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An Analysis of Vivian Baxter’s Character in Maya Angelou’s Autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (1193 words, 2 pages)

In Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya's beautiful, vivacious biological mother, Vivian Baxter, emerges as an important character in her daughter's life. Vivian endures as a black woman in a white man's world by displaying strength, honesty, and toughness, which lead to self- preservation. Vivian ... Read More

Courtly Love in The Miller’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (1844 words, 3 pages)

Courtly Love in Chaucer and Marie de FranceIn his The Miller's Tale Chaucer presents a side of the courtly love tradition never seen before. His characters are average middle class workers rather than elite nobility. There is an interesting comparison between the Miller's characters and those in two of Marie ... Read More

Katherine Chopin’s Own Perception About Love and Marriage (234 words, 1 pages)

Katherine Chopin has a different opinion of love, marriage, than most writers of her day. In her writing she indicates to her readers that marriage, though built on a foundation of love can not contain passion. Love is considered a feeling that inspires passion, and romance. It continues on throughout ... Read More

The Reason Why Christmas is a Time to Celebrate (336 words, 1 pages)

Christmas Time Christmas time is a wonderful time for me to celebrate. It is also the most joyful and memorable season. To bring Christmas time, I go to many festivals and activities. Where include the city park,the Christmas parade, and church. I also decorate my house inside and outside to ... Read More

A Theme of Dangerous Love in Beale Street Love by Langston Hughes (776 words, 1 pages)

In all poems there is a theme, whether the theme be obvious from the start or it be one that is difficult to find. No matter how long or short a poem or how complicated or simple every poem that you read will have a theme. In "Beale Street Love" ... Read More

Analysing the Emotion of Love in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1409 words, 3 pages)

Jane Eyre, written in 1847, is a novel written in autobiographical style about an orphan girls quest for love. The novel reflects contemporary life of that period and everything that happens is seen from Jane Eyres, the protagonists point of view. Although the story reflects the language, customs, and style ... Read More

The Affirmation of Life as Portrayed in Death and Justice How Capital Punishment Affirms Life by Edward I. Koch (921 words, 2 pages)

The Affirmation of LifeThe essay Death and Justice How Capital Punishment Affirms Life, by Edward I. Koch, is a rather conservative outlook of the death penalty from a member of the Democratic Party. It first appeared in The New Republic, a magazine that is known for its controversial articles. In ... Read More

The Metaphors of Love and Sea in the Poem Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (805 words, 2 pages)

Sea is life Dover Beach is a very mood-evoking poem. We are first met with an admiration for the sea and different emotions that draws to the observer. However, as the poem progresses we are gradually introduced to a large metaphor for love and like the sea are able to ... Read More

A Comparison of Dreams and Realities in Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow (701 words, 2 pages)

Dreams and Realities in Jude the Obscure and A Kind of LovingDreams and realities are both part of life in both different and similar ways. Dreams are what you want whereas reality is what you have. Many dreams can become reality. In the case of these two books, Jude the ... Read More

An Analysis of Some Theories and Questions Related to ESL and Reading (2769 words, 5 pages)

Mid-TermSpring 1998This Termpaper was for an Educational Class for the Teaching Credential Program. The questions listed below describe various theories and questions related to ESL and reading. Hope you find this paper useful.I got an 'A' for this termpaperBibliography Author - RuddellReading in Secondary Education1. Krashen's theory of comprehensible input ... Read More

The Importance of Emily’s Mother in I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen (675 words, 1 pages)

I Stand Here Ironing, by Tillie Olsen is a short story portraying the life and regret of a young mother struggling to raise her oldest daughter. The mother- daughter relationship is the major part of the story and the attitude of the mother toward her daughter, Emily, and the actual ... Read More

The Personification of a Compassionate and Caring Mother in Everyday Use by Alice Walker and I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen (620 words, 1 pages)

Suffering Produces Perseverance Perseverance, Character and Character, HopeEveryday Use by Alice Walker and I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen both personified a mother with great love and compassion for their children. Although each mother was separated by cultural and social differences the mothers in these stories shared a similar ... Read More

A Look at Queen Elizabeth I’s Poem, The Doubt of Future Foes (1074 words, 3 pages)

EXPLICATION"The Doubt of Future Foes" by Queen Elizabeth I The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy. For falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth ebb, Which would not be, if reason ruled or wisdom weaved ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of a Feminist Reading of D. H. Lawrence’s the Rocking Horse Winner (1982 words, 4 pages)

A Feminist Reading of D.H. LawrencesThe Rocking Horse WinnerThe man that does not know sick women does not know women.- S. Weir MitchellThe Rocking Horse Winner is the story of a boys gift for picking the winners in horse races. An omniscient narrator relates the tale of a boy whose ... Read More

Why There Is No Closure in Samuel Beckett’s Play Waiting for Godot (742 words, 1 pages)

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.-Peter S. Beagle Rankin-BassThe Last UnicornPeople tend to wish for their lives to play out perfectly, as in a movie or fairy tale. Sadly, this rarely happens, and sadder still is the fact that many of us trust that this fairy tale will ... Read More

