came as a result led to the former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis to be ousted from power in October 2009. When a new government was formed, there was little money left in the government’s coffers so they had to come clean about the true state of things. The revelations coupled with the new higher interest rates which the country was forced to pay caused panic among investors. Mr Lewis uncanny ability to weave stories into a sharp-edged narrative gives people a full…

When you are pushed to your breaking point, you may turn to two options, seeking help or seeking death. Author Sapphire of Push and F.Scott Fitzgerald of The Great Gatsby do a great job of depicting these breaking points of main characters Precious and Jay, one of whom seeks life and the other death. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of…

Many times, the 1920s are referred to as a roaring and prosperous time in America. The country embodied many societal changes and innovations never seen before. Despite great advances, America faced great problems on the homefront. The events of World War I fueled strong nativism for one’s country and the idea that it was possible to revolt against government. Most notably, Russia faced a revolution of their own. In this revolution, communism took hold and its influence began to spread…

The Great Crash of 1929 led the World into a precipitating economic spiral for ten years. This calamitous decade is known as The Great Depression. The United States had never endured such a detrimental stock market crash as it did in 1929. Unemployment rates rose to unprecedented levels, crime rates skyrocketed and production plummeted. The Great Crash did not only impact the United States, but all western industrialised countries experienced the economic turmoil. This was due to their trade…

Zenith Shrestha Ms. Boyle American Literature 24 March 2017 White A tale of a tragic love story that reflects on the nature of the American Dream – The Great Gatsby is one of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's few novels. Yet it is one filled with allusions and ideas that ring true in society today. The plot of the Great Gatsby takes place after the end of World War I in 1920s New York, a time filled with jazz, glamour, and partying. Nick Carraway, previously a writer, is tired of his life in the…