There are countless people who say that they will help out in dangerous situations. The thing is we don't even know for sure that will actually do anything. People will always say things to make themselves sound tough and heroic, but the truth will only come out if they are put in hostile situations. Everyone talks a big game but when the time comes for them to follow up on their word, that's when we'll find out if they are telling the truth. In the book, ¨The Revenge of Seven¨ by Pittacus Lore, there is a group of alien race kids with special abilities that are willing and are proving that they will help out in dangerous situations. The world is going to be attacked by a race of evil aliens and these kids are trying to stop them. Their leader, …show more content…
John is the main character and he is basically leading the kids into a war with the Mogadorians. He has many great traits that have helped him out in this book. One of his most important traits is his ambition. John wants to fight and he wants to win. He is smart and intelligent and with his ambition, he believes he can help save the world. Winning is what he aims for. He has encountered many obstacles along the way and with his will to win, he has overcome them all. One scenario is in the beginning of the book when he decides to trust a Mogadorian, Adam, from the other side. In the book, it says, ¨I don't know if they can be trusted. Malcolm said that he helped him escape from imprisonment and that he can vouch for him. If Malcolm says he's an ally, maybe I should too¨ (Lore 64). Mogadorians are supposedly all evil but in this case, there is one good guy. He is trying to help them but some of the others don't know if he can be trusted so they have to wait on John's decision whether to trust him or not. Eventually, he decides to trust the Adam so he can help them along the way. The decision John made was a good one because eventually, Adam saves Johns´ life by killing an attacker that was going to kill John. Leaders usually have to make important decisions in difficult times. Very few trust their instincts, one of them is John
Owen Meany, on the other hand, is almost the complete opposite of John. He knows that everything that occurs happens for a reason, and that there is no such thing as coincidences. John Irving follows the journey from childhood friendship into adulthood between the two, showing the true meaning of friendship and the impact that Owen has on John. John doesn’t feel a connection with God while growing up, quite possibly because he had changed churches several times as a child, due to his mother and her relations with Reverend Merill. John is characterized as a person lacking to know the very self of him, and he seems to learn from the events that occur around him, rather than to himself.
The Civil War was America’s bloodiest war, the conflict of the Civil War in 1861-1865 against the Confederate States of America resulted in the death of more than 750,000, and millions of soldiers injured. The American union was broken as soldier fought soldier in a Civil War that remains in our nation's history. 4,000,000 were freed, 750,000 dead, and 1 nation saved. The movie Glory is a 1989 American drama war movie directed by Edward Zwick and starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman .The Movie was based on personal letters of Colonel Shaw and, the story is based on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal unit of the US Army to be made up entirely of colored men, as told from the point of view of Colonel Shaw, he is the commanding officer during the war. Robert Shaw the officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As the officer he commanded all black, 54 Massachusetts, to enter the war in 1863. Officer Colonel Shaw is the main subject of the film.Private Trip is a trouble maker; he usually breaks the rules and messes with everyone. Major Cabot Forbes, childhood friend of Colonel Shaw, he is in charge of commanding the 54th. The American Civil War although it’s often referred to as the war to free the slave, No one ever thought colored were in the war.
Demolition derbies have made their way through history as races that only involve crashes. There is more to a demolition derby than just crashes. Demolition derbies are more complex than what is seen from the stands because of the long hard work it takes to get a car ready, and the actual competition of the derby.
Daniel Craig’s new James Bond in Casino Royale breathes fresh life into what had become, in my opinion, a rather tired and worn out concept - a striking achievement, considering Casino Royale was Ian Fleming’s first novel in the series, written in 1953.
John would have to travel to an army base for his basic training, and then he would be assigned directly to Pakistan to fight in the war. As upsetting as it would be to leave his home and college life, he knew it was his responsibility to go. If he had only studied a little harder, or gone to a professor for extra help, he would probably be returning to school. But these were the consequences he would have to face, and he would face them like a man.
...im discovers that he agrees with Israel. John is a person who lives his life and has no regrets about his decisions. Jim discovers that John Silver is a mysterious and complicated role model. The most important lessons he learns from John is courage and how important it is to make decisions for himself.
