English Essays

A Complete Turnaround
A Complete Turnaround A Complete Turnaround Sharon Old�s poem, �The Victims,� deals with an underlying theme of abuse. Old�s illustrates this theme through the tone of the poem, which is achieved by imagistic language, rhyme and rhythm. In this poem the speaker is illustrated through two points of view, first as a child then as an adult reflecting back on a troublesome childhood experience. As the speaker�s point of view changes so does the use of poetic devices. The po...

A Considerable Speck Compared to 4 Other Poems
A Considerable Speck - Compared to 4 Other Poems Knowledge and Technology in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur�s Court A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur�s Court is a complicated novel that fundamentally deals with the concept of the human experience. Hank Morgan is a nineteenth century mechanic who is transported back thirteen centuries to medieval Britain, during the time of King Arthur. After his initial shock, he becomes determined to "civilize" Camelot by introducin...

A Couple of Papers on Frankens
A Couple of Papers on Frankens Book Report: Rights and Responsibilities-Frankenstein February 15, 1998 When you think of science you think of hypotheses and conclusions, applications and benefits, which are all for the good of humankind of course. And with each new discovery, the human race takes one step further away from all other species and one step closer to perfection because that is the quest. Right? The point is to take every proven law and "unprove it" or "add on". Scientists invent...

A Crime In The Neigborhood
A Crime In The Neigborhood It was the summer of 1972 when Spring Hill, a Washington, D.C., suburb, got its first taste of an increasingly violent, insecure modern world. The quiet residential area, whose inhabitants traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one another's cookout, was rocked by the news that 12-year-old Boyd Ellison had been raped and murdered, his body dumped behind the local mall. While shaken residents organized a neighborhood watch prog...

A Crime In the Neighborhood
A Crime In the Neighborhood It was the summer of 1972 when Spring Hill, a Washington, D.C., suburb, got its first taste of an increasingly violent, insecure modern world. The quiet residential area, whose inhabitants traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one another�s cookout, was rocked by the news that 12-year-old Boyd Ellison had been raped and murdered, his body dumped behind the local mall. While shaken residents organized a neighborhood wat...

A Critical Analysis of Oz
A Critical Analysis of Oz "Inmates of 'Oz' are Evil" "Oz" is an eight episode miniseries drama which is shown on HBO Wednesday evenings at ten o'clock. It is necessary to note that since HBO is a cable television network, it is not subject to the same restrictions that are placed upon basic networks. Oz is the nickname for the Oswald Maximum Security Prison. The setting is Emerald City, or "Em City" as referred to by the inmates. The warden is Leo Glynn, and the "Em City" creator and ...

A Critical Survey of Poe
A Critical Survey of Poe Poe is unquestionably one of the great American writers of all time. He was far ahead of his time with his vision of a special area of human experience the "inner world" of dream, hallucination, and imagination. There is a distinct connection between Poe's nightmarish life and his works. His fictional works resemble a distressed individual who has a pattern of dreams night after night with the same repeating tone of terror. Critics interpret his works as being a ...

A Dead End Dream Death of a S
A Dead End Dream- Death of a S �Death of A Salesman," by Arthur Miller, is a play that tells the story of a traveling salesman, Willy Loman, who encounters frustration and failure as he reflects on and experiences his own life. Willy�s quest for the American Dream leads to his failure because throughout his life, he pursues the illusion of the American Dream and not the reality of it. His mindset on perfection, his obsession with success, and his constant reminiscence of the past and f...

A Demon Haunted World
A Demon Haunted World A Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Well I can certainly see why this book was rated with five stars. I found Sagan�s book, �A demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark� one of the most eye-opening books that I have read in a very long time. I must admit that when this book was first presented to me I doubted just how great this would be. Here in my head I was thinking �Okay I don�t want to read a book about engineering I ...

A Brave New World and 1984 A Comparisson
A Brave New World and 1984 - A Comparisson Although many similarities exist between Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, the works books though they deal with similar topics, are more dissimilar than alike. A Brave New World is a novel about the struggle of Bernard Marx, who rejects the tenants of his society when he discovers that he is not truly happy. 1984 is the story of Winston who finds forbidden love within the hypocrisy of his society. In both cases, the m...

A Certain Hunger
A Certain Hunger In the essay "A Certain Hunger", by Maggie Helwig it shows how people can develop a negative body image about themselves because of the way society praise and glorifies models and "thin" celebrities. People would be more secure about themselves, if everyone would accept people as they are, and help the people who have these image problems before they lose control, lose self- confidence and lose hope in themselves. ...

A Child Called It
A Child Called It A Child Called �It� A Child Called �It� is the story of a young boy who, in order to survive, must triumph over the physical, emotional, and medical abuse created by his mother. The exploitation of alcohol plays an important role in the abuse by the mother and the neglect to see and the courage to intervene the problems by Dave�s father. Dave considered the abuse he endured by his mother, �games�. But he always tried to be one small step ahead of he...

