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A Personal Narrative of How My Memory Behaves (486 words, 2 pages)

Ever had times where you just can't think? Sure, all of us do. In writing its referred to as as writer's block. Although to most this only comes occasionally, I am confident that I was born with this block in my head. Still, even if I wasn't born with a ... Read More

A Review of My Letter to the Editor of the Billing’s Gazette (1152 words, 2 pages)

To the Editor of the Billings GazetteThe "Old West" has changed. Instead of youths traveling into the back country with their fathers to hunt game to support their families, youths are purchasing guns for show rather than theoretical use. Family structures have also changed significantly. Instead of mothers ringing the ... Read More

My Theory on Paramonal Phenomena in the United States (715 words, 3 pages)

Theory60 of the USs population believes in aliens and 95 of those people believe thegovernment has knowledge and functions in their activities and whereabouts. There aremany people who believe in extra terrestrial life and there are many skeptics. I am amongthose people however who do believe. There are many theories ... Read More

A Real Boy in the Story of My Time at Camp Malibu (1085 words, 2 pages)

A Real Boy "My baaaaaack! My aaaaarm! Ooooow!" The distorted moans tore me from blissful slumber to the horrible living nightmare I thought I had escaped when my head hit the pillow. This was my first night of hell on earth, and the worst was yet to come. The invitation ... Read More

An Analysis of My Uncle’s Farm, an Essay by Mark Twain (1057 words, 5 pages)

Class Freshman englishSubject EnglishTitle Analysis of "My Uncle's Farm" by Mark TwainIn this essay, Mark Twain describes life on the farm that belonged to hisuncle, John A. Quarles. Twain spent three or four months on the farm a yearduring his childhood, and he has many fond memories of it.Twain first ... Read More

An Overview of the Innocence of Angelou in the Autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (369 words, 1 pages)

Hemanth VenkataramanIn I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelous tone in describing her experiences fiercely conflicts with the mood it elicits in the reader. The objective manner used to describe many serious and traumatic events does not correspond to the emotions and sentiment sparked in the reader, who ... Read More

The Revelation of Innocence and Experience in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy (711 words, 4 pages)

Ignorant about InnocenceHardy's Characters' Revelation Through ExperienceIn "The Last Chrysanthemum," Thomas Hardy asks, "Why shouldthis flower delay so long To show its tremulous plumes?" Hemight have well have been posing this question to himself. TheBritish poet wrote most of his greatest verse after the age ofsixty. Hardy proves, that through ... Read More

Through Time and Experience, Innocence Is Lost in The Last Chrysanthemum by Thomas Hardy (703 words, 4 pages)

In "The Last Chrysanthemum," Thomas Hardy asks, "Why shouldthis flower delay so long To show its tremulous plumes?" Hemight have well have been posing this question to himself. TheBritish poet wrote most of his greatest verse after the age ofsixty. Hardy proves, that through life's journey, a metamorphosiscan take place ... Read More

A Philisophical Essay on My Perception of the World (1363 words, 2 pages)

What is your main worldview?My perception of the world is one that I have honored all my life. I don't force my opinion on others. I respect and welcome different beliefs and enjoy arguing their validity. A philosopher by the name of Foucault inspired me in 1993 when I first ... Read More

Porpheria's Lover vs. My Last Duchessby Daniel VilaThe similarities between Robert Brownings two poems, My Last Duchess and Porphyrias Lover, are uncanny, as they can be compared in theme, plot, style, language, perspective and various other ways. The two poems make the same statement concerning men and love and men ... Read More

The Cruelties of Childhood in Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (1776 words, 3 pages)

Kelly-Ann KraehnMs. KuindersmaELI OAIJanuary 8 1998Childhood How Cruel it isIt is all around us, on television mostly. More often of not it will appear on a Talk show of ill repute. "I was abused as a child, therefore I am the way I am." It is popular to admit to ... Read More

The Importance of DNA Evidence in Protecting the Innocent (279 words, 1 pages)

Innicent men have been executed in the United States. According to a report published by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, or the NCADP, 23 innocent men have been executed in the U.S. this century. About 4.5 people are wrongly convicted of capital crimes each year. Willie Darden ... Read More

An Analysis of Symbolism in the Novel My Antonia by Willa Cather (950 words, 2 pages)

through the hard times alone.In my paper on My Antonia, I will attempt to show the symbolism and meaning of the main characters of the novel. I will also attempt to show the meaning andvel. I will attempt to show the theme and how this time era is different from ... Read More

A Discussion About the Theme of Realism in My Antonia by Willa Cather (1134 words, 2 pages)

My Antonia is a book about realism of the late 19th and early 20th century. The Webster's Dictionary defines Realism as "Picturing and seeing people and things as they really are." That is what this book does it shows "people as they really are." It does not glamorize what pioneer ... Read More

My Obligation to Right of Injustices Overrides the Responsibility of My Family (533 words, 1 pages)

The great escape that Donald Woods pulled off was a great act of heroism. Woods risked his own and more importantly, his family's lives to escape South Africa and publish a book. His desire to publish this book and spread the word overcomes his desire for his family's safety.If I ... Read More

