English Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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Odysseus and His Concern With Glory (530 words, 1 pages)

Kleos or glory is what many people seek in their life. It was the goal for many ancient figures in history. Homer knew how important it is for life, and he created glorified characters in his stories, to talk about their glory, and how much they cared for their glory ... Read More

Personal Growth and Identity (617 words, 2 pages)

It is very important to know who I am because it can let us know about our identity. People cant do things without motivation. Animals cant live without food. What let us growth? When we start to growth? In my opinion, my identity let me growth, and it let me ... Read More

An Experience to Remember (2250 words, 7 pages)

Good luck! shouted G, as I stood being detained by the French airport employee. She and Gabi walked off to the gate, I stood paralyzed, not yet intimidated, but frustrated with the airport staffs lack of cooperation. They had run my bag through the machine four times now, and Id ... Read More

True Love and Legend (503 words, 2 pages)

In Mexico there is a legend of a romance of two Mexican Aztecs that fall in love. It seems to be their love is much stronger than anything that both were turned into two volcanos.In the 16 century, during the time of the Aztecs Empire, there was a battle that ... Read More

The Personal Reason for Success and College (1181 words, 4 pages)

To look forward for a success, individual needs to prepare for yourself a good intellectual plus a nimble and an active head. How to do that? Dont stop learning. We need to learn more and more to strengthen our long-term knowledge. Learning is not only the knowledge but also practice ... Read More

Marriage of Slavery in Why I Want A Wife By Judy Brady (635 words, 3 pages)

In the story Why I want a Wife by Judy Brady, the narrator expresses her unrealistic desires in a wife. For example the narrator asks for a wife that would miss work just to keep the house clean. A wife that would allow infidelity, a wife that would basically cater ... Read More

Why Writing Is Important in Fashion Design? (477 words, 2 pages)

Writing has been always a very important way to express ourselves in our society. It is one of the most used ways to communicate whether as students, professionals or also even citizens. Today, writing has been turned in to something so essential that in my opinion, it is the essential ... Read More

Earning Freedom in The Story of an Hour (825 words, 3 pages)

Famous philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau brilliantly said Man is born free and everywhere is in chains (Anonymous). Although every human being is born with a free will, most of us can attest to the fact that we are in one way or the other bound to something throughout our lives. ... Read More

Gaining Experience and Passion for Skating (916 words, 3 pages)

Gaining Experience and Passion for SkatingCan you remember back when you was a little boy or girl? I certainly remember such a time. Can you remember the favorite activity you participated in as a child? I can absolutely say I do remember my favorite activity, and it was roller skating. ... Read More

A Review of Odysseus by Homer and O Brother Where Art Thou by Joel Coen (332 words, 1 pages)

In the Odyssey by Homer, the story revolves around Odysseus's journey home to Ithaca, and triumph over the wretched suitors courting his wife, while in O Brother Where Art Thou directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Ulysses also journeys home to stop his wife from remarrying while running from ... Read More

The Consequences of Nonconformity in the Works of Melville and Hawthorne (1604 words, 6 pages)

During the Romantic period in the 19th century, writers tended todeviate from conformity and focus more on imaginative and spontaneousthinking and beliefs. Writers use the elements of Romanticism todevelop idealism and nonconformity in the characters. NathanielHawthorne and Herman Melville are two examples of novelists and shortessay authors during this period. ... Read More

My Childhood Difficulties with Change (719 words, 2 pages)

They crawl up your back when you least expect it. They make your rainbow into a stormy day make you live hell on Earth every day. Always there when least expected. Im talking about those difficult changes, that have caused stress, suffer, fright, and inconsolable. The problematic changes of the ... Read More

A Review of the Book A Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies by Bartolome De Las Casas (616 words, 2 pages)

A Brief Account of The Devastation of the Indies written by Bartolome De Las Casas is a very graphic a description of vile acts that were done by the Spanish Christians who took advantage of the Indians oblivious to the outside world. Bartolome De Las Casas, starting of as being ... Read More

The Emotion of Love (913 words, 3 pages)

Love conquers all is a famous quote from the goddess of love herself. This quote is saying the love is the fundamental for overcoming all obstacles in your life. Although Szymborska states that true love is placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, one may disagree with this ... Read More

My Interview with my Grandmother (980 words, 3 pages)

