Bloody Chamber In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the two female agents in the stories ‘The Tigers Bride´ and ‘The Werewolf´ in regards to the post-modern feminism of our times. Initially in ‘The Tigers Bride´ a father looses her daughter (beauty) to The Beast in a game of cards. Obviously Beauty resents her father for this act, this is shown in, “My father said he

Brent Staples: Just Walk On By In "Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space" Brent Staples discusses his ability to alter others emotions with his presence. He details numerous accounts of people mistaking him for a thief or mugger. In each of these situations though, he maintains an understanding demeanor. After the woman hastily escaped from Staples, he d

Bone Black In the book Bone Black, Bell Hooks gives a vivid look into her childhood. She starts off by talking about a quilt that her mother gave her from her mother. She thinks that this is special because her mother gave it to her and not one of her other sisters. Then she goes into describing how the children in her family never knew that they were poor until they grew up. They li

Book Review Of Huck Finn Jim’s escape from freedom is not a well-laid out plan, just rather a lucky turn of events. Jim heard of being sold down river and ran away for the island in the river and if Huck didn’t fake his death and preoccupy the town Jim probably would have been captured. When the two got on the raft and headed down river Huck protected Jim in a couple of close encounters

Cause of Death In the novel, Cause of Death by Patricia Cornwell, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the main character, is house sitting for her deputy chief medical examiner. Dr. Scarpetta is the chief medical examiner for Richmond, Virginia. She receives a call from a police officer saying there is a dead body underwater at the Inactive Naval Ship Yard. The doctor receives another phone call from a D

Kuipers After reading this book by Kuipers I felt it deserved a review that would make at least honest attempt to give proper credit for the wonderful insights that the author makes in this book. This past semester I have been obligated to read books on linguistics and culture, and this is the extent of my knowledge in linguistics, nothing more. Prior to reading this book by Kuipers, t

A Pirate Looks At Fifty The book A Pirate Looks At Fifty by Jimmy Buffett is a remarkable look back on one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century’s life as told by Buffett himself. The reader joins Jimmy on a journey through the Southern Hemisphere as he celebrates his 50th birthday. As he travels from country to country Buffett takes time, between fishing, surfing, and loung

Archaeology Of Pre-Columbian Florida Book Review: Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Florida In reading this attention-grabbing book by Jerald T. Milanich, I began to understand why so many people, whether amateur or professional, are so interested in the history and archaeological findings of Florida. Scholars and non-scholars alike would be motivated in reading this book because of its

The Red Badge of Courage 1. Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage Tor Books; Reissue edition (July 1997), Fiction, 319 pages Summary: The Red Badge of Courage is an exciting story of a young boy, Henry Fleming, who joins the Union Army because he wants to be remembered for his brave deeds. His mother stalls him for sometime until he signs up. He joins the 304th New York Regiment.

1984 Total Control 1984, by George Orwell, is a novel about a man named Winston Smith. Winston lives on Airstrip One in Oceania. Oceania is a country under the rule of the Party and a figure who is referred to as Big Brother. The citizens of Oceania are taught from birth to love Big Brother and not to posses any independent thought. In short, they are taught to be stupid. Anybody

The Little Prince The Little Price The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry There is a combination of subjects in the book including fantasy, sarcasm, philosophy, poetry, science, imagination, and childish fun. The little boy teaches the reader many values that older people seem to forget more often in everyday life. This adventure begins when Saint-Exupéry makes a forced landin

The Old Man and the Sea and The Crucible In the books that we have read this semester there are two books that I chose to write about the first being The Old Man and the Sea and the second being The Crucible. The reason I chose these two books is because I feel that if there are driving forces inside of every person that make a person do bad things there also should be something inside

Borges The task of fiction is to construct a reality that mimics our notions of the real. For some authors, the notion of the real is itself a fiction. Jorge Luis Borges, considered a master of the short story form, constructed stories that parodied the power of fiction to penetrate and alter reality. His works are riddles which attempt to subvert our very notions of the real. He combine

Brave New World A Different World; A Different Person All forms of art have greatly influenced my life and have had an enormous effect on me as a person. Throughout high school, of all the great works of literature, poetry, and other types of art that have given me a feeling of joy, my senior year I discovered one piece of literature that stands out and opens my eyes to the world aro

Brave New World Huxley expresses his view on drugs through Brave New World. He opens our eyes to the direction that we might be heading which is towards a drug-infested world. One of the reasons Huxley wrote a Brave New World is to awaken the world to the possible directions that we might be heading towards. If we could sniff or swallow something that would (for five or six hours each d

