Marijuana Marijuana Marijuana! Legalizing it or not, this debate is growing rampant just like the Roe vs. Wade trial, an abortion trial that goes to the Supreme Court. Marijuana is a drug that people smoke to make them feel free and care less about their world. It would take them to a dream world of their own that only they could imagine. Is marijuana good or bad' Why are so many p

Latin American Writers Before 1960 it was very uncommon to hear of the "contemporary Spanish American novel": there were Uruguayan, Ecuadorian, Mexican or Venezuelan novels. However, during this decade, a literary explosion of Latin American literature took place named “The Boom.” El Boom "was simply the discovery of a new literary language in which to express Latin American reality wi

Mary Shelly As society changes around us, we spot things we never noticed before: high divorce rates, murder rates, and drug use just to name a few. James Riddley-Scott and Mary Shelley noticed and had a fear of child abandonment. In Frankenstein, Shelley explores this subject through the viewpoint of a man, Victor, who creates a child so hideous that he cannot bear to look at it, and co

My Mexican American Experience My Mexican American Experience John Philip Santos’ Things Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation and Norma Cantu’s Canicula, are two memoirs that illustrate the essence of family and history. As the fourth generation in my family to be born in the United States, I could somewhat relate to the traditions, the stories of the family interactions, and th

A comparative study of Sydney Carton in Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, and Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet A comparative study of Sydney Carton in Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, and Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, requires the reader to analyze various aspects that the transforming effect

Moby Dick Authors throughout history have used the biblical accounts to enhance their own story. Herman Melville’s classic American novel Moby Dick is no exception. In Moby Dick, Melville uses innumerable biblical allusions, but readers can observe this literary technique best in the naming of his characters. The use of the Bible in literature is a powerful tool for an author; it allows

Modern Literature The Lost Art of Short Story Telling A short story is, by definition “an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot” (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary). Short stories contain certain elements, which consist of the following: plo

Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal, supposedly written by an intelligent and objective "political arithmetician" who had carefully studied Ireland before making his proposal. Most of you probably know this one. The author calmly suggests one solution for both the problem of overpopulation and the growing numbers of undernourished people: breed those children who would otherwise go hungry

Moral Structure The Moral Structure in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find Thesis: Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” expresses how people know what is morally and ethically wrong, but in their mind they are right; it just takes something more for them to see the difference. I. Family interactions A. Respect needed for parents B. Grandchildren are mout

My Accident March 24, 1994 is a day that I will never forget. I had stopped at the 82nd Street Café about 3:30 in the afternoon, here in Lubbock, to have a late lunch. I left the café about 4:00, to head home. Leaving the parking lot was difficult due to all the traffic that was on 82nd street. Finally, I was able to pull out into 82nd and work my way into the turning lane in order to tu

Onomatopeia ONOMATOPOEIA Pow! A great descriptive word in the English language, the word Pow is a perfect example of the literary term, onomatopoeia. Authors make use of all forms of onomatopoeia to exaggerate the dramatic implications of the word that they wish to use. A clear understanding of the word onomatopoeia can be achieved through an analysis of its formal, informal, and hi

Multicultural Literature: A Slow Walk Into The Canon Multicultural Literature: A Slow Walk Into the Canon When deciding what works of literature should be included in an anthology designed for non-U.S. readers, we must first decide what is considered essential to U.S. literature. Without a question, the great writers of the past would be included, those considered canonical, but the

My Career Goals My career goal is to further develop the national center that was created for American Indians and to increase the capacity and dimensions of the Center to include a department on aging and the issues that our elders face. The creation of a national disabilit center for Indian Country has been a long time goal of not only myself but of colleagues who work every day to im

Gilgamesh The best-known of the Mesopotamian myths, one of the world’s oldest surviving pieces of literature is the Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh ruled the Mesopotamian city of Uruk around 2000 BC. Gilgamesh was part human and part god. The epic was composed around 2000 BC and tells the story of the journeys of Gilgamesh. According to the epic of Gilgamesh there was a great flood. The

My Inner Shrimp Essay Anaylsis To make one’s writing more effective, the author must utilize a variety of elements of style. Examples of these styles include schemes, tropes, word style, and specificity. The essay, “My Inner Shrimp,” by Garry Trudeau, uses a high style of writing and a multitude of tropes. Word style makes use of the author’s choice of word usage. High style contai

