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A Guide to Dating in How to Date a Brown Girl, a Short Story by Junot Diaz (1518 words, 5 pages)

In the story How to Date a Brown Girl by Junot Diaz, instructions are given as to how to treat girls while taking them out. Through the main character Yunior, he is able to classify them in groups, which in turn, builds a stereotype. This stereotype on how to treat ... Read More

The Life of a Poor Family in Haiti in A Wall of Fire Rising, a Short Story by Edwidge Danticat (1057 words, 4 pages)

In the story Wall of Fire Rising, Edwidge Danticat tells the story of the endeavors a poor family living in Haiti must go through to make ends meet. Due to the story being told in third person, the reader gets an outside view of each characters life. The father, Guy, ... Read More

The Real and Fake Stories in The Things They Carried, a Book by Tim O’Brien (576 words, 2 pages)

The Honest and Deceitfulness of StorytellingWhenever people tell stories, the narrator can tell it in various ways. In The Things They Carry by Tim OBrien, mentions that By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You ... Read More

Anxiety and Paranoia in The Tell-Tale Heart, a Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe (352 words, 2 pages)

Writing Assignment 2Point of View The Tell-Tale HeartThe short story written by Edgar Allen Poe is a tale of mans tendency to fall victim to anxiety and paranoia. The narrator of Poes tale uses the first person, he has direct connection and involvement with the events of story, which allows ... Read More

The Decent People in An Angel in Disguise, a Short Story by T.S. Arthur (1098 words, 4 pages)

The world can be such a cruel place. 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction (Susan Sontag). Are there any decent, caring, sympathetic people alive in this world? ... Read More

A Reflection of My Memories Living Nearby “El mar” (2120 words, 7 pages)

"El mar", two words so dear to my mother. Technically it directlytranslates to " the ocean" but personally I believe it has a differentconation than in English. Ocean the expanse of salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its landmasses. (Webster) Purely a habitat, an environment, ... Read More

The Effects of the Deadly and Modern Day Sin of Pride and Obscene Wealth on Tay Soon in Paper, a Short Story by Catherine Lim (545 words, 2 pages)

Many dream about living in luxury, being rich, or having the best house. Dreaming about the colour of the walls, the shape of the pool and the layout of everything. But when this dream gets into a person head, this could lead them to be an addiction, and putting this ... Read More

The Story of the Blind Man in Cathedral, a Short Story by Raymond Carver (1776 words, 5 pages)

Cathedral, by Raymond Carver, begins as a story of a blind man with insight and a sighted man who is blind, but ends as a story of a blind man who can see and a sighted man who is beginning to see. The narrators wife had worked for a blind ... Read More

The Modifications to Address the Issues in My School Lunchroom (709 words, 2 pages)

Every school has its rules that students disagree on. There are many students who go to school to enjoy a learning experience however, schools have rules that students may seem as unjust and unfair to them. This is common to every school. Communication is important amongst the students and adults. ... Read More

The Story of Peyton Farquhar in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a Short Story by Ambrose Bierce (439 words, 2 pages)

War. There are few words in the English language that evoke such deep-rooted feelings. Some people see the word war and immediately associate it with hate, destruction and fear to some, however, this word is so much more. It represents a means to a new beginning, a fresh frontier where ... Read More

Innocence is Fickle in The Flowers, a Short Story by Alice Walker (721 words, 3 pages)

Goodnight room. Goodnight moon. Good night cow jumping over the moon. This is a quote from Margaret Browns short story Goodnight Moon, where she paints a beautiful picture of a young boy saying goodnight to all the inanimate friends which he sees from his bed. To many of us, this ... Read More

The Importance of Inner Beauty in the Story of Beauty and the Beast (2067 words, 8 pages)

A Beautiful ComparisonBeauty, and the idea of beautiful people or objects, has been around since the beginning of time. Women are considered to be beautiful if they dress a certain way, or wear their hair in the right style. What about women who are not considered beautiful, but have great ... Read More

An Advice for College to My Friend, Jalal Khan (782 words, 3 pages)

My friend Jalal khan I hear that you are graduating high school and plans to attend college in the fall semester. Congratulation to you. I am very happy for you that you are going to college. Going to college is the big opportunity right now .and its a good step ... Read More

The Difference Between a House and a Home in Cathedral, a Short Story by Raymond Carver (856 words, 3 pages)

What is the difference between a house and a home? Both contain bricks and stones, wood and nails. Both are used for dwelling and eating, sleeping and sitting. However, even a child would be able to explain that these two terms are worlds apart. A home is built with love, ... Read More

The Story of Romulus and Remus: The Foundation of Rome and Civil Wars within Rome (330 words, 1 pages)

The story of Romulus and Remus not only describes the foundation of Rome, but also is an allegory for civil war. Romulus and Remus, twins, were abandoned in infancy, left to die. They were saved by a lupa romana who nurtured them, and they were found by a shepherd who ... Read More

An Analysis of Tragedy and Love in the Love Story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Eurydice, a Play by Sarah Ruhl (770 words, 3 pages)

