The Elections Are Written By Tom Perrotta And The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is an enthralling novel about a young Dominican boy, named Oscar, who is growing up in a New Jersey ghetto. Oscar is an overweight nerd who is constantly getting attracted to any pretty girl he lays his eyes on. Unfortunately for him, Oscar isn’t just overweight, he’s tragically overweight. However, Oscar’s real true love is writing. He absolutely loves writing, and is always creating stories when he is not playing his “geeky” video games. Oscar’s goal is to become a famous and accomplished writer, so he dedicates most of his time to writing. The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao follows his family’s journey from the Dominican Republic to the United States, and Oscar’s valiant attempts to find love.

The main theme that both creates and unites violence and love in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is shown from the very beginning in the Act 1 Preface which sets up the context of the fukú and Trujillo’s repressive regime. The language used sets up the dark never ending curse of the fukú with Diaz saying “Because no matter

Love is an unpredictable emotion—to the brink that it drives someone to take a bullet for someone else. It suffocates the intelligent neurons in a person's mind, shutting them down and letting their heart’s beatings control their actions. In Junot Diaz's book The Brief Wondorous Life of Oscar Wao, love blinds the characters, impacting life-threatening decisions which leads them towards a long road of suffering.

“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” stated by Potter Stewart. Ethics in politics are a rare sight, “The Best Man” by Gore Vidal brings this issue up. Although the script was written in the 1960’s when the election was between Nixon and Kennedy it still relates to current elections between Trump and Clinton. Today’s politicians are no better than the ones from the past. However, Gore Vidal gives his character William Russell a set of morals. He also give other characters, no set of morals. The script relates to ample situations happening in the 2016 presidential election. Such as scheming against one another or personalities that are similar. The script also has some differences with today’s politics. Including, the role of females and William Russell’s kindness.

Giving up friends you know and love is difficult, however if they were never your friend, in the end, it is for the best. In the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz makes Oscar experience numerous hardships, and makes him to overcome them. One of these hardships were when Oscar recognizes his friends are not genuine, and has to make a choice to continue being friends with them or letting them go. He concludes they are not genuine when they exclude him when they hang out and make derogatory remarks towards him. An example of this is when Oscar’s friend Al, helps Oscar’s other friend, Miggs, in finding a girlfriend, but not Oscar. Oscar feels “It kills him that they hadn’t thought to include him in their girl heists; he

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in reinstating Ohio's so-called "golden week" of voting, a five-week-long period before a presidential election designed to enable as many people who have not yet registered to vote, to do so, and cast their voting ballots at the same time. There were no noted dissents on the unsigned order, the latest voting-rights appeal the Supreme Court has turned down.

Regardless of an individual’s political enthusiasm, the 2016 election cycle was one of, if not the most widely discussed election cycles in the history of the United States. Citizens and non- citizens from across the globe seemed to voice their opinions about either presidential candidate at one point or the other, the same goes for various House and Senatorial, except on a smaller scale. This essay will focus on the outcomes of the 2016 general elections thought an in-depth analysis of the following criteria; who voted for the candidates in the presidential and senatorial races, what was the reasoning behind their vote, when these individuals decide to vote, where the voters came out to vote and how that differed from previous election cycles and finally why this election cycle was so unique in its predictions and outcomes.

Election Night II by Jack Levine was the first painting that really caught my eye during our visit to the museum. Perhaps it was the loud, party atmosphere or the distinct characters that drew my attention. The scene that is depicted is of an after party of sorts for a politician after an American election. The politician is seen in the center of the painting, another man's arm around his shoulders. An article from the book American Paintings: From the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts states, “It is unclear whether the politician has won or lost; the compressed space creates an oppressive atmosphere that is heavy with corruption and the unwonted influence of the privileged classes” (67).

This preliminary chapter serves to set the plot up by describing Oscar’s lack of a love life and unluckiness with girls his age due to his physical appearance. The novel begins by describing how Oscar once was a ladies’ man, even going as far as having two girlfriends at the same time. When the more physically appealing of the two: Maritza breaks up with him, that’s when Oscar’s life turns for the worse. Oscar begins to gain weight and is plagued with acne, no longer appealing to girls. Flash forward his SAT Prep class, Oscar meets a girl named Ana, and Oscar thinks he may have a chance with her until Ana’s boyfriend comes back in the picture. When reading this first chapter, I felt Diaz was deliberate in choosing this sequence of events illustrating

Give 'em to me saucy, sweet, spicy, and tear-filled. In fact, the worse the plot, the better. The incredible part of these horrible romances; Predicting the ending is as easy as walking. Accordingly, they often end up something like this: The boy makes some monstrous mistake, rendering the girl heartbroken and angry. Consequently the guy realizes just how much he loves her, and performs some ridiculously elaborate act to make her love him again, which of course succeeds, ending the movie with the beautiful couple licking each others tongues at prom.

