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Unrequited Love from the Opposite Side of the Spectrum in the Poems The More Loving One by W.H. Auden and No, Thank You, John by Christina Rossetti (1449 words, 5 pages)

Poetic verse has been used as an outlet of strong emotions and feelings for centuries. The elegance of poetry has long been thought of as more refined than that of prose writing, and thus as a better vessel for conveying strong feelings. Subjects such as death, love, hate, beauty, and ... Read More

The Life and Accomplishments of Alfred I. DuPont (823 words, 3 pages)

Alfred I. DuPont was born in 1864 as one of five children (Alfred I. DuPont., para. 5). His father, Eleuthre Irne DuPont II, was a partner in the family business of gunpowder (Alfred I. DuPont., para. 6). The father and son would often tour the family powder mills together where ... Read More

Ryan van Meter’s If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Queer Retrosexualities and Overcoming “Shame” Through Writing (1584 words, 5 pages)

Queer Retrosexualities Overcoming Shame through WritingA look into the past can be both therapeutic and troubling. For author Ryan Van Meter, this exploration of past experiences serves both functions in a recently published book of essays about his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Throughout the collection, the narrator struggles with his ... Read More

An Analysis of the Relationship Between Love and Social Class and Marriage in the Novels Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre (2157 words, 5 pages)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Compare and contrast the ways that love and social class dictate marriage in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre.Without doubt, the themes of love and social class ... Read More

If I Could Change One Thing in History: The Forcing of Muhammed and His Followers from Mecca to Medina and Its Effects (776 words, 3 pages)

If I had the power to change a single world event it would have beenthe forcing of Muhammed and his followers from Mecca to Medina. It wasduring this time that Muhammed developed the idea of Jihad, or the duty ofMuslims to maintain the religion. As we all know by simply ... Read More

My View on Literature Course Syllabus: Important and Unnecessary Reads (902 words, 3 pages)

There were two times in this course where I felt that stories were too familiar thematically to the other works in the unit. It felt has though I was ready to write to write the unit essay and show my knowledge of literary themes and movements! But more readings came. ... Read More

The Use of Metaphor in T.S. Elliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (401 words, 2 pages)

MetaphorIn The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Elliot uses personification heavily. The third stanza follows a trail of fog around the outside of a house and describes its movements. The image that the fog produces in my mind is that of a lazy cat stretching against glass, sprawling ... Read More

What I Have Learnt in a Sociology Class (679 words, 2 pages)

SociologyWhat Ive Learned in Your ClassThere is a lot of material from this class that I can pull on in the future, most of which to cull my own ideals down a bit. I do not believe I will be able to use much from this course in my future ... Read More

The Use of the Dual-Layered Protective iPhone Case (646 words, 1 pages)

Dual-Layered Protective iPhone Case A mutual problem that is commonly found amongst all small electronic users is the fear and action of dropping your device and potentially breaking it. This issue is present amongst devices such as laptops, cellphones, tablets, portable music players as well as many others. Our team ... Read More

The Love for American Nature: Differences Between Columbus’ Description of American Land and the Way Poets (Emerson, Whitman) Saw It (846 words, 3 pages)

While ideologies, identities, and the country itself changed, people in the United States continued to show an appreciation and awe for the land itself. This theme is connected to Romanticism which focused on the beauty of nature, but some writers who focused on the beauty of nature, like Columbus, obviously ... Read More

A Group Analysis of the Operations of the T. G. I. Friday’s Bar and Restaurant (4048 words, 16 pages)

Group Analysis of T.G.I. Fridays Bar RestaurantThat which will precede constitutes a complete topological examination of the operations of T.G.I. Fridays, located in Brick, New Jersey, with a primary focus on the operations of their bar. However, as the bar and restaurant work in a coordinated manner, elements of both ... Read More

The Different Reasons Why People Break into a Company Database (3306 words, 11 pages)

There is an assortment of motives to hack into different organizations or companies, and almost all of them will get you in trouble. These motives consist of making money, gaining access to top secret information, or for personal enjoyment. Fulfilling these motives can be accomplished in a few different ways. ... Read More

Theme Analysis in the King and I, a Musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (1081 words, 6 pages)

After the success of Oklahoma!, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II continued to generate many successful American musicals, all of which revolved around central themes of eradicating racial and cultural prejudice, as well as promoting tolerance and acceptance. The King and I was no exception. Through its use of cultural ... Read More

The Conflicts in Sherman Alexie’s What You Pawn, I Will Reedem and Sergio Troncoso’s A Rock Trying to Be a Stone (2174 words, 8 pages)

A literary analysis examines the literal techniques of a story. The authenticated methods that will be a review in this research will be exposition the rising action of the problem or the conflict, as well as the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. With external conflict and internal conflict. ... Read More

What I Learnt About Environment Through My CORE Experience (1803 words, 7 pages)

Ive always had a passion for the environment. However, aside from trying to live a little cleaner than most, and pursuing a major in environmental engineering, I havent really done much to show that I care. Since my time in CORE, throughout many of the lectures, and among many of ... Read More

