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An Introduction to the History of the Winter 1946-47 the Worst Memory of Europe (1788 words, 8 pages)

During the winter of 1946-47, the worst in memory, Europe seemed on theverge of collapse. For the victors in World War II, there were no spoils. In London,coal shortages left only enough fuel to heat and light homes for a few hours a day.In Berlin, the vanquished were freezing and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Book Brian’s Winter (559 words, 2 pages)

Page 1This book is called Brian's Winter. It is the sequal to Hachet. The plane Brian is in crashes in the Canadian wilderness. Brian learns to survive with a bow and arrow. He is rescued and the story ends.In Brian's Winter, he is not rescued and is still living in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Characters in The Lion in Winter, a Play by James Goldman (563 words, 3 pages)

Henry, the King of England, married Eleanor for her land their first sondied, after him, John was Henry's favorite, Richard was Eleanors favorite,but turned out to be homosexual, Geoffrey plotted against all of them withthe King of France who was Richard's "friend" Henry had an affair withRosalyn, and Eleanor, with ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Wintering by Margaret Dickie (2165 words, 9 pages)

Margaret DickieShe is able, in "Wintering," to accept also the activities of women who"have got rid of the men, The blunt, clumsy stumblers, the boors." Knitting,tending the cradle, harboring life in her body-bulb, she will survive. The bee sequencetells of the search for a female identity in a world without ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem An Old Man’s Winter Night in Mountain Interval by Robert Frost (2549 words, 9 pages)

Jay PariniPerhaps the most haunting poem in Mountain Interval is "An Old MansWinter Night," a poem about an old man dying in the wintry climate of New England andalone "All out-of-doors looked darkly in at him Through the thinfrost, almost in separate stars." The poem meditates implicitly on the humancondition ... Read More

Where the Sun Spends the Winter (726 words, 3 pages)

Where the Sun Spends the WinterSan Antonio, TexasDear EditorI want the women of New York, Chicago and Boston who buy at Macy's, Wannamaker's,Gimbel's and Marshall Field to know that when they buy embroidered children's dresseslabeled "hand made" they are getting dresses made in San Antonio, Texas, bywomen and girls with ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Descent of Winter the Diary Organization (8992 words, 46 pages)

Thomas R. Whitaker"Paterson" contains no really immediate voices. We hear noliving people in this somnambulistic city--not even the poet as actual man, suffering thiscondition and bringing it to articulation.In "The Descent of Winter" the diary organization gives usthat actual man. The Great American Novel had already explored the possibilities ofa ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem After the Winter (1390 words, 10 pages)

After the WinterSome day, when trees have shed their leavesAnd against the morning's whiteThe shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night, We'll turn our faces southward, love,Toward the summer isleWhere bamboos spire to shafted groveAnd wide-mouthed orchids smile.And we will seek the quiet hillWhere towers the cotton tree,And ... Read More

An Introduction to the Poem a Winter Twilight (344 words, 3 pages)

A Winter TwilightA silence slipping around like death,Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breathOne group of trees, lean, naked and cold,Inking their cress 'gainst a sky green-goldOne path that knows where the corn flowers wereLonely, apart, unyielding, one firAnd over it softly leaning down,One star that I loved ... Read More

A Personal Narrative of a Winter Vacation (786 words, 1 pages)

The place to be described is totally imaginary, although it may bear some resemblance to a childhood memory of yours. The house and surrounding fields and mountains (for it is these I will endeavour to describe in different seasons) are so exquisitely picturesque The long, wide, oak slatted cabin with ... Read More

An Analysis of Literary Devices in Yuri Nagibin’s The Winter Oak (1097 words, 2 pages)

1.a)Our gut reaction to Winter Oak is that it had a lot of meaning, but was dull and tedious. Some words and phrases we used to relate our thoughts on the story are as follows-Boring.-Monotonous.-No real conflict.-No feeling.-No real plot.-Didnt invoke a strong reaction.-There was a definite lesson to be ... Read More

One of the newest and fastest spreading sports is snowboarding. As this sport has come along, several clich s have been formed. One outstanding one is that all snowboarders are reckless teenagers who should go home. Well, it is true for the most part, but there are also exceptions. The ... Read More

An Analysis of Those Winter Sundays, a Poem by Robert Hayden (1086 words, 2 pages)

Those Winter Sundays Growing up in New England one knows the true meaning of winter. In Robert Hayden s poem Those Winter Sundays, he uses many techniques to get the point of coldness across and also the point about how the speaker viewed his father. The best technique that is ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden (409 words, 1 pages)

In the peom "Those Winter Sundays," the author Robert Hayden uses folk motif drawn from his own experiences, but seeks inspiration from other sources as well.Robert hayden was born to a struggling couple, Ruth and Asia Sheffey. They were divorced and Hayden moved in with a foster family. Sue Ellen ... Read More

A Brief Review on the Lion in Winter (300 words, 1 pages)

This movie takes place around the 12 century, in England, when a King named Henry II ruled. He had 3 sons and a beautiful princess who he adored. He was married but was he happily married? As the story unfolds you ll find out that they were miserably unhappy. The ... Read More

An Analysis of Those Winter Sundays Poem by Robert Hayden (1183 words, 3 pages)