John is really stubborn when it comes to living up to his name to the point of death. John has no
Juror #1 originally thought that the boy was guilty. He was convinced that the evidence was concrete enough to convict the boy. He continued to think this until the jury voted the first time and saw that one of the jurors thought that the boy was innocent. Then throughout the movie, all of the jurors were slowly convinced that the boy was no guilty.
You would think after 25 James Bond films we’ve come to know agent 007. Turns out there’s a lot more to know.
With his new found knowledge John was able to create a framework in which he would see the world. It led him to form opinions and speak out like he does on multiple occasions throughout the book. John’s isolation from his tribe though tragic did help him grow and grasp the world in a different way, but in the end this also caused his downfall in the World State society. His life at the reservation though strange was free and coming to london and encountering such atrocities as the feely where he described to Lenina as so "It was base," he said indignantly, "it was ignoble."(pg 170) showing how john was to cling to his beliefs ferociously. As the story progresses the savage also comes across a change in his popularity. John was showered with attention and greetings but soon began to reject his visitors for he didn't see them as sincere and believed their ways to be heinous. A second wave of isolation was breaking on the young savage. John began to realize the outside world and civilized society is not what he wanted or expected. Pushed out onto his own, seclusion drew john into a state of erratic behavior that had him continuously punishing himself for sin. In this case isolation drove the savage to the brink of insanity.
Midnight Express Billy Hayes becomes desperate at the end of the movie. He realizes that he will never be released and so when he finds the money his girlfriend hid for him, he is moved to try and escape. He tries to bribe Hamidon to let him out. Hamidon takes the money but takes him to an empty room where he is planning on beating Billy. He takes off his gun and puts down his stick.
I read Lost Horizon for my book report. The main characters in this story are Conway, Mallinson, Barnard, and Miss Brinklow. Conway was a man of thirty-seven years old who didn’t have a wife or any other family. Mallinson was a young man of about twenty or so who was not married yet either. Barnard was a middle-aged man that was without a wife or family also. Miss Brinklow was a woman of around the age of fifty.
“Ignorance and innocence are not always synonymous” (Ziegler 5) is the moral of Frank Wedekind’s play, Frühlings Erwachen, which was first performed in 1906. Wedekind employs satire to warn against the dangers of lack of education for the youth of the play. Spring Awakening, as it is known to English audiences, tells the story of three teenagers, who are being awakened to their sexual desires. However, they are entirely unprepared to deal with these desires. Thus, “the awakening leads to death” (Boa, Spring Awakening 27) in the case of two of the characters and leads the third character to become “imprisoned as a moral degenerate.” (Ziegler 5) In 2007, Spring Awakening: A New Musical, based on Wedekind’s play, premiered on Broadway. It went on to win eight Tony Awards. This musical took most of the original scenes and interlaced modern, pop musical numbers into it. The songs served as a way to show the modernity of the issues raised in the play and to show the innermost thoughts of the characters.
In the end we find out that John had not raped and killed the two little girls he was found with, but instead he had happened upon them and tried to bring them back to life; only it was too late. Seeing the fantastical nature of the situation the guards who knew the truth were unable to free John of the charges he was facing and they had to kill him anyways.
John is taken to the World State, a society very different from the Reservation in which he grew up, and faces the challenges of adjusting to a new society. Eventually, when he is fed up with the seemingly horrifying practices of the World State, he has an argument with Mustapha Mond, the leader of the World State, about their philosophies regarding happiness in which John says, “‘But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I was real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin’” (Brave New World, 215). This demonstrates John’s great self-awareness of ability to articulate why is he is unhappy and how he desires change. This ultimately leads to his relocation -- freedom from the societal pressures and norms that he is disgusted by. The key difference between John and the other citizens of the World State, who don’t desire change, is that John is willing to risk everything for true happiness, not the artificial happiness imposed upon him by the World State. John ends up taking his life, and is able to possibly find the happiness he has been after in another life. There may be advantages to this sheltered thought of Lenina and many others, because ultimately John commits suicide. However, this may be, in his eyes, a victory