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A Literary Analysis of Toward a Reading of the Poetry of William Bronk (2576 words, 12 pages)

Mark RudmanTOWARD A READING OF THE POETRYOF WILLIAM BRONKWilliam Bronk's poetry begins where philosophy leaves off in the enactmentof an idea, in the testing of a proposition. Each poem addresses itself to acentral question of existence, not only why we are here but where we are. Hemerges dialectics and lyric ... Read More

An Introduction to the Reasons for Reading Poetry (11202 words, 40 pages)

WHY WE SHOULD READ POETRYWHY should one read Poetry? That seems to me a good deal likeasking Why should one eat? One eats because one has to, to support life, but every timeone sits down to dinner one does not say, I must eat this meal so that I may ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martin Espada (902 words, 4 pages)

Heather ZadraMartin Espada's "Imagine the Angels of Bread" is a fascinating combination ofthe vengeful and the visionary, of anger and compassion, and of reality and dream. Thespeaker imagines a worldwide release from oppression, depicting an escape, among otherinjustices, from inhumane work conditions, tenant evictions, and politically motivatedmurders. The poem proceeds ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Imagine the Angels of Bread by Espada (1011 words, 5 pages)

Book Review of Espada's Imagine the Angels of BreadSource httpwww.zuzu.comimagine.htmDreams. A man sharing an apartment with a friend and dozens of cockroaches dreams thatone of them tells him he loves him. A son dreams that his father has become his son. Agrandmother whose name means red in Catalan. Jukebox headaches ... Read More

The Unique Writing Styles of Ernest Hemingway Captures the Readers (1471 words, 2 pages)

Ernest Hemingway lived his life as he wanted. His writing touched the hearts of millions. His sentences were short and to the point but his novels strong and unforgettable. He wrote about what he felt like writing about. On July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born. He was created by ... Read More

The Reasons Why the Textile Worker’s Union in the Southern United States Spread Rapidly (5208 words, 7 pages)

Why did the textile workers union in the southern United States spread so rapidly?The textile industry was, at one time, one of the largest industries in the south. Starting in the late 1800s with small local looms and spreading to become corporations controlling the south and whose influence stretched internationally. ... Read More

A History of the AIDS Virus and the Criminalization of Its Intentional Spreading (1362 words, 2 pages)

Brief History of AIDS and the Criminalization of Knowingly Transmitting ItAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus was discoverd independently in France in 1983 and in the United States in 1984. In the United States, it was initially identified in 1981. In ... Read More

The Importance of Taking Adequate Precautions against Spreading the AIDS Virus (3403 words, 4 pages)

Is the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue to stop many from taking adequate precautions.We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting to such extremes as mandatory testing, ... Read More

An Analysis of Hurry Truman’s Influence in the Fight Against the Spread of Communism (1315 words, 2 pages)

"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure." (Harry Truman mach 1947). This is part of the speech Harry S. Truman gave to congress on the behalf of small countries ... Read More

The Various Techniques Used by Novelist to Capture and Manipulate Readers’ Minds (720 words, 2 pages)

The power of language is indisputable. Being unable to fit in because you cannot communicate effectively with the dominant discourse puts you at an enormous disadvantage. Those who know how to use the dominant discourse effectively and to their own advantage will be more powerful.People use their knowledge of the ... Read More

A Personal Recount on How Reading Books Can Change Someone’s Life (715 words, 2 pages)

Richard Selzer Discuss how reading books changes my lifeRichard Wright, in his essay Discovering Books, explains how reading books changed his outlook on life and eventually his life itself. The first book that widened his horizons was an overtly controversial book by H. L. Mencken. I have a story not ... Read More

An Analysis of the Aids Illness Spread in Eighties and Nineties in the United States of America (1279 words, 3 pages)

In 1985, over 10,000 cases of AIDS were reported worldwide (White and Fenner 1986). Just over a decade later, in 1998, the Global AIDS Policy Coalition estimated that 30.6 million people were infected with HIV worldwide. It has also been projected that by the year 2000, between 40 and 70 ... Read More

How The Spread of Christianity Replaced the Old Warrior Religion During Ireland’s Golden’s Age (440 words, 1 pages)

The spread of Christianity overtime replaced the old warrior religion changing the way of life, and at the giving it new meaning. With the coming of Christianity a hope for poets also came about. As the conversion of Ireland to Christianity took place a new era known as Ireland's Golden ... Read More

Feelings After Reading To Be a Slave by Julius Lester (454 words, 1 pages)

The only things that come to my mind when I think of slavery and of the book To be a Slave are either misunderstanding or very negative. During the slavery years, African people were subjected to some of the worst treatments of the history of this planet. They were forced ... Read More

An Analysis of the Widespread Use of Sexual Imagery in Greek Literature (544 words, 1 pages)

Susan Sontag, in "Against Interpretation," takes a very interesting critical standpoint on the idea of literary interpretation. Unlike most literary critics, Sontag believes that literary criticism is growing increasingly destructive towards the very works of art that they, supposedly, so greatly "appreciate" and "respect." Her standpoint could not be more ... Read More

Love Misrepresentation Is Widespread Distorts the Meaning of True Love (792 words, 1 pages)