A Christmas Memory vs
A Christmas Memory vs. The Gra The two stories, �A Christmas Memory� and The Grass Harp are strikingly similar due to the fact that Truman Capote wrote both stories. The settings of both stories are very similar. In The Grass Harp the setting is very sullen: the season is fall, the days are always cloudy, and it is very slow moving in a small southern town. Similarly, �A Christmas Memory� has dismal and sluggish qualities of a southern, rural community in the dead of winter. The firs...

A Christmas Memory
A Christmas Memory It is curious that as children, humans have the ability to observe and remember details of specific situations and instances yet lack the ability to describe them. Truman Capote, as a grown man, took advantage of his vivid memories and composed the short work, "A Christmas Memory." The story begins in late November, a month symbolic of all the years gone by that Capote could remember beginning preparations for Christmas fruitcakes. The year he has chosen, though,...

A Classic Hero
A Classic Hero Field of Dreams: Ray Kinsella a Classical Hero? Was Ray Kinsella a triumphant hero who dared to live his dreams, or merely an insane lunatic who blindly followed voices that could only be heard within the confines of his mind? Although either of these theories could be argued successfully, the idea that this intrepid man was indeed a hero is supported by a list of characteristics that generally indicate a classical hero. In the movie, Field of Dreams, Ray Kinsella ...

A Clean Well Lighted Place
A Clean Well-Lighted Place Different Eyes, Different Minds "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway is a story which emphasizes on three age groups that each have a different view of life. By analyzing the three different points of view, we see Hemingway�s perspective of an old man. The short story is about an old man that sits in a very clean bar every so often who drinks away at two o�clock in the morning and is the last one to leave. There are three waiter...

A Clean, Well Lighted Place In Despair About Nothing
A Clean, Well Lighted Place - In Despair About Nothing In Despair about Nothing Man is often plagued by the question of his own existence. Existentialism is a subjective philosophy that is centered upon the examination of man�s existence, emphasizing the liberation, responsibility, and usually the solitude of the individual. It focuses on individuals finding a reason for living within themselves. The philosophy forces man to make choices for himself, on the premise that nothing is ...

A Clean, Well Lighted Place
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place This story was written by Hemingway in 1933. It details an evening\\\'s interaction between two waiters, and their differing perspectives of life. Hemingway uses an old man as a patron to demonstrate the waiter\\\'s philosophies. Hemingway is also visible in the story as the old man, someone who society says should be content, but has a significant empty feeling inside. What follows is a line-by-line analysis, putting emphasis on the philosophies of the waiters....

A Clockwork Orange Calculated Captivity
A Clockwork Orange - Calculated Captivity Calculated Captivation "Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man." In Anthony Burgess� A Clockwork Orange, a sadistic adolescent of the not-so-distant future is �rehabilitated� of his violent nature by a special conditioning treatment. This fifteen year-old hoodlum Alex McDowell is �cured� of his savage activities but when released back into a still...

A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange The new American edition of the novel A Clockwork Orange features a final chapter that was omitted from the original American edition against the author's preference. Anthony Burgess, the novel's author, provided for the new edition an introduction to explain not only the significance of the twenty-first chapter but also the purpose of the entire book, which was the fundamental importance of moral choice. Burgess states that the twenty-first chapter was intended to sho...

A Comparison Between the Dysto
A Comparison Between the Dysto In 1949, George Orwell wrote 1984, a stunning novel envisioning haunting images of the future. Fifty years later, The Matrix, a movie directed by the Wachowski brothers, debuted on the big screen featuring mind-blowing special effects and complex kung-fu choreography. There are many obvious similarities between these two works of fiction. For example, both 1984 and The Matrix are dystopian visions of the future, which is to say, both deal with the maintenance o...

A Bintel Brief
A Bintel Brief A Bintel Brief A Bintel Brief, the book of letters from the Jewish daily Forward brought to me the realism of life as a Jewish immigrant. The times were rough on them, they used the �Bintel Brief� to reveal there problems and to get answers. When I started to read the book I was looking for specific answers to some questions. What do the letters reveal about how immigration was a large part a culrutal process that lasted well after Jews and other immigrants arrive...

A Bird in the House
A Bird in the House The theme of entrapment is evident in Margaret Laurence's A Bird in the House; all the characters in the novel are entrapped. These characters deal with the sense of confinement and the need for escape. Vanessa, Ewen and Aunt Edna all reach personal freedom, however only to a small extent because they are left with the pain of their memories and regrets. Vanessa reaches personal freedom to a small extent. The stories in A Bird in the House show the pains that ...

A Birthday
A Birthday Christina Rossetti�s poem "A Birthday" and Kate Chopin�s short story "The Story of an Hour" present conflicting attitudes toward love. In particular the speaker in Rossetti�s poem is anticipating and overjoyed by the arrival of her new found love, whereas the character in Chopin�s story, after the initial shock of her new found freedom , was overjoyed by the loss of her love. In the poem and short story several literary elements and techniques were used to convey th...

A Book Report of Robinson Crus
A Book Report of Robinson Crus A Book Report of Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe The Book Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story about a man named Robinson Crusoe who�s bad luck puts him alone on a desolate island. He has to survive through very tough conditions and keep his sanity. Throughout the book Crusoe question�s himself and his faith time and time again, "Why did god put me on this island all alone." His faith in god fluctuates all through the story. At one point he becomes ill ...