The poets that return form there are not left unscathed either. "When we come home, we are half way. / Our screams heal the torn silence. We are like scars." (Williams xx) Are these the scars healing the slices and cuts in the heart of night? I beli Continue Reading...
Obviously, other countries need to know more about how to become democracies, and we can help them move in that general direction."(Selle, 50) However, his works remain within the domain of popular fiction, in which the suspense and the intricate a Continue Reading...
In all of these poems Yeats brings these fantastic worlds into such clarity -- both visually and emotionally -- for the reader that they feel swept away for the time they are reading. "Who Goes with Fergus" is exceptional in its ability to transport Continue Reading...
Through the events of the war, Kip gazes in on the Western World's changing, growing in political and military stature, and its attempting to control and colonize others. The gap between West and East that was exacerbated by World War Two is address Continue Reading...
Aldous Huxley The purpose of this work is to explore Aldous Huxley's view of religion, his belief in "moderate" applicable use of mind-altering and mind-expanding drugs as well as the prediction he made for the future of mankind. This will be done t Continue Reading...
Ralph Ellison "A Party Down at the Square" In the short story, "A Party Down at the Square," by Ralph Ellison, a very sad piece of history is illustrated. Ellison wrote about the first time he had witnessed a lynching as a youth. In those days, lync Continue Reading...
Islands in the Stream 1954 Nobel Laureate, Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, has been an icon of the literary world for over seventy years. He has been called the greatest American author of the twentieth century and his novels and short stories are amon Continue Reading...
Role of females in science [...] Rachel Carson and Barbara McClintock and compare each scientist to general principals characterizing the careers of women in science. WOMEN IN SCIENCE One becomes a scientist by viewing the world in a particular ma Continue Reading...
Scott Fitzgerald Hollywood Years The turning point in F. Scott Fitzgerald's life was when he met in 1918 Zelda Sayre, herself an aspiring writer, they married in 1920. In the same year appeared Fitzgerald's first novel, "This side of paradise," in w Continue Reading...
" The tragic paradox of the whole book lies in the mindset of the author himself. Brooks eventually is also a "mixed-up" Bobo which he admitted in an interview with Gwen Ifill of the "News Hour" ("Yeah, I consider myself a Bobo with bad grades. If I Continue Reading...
Everything That Rises Meets Good Country PeopleThe characters and situations of Flannery OConnors stories give a unique glimpse into a grotesque world of the Southa world that OConnor used to draw meaning about the moment of grace that touches and ch Continue Reading...
Worth it? The work of literature authored by Scott et al., They Died with Custer: Soldiers' Bones from the Battle of Little Bighorn is a niche piece of literature within the overall scope of U.S. history and that pertaining to Westernized relations Continue Reading...
Exhaustion" demonstrates an interest in the subject of how different media might affect the meaning of art. Barth's general remarks at the opening of "The Literature of Exhaustion" indicate a sort of ambivalence about what he terms "intermedia' arts Continue Reading...
Worn Path by Eudora Welty "A Worn Path" is recognized as one of Welty's most illustrious and often studied works of what is considered to be short fiction. Illusorily simple in scope and tone and, the story is made to be very structured upon a journ Continue Reading...
disproportionate levels of educational achievement among White and African-American students, titled "Powerful Pedagogy for African-American Students: A Case of Four Teachers," researcher Tyrone C. Howard examines the role of teacher effectiveness i Continue Reading...
(Jones, p. 49). These confessional poems are often "searing in their self-inquiry" and "harrowing to the reader" and typically take their metaphors from texts and paintings of Dickinson's day. Some scholars posit that the "Master" is an unattainable Continue Reading...
And farther west on the Great Plains were the Teton Sioux, among them the Oglalas, whose chief was Red Cloud, and among the Hunkpapas, was Sitting Bull, who together with Crazy Horse of the Oglalas, would make history in 1876 at Little Big Horn (Bro Continue Reading...
The final lyrics in this poem divert back to the young girl that has stolen Yeats attention away from politics. The line reads "But O. that I were young again/and held her in my arms!(Yeats)" This line is significant in that Yeats seemingly asserts Continue Reading...
The use of the Los Angeles filmmaker, who in a sense represents much of mainstream American society, is such a strong contrast against the real eccentricities of the characters in the story. The filmmaker's search for El Gato, the witty attorney who Continue Reading...
