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The Good Qualities of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver’s Travels, a Book by Jonathan Swift (310 words, 2 pages)

Oats and Milk, With a Side of Prejudice In the novel Gulliver's Travels, Lamuel Gulliver admires the reasoning and virtues of the Houyhnhnms. Although the Houyhnhnms claim to live with friendship and benevolence under a government of reason, some major aspects of the Houyhnhnms' lives revolve around prejudice, a human ... Read More

Fragmentary Dreams in the Literary Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1205 words, 4 pages)

Coleridges poems are often seen as fragmentary dreams how useful is this interpretation? Refer to several poems in your answer and cover language, imagery and verse form. Not all Samuel Taylor Coleridges poems are based on fragmentary dreams but those that are have received a great amount of critical attention. ... Read More

A World of Terror and Wonder in the Literary Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1034 words, 3 pages)

Within the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the backdrops to which he sets such poetry has always provoked the profound interest of his readers, the naturally astounding scenery described in conversation poems such as The Aeolian Harp, as well as the hauntingly beautiful worlds of The Rime of the Ancient ... Read More

Quote Explication Test on Puritan Literature: The Examples of Anne Bradstreet’s, Edward Taylor’s and Jonathan Edwards’ Works (543 words, 2 pages)

Quote Explication Test on Puritan LiteratureIn the poem Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, author Anne Bradstreet eloquently justifies an unfortunate calamity that befell her family with Puritan values. Firstly, she attempts to quench her own sorrow with the thought of her place in Heaven, where theres wealth enough. ... Read More

The Use of Rhetorical Strategies and Evidences by Victor Villanueva and Jonathan Kozol to Persuade the Readers (1432 words, 4 pages)

Inequality among writersArticles and pieces of writing can be used to not only analyze but also to persuade the reader. The authors may use different claims and use supporting evidence in order to persuade the reader to support the claim that they are writing about. While the author may be ... Read More

The Things Jonathan Safran Foer Learned About Food From His Grandmother Described in the Essay Against Meat (560 words, 2 pages)

Against meatIn the essay, Against Meat, by Jonathan Safran Foer, he writes mostly about his relationship with his grandmother and how the role of her home cooking shaped the way he acts towards food. She spent most of her time cooking food because she felt like the fatter a child ... Read More

A Critique of The Clash of Civilizations, a Book by Samuel P. Huntington (813 words, 3 pages)

Huntington's main thesis argues that The most important distinctions among peoples are no longer ideological, political, or economic. They are cultural. Therefore, he is saying that the lines of conflict will transform and new fault lines will form where cultures clash. He also acknowledges that as modernization increases cross-cultural communication, ... Read More

Masculinity and the Importance of Being a Man in This is Where I Leave You, a Novel by Jonathan Tropper (2271 words, 7 pages)

One of my favorite quotes by Michael J. Fox is Family isnt an important thing. Its everything. Your family can be your first friend, your first enemy, your first fan, or your first critic. They will always be there to give you their uncensored, uninhibited opinion on everything from significant ... Read More

A Critique of Waiting for Godot, a Play by Samuel Beckett (1585 words, 6 pages)

Samuel Beckett's most notable play, Waiting for Godot, is as criticVivian Mercier once commented a play in which "nothing happens, twice"(Pattie, 74). Godot takes place on the side of a nameless road beneath atree, where vagabonds Estragon and Vladimir sit endlessly waiting for avisit from an elusive and mysterious man ... Read More

The Divinity of Godot in Waiting for Godot, a Play by Samuel Beckett (1770 words, 5 pages)

The entirety of Samuel Becketts 1952 play Waiting for Godot is spent listening to two men bicker about everything and nothing all at once as they wait by a bare willow for a man that never arrives. In this allegory about the cyclical nature of our habits, Godot is slowly ... Read More

Propaganda in American Progress, a Painting by Jonathan Gast (1272 words, 5 pages)

Image Analysis PaperDuring the mid to late-1800s, the US West was expanding from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific under the phrase Manifest Destiny a phrase coined by politicians stating how it was Gods will to have America expand from one ocean to the next. After the Louisiana Purchase and ... Read More

The Concepts of Morality, Bad Morality, and Sympathies in The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn, an Article by Jonathan Bennet (1389 words, 4 pages)

English writer, poet and theologian, G.K. Chesterton, once said Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Many times in life we may find ourselves caught in a mental battle, torn between our sympathies and moral beliefs. This can be related to cognitive dissonance, which psychologists define as having ... Read More

Agreeable by Jonathan Franzen and The Good Sister by Wendy Corsi Staub: Parenting and Dealing with Difficult Situations Concerning Children’s Safety (753 words, 3 pages)

Agreeable by Jonathan Franzen, and The Good Sister by Wendy Corsi Staub both describe children who are dealing with two of societies biggest concerns which is internet safety and rape, and how the parents dealt with their childs situation.In Agreeable by Jonathan Franzen, Patty is a typical teenager going through ... Read More

An Analysis of the Opening Paragraph of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards (397 words, 1 pages)

The opening paragraph of Jonathon Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is marked as a fire and brimstone sermon because it uses strong images to describe sinners being damned to eternal perdition in order to encourage redemption. Jonathon Edwards was a preacher of the Puritan faith and ... Read More

The Important Role of Nostalgia in the Author’s Life in Against Meat, an Essay by Jonathan Safran (717 words, 3 pages)