The Story of My Life, Family, Education and Career (368 words, 1 pages)

I was born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. I'm the seventh child of Lyman Beecher. He was a famous Protestant preacher. My mother, Roxana Foote Beecher, died 1816 of Tuberculosis when I was only five years old. I began writing at a very young age. I won a prize ... Read More

An Analysis of Walt Whitman’s Poem “O Captain! My Captain!” (329 words, 2 pages)

O Captain! My Captain!By Walt WhitmanO Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done.The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daringBut O heart! Heart! Heart! ... Read More

The Overall Message of My Antonia, a Masterpiece by Willa Cather (577 words, 1 pages)

Tessa StephensEnglishLiterary AnalysisThe novel My Antonia tells us that it takes time to find out what people are really like. It also helps us realize that it is scary to be new and it takes time to adjust. When Jimmy sees his grandmother give Antonias mother her metal pot, he ... Read More

The Many Sentiments Human Nature Brings in My Life’s Through the Experience at My Stevenson Care Fall Section (2018 words, 3 pages)

Human nature brings up many sentiments in a lot of people. The most recent person whom I encountered who felt so was the instructor of my Stevenson Core Fall section. She passionately argued that there is no possible way that one can identify a human nature across the various cultures ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poems in the Collection; History of My Heart (1227 words, 6 pages)

B.F. DickYet there are poems in the collection History of My Heartexpressing emotions peculiar to adults, especially "The Unseen" in which Pinskyrelives a visit to a death camp as if his memories had been memorialized on film. Ratherthan raise an angry hand to heaven, the poet in an epiphanic moment ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of My Man With The Hoe (8319 words, 30 pages)

"Notes"ISome thousands of my countrymen have been good enough to point out in the public printsduring the past year certain "misrepresentations of labor" in my "Man withthe Hoe " and after having read for twelve months what these critics say I meant tosay in the poem, it seems to me ... Read More

The Theme of Straightforwardness in the Excerpt From the Foreword to For My People by Margaret Walker (6372 words, 29 pages)

Stephen Vincent Bent, EditorExcerpt from the Foreword to For My PeopleStraightforwardness,directness, reality are good things to find in a young poet. It is rarer to find them combined with acontrolled intensity of emotion and a language that, at times, even when it is mostmodern, has something of the surge of ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Paean to Place From My Life by Water (1699 words, 8 pages)

Jane AugustineIn "Paean to Place" from "My Life by Water,"included in Cid Cormans memoir in Chicago Review 88 (1973), the sense that"I am what is around me"a line from Wallace Stevensis conveyedthrough images of water and waterside which are multiplied and overlaid to reflect, as shehas said a "state of ... Read More

The Early Life and Childhood of John Orley Tate (2327 words, 10 pages)

David HavirdTATE was born John Orley Allen Tate near Winchester, Kentucky,the son of John Orley Tate, a businessman, and Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell. During Tate'schildhood the business interests of his father-lumber, land sales, and stocks-forced thefamily to move as often as three times a year. As Tate later recalled, "we ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of My Mother Would Be a Falconress from Bending the Bow (3413 words, 15 pages)

Thom GunnIn "My Mother Would Be A Falconress," from Bendingthe Bow, the mother appears as a distinct and close figure, no less mythical for herclarity. The images of her as Falconress and him as the obedient little falcon who islater to break away from her enable Duncan to dramatize the ... Read More

An Introduction to All My Pretty Ones Which Opens on the Truth the Dead Know (854 words, 4 pages)

J. D. McClatchyAll My Pretty Ones opens on "The Truth the Dead Know," which is theirabsolute isolation, against which the poet fights to save both herself and her deadparents. Her father's death, three months after her mother's, intervened not only betweenthe different concerns of these first two books but also ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Out of Childhood by Muriel Rukeyser (4470 words, 17 pages)

Note This is excerpted from a longer essay on Reznikoff.DOCUMENTARY CULTUREThe title of my chapter is taken from Muriel Rukeyser's "Poem out ofChildhood" (1935), which describes the shift among writers of her generationfrom "Sappho" to "Sacco," from the expatriate salon culture of the1920s to 1930s activism inaugurated by the Sacco-Vanzetti ... Read More

The Author’s Own Act of Mourning in for The Anniversary of My Death (1033 words, 5 pages)

Edward BrunnerMerwin's own act of mourning himself occurs in "For theAnniversary of My Death," a work that opens in the realm of immense abstractions,with Merwin positing that "every year without knowing it I have passed the day Whenthe last fires will wave to me." Like the enormity of the sun, ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem My Alexandria (413 words, 2 pages)

Deborah LandauThe poems of My Alexandria transform homophobic narrativesabout the disease, offer comfort to those living with HIV, and encourage empathy fromthose whose lives have not yet been affected by the virus.... Although Dotys poemsare not polemical, they counter reductive representations of people with AIDS, areaccessible to a wider audience, ... Read More

A Review of the Poem My November Guest (5631 words, 35 pages)

My November Guest My Sorrow, when shes here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be She loves the bare, the withered tree She walks the sodden pasture lane. Her pleasure will not let me stay. She talks and I am fain to ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013