Charles had a deep aspiration to become a lawyer, but he was not known to have academic accomplishments. After the ninth grade, Whittaker dropped out of school to pursue a second profession in farming that literally stank. He would sell skunk pelts for $3 apiece. By 1920, he’d managed to save money and went to Kansas City to pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer. He worked as an office assistant at the local law firm Watson, Gage & Ess and spent two years completing high school.
The idea of blood in other works and novels typically evokes the idea of slaughter and massacre. However, in this play the blood symbolizes the guilt that will forever stain the palms of Macbeth and his wife. The simple act of murder that was once looked at as indifferent led to a devastating past. Macbeth expresses his guilt when he remarks, “And with thy bloody and invisible hand/ Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond/ Which keeps me pale” (3.3.48-50). Macbeth is scared by the blood of Duncan.
As the peasants realized the corruption in their government, oppression became the trigger to the series of bloody and violent acts for justice against the aristocrats – the French Revolution. As one can tell, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." (Dickens 1). Written and published in the year of 1859, the novel A Tale of Two Cities, authored by Charles Dickens, described the lives of a few fictional characters involved in the French Revolution and their interlocking fate with one another. Directed by Bille August, the movie Les Misérables (1998), an adaptation of the novel Les Miserables written by Victor Hugo, also sets itself around the era of the French Revolution, presenting the audience with the inescapable destiny of the characters.
“…they were men who did public penance and scourged themselves with whips of hard knotted leather with little iron spikes. Some made themselves bleed very badly between the shoulder blades…” Extract from Medieval historian book Jean Froissart’s book “Hundred Years War” A disgusting prevention of the black plague was to give plague boils for those who were not sick. Many people had it in their food and drink; some even swallowed it from mature boils in
Red is corrupted because of his business; the guards are because they accept bribes and the warden Sam Norton corrupted because of laundering money. Samuel Norton is a man who believes in god, and money. His "Inside-Out" program, which offered cheap prison labor, gained him finances, Even though he claims to be a devout Baptist, he accepts bribes from local construction companies. “Sam Norton…was passed a good many thick envelopes under the table during his fifteen – year tenure as Shawshank’s warden.” (King, 33) This shows corruption because he used his program as a way to laundering money but also deceived the prisoners thinking they were helping other companies in need. “Because people like you make me sick,’ Norton said deliberately.
It is often said that “art” imitates “life”. In our analysis of these two works of literature we can see “art” imitating “life”. Those in charge will always be corrupt because in order for the few “haves” to maintain their way of life, those who “have not” must be tricked into believing something. We are soon introduced to this theme of corruption in Suzzane Collins “The Hunger Games” when we first learn of what the hunger games are. Many years before this story takes place a world war had devastated the Earth and its population.
His mother worked as domestic worker and his father was a barber, but his father left his family when DuBois was at a very young age. DuBois mother continue to raise him Great Barrington, Massachusetts with” 4,000 residents and 50 of them were African American residents leaving him with little knowledge about the African American culture.” Where he attended school with whites and had encouragement from his teachers to graduate high school. DuBois mother “passed away when he was 16 and left him penniless “while was still in high school. He got a job at the local mill and continues to complete high school. “He was the first African American to graduate from high school” because of the encouragement from his teachers (W.E.
His 10 years old daughter, Linda had to walk along to the “Black school” and wait the school bus for hours that was located far from his home. Mr. Brown wanted his daughter to go to the school that is closer and safer for more educational opportunities. However, the school turned down his demand due to the principle of the school. He sued the Board of Education for not allowing his daughter to enroll. On May 18, 1896 African Americans had more hard time for their rights by Plessy v. Ferguson.
The book does not follow a normal story but describes particular moments in time. It is narrated by Yunior, generally in the 1980’s, with much of the story coming from his childhood. At the age of 4, Yunior, his brother Rafa, and their mother are abandoned by their father because he has dreams of going to the states to succeed and provide for his family. Meanwhile, Yunior’s family is forced to live in poverty with their mother working long hours at the chocolate factory and their grandfather watching them. At 9 years of age, Yunior’s father resurfaces from the United States to bring them back to New Jersey with him.
Armstrong had a difficult childhood. William Armstrong, his father, was a factory worker who abandoned the family soon after the boy's birth. Armstrong was brought up by his mother, Mary (Albert) Armstrong, and his maternal grandmother. He showed an early interest in music, and a junk dealer for whom he worked as a grade-school student helped him buy a cornet, which he taught himself to play. He dropped out of school at 11 to join an informal group, but on December 31, 1912, he fired a gun during a New Year's Eve celebration, for which he was sent to reform school.