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The Plot Summary of The Patriot, an American War Movie (367 words, 1 pages)

Plot A) The Patriot was about a man, a father, named Benjamin Martin whom fought in the American Revolution after it reached his home and family. He did not want to fight at first and did not support the war but his son, Gabriel, was determined to fight in the ... Read More

Seeing a Perspective of Rome in the Aeneid by Virgil (1877 words, 4 pages)

Virgils Use of Palinurus In writing The Aeneid, Virgil subtly describes his perspective of the Roman civilization through various means, primarily through the characters in his epic. Rather than using the characters to build the idea that a great Rome is to be created, he instead, compares characters such as ... Read More

Christian and Pagan Ideas in Beowulf (960 words, 3 pages)

Beowulf was written during the 18th century, although no one knows when it was composed or by whom. This poem gives us a view of a society changing from Paganism to Christianity. Christianity and Paganism are known to have coexisted during the period that Beowulf was set to take place. ... Read More

Poetic Techniques in There’s Been a Death in the Opposite House by Emily Dickinson (340 words, 1 pages)

Theres been a death in the opposite house, by Emily Dickinson. On the mechanical side, it is of iambic triameter to pentameter, including feminines. There is no significant assonance, consonance, or alliteration. The setting is in a small town, and the speaker is a neighbor watching this spectacle, who is ... Read More

An Analysis of a Metaphor of Darknes and Light in Emily Dickinson’s “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” (797 words, 1 pages)

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark Analysis By In the poem We Grow Accustomed to the Dark, by Emily Dickinson, a loss is described in detail using a metaphor of darkness and light. Dickinson uses metaphors, strong imagery, and the way the poem is written in order to describe the ... Read More

The Advantages of Surfing (1279 words, 2 pages)

Only a Surfer Knows the Feeling There is a guy from Hawaii that I know. Every day, he wakes up, straps his surfboards to the racks on top of his car, drives his car from a town called Ewa, across the island of Oahu, to a little beach known as ... Read More

A Critical View on Napoleon and His Policies (315 words, 1 pages)

Napoleon killed and persevered the gains of the Revolution? Napoleon was an egotistical, power-hungry monarch that killed the revolution he made sure there were no women's rights and that liberty was abolished. Napoleon in a strange way also preserved some of the gains from the French revolution. He made friends ... Read More

A Discussion of Learning from Mistakes (958 words, 2 pages)

Mistakes You Learn From Being the youngest of five children, I looked up to all of my siblings as roll models and example setters. Early in my childhood, I thought that my oldest brother, who was eight years older than me, and I had a lot in common both skinny, ... Read More

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe (1713 words, 2 pages)

When Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Black Cat in 1843, the word paranoia was not in existence. The mental illness of paranoia was not given its name until the twentieth century. What the narrator is suffering from would be called paranoia today. The definition of paranoia is psychosis marked by ... Read More

An Analysis of Theories Concerning the Death of President Kennedy (1827 words, 3 pages)

President Kennedy was dead. I stopped by a giant live oak tree on the vast front lawn of Parkland Hospital and cried." As this reporter said, people everywhere were distraught when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated. News reporters from other countries flew in, called up, and sent ... Read More

Showcasing Expressionism and Naturalism in the Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1298 words, 2 pages)

Tennessee Williams describes his play, "The Glass Menagerie" as a "memory play presented with unusual freedom from convention." The glass menagerie combines naturalistic and expressionistic elements as it was written at a point of transition between the two different dramatic periods. In the production notes, Williams describes expressionism in The ... Read More

The Memoirs of Bruce Chatwin Illustrated in Patagonia (472 words, 1 pages)

The author of In Patagonia is Bruce Chatwin. He was born in Sheffield, United Kingdom, on May 13, 1940. He married in 1965. His famous "Gone to Patagonia" note was left at the Sunday Times where he worked sometime in 1972-75. He died outside of Nice, France on January 17, ... Read More

An Attack of the Crocodile (1267 words, 2 pages)

As her head rose from her tiny hands, she glared up at the dark figure standing in front of her. The room in which she was sitting was like a cave carved into the side of a tall mountain. It was quite dark, smelt funny and made her feel insecure. ... Read More

Reasons for the Recent Increase of Bullying in Schools (764 words, 2 pages)

School Bullying "Jordan Hankin balls his fist and smacks his other hand with it, tilting his head to one side and peering through half-lidded eyes. Yeah, it's time to show you the ropes, he says in a sarcastic bully's voice. Bring it on, new kid. I'll show you what this ... Read More

A Comparison of Computer Science and Painting (5534 words, 8 pages)

When I finished grad school in computer science I went to art school to study painting. A lot of people seemed surprised that someone interested in computers would also be interested in painting. They seemed to think that hacking and painting were very different kinds of work-- that hacking was ... Read More

