Category: English

Throughout the novel The Catcher In The Rye, Holden Caulfield seems to be banning adulthood. In today’s society people often ban concepts that they do not agree with, however I believe that Salinger’s novel tells life stories that hold significant values and morals. I find that society has a way of overruling one’s own ethics…

A Farewell to Arms is a historical novel which incorporates romance into the story line. Ernest Miller Hemingway wrote this story through his own experience in World War 1. [adsense:336×280:1:1] The story is about a man who is American but is serving as an Italian ambulance driver who falls in love with a nurse. He…

In the play, “The Merchant of Venice” a Shakespearean comedy by William Shakespeare, the author expresses the idea of appearances versus the intentions in reality through Bassanio’s speech (3.2.73-107). This speech takes place when Bassanio is deciding which of the three caskets: contains the portrait of Portia but more importantly the grant to marry Portia…

Strickland, Ruth G. The Language Arts in the Elementary School. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1957. Print. Dr Ruth Strickland outlines in great detail that as a child grows he learns to communicate through spoken and written language. This type of communication is directly reserved for man and enables us to become thinkers and achieve greatness in…

Hope and love can be two extreme blinding factors in a person’s life. The two emotions hold back characters from seeing the reality of situations and making clear minded decisions. Jay Gatsby’s hope, the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, that she will come back to him and his unrealistic expectations that he…

Golding’s Themes Outline Thesis: A running theme in William Golding’s works is that man is savage at heart, always ultimately reverting back to an evil and primitive nature.

What are the values and morals that make up a true hero? There are various ways in which a hero can be described according to their differentiation from others, including the types of qualities they bear and what they may accomplish. A hero can be recognized for his/her good deeds or influence on specific people…

Winston Churchill once said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Now Churchill would enjoy the following three stories of average men going through tragic accidents and hard times. The three stories are: “Willing to Pay the Price”, “Yes, You Can”, and “The Cowboy’s Story”. These…

To this day, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is known as one of Mark Twain’s greatest masterpiece. This book is all about one little boy and all of the crazy adventures that he has with his friends. The readers are forced to look inward and see that, even though Huck does not realize what he…

Technical writing is an essential part of the corporate world, because technology in present day is far to complicated for the average individual. That is were the technical writer is a valuable asset, the skill set they have enables the consumer to use, and understand the technology of the product. Technical writing is supposed to…

After looking through numerous newspaper ads and online listings, I decided to start looking for jobs that I wanted rather than those that I was “just” qualified for, which were mostly entry level crap labor jobs. So, after a while I came the Google employment site: (www.google .com) where I found a listing for an…

The readings “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” could be easily said not to share any similarities. Both stories take place in different times, different society backgrounds and beliefs. Even though such is true, after reading these short stories a couple of times, I noticed that…

“The Yellow Wallpaper”,by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is narrated by the protagonist, in which struggles with her psychological difficulties through a wallpaper. Her infatuation with the wallpaper, love/hate relationship takes over, and alters her thinking as time progresses. This psychological tale analysis’s the position of women in a marriage during their era. Her husband who is…

Have you have ever pushed, threatened, or touched someone inappropriately? If so, you have either physically, sexually or verbally abused someone. Generally speaking, the word “Abuse” means treatment of something, such as a person, or thing, that causes some kind of harm or is against the law or just plain wrong. Physical abuse is a…

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Walking down a school hall with shiny waxed marble flooring and smooth stone walls so high they could have reached heaven I wondered what it would be like coming to this school. Moving farther down the hall I came upon two massive doors. I gazed upon a magnificent gym that could hold 2000 cheering fans.…

In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, we hear from the tragic hero expose his inner conflicts and reveal his intellectual thought process involving death, hate, suffering, fear and honor. Each soliloquy divulges his motivations, or lack thereof, as well as his mental state at the time of each one.

From two different places, from two different worlds, it is amazing how two people with separate pasts can come together and form an enigmatic bond. Willa Cather captured this in My Antonia between its two main characters, Jim and Antonia.

In Anthem, by Ayn Rand, the leaders not only enslaved the bodies of their people, but they also destroyed their minds and had seek to accomplish a tyrannical end. The leaders of Equality 7-251’s community took control of the bodies and mind of the citizens, by completely brainwashing them from the day that they

Romanticism and Transcendentalism are two great forms of art that greatly contribute to literature and make it what it is today. In this paper I will show you why I believe that by telling you what both romanticism and transcendentalism are and also how

In the span of your life time, you will certainly be sure to encounter some struggle against nature. Your struggle may be as little as trying to change a tire in the middle of a rain storm or as severe as expressed in Stephen Crane’s story The Open Boat.

With the 2008 presidential election less than a year away universal health care is the topic of many debates and a very important issue on the minds of all Americans. I believe the United States should

“Welcome! Please come in!” piped the recorded voice as we went in a store. Those were the first few words I heard when I went to Chinatown, (Manila) a few days ago with my friends. As we strolled along the streets of the bustling little Chinese town, I was filled with

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much). As an American infantry scout and a prisoner of war, he witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, and survived to tell

The French artist Joseph Roux once said that “Solitude vivifies, but isolation kills”. Many things have a negative impact on society; one of these things is an individual being isolated. This will not only have a negative effect on society but also on the person being isolated. In three short