Brave New World Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwells’s Nineteen Eighty-four are the most influential futuristic novels of the 20th century (Firchow 83). In Orwell’s story the state controls its citizens with fear and punishment. Winston Smith (protagonist of 1984) is forced to love Big Brother by the starving rats in room 101. In Aldous Huxley’s satire

Brave New World The novel Brave New World is like no other in fantasy and satire. It predicts a future overpowered by technology where the people have no religion. Has Huxley written about a degrading way of life or has he discovered the key to a perfect world that should be called Utopia' This essay will show that upon close analysis the way of life in the novel is justifiable and all t

Brave New World Brave New World Chapter Summaries Chapter One: In the first chapter, Huxley begins by showing us how they segregate the citizens and the process in which they come into the world. Chapter Two: Here, they tell us about how conditioning is basically the foundation for which everything depends on. Chapter Three: Huxley makes many references to sexual a

Brave New World Brave New World The author of this great book Brave New World is Aldous Huxley. He was born in Surrey England in 1894. I believe that Aldous Huxley was one of the greatest authors of this generation. In 1959 Aldous Huxley received the Award of Merit for the novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. I usually do not enjoy reading books but this book capture

Brave New World Summary The novel is set in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford). The world is ruled by World Controllers who ensure the stability of society. To do so, a caste system has been created, reaching from intelligent Alpha-Pluses to dwarfed and stupid Epsilons. A drug called soma ensures that no one ever feels pain or remains unhappy, and it is used by members of every caste. Socia

Brave New World - Mustapha Mond “Come on Rico, just get in the car and let’s get out of here,” exclaimed Jack, Rico’s best friend. Rico stands next to the passenger door, with his hand on the handle, but is frozen. Racing through his mind are both reasons for going with his friends and reasons for staying home. He knows his friends have been drinking heavily, but he does not want to f

Brave New World Review Group Project: Cold War Literature - Fiction Many novels throughout the 1950’s sought to show the ills of communism. A reoccuring trend in these books is that they show the world from an apocolyptic stand point; possibley to show the negative outcomes from a war on Communism. After the apocalypse the world was run by a stringent set of rules that mirrored com

Breakdown Of Tolkien Imagine being in a world before the industrial world and into a world where magic and mystery are the dominant force of life. Step back into a world where there are monsters, demons and evil wizards, but with this, there are friends all of kinds, fairies and good wizards. Here one has entered the world created by Tolkien, Middle Earth. . Tolkien went beyond creat

Briefing For A Descent Into Hell Taken from the novel, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell, the quote, “…in pulsing dark, crouched, I holding on, clutching tight, …rocking, somewhere behind the gate, …and a dark red clotting light and pressure and pain and then OUT into a flat white light where shapes move and things flash and glitter.” (135) is a description of the miracle of birth. Birth

Brody: Stories Of Sickness Howard Brody has written a terrific book called Stories of Sickness. I am going to talk to you about some ideas in this book which I have found helpful in thinking about experiences of sickness--my own and others-- and in thinking about experiences of 'story',--as storytelling, as fiction and fact that I have read about in books. The point would be to have stor

Broken Cord As time passes there are endless diseases and illnesses that our discovered, incurable, and that trouble our society. In the book The Broken Cord there are many contemporary issues that are raised through the lives of the characters. We learn of the disease Fetal Alcohol Syndrome through one of the main characters (Adam). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is passed to a child during

Broken Lives EXPOSITORY TEXT – BROKEN LIVES Broken Lives by Estelle Blackburn is a relevant expository text that through research has lead to a solid argument; 19 year old John Button was wrongfully convicted of killing his 17 year old girlfriend in a hit-run. In her efforts to influence her readers of such views, Blackburn has entered into the world of a serial killer, presenting

1984 Winston Smith, the main character in the novel 1984, rebels, acts stubborn, and shows braveness against the Party in many ways. The Party is a group who controls the people of Oceania. There are many rules that the people must abide by. If they don't and they get caught, they will be punished. Winston was one of those people who rebelled until he got caught. One of the ways he rebel

The Ilad Plot (Synopsis): In the tenth year of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans, Chryses, a priest of Apollo, comes to the Greek camp to ask for the return of his daughter Chryseis. She had been captured during a raid and given as a prize to Agamemnon. When Agamemnon refuses to return the girl, Chryses begs Apollo to punish the Greeks. The result is that a plague is sent upon

Burning Barn "BURNING BARN" The story "Barn burning" at first seemed to be very confusing to me, and I really at first did not understand it very well. As I continued to read and re-read paragraphs it started making more sense to me. I still am not clear about exactly what the entire story is about, but I am giving my opinion of what I think the story is about. I think that the stor