Mercury Seven

This film is based on the book by Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian Olympic gold medalist and mountain climber (played by Brad Pitt). The film was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in some of the most beautiful countryside I've seen. (Okay, that's it with the comments on the scenery.) Heinrich "Harry" Harrer leaves Austria just prior to World War II, in 1939, to climb Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain. Along with Harry, Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis) travels to Nanga Parbat for the climb

Symbolism of the Pearl in The Pearl by John Steinbeck In The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, evil transforms certain humble citizens into envious savages. It is this evil which moves the story along and adds drama. It causes the beginning of a happy spirit, but the downfall of goodness and humanity. Evil is shown by the doctor many times during the story. At first, he refuses to treat Coyotito because his parents have no money. When the doctor heard of Kino and Juana's fortune in finding "the

Narnia and the Seven Deadly Sins by Dr. Don W. King Dr. Don W. King wrote "Narnia and the Seven Deadly Sins," an article stating that each of the seven stories of Narnia represent one of the seven deadly sins. In his article, King stated that the novel The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe could easily be found to represent the sin gluttony. Many quotes from the text can be used to show that all or most of the seven deadly sins can be directly represented as well. The first and most clearly

The Book of Genesis Genesis tells us that; in the beginning, God created the heavens, separated light from dark, and gave earth life. God also created two trees in the Garden of Eden. One was the “tree of life” and the other was the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” Adam was given life for the first time, and as a special gift, God created Eve. Moreover, God gave mankind freewill, allowing them to do whatever they pleased, so although God had forbidden Adam and

doubtlessly intentional by Poe. Early on within the short story, Poe deliberately explains to the reader that Fortunato takes extreme pride in himself on his connoisseurship in wine. The theme of having an overwhelming amount of self-pride, one of the seven deadly sins, is projected as a weakness of Fortunato which may lead to Forturnato’s own destruction. Fortunato Believes that his “connoisseurship in wine” is far more advance than anyone else in the area, especially Luchesi and Montresor. He states

The textual differences between the 1599 and 1609 renditions of Shakespeare's Sonnet 138 subtly change the meaning and shift the focus of the poem. Most notably, in the 1609 rendition, more emphasis is placed on their shared complicity and Shakespeare more vividly paints his mistress as an individual opposed to a third-party construct. To begin, note the difference in lines 6-8 of both renditions: “Although I know my years be past the best, / I, smiling, credit her false-speaking tongue, / Outfacing

Sophocles’ Antigone focuses on the interplay between human laws and divine laws. Although the divines do not directly appear in the play, their rules strongly affect characters’ behaviors. Although the actions of the characters as well as the conclusion of the play demonstrate deities’ superior status to humans, the divine is unable to assume certain roles in the human world. The play’s first stasimon, also known as the “Ode to Man”, is one of the most obvious clues that the divine is superior

Heaney uses the structure in ‘Blackberry Picking’ to show the romantic human nature. The structure is two uneven stanzas with half rhyming couplets which does not imposing too much harshness, which reflects the romanticised view of human nature. Heaney uses ‘thickened wine’ to encapsulate the thick nature of the liquid. The simile compares it wine which is rich, in contrast to the humble reality. It is not a precious grape but a modest blackberry. This reflects human nature through the different

their opinion on many controversial views. Geoffrey Chaucer's poem, The Canterbury Tales, can be reflected through today’s society with the use of satire, which conveys a great amount of power and can transmit messages about women empowerment and the seven virtues. Chaucer uses many techniques throughout his poem, such as making some of the female characters in his story ‘different’ than the “societal-norm”. The Wife of Bath, who has her own separate story, is quite different from the women you would

What caused the American Revolution? When the colonies first started to form the colonists were very proud to be associated with the British. After the French and Indian War, however, the colonies realized they could fight, survive, and thrive as their own nation. Once the British realized that the colonists were growing in confidence after the war they started to place taxes and extreme limits on the colonies. The British also needed money themselves to recover from the French and Indian