Why Is Baseball My Favorite Game to Watch (537 words, 2 pages)

People from all around the world anticipate the Olympic Games. Every four years, athletes from various countries compete in one big international tournament of sports. The sports involved span from the more popular sports, like tennis and soccer, to small the more obscure sports, like handball and water polo. Athletes ... Read More

A Personal Belief That People Read for the Wrong Reason (547 words, 3 pages)

Reading for the Wrong ReasonFor most of my life I have thought of books simply as a form of enjoyment. However, more recently in my years of high school, as I have begun reading analytical books and research papers it has become clear that they are there to do much ... Read More

A Comparison of Reading and Watching a Performance of a Shakespearean Play (370 words, 1 pages)

A common topic for debate among Romantics in the early 19th century was the merits of watching the plays of Shakespeare versus simply reading them. Those in favor of viewing a performance of a Shakespeare play would argue that the arts true form as a drama meant that it was ... Read More

A Comparison of the Forms of the Poems I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Written at the Close of Spring (297 words, 1 pages)

To compare the form of the poems I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Written at the Close of Spring, I will examine each pieces rhythmic progression. Both the Wordsworth poem and the Smith poem share an iambic pattern every even-numbered syllable in each line is stressed, while the odd ... Read More

True Love Never Dies: Reaction Paper for Richard Wagner’s Prelude to Tristan und Isolde (733 words, 2 pages)

True Love Never Dies Reaction Paper for Richard Wagners Prelude to Tristan und Isolde(Recording YouTube Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde, Prelude with Wilhelm Furtwangler and Philharmonia Orchestra.)Theres some kind of strange revolutionary aspect of Richard Wagners opera, Tristan und Isolde. There are modernist artistic facets that transcend the confines of ... Read More

An Examination of Cecilia’s First Person Perspective in the Novel The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald (800 words, 3 pages)

Or, The Love of the Last Tycoon (1941), if preferred. Either way, the book, though otherwise a quality piece of literature given its unfinished state, has issues concerning its strange jumps in narrative perspective.The book has a strange tendency to leap between a third person omniscient narrator and first person ... Read More

Why I Enjoy Musicals (1674 words, 5 pages)

If You Give a Boy an Opinion, Hes Going to Ask for a Word ProcessorBordered by barbed barriers lies a land of meadows, pastures, castles, stages, song and dance, happiness, and love, where everything is beautiful, content, gorgeous, and nothing bad ever happens the boy always gets the girl, the ... Read More

Catherine and Old Fashioned Love in A Farewell to Arms (678 words, 2 pages)

Catherine and Old Fashioned Love in A Farewell to ArmsThe traditional practices of love and marriage are often jarring and even alien to young people. These days we tend to carry out mutual affection via a system of give and take, of sharing ones life and love with the other ... Read More

A Guide to Reading the Book Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (432 words, 2 pages)

One of the more difficult books to come from the early 20th century Modernist movement was Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. With its winding passages, multiple perspectives, and difficult to follow narrative, this is no book one can eat with soup and tea at the table. So with that in ... Read More

The Experience That Allowed Me to Grow to Love the Sport of Triathlon (1245 words, 3 pages)

I have been told that I have a very strong work ethic. When I put my mind to a task, I am able to achieve my goal, and usually rise above whatever obstacle had been impeding my path to success. This work ethic can be attributed to when I discovered ... Read More

A Comparison of Archos 605 and iPod Touch (338 words, 2 pages)

Ethical Inquiry on the IPod Ipod's are one of the most popular electronic devices today, everyoneseems to have one, and people and media constantly tells you that it's thebest device out there, but is it really? I think that the Archos 605 is amuch better choice for a multi-media device. ... Read More

A Critical View on Judy Brady’s I Want a Wife and Its Validity in the Modern Society (804 words, 3 pages)

She's Got the Wrong WifeJudy Brady wrote her essay, "I Want a Wife," as a description of the "modern" 1972 wife and what's expected of her. The question is, though, does it hold up today? It is my belief that, though some of the descriptions still apply, the argument crumbles ... Read More

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou: On Quitting and Making Changes (697 words, 2 pages)

What to Do When "I Quit" Just Isn't EnoughMaya Angelou, who is known as Marguerita Johnson in her book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, talks about her difficult times working for Viola Cullinan. As Cullinan mistreats her by giving Maya the slightly more convenient version of Margaret, Mary, ... Read More

The Use of Literary Devices in the Poem Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (276 words, 1 pages)

In Maya Angelous poem, Still I Rise, she expresses her feeling about how people treat other people. Angelous poem epitomizes hope. When hard times come, smile. Whenever you fall, get back up and when you think all is going wrong, rise(32), against it!Angelou uses a grand variety of literary devices. ... Read More

Why Migrant Workers Don’t Trust Doctors in Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes (627 words, 1 pages)

Response 6 "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Migrant Farmworkers in the UnitedStates" was written by Seth Holmes and published in 2013. As it waspublished as a book and not as an article in an anthropological or medicaljournal, it can be inferred to be meant both for readers interested insubjects of medical ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013