Homosexuality: An Analysis of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room Introduction to James Baldwin Ask any "PK"; they'll tell you that, on top of the four odds that were stacked against him as a child, James Baldwin had one additional card piled up agains Continue Reading...
tracing the relationship of Dante and Virgil based on Robert Pinsky's translation, the Inferno of Dante. Review The Inferno of Dante. Both writers and scholars demonstrate their thinking and polarism in this epic poem. Dante's selection of Virgil Continue Reading...
poetry of Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg are both important poets in their own right. Although they both grew up in the same era, their poetry styles have many differences. The paper firstly states their different ori Continue Reading...
1. What was so revolutionary about Common-Sense when it was first written in 1775?When Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, he dared the colonists to rise against one of the worlds greatest empires and encouraged them to build their new nation as a democ Continue Reading...
benefit analysis of the proposed state lottery for Alabama. Assessing the costs and benefits of this lottery is challenging. The costs are ill-defined, and often lumped in with other gambling costs in general. Yet, lotteries are not the same thing a Continue Reading...
Hyperrealism in Literature The following criticism was made by Michael Rizza on Don DeLillo's Libra: In Libra, Don DeLillo offers solace for the issue of achieving historical certainty; however, despite rendering fictive order to historical confusi Continue Reading...
William Blake Although he was misunderstood and underappreciated throughout his lifetime, William Blake and his work only truly became influential after his death in 1827 (William Blake, 2014). Although he is best known for his poetry, Blake also cr Continue Reading...
Rossellini's 1946 Paisan: The emerging aesthetic of Neorealism in Italian postwar film According to Andre Bazin's essay "An aesthetic of reality: Neorealism," Paisan as directed by Roberto Rossellini brought forth a new aesthetic in the discourse o Continue Reading...
Landscape With the Fall of Icarus William Carlos Williams was an American poet well-known for his unique writing style and subject matter. A renowned imagist writer, Williams offers a curt description of Pieter Brueghel's painting "Landscape with th Continue Reading...
Bernice Consistency in the Way Bernice Bobs Her Hair: A Comparison of Joan Silver's Film and Fitzgerald's Original Short Story Scott Fitzgerald's depiction of the Roaring Twenties has long been lauded as a richly detailed and highly picture of the Continue Reading...
In a recently-conducted survey, the following 10 metropolitan cities had low to very low crime rates: Scottsdale (AZ), Plano (TX), Virginia Beach (VA), Fremont (CA), Honolulu (HI), San Jose (CA), Anaheim (CA), Fort Wayne (in), Santa Ana (CA), and Ga Continue Reading...
The contradiction between science and technology tugs at the strings of our very souls. We feel it deep down. Even totally secular analysts such as Marx had to reconcile nature and technology (ibid, 31). Analysts such as Schmidt have expanded upon Continue Reading...
Tolkien and the Canon Is J.R.R. Tolkien a canonical writer? This depends, of course, on how we define canonical status -- or indeed who we acknowledge as our arbiter of canonicity. I will begin by noting the whiff of sanctimony in the very idea of a Continue Reading...
Faulkner masterfully weaves lives in and out of this fabric, demonstrating the importance of self-identity as well as social acceptance. Light in August, however, draws more attention to how the conflicts and differences between race, gender, and so Continue Reading...
Eventually, Esther sneaks into the cellar with a bottle of sleeping pills -- prescribed to her for the insomnia she was experiencing, without any other real attempts to understand or solve the underlying problems of her mental upset -- having left a Continue Reading...
His affair with his partner's wife and his cowardly impulse to dispatch his secretary to inform her of her husband's death, along with a variety of decisions that reflect a serious moral ambivalence, illuminate a man with a black bird over his shoul Continue Reading...
Part of the impact of this book is the lush illustrations, maps, and photos that illustrate the text. They make it more interesting, help set the different periods in time in the reader's mind, and they help make the entire book more entertaining a Continue Reading...
The poet is bringing us into one of the most sacred places there can be - his bedroom - and we walk away with a sense of understanding and appreciation after reading the poem. Howard Nelson states that the poem "focuses on Yeats calls 'honey genera Continue Reading...