In Jonathan Safran Foers essay, Against Meat, Foer constantly displays the important role that nostalgia plays in his life. Foer fondly reflects on the time that he spent with his grandmother throughout the essay, and the positive impact that she had on his life. Looking back to the memories of ... Read More

The Life of an Aztec in A Brief History of the Aztec Empire, an Article by Jonathan Jones (1903 words, 7 pages)

The Mexica, or as we know them, the Aztecs, were a thriving, dominantcivilization that were located in modern-day Mexico City during the 14th-16th centuries. However, before this group of Native Americans achievedtheir high status (in 16th century standards), they had to work their wayup the ladder. According to Jonathan Jones ... Read More

Persuasion in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, a Sermon by Jonathan Edwards (593 words, 2 pages)

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God EssayGod could throw you into hell at any moment. Jonathan Edwards believed that and shared it with his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. His sermon was about how God is disgusted in humans and thought they deserved his ... Read More

A Comparison of Saint Sebastian Cured by Saint Irene and Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross, Two Paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1020 words, 4 pages)

Walking around the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two artworks caught my eye in a seemingly, similar way. First I saw the painting Saint Sebastian Cured by Saint Irene painted by Luca Giordano in 1665. This artwork shows a nearly dead Roman soldier named Sebastian being cared for by a Saint ... Read More

The Life and the Use of the Topics of Homosexuality, HIV, AIDS, and Addiction in the Musicals of Jonathan Larson (481 words, 2 pages)

Jonathan LarsonI am the kind of person that when I write my own work, I have something I need to say. (Istel, John).Jonathan Larson was an influential and controversial playwright and composer who was not afraid to discuss topics like homosexuality, HIV, AIDS, and addiction in his musicals.Jonathan Larson was ... Read More

A Research Project in Accordance to Justice Samuel A. Alito, a Judge That Believes in Judicial Restraint (2108 words, 7 pages)

After serving 15 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. joined the U.S. Supreme Court as the 110th member on Tuesday, January 31, 2006. Alitos confirmation process was controversial, and came only as a result of Bushs first nomination withdrew herself from ... Read More

The Elaborate Performances of the Main Characters in Birth, a Drama Film by Jonathan Glazer (1858 words, 5 pages)

In the film Birth the main characters are elaborately performing an act in order to live their lives. Anna (Nicole Kidman) pretends to be happy with her fiance Joseph (Danny Huston) and the life her mother planned out for her after the death of her husband ten years ago. Then ... Read More

A Response to Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and Edward Said’s Orientalism (817 words, 4 pages)

Orientalism Samuel Huntington predicts The Clash of Civilizations. He believes that as this world gets smaller and smaller, cultural communication becomes more and more inevitable and therefore more conflicts will arise and as a result, more compromises with cultural values will have to be made. Edward Said, in his book ... Read More

A Review of The Manchurian Candidate, a Controversial Science Fiction Political-Thriller Film by Jonathan Demme (617 words, 2 pages)

The twisted film, The Manchurian Candidate, has a very complex plot line that is a political thriller. Directed by Richard Condon in 1959, the film tells the story of a man who was brainwashed to become an assassin for the Communist Party. The movie is particularly disturbing in a few ... Read More

Training Children at a Young Age in Preparing Minds for Market, an Essay by Jonathan Kozol (1482 words, 4 pages)

Too Young to TrainIn todays world one of the big focuses we have is preparing children for the future. We start them as early as we can looking at different jobs options and then get them looking into colleges they will attend shortly after that. While there is nothing wrong ... Read More

The Importance of the Letters in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (904 words, 3 pages)

There are many letters scattered through history that proved great importance to help discover the past of certain people, especially displaying information about them that wouldnt normally be shared with other people. Similarly, the letters in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer also consist of important details ... Read More

Tales Based on Actual Characters and Stories in The Maltese Falcon, a Novel by Samuel Dashiell Hammett (540 words, 2 pages)

Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born on May twenty-seventh, 1894, inMaryland. At age thirteen, Hammett dropped out of school and picked upvarious odd jobs in order to help his family. By the time he was twenty,Hammett was an agent of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, acquiring countlessstories over the course of his ... Read More

A Short Review of Slavery by Another Name, a Documentary by Samuel D. Pollard (363 words, 2 pages)

Video 2The title of this video documentary was, Slavery By Another Name. This documentary talks about how slavery ended and the life of African Americans after the 13th amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation were established. the video starts off with pointing out how even after slavery ended, blacks were still ... Read More

The Hands That Hold the Tragic Fate in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1382 words, 5 pages)

The Tragic Fate And The Hand That Holds ItSophocles famous tragedy, Oedipus Rex, is perhaps most tragic because Oedipuss fate is sealed with a prophecy from the very start of the play. Oedipus remains unaware until his doom is revealed in the finale. Samuel Becketts 1953 play, Waiting for Godot, ... Read More

The Use of Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians for Satire in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1018 words, 4 pages)

Jonathan Swift uses the Lilliputians and the Brobdingnagians in Gullivers Travels to satirize, not only the culture of aristocratic England at the time, but also certain people and events. He uses satire beautifully throughout the entire novel, but especially in parts one and two to create an outside perspective of ... Read More

Various Approaches to Interpreting Language, Close Reading and Influences on Identity in Jonathan Culler’s Writings (629 words, 3 pages)

In Fridays chapters of the reading by Jonathan Culler, he details various approaches to interpreting language, close reading, and influences on identity. In other words, these chapters discuss a lot of the same concepts thatwevebeen working on applying in class. It was helpful to get another perspective, and it really ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013