Daughter College Essays Samples For Students

The Robber Bridegroom is a fairy tale written by Eudora Welty in 1942. Eudora’s story is based on the original The Robber Bridegroom by Grimm Brothers. The story is about the life of Rosamond, a beautiful woman who was raised by an evil step mother after the death of her mother. The novel opens with Mike Fink meeting the robber Jamie Lockhart, who later on kidnapped Rosamond. As it progresses, it follows another character, Clement Musgrove to his home where he stays with his second wife Salome and Daughter Rosamond. After Rosamond was kidnapped by the robber Jamie Lockhart, they ...

Although there are some similarities between the attitude of Daniel Orozco in Orientation and Jamaica Kincaid in Girl, there are austere differences in their attitudes towards their audience. In the short story Girl, Jamaica Kincaid portrays a mother imparting advice to her daughter as she prepares to face life as an adult. The short story by Kincaid shows the demeanor of a mother who admonishes and advices at the same time. On the other hand, Daniel Orozco explores the premise that all workplaces have secrets and gossips upon which people judge others. In his presentation, Daniel Orozco has the speaker in ...

Introduction

Literature has for long time been used as a communication's path in society from one generation to the other. It is widely used as a way of expressing one’s thoughts and sentiments. Moreover, scholars use literature as a platform to criticize their opponents’ style of approaching issues and propose alternative solutions to the underlying issue. Literature could be expressed orally or in written form in the current century; literature is preserved as video and audio tapes, published articles or scholarly books.

In-depth Analysis

William Shakespeare is one of the ancient scholars who expressed their feelings, opinions and intuitions through writing. In one ...

"A Lost Grave" by Bernard Malamud and "A Conversation with My Father" by Grace Paley are remarkably two of the greatest stories published during the 21st century. Both authors are outstandingly experienced, talented and with greater ability to use fiction and irony to sway their audience. Grace Paley and Bernard Malamud stunningly and ingeniously use narration to generate stories that utterly explained the real apprehensions that are affecting the society. The stories offer a unique insight into the challenges confronting people in their diurnal lives. Despite being written by celebrated authors from diverse genders and cultures, “A Lost Grave" and " ...

Introduction

Shylock is presented as a villain as shown by his stringent terms he gave Antonio while borrowing loan from him. Shylock is evil because he treated Antonio unfairly because he was a Christian. He gave very strict conditions of repaying his loan. He argued that if Antonio failed to pay the loan a pound of flesh will be cut from his body. This condition showed how inhuman Shylock was towards the Christians. "Two thousand ducats in that and other precious, jewels my daughter were dead at my foot " Act 3 Scene 1 line 83. Shylock also wanted her daughter Jessica dead because ...

Introduction

The story “Good Country People” by Flannery O. Connor is about a wealthy woman, Mrs. Hopewell, whose daughter, Joy, is a hard headed philosopher. Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter has a PhD in philosophy, something that her mother is not proud. Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter, Joy is rude and antisocial, and has a plastic leg which she is sensitive about. The second story is titled “The Life you Save Might be your Own” by the same author. Its characters are an old woman, her retarded daughter and a stranger, Mr. Shiflet. These two homesteads are visited by intelligent conmen who come disguised as holy, principled ...

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The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World is a short story written by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez in 1968. Márquez originally wrote it in Spanish, the story was translated into English in 1972, for publication along with a collection of Marquez’s short stories entitled Leaf Storm and Other Stories. It is set in a small presumably Colombian village that subsists along the shore beneath the mountains.
Kabuliwala is a short story written by Rabindranath Tagore. It is a story told by the father of a family in Calcutta about his daughter Mini and Abdul Rehman Khan a trader and peddler of ...

“The Story Of Yingying” is a commemorated Chuanqi written during the Tang Dynasty as a narrative about the hapless affair between the young scholar Zhang Sheng and his cousin Cui Yingying, who is also the Tang court’s chief minister’s daughter. Zhang Sheng immediately falls in love with Cui Yingying when h meets her, even though he is snubs him off when he enters her room, and is also disapprovingly scolds him for his actions (Owen 149). Despite eventually falling in love, Zhang has to depart to Chang’an in pursuit of his civil service examination. Ultimately, the couple had ...

Matchstick Men (2003) Ridley Scott

Section 1

The film Matchstick Men (2003) by Ridley Scott is about two professional con artists, Roy and Frank. The main character Roy has some emotional problems such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Agoraphobia and Mysophobia. Frank is his ambitious apprentice, and they are really good partners in any swindling activity. Roy and Frank swindle people’s money by selling water filtration systems for $700 that could be bought for $50 at any hardware store. In addition, they also swindle people’s money through package vacations, prizes and tax refunds. Since Roy has OCD that becomes more ...

