English Essays

Penalty of Death Analysis
Penalty of Death-Analysis "I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for. (49)" This thought is what is reflected in both "Sonny�s Blues" by James Baldwin and "Paul�s Case" by Willa Cather. Both Baldwin and Cather illustrate the problem of a young man growing up and taking on the responsibility of finding out who they are and what they want out of life. In these stories the theme is most prevalent, developing the story and h...

Penelope as Moral Agent
Penelope as Moral Agent In her essay "Penelope as Moral Agent," Helene Foley attempts to discuss Penelope, a major character in Homer's the Odyssey, in terms of Classical Athenian portrayals of women and, as her title suggests, in terms of what she calls a "moral agent." In her introductory paragraph she lays out guidelines as set down by Aristotle and his contemporaries that constitute a moral agent: the character must make an ethical and moral decision "on which the actions turns�without...

Penguins
Penguins The penguin (Sphenisciformes) has been a fascination to numerous people including scientists and researchers alike. They have distinctive characteristics and an interesting classification system. Their eating habits, unique way of breeding and predators are just a way of everyday life that fascinates scientists and researchers. The species status still remains in danger and can hopefully be helped. This unusual bird stands on short legs and walks with a clumsy waddle. These b...

People always tend to seek the
People always tend to seek the People always tend to seek the easy way out looking for something that would make their lives easier. Machines and tools have given us the ability to do more in less time giving us, at the same time, more comfort. As the technology advances, computers become faster and more powerful. These new machines are enabling us to do more in less time making our lives easier. The increased use of computers in the future, however, might have negative results and impact on...

People of the Mist
People of the Mist PEOPLE of the MIST From "The First North Americans Series" "The First North Americans Series" provides in a series of books fictional accounts of the lives of several groups of per-European North Americans. The time period of the books in this series covers a period from approximately 13,000 years BC to approximately 1,300 years AD. The PEOPLE of the MIST is from the latter period of the time range and tells a story family groups of the Algonq...

Perfect Day for a Bananafish,
Perfect Day for a Bananafish, The images of war remain imbedded in an individual's mind, making it difficult for anyone who has faced the horrors of war to reassimilate themselves within society. People who have never faced the horrible images lack the understanding and compassion needed for a war veteran to reestablish themselves. The alienation an individual suffers from family and friends thrusts them further into a world of confusion, forcing them to take drastic actions to find peace....

Passage to Manhood Comparing
Passage to Manhood - Comparing By reading a certain print texts, readers are manipulated into accepting or rejecting additional texts. The short story �The Altar of the Family� written by Michael Welding shares many comparisons with the feature article �Boys to Men� written by Stephen Scourfield, and by reading one the reader can make clear understanding of the other. Symbolism, genre and certain values and attitudes are present in both the texts and will be further examined in the f...

Passing
Passing The Root of Jealousy In Nella Larsen�s Passing, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry show us a great deal about race and sexuality in the 1920s. Both are extremely light-skinned women of African-American descent. However similar they appear to be, their views on race, a very controversial issue at the time, differ significantly. Clare chooses to use her physical appearance as an advantage in America�s racist and sexist society, leaving behind everything that connects her to her ...

Path of Least Resistance Impli
Path of Least Resistance Impli Path of Least Resistance: Implicit Power In his book, Power and Choice, W. Phillips Shively introduces to students of political science the importance of power within the framework of politics. According to him, �Politics consists of the making of a common decision for a group of people through the use of power�(Shively 9). And that �power� is, �the ability of one person or group to cause another person or group to do what the first wishes, by ...

Patriarchy in fargo and raise
Patriarchy in fargo and raise Explore the relationship between women's roles and patriarchal society in Raise the Red Lantern and Fargo. For many years from our history, women's rights have always been a contraversial topic. History has shown the world to be primarily a male-dominated society, where a woman's role is often dictated by a man. In the movies Raise the Red Lantern and Fargo, both movies dictate a society where the dominant sex is male. In Raise the Red Lantern , the wom...

Patterns Symbolism
Patterns - Symbolism Symbolism in Patterns by Amy Lowell Breaking the "Patterned" Mold When one hears the words, " I sink on a seat in the shade," they will most likely form a visual image in their head, such as a person sitting under a tree. Amy Lowell, an imagist, uses sharp images, precise wording, and figurative speech as a means of poetic expression to arouse the senses of the reader. In "Patterns," Amy Lowell explores the hopeful liberty of women in...

Patterns in Hemingway and Camu
Patterns in Hemingway and Camu Once we knew that literature was about life and criticism was about fiction--and everything was simple. Now we know that fiction is about other fiction, is criticism in fact, or metaphor. And we know that criticism is about the impossibility of anything being about life, really, or even about fiction, or finally about anything. Criticism has taken the very idea of "aboutness" away from us. It has taught us that language is tautological, if it is not nonsense, a...

Pea paragraphs
Pea paragraphs -- Severance In the story “Severance” by Lamb, Penny Ann is a “bad” person. This story is about two sets of twins who become separated. One set separated by death, the other set by guilt. First, The teachers were less patient with the poor kids than the rest of us. “But Penny Ann wasn’t just poor, she was bad.” The teachers were less patient with the poor kids, but she wasn’t just any poor kid, she was a bad kid. Second, Domn...