Unlike the sadness of the original myth Orpheus and Eurydice, Sarah Ruhls modern adaptation Eurydice follows the story of two people a little too young and a little too in love with a sense of wonder and hope to explore tragedy and love. However, Ruhl modernizes the classic by switching ... Read More

A Reflection on The Clue to a Great Story, a TED Talk by Andrew Santon (1067 words, 3 pages)

As we all know there are many different types of stories in the world. From childrens stories, young adult, fiction, nonfiction, or in the form of comic books or poems, stories can tell many different things. While watching Andrew Stantons The clue to a great story TED talk I am ... Read More

Dr. Mehnaz Afridi and Her Stories on the History of the Holocaust (730 words, 2 pages)

Kristallnacht was a massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich, this happen on November 9,1938. Dr. Mehnaz Afridi is the Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and is the Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College. They focus on themes of Muslim identity with ... Read More

Understanding My Identity, Personality, and Interests Through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Tests (766 words, 2 pages)

Picking a topic to do my research paper on is very tricky. As much as I love the writing practicum topics I find it hard to invest myself in the wide selection it has to offer. For a while now I have been into The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, also known ... Read More

The Idea of Transcendentalism in Bartleby, the Scrivener, a Short Story by Herman Melville (1255 words, 5 pages)

TranscendentalismTranscendentalism is the belief that society and its institutions ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual, and in order to get this back one has to keep in touch with nature as it is the direct link to god. Transcendentalists religious position was beyond sanity and reason. Their idea was ... Read More

A Review of First They Killed My Father, a Book by Loung Ung (2010 words, 7 pages)

Personal Growth in a War-Torn CountryBeing a person in a war-torn country can disrupt one persons lifestyle, especially if it is a young child. In the case of Loung Ung, she had to face the realities of being in a war-conflicted nation of Cambodia her whole childhood. Throughout her memoir, ... Read More

The Impact of Guilt in Sonny’s Blues, a Short Story by James Baldwin (758 words, 3 pages)

The Older Brother BluesIn the story Sonnys Blues by James Baldwin the narrator explains the hardships that mainly his brother had to face, but also the rest of his family faced when he was a child. He displays this by telling a continuous stream of stories indirectly reflecting the racism ... Read More

An Analysis of The Kissing Sailor and the Story Behind the Iconic Photograph (697 words, 3 pages)

The world is filled with iconic photographs that show glimpses of past history and its times. As I took the time to think of an iconic image, without having the easy access to google Iconic photographs, one image came to mind. Widely spread across the internet or placed in a ... Read More

The Life of Patrick Haggertys and Sissy and Vicky Goodwin in the StoryCorp Interviews (861 words, 3 pages)

I personally love the StoryCorp program! Getting to experience stories from people all over the world is an amazing and sometimes life-altering moment. These stories whether viewed or listened to, has raw emotion you can feel when taking a moment to learn about someones story. One of the StoryCorp interviews ... Read More

A Comparison of the Differences in the Imagery and Tone Between the Short Stories The Death of a Moth by Virginia Woolf and The Death of the Moth by Annie Dillard (896 words, 4 pages)

Death of the Moths Decades apart from one another, Virginia Wolfe and Annie Dillard both wrote short stories entitled The Death of a Moth and The Death of the Moth respectfully. Both have obvious similarities in the tittles and the subject matter. Despite this, they both present different imagery and ... Read More

The Online Dating Story of a Data Analyst in How I Hacked Online Dating, a TED Talk Speech by Amy Webb (1630 words, 6 pages)

How I Hacked Online Dating The TED talk, How I Hacked Online Dating, was an informative and extremely funny speech about the real world applications of data analysis. Amy Webb, the speaker, is a digital strategist who was an award winning reporter for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal, and ... Read More

An Interview with My Previous Manager on Sexism in the Workplace (3184 words, 9 pages)

I chose my previous manager who I worked with at Aldo in Gilroy for about three years. She is my manager as well as a close friend. The reason as to why I chose her was because she was a female in a predominantly male worked job. She is Hispanic ... Read More

An Analysis of My Experience of a Jumma Service (1906 words, 6 pages)

Site Visit for Religion AnalysisFor many years I have been fascinated by how various religions influence certain cultures and the magnitude that certain religions have on individuals. There are so many religions that are worshipped by billions of people on Earth so I decided to take one of the main ... Read More

Systematic Oppression in the Autobiography of Malcom X as Told by Alex Haley (768 words, 2 pages)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X The autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley interacts to develop the central idea of systematic oppression in the text. There are three key events that helped develop systematic oppression. A key event happens when Malcolm X father dies. Another key event happens ... Read More

The Themes of Individual Freedoms in Society and the Failure of the Government in The Norwegian Rat, a Short Story by Naguib Mahfouz (2995 words, 9 pages)

Naguib Mahfouz, a pioneering Arabic author, expresses his frustration with government through themes of individual freedoms in society and the ineffectiveness of government within his short story, The Norwegian Rat. Born on December 11, 1911, Naguib Mahfouz was the youngest of seven in a middle-class family, raised by a strict ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013