Analysis of "Those Winter Sundays" The poem " Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden is my favorite poem. It is full of deep affections not only in its words but also in the visual structure of the stanzas. In this particular poem, Hayden recounts that in winter Sunday mornings, his ... Read More

The Procedure of Injecting a Hormone into Winter Flounders (1292 words, 3 pages)

PROCEDUREBetween January and March 1996, sexually mature winter flounder were captured from Shark River, NJ by Steve Teluvech of Richard Stockton College Nacote Creek Marine Science Research Center. The flounder were then kept in an aerated tank with a maintained temperature between 1-10(C and a salinity between 11.4 - thirty-three ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Winter in the Blood a Native American Novel by James Welch (1501 words, 3 pages)

Winter in the Blood, a Native American novel written by James Welch, takes place on a cattle ranch in Montana, around 1970. On the surface, this is a story of a Blackfoot Indian sleepwalking through his life, tormented by visions, in search of a connection to his heritage. Welch s ... Read More

An Analysis of Winter Moon by Dean Koontz (594 words, 1 pages)

Critique of Winter MoonIn Winter Moon by Dean Koontz a cloudy Los Angeles, California day is shattered when a hot Hollywood director turns a city street into a fiery abyss. A heroic police officer, Jack McGarvey, is badly wounded in the inferno and will not be able to walk for ... Read More

A Comparison of Summer and Winter Seasons in Southern California (386 words, 1 pages)

The infinite scope of an over-populated beach in a hot, Southern California summer in shrouded with a cold, dark shadow of vacancy and eerie abandonment when the Winter months descend to sterilize the once human-contaminated shoreline. The hot, giving sun that stays late in the evening, almost like a smiling ... Read More

A Brief Review of the Story “The Winters Tale” (1508 words, 3 pages)

The Winter's TaleIn a court of Sicily, Lord Archidamus of Bohemia invites Lord Camillo of Sicilia to visit Bohemia when he can. They also speak how King Leontes' son Mamillius will someday be king. Next, the king of Bohemia, Polixenes, says goodbye to the king and queen of Sicilia, Leontes ... Read More

The Depiction of Childhood in Theodore Roethe’s My Papa’s Waltz and Robert Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays (874 words, 4 pages)

My Papa s Waltz and Those Winter Sundays My Papa s Waltz, by Theodore Roethke, and Those WinterSundays, by Robert Hayden, are two somewhat similar poems aboutrespected fathers. To most people a father is not just the man who fertilizestheir mother s egg, but a man that spends time with ... Read More

Interpretative Analysis of Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden (1183 words, 3 pages)

Analysis of "Those Winter Sundays"The poem " Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden is my favorite poem. It is full of deep affections not only in its words but also in the visual structure of the stanzas. In this particular poem, Hayden recounts that in winter Sunday mornings, his father ... Read More

An Analysis of Robert Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays (516 words, 1 pages)

There are particular poems that seem to catch peoples eye, but while we read the poem we drop our attention. It is very difficult to evaluate these types of poems. Robert Hayden s, Those Winter Sundays, is the complete opposite of the type of poem that was just described. The ... Read More

An Analysis of Events That Occur During Cold, Winter Days (542 words, 1 pages)

802 a.m. Saturday. It's still dark, as usual, on these cold, winter days. Everybody else is still sleeping and enjoying the comforting heat of their beds. I crack open the locked window by my bed, an act some deemed downright idiotic. I strip off my pj's, throw on my robe, ... Read More

The Themes of Death and the Elderly in Robert Frost’s “An Old Man’s Winter Night” and Sherwood Anderson’s “A Death in the Woods” (1524 words, 2 pages)

Death and teh ElderlyBoth Robert Frost's "An Old Man's Winter Night" and Sherwood Anderson's "A Death in the Woods" show how death is facing the elderly on a daily basis. Both stories make use of nightfall and the cycle of life in order to show their fate. Although the presence ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Winter Dreams and the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1367 words, 2 pages)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams" and his book The Great Gatsby, it could be argued that there were many similarities between the two stories. In "Winter Dreams", a youthful caddie named Dexter meets a beautiful rich girl whom he had met many years before. Dexter exaggerates is wealth ... Read More

A Creative Story About a Day in Winter (367 words, 2 pages)

Through the white blinds he saw the crack of sunshine creeping behind the window. Thesunshine wanted to get inside more than a cold baby bird running towards its mother. Hestretched one arm up over his head until he could hear the cracks, just like a roaring fireon a cold winter ... Read More

A Comparison of The Key to Midnight and Winter Moon, the Two Novels Written by Dean Koontz (1305 words, 2 pages)

PUPPET MASTERS The two novels Winter Moon and The Key To Midnight, written by Dean Koontz, havemany different things in common. For example, Koontz puts great detail into both books and hetries to portray the most realistic setting as possible which in both books is the same setting in terms ... Read More

An Analysis of Yvor Winter’s Poem “At the San Francisco Airport” (579 words, 1 pages)

In Yvor Winters poem, "At the San Francisco Airport" a father is saying goodbye to his daughter. We don't know where she is going or why, but we do know that the act of letting his daughter go is very hard for him. The father makes it clear that he ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013