Some Desperate Glory

“In this world you will have trouble. But take heart, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). The willpower to overcome adversity drives an unstoppable ambition. In The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown, a young man defied all odds to defeat resistance from life and the water to win the gold. Joe Rantz overcomes personal and emotional challenges throughout his childhood and college life in order to achieve his dream. Every century struggles in various ways to survive, but through the strife society

Conflict in literature always includes two strong forces contradicting each other. At least one of the forces is always human, while the other side can be society, self, or another human. After studying British literature and Greek mythology, it is easy for readers to find common conflicts that the character's face throughout epic poems and short stories written during the Anglo-Saxon time period. While conflicts are present in every piece of literature, the setting, characters, and plot are other

quest to find the culprit who murdered King Laius. The newly exposed past suddenly transforms his glory and respect into shame and humiliation. After he learns about his wicked past he stabs his eyes, which lead to his blindness. During the course of the play, references to blindness and vision constantly recur, giving the reader an enhanced and more insightful look into the themes of the play. Some themes that are expressed through these references include truth and knowledge, guilt, and freewill

Despite the lavish lifestyle which has made him ever so well known for, Gatsby is never able to win back Daisy, the girl who has for so long represented the culmination of all of his desires. In his novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s desperate struggle to ingratiate himself into Daisy’s life to illustrate how one can never overcome the socio-economic barriers placed upon them at birth. “Literary geography is typically about humans inhabiting spaces, and at the same time spaces inhabiting

nothing to do with stars; but somehow it seemed natural to talk about them. Carina was fascinated with stars, but more importantly, the fact that we are made out of stars. She says that we humans are made of roughly 93% stardust, but she believed that some humans were made of much more than that. We did our research and then told her that due to the structure and chemical makeup of our bodies, nobody could be made out of more than 93% stardust. When we brought that point up again and again, she would

versus Christ. Verse 6 says The Antichrist blasphemes (or slanders in the NIV) the name of the Lord. I unpack this in the section titled, “What’s in a Name?” If I had to say in one phrase the focus of The Antichrist in the last days, it would be the glory of his name — the name: Trump. He demands worship. Notice the last part of verse six says he slanders (blasphemes) “those who live in heaven”. The NIV uses the conjunction “and”: “and those who live in heaven”. The NASB says, “that is, those…”. Is

himself, due to the tragic events that unfold during the play. This has a direct effect on the audience’s views and thoughts of Macbeth, thus creating pity and fear within the audience. Macbeth, being a man and a human being himself, is in-clined to some forms of temptation, to which man himself has quite often succumbed. The guilt that Mac-beth experiences after the death of his beloved King Duncan also experienced in every human’s life,

and her best friend Agatha seems a natural fit for the School of Evil. They never dream of what happens next: they end up in the wrong schools. When Sophie meets a gorgeous prince, she has no intention of going home. Agatha, on the other hand, is desperate to return home. The two best friends follow their fairy tale and must face the most terrifying part of this fantasy: The End. The story all starts a long, long time ago where Good and Evil are still balanced before Evil rose above Good and The School

fast paced, predominately white, rapidly growing economy. It was seen as one of the great epicentres of 20th century music and home to the American automobile. Unfortunately, it was later realised that the exact attitude that drove Detroit to its glory days were the same exact attitudes that sent Detroit into decline. Temple spends a considerable amount of screen time following an urban explorer

war against them. This poem is often viewed as a poem dedicated to congratulating and praising Legge for his amiable actions towards the American people. However, this idea is not entirely true. Wheatley’s poem isn’t solely a poem of praise but a desperate woman’s plea for help. In the poem Wheatley employs tactics of sympathy, empath, and bribery to convince Legge to use his influence to aid the African American race. It is important that we realize this poem is a cry for help because not only do