The Rude Awakening

Every human has the tendency to be greedy, but sometimes humanity’s greed can have devastating consequences. In the satirical novella Animal Farm by George Orwell, a group of farm animals overthrow their abusive human owner. The story tracks the development of the farm from a safe and equal haven for animals to an oppressive, unequal environment run by the farm’s pigs who are blinded by greed. The evolution of the farm into a state of corruption can be attributed mainly to greed. The main antagonist

Troubled Iago       Unquestionably the most perfidious character within the cast of Shakespeare’s Othello is the cunning Iago. He spends his life, it would seem, taking revenge on the general and destroying nearly everyone around himself. Helen Gardner in “Othello: A Tragedy of Beauty and Fortune” elaborates on Iago’s exact function and place in the play: . . . Iago ruins Othello by insinuating into his mind the question, ‘How do you know?’ The tragic experience with which this play

Production and Release The Matrix was produced by Warner Bros. studios, and released in the U.S. on March 31, 1999. It was written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, also known as the Wachowski Brothers. The principal cast included, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving among others. During its opening weekend, it made $27,788,331 and it grossed $171,383,253. It won an Oscar for, best film editing, best sound, best effects (sound effects editing, and best

I was trying to sleep on the night of November 9th, 2016 when I heard screams coming from my floor in my dormitory. Not screams of happiness, but screams of pain, screams echoing the feeling that chances to better the nation were thrown to the wayside. That night, Donald Trump, a joke throughout the election cycle, was elected the President of the United States. The next day, a gray sheet of cloud covered the skies, rain occasionally pattered on the roofs of buildings, and trees looked lifeless.

Ralph Ellison narrates the portions of his earliest days in the semi-autobiography “On Being the Target of Discrimination”, where he recalls the effects of racism had on his life. Though his chronological writing, he uses the timeline of his childhood as personal evidence of the effects of racism in the upbringing of an African American child in a Post-Reconstruction Era America. A creative narrative written in second-person, all his arguments are supported primarily through anecdotal examples that

Upon watching the play Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion, written by playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, I found myself engulfed by a parallel narrative that illustrated a plethora of significant topics. Who knew that learning about a dead Canadian prime minister could be both captivating and informative? Taylor's Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion, commissioned by the National Arts Centre, does an arguably nearly flawless job of bringing light to some of Canada’s oldest

After my suggestion, I was met with the confrontation from Jisoo Park, one of my fellow directors, that I have attempted to disintegrate the group and I was denigrated as having the intention of dismantling the team unity. That was most certainly not what I had meant, and in many cases, I have felt that words have been put in my own mouth forcefully by my team members. Thus, the power dichotomy was replicated once again and the freedom of expressing one’s own opinion was immediately turned down and

I put so little effort into what I was doing, and the school just kept giving me good grades, and essentially said: “You’re bringing our average ACT score up so we get more funding! Great job!” My first semester at NIU was a very rude awakening. I had college level mathematics and chemistry amongst other things, and I got thrown off the deep end. I was put on academic probation and I ended up having to retake two of my classes. It hurt to be knocked down, but I needed a kick in

America has long been the land of hopes and dreams. People from all over the world have come to America for a better life. The United States has been referred to as the land of Freedom, a sign of hope or even a place where the American Dream lives. The American Dream was thought to be something in which every American seemed to already live and what every person dreamed of. Many Immigrants coming to this land of the free have lost their lives or have suffered immensely trying to make it here. Even

The French and Indian War opened doors for a lot of conflicts between the colonies and Great Britain. Some may argue that the resistance to British authority came from differences between the two that developed over a long period of time. After doing research I believe the revolution started because Great Britain tried to force changes on the colonies after the war. Britain put a tax on mostly everything making it hard for colonists to buy or trade anything. The colonists became furious and began