Dracula and Jesus Dracula and Jesus' Count Dracula has many similarities to Jesus Christ throughout Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Although Jesus represents good and Dracula represents bad, both have things in common. They are both supposed to be presented as a godly and all-powerful figure. In this novel, you find similarities in the way they die, what happens when they die, and how oth

Do The Mass Media Have A Liberal Bias' Do The Mass Media Have a Liberal Bias' I believe that there is no question whether the media has a bias or not, but the question is does the bias lean more heavily to the left or more to the right. Through reading these two articles I believe that the first article written by Robert Novak to be more or less correct in its accusations. I believe

The Loss Of The Creature Responding to Walker Percy’s “The Loss of the Creature” Imagine what it would be like to be the first person to discover and see the Grand Canyon in the reality of its beauty. Once an entity has been discovered, is the reality of it’s existence preserved, or does it lose it’s true essence forever after' If the latter, then is there a sure-fire way to ever reca

Armed Citizen The Armed Citizen Gun control is the idea that people's ownership of and access to guns should be limited to law-abiding citizens who fall within three distinct groups: those who need guns in the line of duty like police officers, people who are collectors or members of gun clubs, and people who need guns for protection and safety. Gun control advocates believe that restri

Cask Of Amontillado In Pace Requiescat (Rest in Peace) Edgar Allan Poe creates a mood of horror in “The Cask of Amontillado” through the setting, the main character, and the internal conflict he faces. Taking place in the catacombs beneath Montresor’s residence the reader is given an image of death; fraught with his decision to punish Fortunato for the various insults that have tarni

Invisible Man Invisibility of the Invisible Man Living in the city, one sees many homeless people. After a while, each person loses any individuality and only becomes “another homeless person.” Without a name or source of identification, every person would look the same. Ignoring that man sitting on the sidewalk and acting as if we had not seen him is the same as pretending that he

Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy established himself as a novelist with his early literary work, which depicts contemporary manners in Russian aristocracy. He presented what he saw with clarity and objectivity. However, later on in his lifetime, he revolutionized his lifestyle and his writing style. He modified his writing style to portray only a moral romanticism; focusing on the proper way one

Great Expectations Is chapter one of Great Expectations an effective beginning to the novel' Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations under a large amount of pressure, but this did not diminish the quality of his novel. In the nineteenth century novels of this kind were published in weekly instalments in magazines. The first instalment was published before Dickens had even questione

1984 A Futuristic Novel 1984 was written in 1949 as a foresight in to the future, George Orwell pictured the near future to be totally control by controlled by 3 super countries. The main character of the book lives and works in one of the super countries, his name is Winston. Winston works for the Ministry of Truth, a branch of the government that works on changing all written document

Death Of A Salesman Female Roles Women in today’s society have a variety of roles to perform throughout their lives. To become a complete woman, one must embrace each role as a vital piece of her own individuality. As the expectations of society changed with feminist movement, women recognized these new aged standards. Which in turn combined the roles of women into one co

The Birthmark The Birthmark Imperfections are found in everyone. The difference is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Those in true love, love unconditionally. The flaws they find in those they love are found to be unique, and make them more amazing to their lover. If someone is not in love, but they believe they are, the quirks and flaws they find in the person can be foun

Of Mice And Men Choose a novel which portrays a close relationship between two characters. Show how this relationship develops and adds to your enjoyment of the novel. The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is set in California during the time of the depression. The book is about two men who keep on getting chased out of villages when they just want some money to buy a house of th

A Rose for Emily A symbol is a person, character or a object in a story used to represent an idea. In the short story, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, the symbols reinforce the themes of tradition vs. progress, decay and the passage of time, and love that is not returned. Emily Grierson, her father, Colonel Grierson and Colonel Sartoris, now deceased, represent the Old South. Th

The Pearl I. Type of Story In my opinion The Pearl is a very interesting novel in the way that the book is written and the problems that are so realistically portrayed. The author chooses a poor Indian Village as the setting for his story, probably to show that it really doesn’t matter where one lives, since greed exists all over the world. Kino, the main character, finds a huge pe

Little Cinder Girl The classic story of Cinderella that we all know is just one of more than a thousand versions of the story that have been written in different countries and by different cultures all over the world. No matter how many different ways it is written, no little girl can resist the story of Cinderella and finding true love with her prince. Every culture has a Cinderell