The person that I have chosen to interview is my grandmother, Mary Murphy. Mary is my fathers mother. She is 80 years old and she lives here in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It was not hard to conduct a time and place for this interview because she lives so close. Interviewing her ... Read More

Independence in Ayn Rand’s Anthem (429 words, 1 pages)

In the novel anthem by Ayn Rand, E quality 72521 the protagonist Evolves from a risk-taker to a rebel and finishes as an independent human being for example, Equality rights in a journal "the laws say that men may not right unless the Council of vocations bid them so. May ... Read More

Summarizing Children’s Books (1658 words, 5 pages)

The first book I pick is called Birds by Kevin Henkes and it is under the category of non-fiction. The cover page of book is attractive enough to have readers attention because of the color. It uses the primary color such as green, red, yellow, blue and etc. It has ... Read More

The Consequences of False Love in The Canterbury Tales (576 words, 2 pages)

Alphonse Karr said Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of abeautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.'' When love isnot real, serious repercussions can follow. In The Knight's Tale,''The Wife of Bath's Tale,'' and The Miller's Tale,'' the love thestories are based on is fake ... Read More

George Tryon, Change, & The House Behind the Cedars (1354 words, 4 pages)

Change is one of the most terrified words to human begins, because everyone is afraid of some type of change. We are so comfortable with how things work and what we know. Were afraid that if we step out of our boundaries and do something different, the outcome might not ... Read More

Growing up and Changing Memories (1062 words, 2 pages)

You know that feeling you get when you visit a place from your childhood and it is so much smaller than it seemed back when you were young and the world was a vast, mysterious place and when you were there that place became the whole world because you were ... Read More

Exploring a Writing Process (542 words, 2 pages)

My writing process how I go about writing my paper what I do from start to finish no matter how simple it is its just right. When I am given a topic the first thing I do is think about all the ideas that deal with that topic. I tend ... Read More

Family Duty and Personal Identity in Frank Kafka’s Metamorphosis (920 words, 2 pages)

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 to a middle class family in Prague. He was the eldest of 6 children. Franz and his father had a strained relationship. His father was a cutthroat business man. Before Kafka focuses solely on writing he had many jobs as an employee in an ... Read More

Friendship in A Separate Peace (299 words, 2 pages)

In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the characters Gene and Phineas are two very different people that become friends one summer when they go to boarding school together. The setting of A Separate Peace takes place at The Devon School, an exclusive New England academy. The story ... Read More

Valuing the Ordinary in Poems New and Collected (1435 words, 5 pages)

The human eyes do not give importance to the small things. Small ordinary objects seem to be very insignificant causing humans to look pass them. Szymborska, a poet, on the other hand showed value in the most ordinary things in life. For example, in some of the poems in her ... Read More

My Summer with a Spanish Exchange Student (1230 words, 3 pages)

Summer 2012 June to August I had an exchange student all the way from Spain named Judith Martin Rodriquez. I didnt know what to expect when I heard she was going to be living with us. The fact that she was from across the ocean and she spoke a totally ... Read More

The Value of Knowledge in The Allegory of the Cave and The Matrix (1573 words, 6 pages)

Can the enlightenment of new found facts and knowledge change an individuals perceptions of what they currently believe to be true? The answer is yes. In the past we have seen many instances where this is true. One of the most noted refuted theories was the belief that the world ... Read More

Why My Dad Is My Hero (620 words, 2 pages)

My role model is my dad, his name is Nathan, and he has always been there for me. He is 61 and usually wearing business clothes, because he is coming from work when I see him. My dad has dark brown hair that is basically black. He has recently lost ... Read More

Overcoming Pneumonia and Disappointment (2021 words, 6 pages)

It's crazy how your world can be turned upside down in the blink of aneye. One day it seems you're perfectly healthy going about your dailyroutine, and then the next day you're laying in a hospital bed with theconstant sound of machines beeping all around you. This is exactly how ... Read More

How the Narrator Influences the Reader (1235 words, 4 pages)

The narrator in a given story sets the tone for the rest of it. For example, if the narrator is the main character, the audience gets full insight into the main characters thoughts on the events. An omniscient narrator can look into the thoughts of any character at any time, ... Read More

The Lake of Dreams Analysis (677 words, 3 pages)

There are three main characteristics on the main character in the story The LAKE of DREAMS. Behaviour, circumstance and state of mind. Lucy Jarrett (the main character) is a girl who is trying to solve her fathers death. She is taken back to her hometown after her mother got into ... Read More

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