American Literature Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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A Personal Narrative of My Experience Working for Zaxbys (544 words, 1 pages)

After being a stay-a- home Mom, with my two boys for six years, Ifinally decided to find a part-time job when they both started school. I have had quite a few dreadful jobs, but none were as bad as my job atZaxbys. Serving the public, the lousy pay, and my ... Read More

Structuralism in Literature (960 words, 3 pages)

Structuralism is perhaps the most important element in understanding any work of literature. In great works of literary creations, there is always more to the story than just the words that are read. There is always some underlying theme or meaning that needs to be uncovered. Through the literary theory ... Read More

How Writing Benefits Canada (270 words, 1 pages)

People express their views in the world as either personal feelings, written in pencil that can be erased at any moment or facts, written in pen that are believed to permanently stay the same. However, what individuals who expressed their opinions in pen failed to realize is that as time ... Read More

Personal Recount on Dealing with Depression (594 words, 2 pages)

Problems. A lot of people have problems its simply a part of life. But not a lot of people know that for most people depression is too. So many people go through depression but yet the whole times you feel so alone. The big difference about being sad and depressed ... Read More

Comparison Lovely Bones and Of Mice and Men (1320 words, 4 pages)

Queen Latifah said, I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. Important decisions always occur in life. There is going to be a time when youre going to make a bad decision and when youre going to make ... Read More

A Little Girl with Cancer – Creative Short Story (713 words, 1 pages)

Beep Beep Beeeep. That was all I heard in my hospital room. My name is Aubrey. Im six and I was diagnosed with cancer when I was five. I have blue eyes as sparkly as the sea and no hair on my bald, yet shiny head. My mom says I ... Read More

Analysis of The Great Gatsby (1378 words, 4 pages)

The story of The Great Gatsby follows two men who fight of the love of Daisys hand in marriage and ultimately for her love. She is seen as an object of beauty and passion by both men. Jay Gatsby is a character who was Daisys first lover but vanished before ... Read More

Growth During High School (824 words, 3 pages)

Throughout my first year of high school, I have grown immensely. Academically, I saw myself have a hard time, but slowly improve. Personally, it is hard to believe that it was only one year ago that I was not the individual I am today. As an individual, I have changed ... Read More

Books and Experience as Knowledge (351 words, 1 pages)

From the begining of this world humans are in quest for best ways of living, such as, best method for education or communication. Learning from books or experience are both ways of learning, and since life can not be black or white, one of these methods can not function fully ... Read More

Narrative Techniques and Elements When Writers Create (1074 words, 2 pages)

Narrative writing is described as a form of entertainment (Riedl, M. O.2004). The forms of entertainment include novels, movies, televisionshows, theatre, short stories, plays and traditional tales as well aspoems. However, in this essay, I will focus on five attributes ofcreative elements, which play a major role for the achievement ... Read More

Analysis of a Short Story (704 words, 1 pages)

I am literary iluminary, my role is basically to pick out 4-5 parts that I think were my favourite parts, or what really stuck out the most to me. One of my favourite parts was when Christopher ran away from Swindon to London. Christopher ran away to his mother because ... Read More

The Theme of Freedom in Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl (513 words, 2 pages)

While humanity, sacrifice, and courage are seen throughout Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl, freedom, or the lack of constraint, resides as the most prominent theme in the book. In this memoir, Anne Frank, a real, Jewish, teenager in the Holocaust, writes, to her trusty journal, about her ... Read More

The Nature of the Argument Against Thimerosal (1665 words, 5 pages)

The relationship between vaccinations for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and autism has been debated among different scientists for decades. It has also been a controversial belief among citizens. Some scientists against vaccinations believing that receiving vaccines will damage childrens mental development and lead to autism due to the Thimerosal ... Read More

Albert Einstein is my Role Model (985 words, 4 pages)

Have you ever had a person in life who you admire a lot? I do, I actually have lots of them but the one I had chosen for this essay is Dr. Albert Einstein. He is a really intelligent person who we all know and love. I am even I ... Read More

Analyzing Settings in Literature (1954 words, 3 pages)

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.Edgar Allan Poe. A short story is, in some ways, like a photograph- a captured moment of time that is crystalline, though sometimes mysterious, arresting, while perhaps delicate. But while a photo may or may not ... Read More

How National Art Honor Society Helps Others (374 words, 2 pages)

I have always found joy in helping others. For example, through National Art Honor Society I participated in an art therapy program for senior citizens at CareOne in Livingston, NJ and special needs children at the Early Childhood Learning Center in Chatham, NJ. In my school, I was nominated for ... Read More

