Last January 10, 2013, I, together with my English 211 classmates watched the Lantaw 2012 Short-film festival. It’s my first time to watch a short-film here in USM since Lantaw is a yearly activity here in our school. I was really excited to watch those …
Bram Stoker’s Dracula debuted in Victorian England at the end of the nineteenth century. Not the first vampire story of its time, it certainly made one of the most lasting impressions on modern culture, where tales of the supernatural, horror, witchcraft, possession, demoniacs, vampires, werewolves, …
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story about a woman who is slowly slipping into madness because her doctor husband will not acknowledge that she has postpartum depression. Conversely, “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe is another short story about …
In the beginning of the movie, the Narrator has a nice apartment and fancy furniture. After his apartment is destroyed, he moves in with Tyler and they live in an abandoned house that is practically falling apart, and make soap for their living. After losing …
I will just say right off the bat: while I moderately enjoyed reading Lois Lowry‘s The Giver and give it credit for being an early teen-centric dystopian novel (before it nearly became a genre of its own), I am not a fan of the 2014 …
What Does it Mean to be a Man or a Woman? A theme the tragedy of Macbeth routinely reveals is one of gender roles. Throughout the play, many characters struggle with conflict within themselves; not unlike conflicts that we face inside ourselves today. Various major …
A Comparison of Two Works “Desiree’s Baby” and “The Sniper” are two different stories, written by two different authors, in two different time periods, in two different geographical locations. A common thread can be found, however, when one traces certain attributes throughout the stories. Both …
Bram Stoker’s Dracula debuted in Victorian England at the end of the nineteenth century. Not the first vampire story of its time, it certainly made one of the most lasting impressions on modern culture, where tales of the supernatural, horror, witchcraft, possession, demoniacs, vampires, werewolves, …
Some Interpretations Have Portrayed Tragic Heroines as Manipulative Plotters Driven by Passionate Desires. Others Have Seen the Tragic Women as Victims of Powerful Individuals or Society as a Whole. Bearing in Mind By Troubleshoots Gertrude is a very minute character in Hamlet, yet the same …
Amber Lyles Humanities HNS Period 9th 18 September 2011 Wisdom From Suffering “Suffering is the price of being alive. ”; “make use of suffering. ” These straight forward quotes sourced from the thoughts of Judy Collins and Henri-Frederic Amiel are produced from different origins but …
Erin Brokovich is a true story of an unemployed single mother of the title name who is desperate to find a job in order to support her three young children. Without any real skills and work experience, borderline inappropriate wardrobe, but armed with charm, wit …
People really misunderstand Ponyboy’s true capability in the book The Outsiders’. He’s practically the main character in the book, as he grows and learns. In the book he struck me as the dreamer, inspirational, intelligent, innocent, loyal, thoughtful type of guy. Ponyboy had a goal …
Macbeth’s Soliloquy In Macbeth’s soliloquy Shakespeare uses many rhetorical devices to magnify Macbeth’s change in attitude about killing Duncan. Two of the main rhetorical devices used in the soliloquy are rhetorical questions and allusions to Hecate and Tarquin. These two devices help Shakespeare depict the …
If we must fight, we should put up a damn good one. In my power struggles in the past, either within myself or with others, I realized that when I am in the right I don’t back down. I assert my standpoint well and stand …
Surviving in the wild can be difficult, especially unprepared. In the novel, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, Brian Robeson must work to survive in the wild with limited materials. Through the book Brian learns to use positive thinking and patience in order to survive. Through his …
Dr. Seuss once said “We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it to love” I like that quote …
From Trivial Pursuit winner, Name That Tune in two notes, to asking my grandfather what his name was. That’s how my summer began in 2010. Sue was a charismatic, loving grandmother whose mind was sharp as a tack. She never failed to put a smile …
Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, captivates the audience and readers with a unique plot and note worthy characters. Of these characters, Macbeth, not unaffected by evil, an internal or external force that compels an individual to do harm to others, ultimately reaches self-devastation …
Introduction The fictional characters of the River Islanders Sherlock and Dr. John H. Watson have captivated readers and audiences for generations. Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, these burly figures have become synonymous with detective work and have left an indelible mark on literary and …
Oedipus meets all the criteria of a tragic hero. He is of noble birth with a character that is consistent throughout as a truth-seeker, always in quest of knowledge, and a riddle-solver wanting to be a savior of people; yet as every other person, he …
The title-“The Scarlet Ibis.” Let’s think symbolically here. Scarlet…red… blood, danger, death, evil. Doodle’s brother mentions the “knot of cruelty borne by love, much as blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction…” Blood. There’s the scarlet again. This story is red. From Doodle’s vermilion …
He would then later not have seen Aphelia being carried off into her grave. Here Hamlet fought with Alerts about how many crocodiles that they would eat to prove their love to Aphelia. Alerts would not have been back if Aphelia and Polonium had not …
Chante Hamilton Maturity Maturity. What makes an individual mature? Maturity comes with age and time. It is the ability to make wise decisions. It is also the way in which people act toward different situations. Maturity can be shown in the way organisms develop. Society …
In the Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois’s visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister’s brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the reveling truth of why …
In the Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois’s visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister’s brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the reveling truth of why …
Is It Ridiculously Long Lasting? In the recent Stride commercial, Shaun White endorses their new Whitemint flavored gum. The advertisement’s main purpose is to promote the gum by creating an ironic situation that grasps the audience’s attention with a humorous tone. Without stressing the product …
In the stories “The Frog Prince” by Gustaf Tenggren and “Hazel Tells LaVerne” by Katharyn Machan are both very similar stories with relation to a frog. The one thing that seems to jump out to the reader is that one story takes place in a …
In Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. Yet, Elizabethan sonnets still carried the tradition of Petrarchan conceit. Petrarchan conceit was a figure used in love poems consisting detailed yet exaggerated …
Love at first sight is believed by many, but would someone really devote their life to a person they barely know? Petrarch, a poet of the Italian Renaissance, saw a beautiful woman named Laura one day while attending mass and fell madly in love with …
Forced marriage – Feud (we don’t know what the feud is over, its never explained. Its clearly fate because they don’t know what they’re arguing about) – Meeting at the party (Romeo is drugged) – Violence: Deaths of Table and Mercuric (influences) when Romeo kills …
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