Stereotypical Parts of a Classic Love Story in Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald (984 words, 2 pages)

English Study Discussing Winter Dreams as a Love StoryWinter Dreams, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic love story. It includes all of the stereotypical parts and moments weve come to expect from years of watching movies and from television.Every love story has a hero, the one person we route ... Read More

Love and Money in the Novel, Dust Over the City by Andre Langevins (1547 words, 2 pages)

For Love Or MoneyPeople inevitably encounter many problematic situations in their lifetime. Some problems may be more serious than others, but the fact remains that it is alsways their choice as to how they will react and whether or not they will sink or swim. A survivor is aperson who, ... Read More

An Introduction to Reading Response on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (438 words, 1 pages)

Reading Response on FrankensteinWhen reading Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, I found myself having a hard time understanding it. I also found it hard to stay motivated to read it. I was really disturbed by the thought of bring someone back in the way Victor did. As being one of the ... Read More

A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of the Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon and the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1285 words, 2 pages)

Gatsby vs. Ruth The Battle of Self-CreationIn Fay Weldons The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, and F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, the main characters, Ruth and Gatsby, go through a process of re-inventing themselves. Each character tries to change themselves so they can, in some way, improve their ... Read More

The Reasons Why Hamlet Failed to Avenge His Father’s Murder (872 words, 2 pages)

English-12Kenneth ValeroDelucia12000In the drama Hamlet, ideas have been formed to explain Hamlets inability to avenge his fathers murder. Such premises are that Hamlet is pretending to be emotionally disturbed and is secretly plotting to carry out his revenge and that Hamlet is so corrupted by grief that he is really ... Read More

A Longing of Parental Love (760 words, 1 pages)

He Let Her Go An essay on Evelyn LauEvelyn Lau is an author with which I can identify with. Her lack of humility gives rise to self-awareness. She does not hide under a mask of sorrow, she simply puts into words how she reacts and feels towards her lifes struggles. ... Read More

An Enduring Love in a Worn Path by Eudora Welty (467 words, 2 pages)

"A Worn Path," written by Eudora Welty concerns the life of an elderly woman,Phoenix Jackson, and her enduring love for her chronically ill grandson. Herenduring love for her young grandson is what keeps her going. Her life is onefull of amazement. She is frail, old, and encounters many struggles. Thoughshe ... Read More

An Essay on the Hobby I Love and Enjoy (772 words, 3 pages)

A Hobby That I EnjoyMy favorite past time is to spend time at the computer, even at a tender age I like computer systems.To having a computer was a dream, an almost impossible dream.I had a friend named George at that time, we were in the same school, same grade ... Read More

An Essay on the Love and Guilt of Joe and Mabel in the Short Story, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D.H. Lawrence (603 words, 1 pages)

This story is about a girl named Mabel who tries to commit suicide by drowning herself in a pond. A young doctor, Joe Ferguson, saves her. She then believes that he loves her. Although this idea never occurred to Joe, he begins to find that he indeed loves her. However, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Short Story “I’m a Fool” (269 words, 1 pages)

I very much enjoyed reading the short story Im a Fool. It was very readable and it madea lot of sense to me. I know exactly what the narrator was feeling and thinking in thestory, as I have been in similar situations.There are often times when you feel that it ... Read More

A Comparison of the Theme of Love in the Poems of Robert Burns and Edna St. Vincent Millay (454 words, 1 pages)

There are many different interpretations and feelings about love being a beautiful thing and love being an ordinary thing depending on ones past.Two contrasting thoughts about love are expressed by Robert Burns in his poem A Red, Red Rose, and by Edna St. Vincent Millay in her poem Love Is ... Read More

An Analysis of a Novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1354 words, 3 pages)

"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" By Maya Angelou When I started reading I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, I thought that it was a little boring at first but I thought that it was about a young African-American girl who tells her troubles in life as she ... Read More

An Analysis of Pueblo Indian’s Poem “I Have Killed the Deer” (238 words, 1 pages)

The poem I choose was I Have Killed the Deer. This poem was written by aPueblo Indian. He explained how throughout his life he took the other lives of plants andanimals in order to survive. He said that when he died he would give his body to the earthfor the ... Read More

An Analysis of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (2519 words, 7 pages)

Chris Coreypg. 1 I know Why the Caged Bird Sings1) Setting I - Stamps, Arkansas, in a black ghetto neighborhood where Maya lives with her grandmother and paralyzed uncle - St. Louis, San Francisco, a junkyard, and Southern California A brief incident takes place across the border in Mexico- starting ... Read More

A Review of Tillie Olsen’s Short Story “I Stand Here Ironing” (635 words, 1 pages)

A Mothers DecisionIn the short story I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen, the reader is introduced to a mother faced with a strong internal conflict involving her eldest daughter Emily. Emilys mother makes a very meaningful statement at the end of the story. Her statement was help Emily to ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013