Oliver!

this whole year I have read 5 or 6 books this whole year and to be honest that’s more than I read last year when I was a Sophomore. The book I was reading at the beginning of the 2nd Semester was the last half of a book called Delirium By: Lauren Oliver, this book was 383 pages…

Delirium is a novel about a dystopian society written by Lauren Oliver, published in 2011. It is about a young girl, Lena Haloway, who falls in love in a society where love is seen as a disease, called Deliria. The story is set in Portland, Maine, the year 2091. Civilization is fixed in cities that had escaped deadly bombings, called the Blitz. The government came out with a “cure”, or a procedure that strips people of love and emotion. Before Lena could have her procedure, she catches deliria…

Caricature is a description of a person or even an object in which certain characteristics are exaggerated. Caricature is used quite often by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. Many say that Charles Dickens created characters that are “flat” or one dimensional when using carituature in his writings such as in A Tale of Two Cities. Many say when Charles Dickens uses caricature, it leads to his characters being meaningless. The characters that he describes turns out to be “flat” or one…

What is foreign? What is English? These questions at first glance seems simple in modern times and are frequently asked by many scholars and writers in a postmodern landscape especially in England. In turn, we continue to ask the question of “what or who is considered foreign?” in context to the country of our origin. The great English poet John Milton, known for his great epic poem Paradise Lost, asked himself these questions as he set out to write a series of poems and works that would help…

During the book The Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens presented us with many themes throughout the novel. I decided to incorporate the central themes Fate, History and Sacrifice, because those select themes stood out the most to me during this novel. I chose sacrifice as a theme due to the fact that Dickens presented it to us as a necessity to achieve happiness. During the novel the revolutionaries prove that a new french republic can come about with only a heavy and terrible cost and emotion…

Charles Dickins was a perceptive social commentator who was aware of the conditions of the poor and afflictions of the Victorian society. Dickens succeeded in waking the Victorian public to its social abuse through his satirical novels that ridiculed the economic, moral, and social issues in the era. His novels sparked debates for moral and social reform through its social analysis as well as emerging a public opinion that was once controlled by the authorities. Through Great Expectation’s…

A Tale of Two Cities “Kid Who Die”, by Langston Hughes explores the effects of indifference on the lives of children, who are unable to escape the confines of society. In “Kids Who Die”, the concept of forced division is echoed through Charles Dickens’, A Tale of Two Cities. The struggles of the French peasants before the Revolution mirrors a majority of the obstacles faced by the youth of the early twentieth century. One major struggle faced by the victims within both works is the unfair…

¨Food is not just eating energy. Its and experience¨ -Guy Fieri Guy Fieri was born on January 22, 1968 in Columbus, Ohio. He now lives with his wife and two kids in Santa Rosa, California. He is now 49 years old. His real name was actually Guy Ramsey Ferry however he changed it back to his actual family spelling. Guy opened up his first business at the age of 10. He attended American River College and University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After college, he worked at his first actual restaurant as a…

Victorian England and the Abuse of her children. Charles Dickens was not only a man who wrote about but had also experienced first -hand the hard cold reality of the abuse of children. You can rarely open a Dickens novel without having your heart bleed for the poor tortured souls who were the children of his time. Child labor in Victorian England was synonymous to the much despised word slavery. Therefore, children were exploited, tortured and neglected even to the point of death. Because they…

Early on in Martin Scorsese’s new film, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) cheerfully describes money as being like “mainlining adrenaline.” Belfort, the real-life rogue trader who set up Long Island stockbroking film Stratton Oakmont, is depicted in the film as reckless, obnoxious, and sexist. Nonetheless, as portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, he is a very likeable character. We can’t help but root for him. Everything about The Wolf of Wall Street is excessive. It’s a three-hour orgy of greed,…