Right Now Essays

Although, it used to be easier, honestly it did, before my father died. Well, of course I was quite young at the time and my mother wasn’t an alcoholic with a psychosis diagnosis; however he still knew exactly how to work out my problems. I’m an adult now, nineteen years old, I finished my last day of high school Wednesday, and things are about to change. At the moment, I am running late for work, I hear my mother in the other room, still drunk at eight in the morning. “Lewis Grant!" she says, I grunt

Montseratt Perez Ms. O’Bryan English 3P 27 February 2023 Civil Rights Then and Now The social issues discussed in American literature remain similar to the ones we know and fight for today. Writers like Langston Hughes and Claude Mckay who wrote stories like If We Must Die, I Too, and Let America be America Again used their status as notable writers of their respective eras as platforms to speak of social issues like racial inequality as well as the black experience in this country. Racial inequality

The article “ 4 Easy ways to create social impact right now (+ 4 tools that can help)” written by Anita Leffel and published on Engage July 27, 2016, made me reflect on the importance of been active in our community and to be aware of the social problems that affect our community, such as homeless, racism, gun control, income inequality, and many more that need extra attention. It is important to protect our communities and create social change even when things seem difficult to achieve. When

English Essay Cecilia Weber Stillwater Area High School English 11 Brandon Maxwell 1/26/23 We can relate to the world around us because we are connected to it. We are forever in nature and will become the earth we walk on now. Is that an often thought question in circulation with the disarray of your daily query? Our personal identities are established by our connections with these physical environments, which reveal both who we are as individuals and how we interact with various aspects of

that also have a signaling function in Heart of Darkness: “darkness”, “extermination”, “brutes”. The Martians were superior to the British, like how the British were superior to the Africans. Just as British took over Africa, and thought they had a right to take over land, so did the Martians. The Martians considered the humans a lower species, like the Europeans considered the African people a lower

Willard to the conclusion of how America has created this lie of war to destroy their own soldiers' lives. Vietnam existed both internally as well as externally for U.S. soldiers experiencing the psychological and military landscape of war. Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Coppola is set in 1970 during the Vietnam War and brings in events from the Vietnam War to further their point of the effects that violence has on the soldiers who fought in the war. The film addresses the good and evil of corrupted

20th century, Europeans affected the Africans lives in tremendous ways. Africans viewed European nations as monsters. Europeans colonization caused many Africans to be against imperialist European Nations. The Europeans believed it was their divine right to rule the Africans

Natives is horrible, Marlow sees it as an opportunity to help them by giving them work. Conrad uses a dark quote to describe the slaves, “They were dying slowly—it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now—nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom” (26). In this quote, Marlow describes the state of the Natives by saying they were black shadows of disease and starvation. This is when Marlow starts to realize

Francis Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now opens with a visceral image of hellish chaos. As the camera pans over a seemingly serene forest, a helicopter silently drops into the frame, releasing napalm into the air. A few seconds later, the jungle bursts into explosive flames, transforming the landscape into scene of chaotic torment, reminiscent of the “river of fire” described in St. Paul’s Apocalypse. The encompassing jungles and murky rivers of Apocalypse Now serve as a vision of the 1960s Vietnam

Literacy analysis Authored by Shirley Jackson in June 1948, “The Lottery” is a short story and first in an issue of The New Yorker the same year. At the core of the story is a narration about a small town in the modern day world America in which “the lottery,” which is an annual ritual takes place. In the history of American literature, Shirley Jackson's "the lottery" has continued receiving acknowledgements as one of the most successful and famous short stories. As defined by several commentators

Published in the year 1902, Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is a story told in the frame narrative voice. The story talks about a voyage the main character, Marlow, embarks on. Throughout Conrad’s novella, Marlow journeys up the Congo River which is assumed to be in Africa. “Heart of Darkness” can be observed and viewed as a mythical journey in search of oneself as well as the search for what we believe is the truth. Marlow also travels up the Congo River in pursuit of a white man, Kurtz, who

Heart of Darkness investigates the concerns regarding imperialism in using a complex method. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, The Hollow Men, by T.S. Eliot, and The White Man’s Burden, by Rudyard Kipling all hold a similar message. Both Conrad and Eliot express to the audience that the theory of imperialism is pure, however the reality is immoral. While Conrad’s story provides a powerful disapproval of the deceitful functions of imperialism, it also presents a set of concerns surrounding ethnicity

was (44). In order to secure their ivory, he uses brutal methods such as putting the heads of those who disobey him on “the stakes” with their faces “turned to [Kurtz’s] house” (71). In a wilderness with no societal rules defining what is wrong or right, Mr. Kurtz loses himself and becomes a tyrant. With no consequences for his actions, Mr. Kurtz makes himself a god, taking “a high seat amongst the devils of the land” (60). At last, when they remove Mr. Kurtz from the Congo, he cannot handle it and

ARTS1501 Abigail Natnat March 30, 2016 N01100811 Film Essay Assignment The first sequence is the last scene from Apocalypse Now (1979) which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. This scene is popularly known as “The Horror” and is a hybrid of classical paradigm and formalist style. It is a classical paradigm because the sequence is actually going about with a story which means that some of the parts are continually edited revealed to be in one setting which is the jungle where

desire of obtaining ivory, rubber, and other resources and goods. As the Europeans imperialize the area, they do not build culture or assist in development of the Congo region, but break down culture as they enslave the natives and take away their rights, along with stripping the area of resources and natural, earthly beauty, which is conveyed through the cruel physical treatment towards the natives. This treatment is also presented through the literary devices that Conrad decides to use to reveal

Have you ever gone to another country, and witnessed that the native people are treated harshly and are controlled by a minority race? This is the concept of Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness is a novella, that reflects Conrad’s experiences in the Belgian Congo. In the story, Marlow is on a boat in the Thames River in London, and is telling the story of his experience in the Congo. While there, Marlow hears about a legendary ivory collector known as Kurtz, who has gone

As Marlow is meeting with other explores in the Thames River, Marlow begins to tell his story about the horrors that he encounters while in the peak of the ivory trade in the Congo. Marlow made his way down to the Congo because he was contracted by The Company by the booming business of Ivory down in the African Congo. The company was a group of men who would patiently wait for something to happen. Marlow gets the word about a guy named Kurtz who is living in the inner station and decides to meet

In literature, characters often progress on internal or external journeys with the aim of discovering more about oneself or the world. Stereotypically, journey archetypes are characterized by the protagonist’s need to fulfill a particular quest, traveling through a series of obstacles to arrive at a final destination. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, a European sailor Marlow, travels through Congo into Africa’s “darkness,” with the aim of discovering ivory. However, oftentimes characters themselves

In the words of Pauline Hopkins, “And, after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fate, destiny, or any supernatural agency.” In the post-colonial fiction, The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, a family of six is being led blind into the Congo in the name of Jesus and left all their modern conveniences behind. There are many shifts in the daily lives and beliefs of the Price’s from the “simple” change of drinking water to the complexity of what Jesus truly means

the equator, the Congo was physically exhausting for Marlow and his crew to traverse through. “It was hot there, too; big flies buzzed fiendishly, and did not sting, but stabbed.” (Pg 28) Many of his crew, including him, had not seen the Congo until now. They were faced with an unfamiliar