A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room By Lemony Snicket

In William Barney’s article, “The Quest for Room,” he analyzes the differing opinions between the North and South regarding the expansion of slavery into the newly acquired Western territories. The author argues that the West would have been important to slaveholders as a place to expand slavery if the territories had not been free-soil. The reason for this article was to show us how prominent the sectional differences were in the nineteenth century because of the argument over slavery. This, in turn, led to the secession of the Southern states from the Union as they formed the Confederacy; this dug the nation into a deep-pitted civil war.

Compare and Contrast of the remediation of Novels to film with reference to The Lovely Bones.

In the works The Glass Castle, a memoir written by Jeanette Walls; it is profoundly evident that young Jeanette lived through an abnormal childhood. Parents Rex and Rosemary Walls psychological self-hatred and selfishness, has created a false illusion of a healthy childhood for their daughter Jeanette Walls. As they manifest detrimental influences through her childhood, Jeanette takes control, resulting in an adult who perceivers through harsh obstacles; coming out stronger in the end. Although her entire surroundings and lifestyle seem to be a toxic catastrophe as a child, the most notable examples of harmful conditions are her father’s uncontrollable drunkenness and desire to steal from his children, her mother’s greed and disregard towards

Diary of wimpy of a wimpy kid: The gateway by Jeff Kinney. Gateway is about the Heffleys go on a vacation and all this bad stuff happen to the family. Greg (The main character) he get most worst stuff happen to him. From Greg’s safety issues on the airplane to sneaking out of their hotel the Heffley's have it all. The big idea of stress runs through the entire book, Greg has stress whether it can make hido bad choices or innocent decisions or even some where he is worried about his safety.

Interactions between people are never ending. The effects of one conversation could affect the outcome of that person’s life, consequently changing their identity completely. There comes a time, though, when dealing with others confident in their identities, where one must ask themselves the personal question of “who am I?”. No matter if you’ve just stumbled upon this question, in the process of discovering the answer, consistently changing your answer, or confident in your answer, the people around you are the ones you have to thank for molding your personal identity.

According to Susan Sontag we the public have been conditioned to think that photos represent reality. However, this information is deceptive and can give us false impressions of the world around us. She explains this by using an ancient allegory created by the philosopher Plato. Plato was a philosopher who believed that people should look to a higher calling and more Godly things because all of the nature and man made world was merely an illusion. He explains this in his longest book called The Republic.

"Character is what you are in the dark." -Dwight Lyman Moody means that a person's true nature and real behaviors show in every day life and how they react to stuff when no one is watching. How people act when everyone is looking isn't always who they are really are. I have a read a book, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" that gives a good example of the meaning of this quotation. One of the characters shows what type of a person he is when he lets another person take the blame for something he did because he knew no one would ever know he really did it.

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” This quote by Anne Frank represents a truly important message that everyone should learn. In the book The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman, a war story about a young couple running a Poland zoo during WWll. Even when things are grim, you must look at the joy of life, this is the main message that the author portrays in the book. It's difficult not to focus on the bad events happening to us.

Giovanni’s Room written by James Baldwin was written in the 1950’s. A book about love, homosexuality, and the struggles of both. During the 1950’s being a homosexual wasn’t exactly a desirable thing to be, in America or England. The fifties was a hard time for homosexuals and bisexuals. In Europe families were starting back up as the men returned home from World War II, due to this being gay was seen as a threat to the typical family. This was a time in which one could go to prison for their sexual orientation and the sexual acts they pursued. Chain arrest could be made as well, where one would get arrested, questioned on if they knew other gays and if they did and could identify them, then their sentence would be lesser or easier (CITATION). So as imagined “coming out of the closet” wasn’t a thing that many wanted to do, they wanted to stay hidden. The phrase “coming out of the closet” or even just the term “closet” represents an idea where people hid their sexuality. If one were to “come out of the closet” they would announce or make it known in public that they were accepting their sexuality and letting others see it as well. In Giovanni’s Room we as readers can see a lot of this hiding, confusion, and struggle with the idea of being gay, especially with the character of David. David uses Giovanni’s room as his own sort of “closet”.

He uses the hatching of the turtles as an analogy to describe the nature of life and death. He does this by using numerous verbs that make us feel a sense of urgency, while also making us experience the life- race the turtles are running. Another technique O’Connor uses is how he makes us feel his emotions as they progress throughout the poem. In the beginning when he starts off his poem, he is distant and detached from the scene that plays out in front of him. However, once he starts really watching and understanding, he feels pity for the turtles and sadness on how cruel the cycle of life is. He makes us feel such strong emotions as he uses descriptive metaphors to portray his feelings as they change towards the turtles.

Materialistic items play a key role in the world today. People use these items, such as technological appliances, to fulfill their daily wants and needs. However, most people do not realize the negative effects of such a heavy reliance on material goods. In “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato shares his idea that an overdependence on items can negatively affect ethical decisions. This idea is discussed in “The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, The Truman Show, by Peter Weir, and Daniel Key’s novel, Flowers for Algernon. Throughout all three stories, characters greatly rely on items and other people, leading them to make unethical decisions. In some cases, people are objectified as a result of being needed, desired, and treated unfairly. In “The Veldt,” The Truman Show, and Flowers for Algernon, an overreliance on items leads to a loss of focus on morals and what is ethically important.

Equality? Equality is the state of being equal, however the idea of equality has been such an issue not only in the past but the present as well. White people believe that they are superior to minorities such as Women, African Americans and Hispanics because, minorities, are They make women feel inferior, believe that African Americans are threatening and violent, and think that Hispanics are murderous and slothful. This is in fact very wrong because they judge people based on what is being said or events that have no relevance. Minorities are treated unfairly because they are different and are believed to be less than others.

In chapter 7 of “The Social Animal,” David Brooks introduces a character named Erica to demonstrate that anyone willing to work hard can move up in life. Erica grew up with her mom in public housing. At the age of 10, she attended a public school that was not challenging her. In order to be more challenged, she knew that she would have to get into the new private school, New Hope. She was desperate; she wanted the fancy uniforms, the art studios, and the chance to go to college. When she went to her social worker, the lady said it was impossible for her to get in. However, Erica didn’t like this answer, so when it was time to go she didn’t budge. She exclaimed in a stubborn manner, “I wanna go to New Hope […] I wanna go to New Hope […] I

“Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth of not.” by Kurt Vonnegut. People live day by day on what they believe whether it is their morals or values, and what people say. We choose to believe what we want to like in all of the Bluebeard variances. Bluebeard is a not as well known fairytales that tell you the grim consequences of disobedience and curiosity that women deal with during marriage. Although, marriages have many secrets, every wife and husband deserves the truth when it comes to dishonestly, disloyalty, and sometimes murder.

We live in the age of constant technological innovation and endless information; in which we are so connected and dependent on the technology we use that we sometimes don’t even realize how much we’re relying on it. In The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr, Carr defines automation as, “the use of computers and software to do things we used to do ourselves,” and argues that there are daunting consequences to our reliance on technology (Carr 1). In his book, Nicholas Carr sets up three arguments related to automation, tacit knowledge, and the idea of work. His main arguments throughout the novel are that humans are overestimating the benefits of automation, losing tacit knowledge through our reliance on technology, and