There are differences and a few similarities between Taking Sides and McFarland U.S.A. First, Taking sides tock place in a rich town. Second, McFarland tock place in a poor town. Furthermore, taking sides have rich nice houses. However, McFarland has poor small houses. One similarity is they both have sports teams. Additionally taking sides played basketball and McFarland did cross-country. In conclusion, this taught me to stay true to
The two stories were alike in the fact that both authors lost their parents at a very young age. Since they lost their parents at a young age, they were both raised by their grandparents. Both stories also begin with a safe arrival to a new country. Both also said the journey to the new country was a two month long trip. And lastly, the the refugees and the pilgrims traveled to a completely different continents and had to adapt to new cultures. These are all the similarities between the two stories.
A very important similarity between the stories, is that they both are in the view point of a Union soldier in the nineteenth century, during the civil war. The similarities between these two books combine the ideals of battle and war, also the resemblances show how alike the two protagonists of the stories are.
It may be the same era and the same basic theme between both writings, but there are two significant differences -- social class and physical location. The
In a world that’s “endlessly” changing, it’s only logical that those inhabiting it follow the same agenda. In Jon Krakauer’s, “Into the Wild, youngster Chris McCandless is described to have attempted to follow his own advice; the joy of life “comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon” (Krakauer 57). To the extent of seemingly necessary changes, McCandless’s philosophy is accurate.
To conclude, statistically Patrick was the better bocce player but in a real game Angus would have won as bocce is played using a points system. The statistics that show Patrick was the more consistent bocce player as his mean or average was lower than Angus’s. Patrick’s average was 121.85 whilst Angus’s was 130.95. The difference between the two averages was only 9.1 centimetres.
There are similarities of plot between both stories, for example, both of the men are soldiers at war. As an example “On a rooftop near O’Connell Bridge, a republican sniper lay watching”
The settings in the two stories are similar in the way that they both take place in a small town with a sense of poverty. The adults are portrayed as authoritative and the narrators feel trapped.
When McGreevy admitted to having a gay love affair, it sent a wave of shock to those around him. He is a man of two children and a Roman Catholic, so he felt the need to resign because of the impact the affair could have on them. Such as the impact on his family and also the impact it could have on his performance at work. McGreevy had this affair with a man named Golan Cipel, someone who did not take this well. Cipel threatened to file a lawsuit against McGreevy for sexual harassment. However, one fact about him that seemed odd is the fact that he became the new homeland security advisor without any background checks or an official announcement. This appears to be the doings of McGreevy, he expressed how “wrong, foolish, and inexcusable” this
This essay will go through and explain the comparative and contrasting points of the two short stories I read in my English Lit and Comp class.Two men who come from families with a long history of rivialry amongst each other have to work together in order to try and get out of their fatal condition. While we also have a woman with critical health issues and doesn't have a loving passion with her husband. These two stories sound to most about very different topics, and that they are but I will show you the comparitive and contrasting points from each story. Starting with the short story The Interlopers, two men who come from different families, feuding over a stip of land flourishing in game, they poached on eachother and rallied over. Now jumping
The United States features aspects from both novels but can better be described as a mixture of the two. Society is broken down into castes or social classes that in turn effects how people are treated. We
similar, yet at the same time there are a lot of major differences. The major similarity in
The third similarity is that both governments have their hands and control in every aspect of society?s life. Also the government spies on their citizens. In the book we saw Oceania had absolute control over people?s life. Even though the control that the United State government has over people?s lives these days is not as great as the one in the book, they still interfere
The two text are similar for various reasons. They are generally similar because they both have someone attempting to deny or rebel against society or government and they both get are unsuccessful and killed in the end. As seen in Harrison Bergeron this conflict occurs when Harrison
I suspect the similarities are easier to find by reading the play because the movie really shows their contrasts. There is one similarity in that when they really believe something, they are passionate about their cause.
The difference and the similarities that you can point out