Love is very broad, and it can happen in many various shapes and forms. It could be between a parent and child, brother and sister, dog and owner, teenager and teenager, grandpa and grandma. The possibilities are endless. No love is the same, and everything about it can be different depending on all the different circumstances. This is the same between the two books. In the Fault in our Stars Augustus and Hazel are drawn together and fall in love because of the hardships they face due to cancer. In comparison, in Eleanor and Park they find love due to their differences and how their differences attract them together. Each day, they learn more about the other to make their love and relationship stronger. As I said earlier in the text, there are many risks and struggles when it comes to relationships and whether you and the person you love are right for eachother. Eleanor and park, along with Augustus and Hazel both had struggles. Eleanor and Park thought maybe they were too entirely different people. This thought lingered throughout the entire book. They then came to term with their differences realizing that being different only helps them learn more about each other. On the other hand, Hazel and Augustus struggled through them both having cancer. They were not normal kids, and they both had to come to terms with that. Instead of feeling bad about themselves, they realized that them nothing being ill give them something in common. You may now be thinking that the moral of each book is telling us completely different things- one is saying being different from each other is good because you can learn more from the other person, but the other one is saying that having something in common is good because you can talk about your similar experiences together. Every relationship is different and you can grow your love in a way that is

As an international student, this is my first time witnessing the process of the presidential election here in the United States. Based on how people behave and converse, I have realized that it was crucial to vote in the 2016 presidential election. This year, America had two of the most controversial candidates competing for the presidency. Donald Trump ran under the Republican Party while Hillary Clinton ran under the Democratic Party. Because most people had strong feelings toward each candidate, there had been a lot of pressure to vote. As a Xavier University student, I witnessed this pressure as I saw people meeting to discuss the importance of voting, politically affiliated clubs holding forums to discuss the best strategies to influence voters, and the Student Government Association providing free shuttle rides that took students to the voting stations. This is why claims about the disengagement of young people baffle me. Many people, especially the older generation, argue that Millennials are disengaged in political activity and voting (Dalton 54). This claim is false because Millennials engage in politics through taking part in campaigns, volunteering, and are well informed on political issues. On the other hand, Millennials’ voter turnout is low because even though they try to be involved in politics, politicians do not engage them; this means that politicians are not interested in Millennials.

True love is so rare, treasured, and ridiculed, that despite the fact that most people know that it is almost never found, they still are brave and desperate enough to try. While reading Romeo and Juliet, Eleanor commented, “It was ‘oh my God, he’s so cute’ at first sight. If Shakespeare wanted you to believe they were in love, he wouldn’t tell you in almost the very first scene that Romeo was hung up on Rosaline … It’s Shakespeare making fun of love” (44). In Omaha, Nebraska, a love story sprouts between two misfits who fit perfectly with each other. It was 1986 when Park Sheridan and Eleanor Douglas first met. Both 16-year olds were the same, yet so different. Eleanor came from a broken family, while Park came from the complete opposite. They were bound together and torn apart by their love for each other. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell brings to light that true love cannot be measured by the amount of time spent with the other person, but rather the ability of their love to withstand the lack of family acceptance, isolation, and societal influence. Ultimately, Eleanor and Park’s romance was sweet and worthwhile only because of the difficulties they faced together.

For a specific candidate to run for office is not an easy task. Huge amount of money should be spending by the party of the respective candidate before the election. Those amount of money is used to broadcast the candidate through the media, social networks by advertisement to provide their thoughts and their ideas among the people. I like to run for Texas house of representative.

This story starts by explaining how Oscar at some point of his life had “luck” when it came to women. When he was seven, his dancing merengue song and the perrito made him “was something of a Casanova…” (Dias 2361). Oscar had two girlfriends, Maritza Chacón and Olga Polanco. Maritza is a beautiful Dominican girl from a good family, and Olga is a Puerto Rican girl from a bad family. Oscar likes them both, but the only difference was