Facing My Fear of Loneliness on a Friday Night (435 words, 1 pages)

Fear and Loneliness Fear exists in all human. We all have that natural sense of fear in our mind. My name is Bo Peng, and my greatest fear in life is being alone. I believe Loneliness is the most horrific thing in life. It was a Friday night in December ... Read More

A Report on the Book “Getting the Naked God by Lain Not-M Banks” (320 words, 1 pages)

Thinking that it maybe was about time for something not so spectacular, I grabbed this book by Iain Not-M Banks while I was at the bookstore (getting The Naked God). Good thing. Even with it's high finance setting and international business milieu, The Business is the most quiet and laid ... Read More

An Analysis of Shooting an Elephant by George Orwells (1400 words, 2 pages)

The story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College, which introduced him to Englands middle and upper classes. He was denied a ... Read More

The Results of Thirty Year’s War and the Treaty of Westphalia in Europe (1139 words, 2 pages)

Beginning in 1618 in the Thirty Year's War (which ended in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia), Europe was a hotbed for military warfare a trend that did not subside until 1763 with the Peace of Paris, a treaty that ended all of the wars between quarreling European countries within ... Read More

An Analysis of Downsizing the Middle Class, an Essay by Rhonda Burns (1793 words, 3 pages)

Downsizing the Middle Class In the essay by Rhonda Burns, "Downsizing the Middle Class," there seems to be one clear message. The gap between the middle and upper class is growing because the rich are lobbying government officials to change the rules and regulations that protect the middle class from ... Read More

A Discussion on Watching the News and Its Impact (440 words, 1 pages)

Whether people watch the news on MSNBC, CNN or NBC, in most cases they will come across the same information. Broadcasting channels like the ones I named above usually use the same sources to deliver information to their viewers. I am trying to suggest that getting a view from different ... Read More

A Comparison of Shopping in Costco and Safeway (1363 words, 2 pages)

WAREHOUSES AND SUPERMARKETS We are very fortunate in the West to have a variety of stores we may choose to shop from. Where do you shop? Warehouses? Or the typical supermarket? Two good examples of well known stores in the United States are Costco and Safeway. Costco, being the warehouse ... Read More

An Analysis of Luhrmann’s Contemporary Setting of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1242 words, 2 pages)

In Romeo and Juliet' Luhrmann sets out to present Shakespeare's original play in a contemporary setting. His Target audience is teenagers and young adults, maybe people who don't know the story of Romeo and Juliet. The director aims to make it seem modern and exciting whilst still using the original ... Read More

A Comparison of the Process of Maturing of the Author and Telemachus (998 words, 2 pages)

Never Thought I'd Have The Same Problems as an Epic Hero The word mature, by definition, is the emergence of personal and behavioral characteristics through growth processes. In life people mature day by day because of different challenges they have to face, and different lessons that they learn. This idea ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Coping with the Disease of a Loved One (1087 words, 2 pages)

When I walked through my front door, the first thing I noticed was the odor. Then, I heard the groaning. I remember the occasion quite vividly, although it was ten years ago. My sister and I had just returned from the park with a neighbor, expecting everything to be normal. ... Read More

The Basics of Boxing (490 words, 1 pages)

The Basics of Boxing Boxing is a very fun sport to learn. The skills you learn in boxing can help you in many ways. You can box at many different levels. Some people do it for exercise and others do it for a living. Boxing is basically a very easy ... Read More

The Theme of Classic Fairytales in the Poems by Anne Sexton (570 words, 1 pages)

Anne Sexton- Transformations The reason that I and about everyone else really enjoy and relate to this book of poems by Sexton is because all the poems are centered on classic fairytales we all know. This reason and the fact that all of the poems are beautifully structured and wonderfully ... Read More

The Abrupt Changes and the Narrator in a Poem by Austin Clarke (455 words, 1 pages)

A poem that begins with ellipsis' and continues with a volta at each new stanza, a poem that in the second line verbs (unworlding), easily holds the interest, if not grabbing it by the throat. Austin Clarke, creates such vivid atmosphere, and gives intense shifts in action -- from an ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Charlie in Guy Van der Haeghe’s Novel The Watcher (263 words, 1 pages)

After reading The Watcher by Guy Vanderhaeghe, one can feel for the character of Charlie and how he had a great learning experience over the summer at his Grandmother's house. Over the coarse of the summer, Charlie learns what it feels like to take control of a situation. All his ... Read More

A Short Story About an Abandoned Building (1107 words, 2 pages)

An Abandoned Building A blanket of darkness had descended on Blackwood Estate. The sky changed from pale pink to purple and then to grey washes. I looked at the sky, it was full of dark clouds heralding the coming of a storm. "Oops" I gulped. "Hey guys, want to walk ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013