Native Son Native Son - Richard Wright #1 Post-Reading After Bigger Thomas, the central character of this novel, has “murdered a white girl and cut her head off and burnt her body,” he thinks that he has “created a new life for himself. It was something that was all his own, and it was the first time in his life he had anything that others could not take from him.”(Native Son- Bo

Blake And Wordsworth: The Importance Of Childhood Blake and Wordsworth: The Importance of Childhood Childhood has been said to be the thing we spend the rest of our lives getting over. To a Romantic, this statement could not be further from the truth. Romantics see childhood as a time of innocence, an exquisite time of beauty and growth, a time where one can see the world through u

Irony For Thought Irony for Thought What is irony' The Bedford Introduction to Literature defines irony as “a literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different that what appears to be true.” In short irony involves a conflict of some sort between two things. In modern literary studies, there are at least five types of irony, but this pape

Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge The Dreamlike Death of Peyton Farquhar The title of the short story I chose to analyze is Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. The story is set in the South during the Civil War. The main character in the story is a man by the name of Peyton Farquhar. He differs from most main characters in stories in that we originally know little ab

Mid Term “You” Language, Factual Statements, and Feeling Statements The song that I chose to dissect for this assignment is “In The Air Tonight” by Phil Collins. There is a huge misconception of the meaning of this song, which is a big part of why I chose it for this project. Many people have heard that Phil Collins wrote this song out of anger toward a camp counselor that he had as

Old English & Middle English Literature During the Old English and Middle English periods there were various conquests and invasions by the Vikings, Danes and the Normans. But before the invasions of Britain, Christianity began to appear in Britain and ended up being widespread throughout Britain. It started in the southeast where the Roman cleric Saint Augustine converted King Ethelbert

Language Language Language is a combination of symbols that one user uses to place thoughts in the mind of another user of that language. If asked, why do you use language' Your answer would be as simple as, you speak because you desire to communicate. Surely, your answer would be true but the in depth of this would be that we speak because we want to convey our ‘thoughts’. This is whe

Overcoat By Gogol A Revolution through Literature Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol’s The Overcoat is a humanitarian and mystical short story about the dreary life of a low class man. Akaky Akakievich is a forlorn copying clerk in a stuffy government office. He is wholly devoted to his routine and monotonous copying, so much so that the continuous mocking and ridicule in the office do not keep

Persuasive Essay Should the United States have gun control or not' Imagine today, somebody or the government came into your town and started taking possession of all your personal firearms. Just so they could keep you under their control. What would you think or do about this' In the summer of 1768, the British army tried to disarm the new residents of Boston. This proce

Comparison / Contrast Essay Comparison/Contrast Essay Irish Wolfhounds are one of the biggest dog breeds in the world; I have two living in my house! Although Seamus and Teirnan are the same species the have several major differences in their appearance and personality. The Irish Wolfhound The Irish Wolfhound is the tallest of all dogs. The beasts come in a variety of colors and

Plagiarism Plagiarism In high school and college, plagiarism is on the rise and administrators believe this is bad, immoral and unethical. They believe it is stealing someone else’s ideas, their hard work, research, time, and that a student does not learn if they plagiarize. There are several reasons why students choose to use the words and ideas of another rather than to author th

Daniel Pearl The United States of America is a “special nation”, with a manifest destiny to become the “protectors of the free world”. And so the ironic battle begins here as we began to realize that the free world is in a paradox of itself. As protectors, this ideological thinking has grown into a foreign policy, and freedom is no longer just a gift but instead every human’s right and

Pizza Guy Vs Mailman The Pizza Delivery Guy vs. The Mailman If you had to compare and contrast two individuals or groups, would you ever think about choosing a pizza delivery guy and a mailman as your subjects' I figured that most people would choose the obvious groups: Blue-collar workers and White collar workers; Smokers and non-smokers; Drinkers and non-drinkers. I didn’t want to

Banned Books: An Evaluative Essay Censoring Books: An Evaluative Essay Some people feel our world is corrupt due to what is between the cover of a book. They feel words inspire immorality and sinful actions. Their objective becomes a war against controversial books. These people feel they are protecting themselves, their families and communities from perceived injustices and evil,

Howard Gardner Theory Of Intelligence Howard Gardner and Theory of Intelligence In the article written by Howard Gardner entitled, “A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences,” he explores why some people, even though they have performed poorly on society’s standardized intelligence tests, are significantly more successful than those who have scored well on the same tes