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy In “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adam, the main character’s, Arthur Dent, main conflict was that he was placed into a foreign situation with no idea of what to do. But first to describe Arthur Dent, he is a British man with seemingly dim wit in the beginning of the book, but this is mostly due to his own confusion. Arthur’s best friend

Southern Authors Versus Contemporary Modern Authors Southern Authors versus Contemporary Modern Authors The writing style of the southern authors of the past is quite distinctive from the modern contemporary authors of today. They are each unique in their perspective because what or how they view the subjects they write about. Older southern writers such as Wilma Dykeman, Eudora Welt

María Concepción The protagonist in Katherine Anne Porter’s story “María Concepción” is María Concepción, herself. She is a young woman, around eighteen years of age, who is married to a man named, Juan Villegas. She finds herself in a situation, in which, she doesn’t know how to handle. The story follows María Concepción through each step of her emotional breakdown after finding her hus

Review Of May God Have Mercy By John Tucker May God have Mercy by John C. Tucker gives an account of the story of Roger Coleman, a Virginia man tried and executed for the 1981 rape and murder of nineteen year old Wanda McCoy. This book gave a very in depth, detailed review of every aspect of the crime, trials, and events that led to the execution of Roger Coleman. Even as the most stau

A Good Man Is Hard To Find A Florida trip is very nice to consider when traveling. However, Tennessee was on grandmother’s mind the whole time in Flannery O’ Connor’s “A Good Man is hard to find.” Maybe if everyone had stuck to her plan, the story would not have happened the way that it did. In the beginning, the family planned on having a nice vacation for Florida. Grandmother insis

Alice In Wonderland 2nd Hour The major themes of Alice in Wonderland are Identity, coming of age, and fantasy vs. reality. Throughout the book Alice goes through experiences and trials to find out who she is. Alice also questions what is true and why it is true. Lewis Carroll uses Alice in his story to explore the many things children have to learn as they grow up. Many times

A Good Man Is Hard To Find Most authors don’t write their stories with predictability for the reader. They want to keep the reader thinking. If the reader notices that each event that occurs is too predictable, then they begin to lose interest and wonder why they are still reading. They already know what’s going to happen. But Flannery O’Connor uses predictability to her advantage. O’Con

Beloved After the abolishment of slavery, the black community became the core of African American culture and life. This was due in part by segregation and other socioeconomic factors, but also to the spiritual and social unity of each black member. This was well exemplified in the story, as each former slave underwent arduous struggles to affix the broken pieces of their lives and attem

Beloved Toni Morrison's Beloved is a book about a community made up of individuals running away from their pasts. Learning how and what they are running from, it becomes obvious that no one can deal successfully with the burden of past memories alone. The black community is the core of African American culture and life. This is due in part by segregation and other socioeconomic factors,

An American Tragedy An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" and "The Scarlet Letter" by: Jamie Newlands Two American authors, of two distinctly different time periods had one very similar task, to turn a piece of American History into a believable tragedy. Arthur Miller with The Crucible and Nathaniel Hawthorne with The Scarlet Letter. Perhaps one might wonder which au

Call Of The Wild Call Of The Wild The main character of the novel, The Call of the Wild, is a St. Bernard and Scotch Shepherd mix, named Buck. As I read the book, I found out that Buck can be very loyal and trustworthy to his master, if his master is loyal to him. Also, at times I found that Buck could turn into an enraged beast very easily. At home, which was a large

A Rose For Emily Critical Analysis This essay is the critical analysis of “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner. The work was first published on April 30, 1930. It discusses the story of a woman whose father kept her from love and after his death her struggle for love and control. Emily Grierson did not change with the times as a normal person would, the town around her changed and

Journal Response: Salvation Journal Response: Salvation – By: Langston Hughes This reading talks about a young boy struggling in church to find Jesus. It starts out with members of a church with there young children at a ceremony to have there sins taken away and to find Jesus. The boy is told by his aunt that he will see a light and something will happen inside him when Jesus calls.

The Never Ending Night In the autobiographical novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the young teenager Elie underwent the transformation from a boy who had faith and honored his God to a man who no longer believed in that God. Elie was a Jewish boy who lived in a small Hungarian town called Sighet, during World War II. When Elie was fifteen, Germans invaded Hungary and sent all his friends and fa

Bill Budd Billy Budd Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were perfect. They were innocent and ignorant, yet perfect, so they were allowed to abide in the presence of God. Once they ate a piece of fruit off the Tree of Good and Evil, however, they immediately became unclean as well as mortal. In Billy Budd, the author, Herman Melville, presents a question that stems directly from this origi