Hattiesburg and The Tornadic Storm That Ripped It Apart (1202 words, 4 pages)

On Sunday February 10 2013 the lives of nearly 45,000 people who live inthe Hattiesburg area were forever changed. This unique winter dayforecasted to be extreme lived up to extraordinary hype meteorologistpredicted. Although the storm surged through the populated pocket insouth central Mississippi destroying homes, businesses, and devastatingthe greatest University ... Read More

Analyzing Motherhood in Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1050 words, 4 pages)

The origins of J. M. Barries classic fairy tale Peter Pan can be traced back to 1904. The novel displays classic gender stereotypes regarding expected social norms in earlytwentieth-century in English families. While it may be a reflection of the novels age, it nonetheless warrants discussion. Mrs. Darling is our ... Read More

My Wonderful Mother (1567 words, 6 pages)

Everybody needs motivation at least at one point in his or her life. Either they give up or they dont think theyll ever make it. People constantly need someone or something to keep them going even though the journeys are rough and it may not be the best time of ... Read More

A Review of the Short Story Night of the Twister (325 words, 1 pages)

In the short story, Night of the Twister by James Michael Ullman, the main character Karen Smallwood is an intelligent teacher who was raised by a lawman. She saves her life with clever and quick thinking in the midst of a very dangerous situation. Karen stays calm and cooperates with ... Read More

The Biography of Lorraine Hansberry: An American Feminist (586 words, 2 pages)

Loraine Vivian Hansberry 3rd was born on May 19th, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois. Both of Hansberry parents were continually involved in political matters her father ran for congress and her mother was a ward committee woman. They were also intensely associated with causes supporting African American rights. From early on, ... Read More

A Reflection on Lifelong Learning (450 words, 2 pages)

Edward Paxton Hood stated Our whole life is an Education - we areever-learning,' every moment of time, everywhere, under allcircumstances something is being added to the stock of our previousattainments. Mind is always at work when once its operations commence.All men are learners, whatever their occupation, in the palace, in ... Read More

Analysis of Of Mice and Men (821 words, 3 pages)

The Earths ability to survive for eons has fascinated an individuals mind. Its massive capacity though, lets the feeble mind to believe that its able to hide from anything. Even when the strongest of people face an impact, a struggle to fight for the dreams at hand, it is ridiculed ... Read More

Comparing and Contrasting Two Great American Novels: The Great Gatsby vs. Netherland (2338 words, 4 pages)

The title of a 'Great American Novel' is addressed to books thatrepresent an important time in United States' history. These novelsunfold their stories while expressing certain time frames underlyingtheir work. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and O'Neill's Netherland haveaccomplished this criteria. Each novel executes a different story, butif we take a ... Read More

A Review of the Novel the Giver by Lois Lowry (622 words, 4 pages)

Several weeks ago we read the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry. This is ascience fiction novel. When we began reading The Giver I was verysurprised. I had previously read the book before in fifth grade. Theplot of The Giver really disturbed me because in the story both babiesand the ... Read More

Saying Goodbye: A Story of Military Deployment (703 words, 3 pages)

Tears of a Military SpousePatricia and Benjamin grew up together in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Benjamin joined the Military in August of 2006 and shortly deployed in 2007. When he got back from his first deployment, Patricia packed her little smoke grey Nissan Altima with all her belongings and drove endless hours ... Read More

The Importance of Family to One’s Life (602 words, 1 pages)

Happy Birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Trina! Happy birthday to you! YAY! Onetwo...threeI blew out the eight candles on my sky-high birthday cake. Hooray, shouted everybody in the whole dining room. I was so fortunate because the whole family on my dads side was here ... Read More

Analyzing the Theme of Disillusionment in Literature: How Does It Affect the American Dream? (591 words, 1 pages)

Denial of reality stands out so greatly revealing the loss of theAmerican dream. People see the truth and never agree to believe it. Theyare fine, rejecting the fact about life, and making up fake thoughts.This symbolizes the green light in the Great Gatsby whereby, Jay Gatsbybelieved so much that every ... Read More

A Review of Clarisse in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 45 (529 words, 3 pages)

Clarisse McClellan is a very special character in the book Fahrenheit451 by Ray Bradbury. Clarisse is an outcast because she thinks in a veryabnormal way than the people in her society thinks. Montag was likeeveryone else in the book until Clarisse stepped in and showed him thatit's possible to think ... Read More

The Theme of Love in the Novel The Great Gatsby (1538 words, 5 pages)

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it (Judalet). True love is hard to find and hard to keep many spend their lives in search of that one person who makes their life worth living. In The ... Read More

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