Paradise lost 2
Paradise lost 2 "Movement across or through space becomes a process of colonization of that space." Discuss the uses of metaphors of colonization in metaphysical poetry and/or Milton. During the period of Milton's Paradise Lost as well as myriad of poets construction of an epoque submerged in metaphysical literature, a number of significant events both socio-political, entwined with a systematic religious metamorphism of the sixteenth and seventeenth century led to a time of un...

Paradise lost The Devil Compar
Paradise lost The Devil Compar How does John Milton portray Satan in his poem, �Paradise Lost�? In this epic poem, Satan�s traits include pride, treachery, and persistent spitefulness. I believe that these character traits compare to the leadership of Howe Military School. Satan commits many prideful acts throughout the poem. This shows when Milton writes, �what time his pride / Had cast him out of Heaven, with all his host / of rebel angels, by whose aid aspiring / To set hi...

Paralytic Sylvia Plath
Paralytic - Sylvia Plath Paralytic: Poetry From The Brink Silvia Plath has always been famous. She was a very open poet who wrote with so much confession, she became almost like a soap opera. Her life was a constant bout with suicide and the readers loved to watch. After one of her first suicide attempts, which is included in The Bell Jar, a novel later written by Plath, she was admitted into McLean Hospital. The poem "Paralytic" more than likely came from her time there. It is ...

Parataxis of homer
Parataxis of homer Throughout the epic poem The Odyssey, Homer employs a technique called parataxis. This technique is used frequently to identify characters in the book or explaining an event. The poem not only covers the story of Odyssey. The poem not only covers the story of Odysseus, but also touches upon other characters as well. By using parataxis, Homer can briefly tell and describe characters and events. Often, characters are identified by their relationships to others...

Pardoners Tale
Pardoners Tale The Pardoner's Tale vs. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Throughout literature, relationships can often be found between the author of a story and the story that he writes. In Geoffrey Chaucer's frame story, Canterbury Tales, many of the characters make this idea evident with the tales that they tell. A distinct relationship can be made between the character of the Pardoner and the tale that he tells. Through the Prologue to the Pardoner's tale, the character of the Pardo...

Parental Conflict in Turtle Mo
Parental Conflict in Turtle Mo The Parental Conflict in Turtle Moon For the average person, occasional inter-personal conflicts are a fact of life. Nowhere do these conflicts manifest themselves with greater tension than in the parent-adolescent relationship. Through their works, writers of fiction illuminate the sources of strain common to parent-child interactions. In the novel Turtle Moon, Alice Hoffman exemplifies this conflict in the relationship between Keith Rosen and his mother...

Participants in the Wars of th
Participants in the Wars of th In the late 1400�s the House of York fought the House of Lancaster for the English crown. Because Lancaster�s heraldic badge was a red rose and the Yorks was a white rose, the long conflict became known as Wars of the Roses. The real lives of the main participants of the Wars of the Roses will be displayed in this paper. In Shakespeare�s Richard III the participants in the Wars of the Roses were not suitably displayed. The participants in Shakespear...

Paganism, say hello to christi
Paganism, say hello to christi The epic poem of Beowulf blends aspects of the pagan world - such as the belief in fate and the importance of being remembered - with aspect from the Christian world. The author writes about the values of the pagan world, while, at the same time, portraying Christian morality through his characters. The epic of Beowulf reflects both the Christian world and the pagan world. Much like the more familiar stories of King Arthur, Beowulf de...

Paganistic Beliefs in Beowolf
Paganistic Beliefs in Beowolf The epic poem Beowolf is one of the founding pieces of literature known to man. The author of the poem is unknown. It is believed that he was a monk or someone of the Christian faith. Although during the time of Beowolf there would not have been Christian beliefs. Although in the poem there are more than twenty-five lines of references to the Christian belief. The poem is about good vs. evil, or the heavens vs. hell. Paganistic implications are also in the poem....

Pain has an element of blank
Pain has an element of blank Although cryptic in language and structure, Dickinson gives her work an instinctually vivid sense of emotion. Her examination of the feeling of pain focuses in on only a few of the subtler nuances of pain that are integral parts of the experience. She draws in on an "Element of Blank" that she introduces in her opening line. In exploring pain, she proposes that this "blankness" is a self-propagating force that is subject to the dynamic forces of time, history and...

Panopticism
Panopticism Focault Panopticism �Our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous concrete training of useful forces; the circuits of communication are the supports of an accumulation and a centralization of knowledge; the play of signs defines the anchorages of power; it is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated, repressed, ...

Paper motif on Invisible Man
Paper motif on Invisible Man Ralph Ellison�s Invisible Man depicts a realistic society where white people act as if black people are less than human. Ellison uses papers and letters to show the narrator�s poor position in this society. Many papers seem to show good fortune for the narrator, but only provide false dreams. The narrator�s prize of a brief case containing his scholarship first illustrates this falsehood: �take this prize and keep it well. Consider it a badge of o...