Six months after I met a young man, he expressed to me how much he loved me. Being sixteen years old, I thought it to be very flattering but I could not accept him saying this to me. The word, love in the romantic sense, is something that would take ... Read More

How the Author Captures the Reader’s Attention and Imagination in the Poem “Beowulf” (499 words, 1 pages)

The epic poem Beowulf, whose author is unknown, not only captures a readers attention and opens up new doors to his imagination, it gives an extensive background to a significant period in history. Being one of the first major works of England, Beowulintroduced British Literature. The epic tells the adventures ... Read More

An Analysis of the Widespread Abuse of Prozac the Antidepressant Medicine (1755 words, 9 pages)

Prozac-Mania Yeah, I'm on Prozac, I hear quite often, saidas if the speaker had just received a new Porsche. I often do catch myselfresponding with, I'm on Zoloftisn't modern medicine great?In a way, this exchange is a way of bonding. In another, more twisted way,it is a way of receiving ... Read More

An Analysis of the Corporate America and the Census Readjustment Inequality (1494 words, 8 pages)

- INTRODUCTION - Downsizing, restructuring, rightsizing, even a term as obscure as censusreadjustment has been used to describe the plague that has been affectingcorporate America for years and has left many of its hardest working employeeswithout work. In the 1980s, twenty-five percent of middle managementwas eliminated in the United States ... Read More

The Scornful Criticism and Unyielding Admiration from the Readers of The Catcher in the Rye (1644 words, 3 pages)

The Catcher in the Rye, just like all other great works, was met by scornful criticism and unyielding admiration. However, many literary critics also marveled at Salingers genius use of language, which was used to make Holden Caulfield, the main character, unbelievably realistic. Such language includes both repetition of phrases ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Child That Books Built: A Memoir of Childhood and Reading (888 words, 1 pages)

Nursery crimes The Child that Books Built A Memoir of Childhood and Reading Francis Spufford 214pp, Faber Appropriately enough for a book that sets out to explore the problematic relationship between the self and what it reads, Spufford has written a genre-busting text. We hurtle through autobiographical scenes, interpretations of ... Read More

An Introduction to the Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome (854 words, 1 pages)

How to build a human The Common Thread A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome John Sulston and Georgina Ferry 310pp, Bantam In 1968 the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, Jim Watson, wrote a book that scandalised his scientific colleagues by describing how he and Francis ... Read More

An Examination of The Common Thread by John Sulston and Georgina Ferry (1162 words, 2 pages)

The Jedi knight of DNAThe Common ThreadJohn Sulston and Georgina FerryBantam 17.99, pp310On the walls of London's National Portrait Gallery hangs one particularly unusual work of art rows of glistening transparent beads are spread out in a cloudy matrix and enclosed inside a silver frame. It is the only painting ... Read More

Are Terry Pratchett’s Books Only Read by Teenagers? (347 words, 1 pages)

Good writing for all agesI find your comment that Terry Pratchett's books are mainly read by teenagers insulting ('Pied Piper' brings belated literary reward, July 13). I am 29 and an avid reader. My husband, 36, my father, 54, and my friends, 20's-40's, are all fans. I have even converted ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of Whitbread Prize: Philip Pullman; His Dark Materials Trilogy (481 words, 1 pages)

Epic children's book takes WhitbreadPhilip Pullman became the first children's writer to win the Whitbread prize last night with The Amber Spyglass, the final instalment of his magical His Dark Materials trilogy. He has also finally eclipsed his great rival JK Rowling and her Harry Potter stories by writing the ... Read More

An Introduction to the Whitbread Winner’s ‘Ring of Absolute Truth’: Sid Smith (996 words, 1 pages)

Whitbread winner's 'ring of absolute truth' A book on China written by a man whose only experience of the country was a one-hour stopover at Hong Kong airport is one of two surprise winners of the Whitbread awards. Sid Smith's debut novel at the age of 52, Something Like A ... Read More

Dread History: The African Diaspora, Ethiopianism and Rastafari (2240 words, 4 pages)

Dread HistoryThe African Diaspora, Ethiopianism, and Rastafari--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Diasporas invariably leave a trail of collective memory about other times and places. But while most displaced peoples frame these attachments with the aid of living memory and the continuity of cultural traditions, the memories of those in the African diaspora have been refracted ... Read More

A History of the Spread of World’s Religions by Conquest (2392 words, 3 pages)

Religions Spread Through ConquestWhen studying history, both in a professional and academic sense, we try to make connections between civilizations and time periods. Historians have attempted to discover universal conezts of human nature, a bond that forms from continent to continent, human being to human being. Is there a conezt ... Read More

A Reading Report on A Lesson Before Dying, a Novel by Ernest J. Gaines (1135 words, 2 pages)

Ernest J. Gaines's award-winning novel is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. ... Read More

Why A Stranger Is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark Is a Book Worth Reading (581 words, 2 pages)

A Stranger is Watching is a terrific book. I enjoyed reading this book very much. The non-stop action kept me reading for hours. This was my first Mary Higgins Clark book, so I wasn't sure what to expect. The story is interesting and thank God it moves fast. One of ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013