English

There exist conflicts between the older and the younger generation, in relation to moral, cultural and behavioural presentation. The story talks about the mother-daughter relationship, in the line of perceptions and objectives of life. First, the mother is a perfectionist and cautionary towards daughter’s life. What is more, the conservative nature of the mother raises conflicts the modern generation. On the other side, the daughter adopts contemporary way of life and resigns to the mother’s wrath on ideal living. The chronological structure of the story addresses stages of human development among women. The study aims at extrapolating on ...

When people start living together and share some specific ideology and interests, society is formed. People have a tendency to interact with one another and the exchange their ideas and thoughts on several issues. Due to Such interactions, society, more or less, starts behaving and thinking in a specific way. Society categorizes several ideas as good, bad, necessary, and unacceptable (Jackson). It is not essential that what society believes is right or ethical; it may even be completely unethical. The same trend has been portrayed in Shirley Jackson’s story, "The Lottery”.
Jackson, through her words, portrays the dilemma as ...

Donald Trump, the father of men and gods, had an incomparable power and influence both beneath the sea and on the surface of the earth. His power made him invincible by any being, alive, dead, buried and unburied. For centuries, the father of men and gods ruled over land and sea and could obtain whatever it is he desired until he met Madonna, the goddess of beauty, compassion, procreation and sweetness. To Donald Trump, Madonna was like the purest diamond of Congo forest and glittered like the purest gold of Thailand. Disappointingly, Madonna did not want anything to do ...

Poem Analysis (TOPIC A)

There are several causes that led Matthew, the lead character in both The Fountain and The Two April Mornings by William Wordsworth, to wallow in deep sadness, which he seeks to overcome. In the first poem, Matthew is contemplating about the end of his own life. At 72 years old, Matthew is very much aware that he does not have much time left, which is why he is reminding the speaker, both of them aptly described as “[a] pair of friends” (line 3), that “With Nature never do they wage / A foolish strife; they see / A happy youth, ...

- While conducting research, scientists need to understand the main variables within their experiments. Define and provide an example of both an independent and dependent variable.
In any research there are mainly two variables; the independent and the dependent variables. Any scientist needs to understand the variables very well because of the following reasons. First the variable determines the type of methodology that can be used in the study. What this means is that the type or variables would determine how the whole research is carried out. For example, a variable might have qualitative or quantitative aspects that would ...

English

“Girl” is a short story written by Jamaica Kincaid and lists things a daughter should do and when to do them. In this story “girl”, a mother tries to give advice and instructions to her daughter who is growing up. The poem between the mother and the daughter ends with exchange whereby the daughter directs questions to the mother after all the comments. Girl’s theme is a mother-daughter dispute as the mother goes all the way teaching her daughter on how to be a good woman in the future times (Edwards et al, 45). The daughter seems not to appreciate the mother’s ...

For a long time mother/girl child relationship has been ragged as affirmative action movements has taken place. Huge populations of women have conventional assumptions about on what any female individual should do. In the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is a good depiction of this relation. The theme in this book revolves around the assumption that a woman is supposed to be domestic and therefore should act in a given manner.
Often, a high number of elderly women are of the opinion that female’s major role in the society is to be domesticated. The theme in the short story “Girl” emphasizes ...

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Responsibility involves morals and ethics clearly defining a parent’s role as to knowing what actions are necessary to take. The decisions parents take on those actions affect how a child’s life will be determined, resulting in a vital turning point. Consequently, in “As I Stand Here Ironing” the feeling of welfare for Emily was stronger than the perception of the narrator seeing as a victim. Based on Emily’s childhood, she was not affected by the circumstances of the time but by the affection the narrator gives ...

1) Did each of the agents freely commit the acts?
In case 1, Caleb had the free will throughout. He had the freedom to decide the amount of liquor that he would drink. If he did not want his girlsfriend to drive, he should have taken the responsibility to stay sober to be able to drive safely. However, since the act is not drinking but driving the car into the river, Caleb cannot be blamed. It was circumstantial and Caleb had instead tried very hard to save themselves from drowning.
In case 2, however, Ellen completely had ...

English

“Girl” is a short story written by Jamaica Kincaid and lists things a daughter should do and when to do them. In this story “girl”, a mother tries to give advice and instructions to her daughter who is growing up. The poem between the mother and the daughter ends with the exchange whereby the daughter directs questions to the mother after all the comments. Girl’s theme is a mother-daughter dispute as the mother goes all the way teaching her daughter on how to be a good woman in the future times. The daughter seems not to appreciate the mother’s advice and after ...

James Wan’s The Conjuring is often considered one of the best horror films of 2013, among the likes of Adam Wingard’s brutal home invasion thriller You’re Next, Fede Alvarez’s camp remake Evil Dead, and Jim Mickle’s slow-burn cannibal story We Are What We Are. Unlike the other horror films of the year, however, The Conjuring was a more conventional approach to the genre, with the heart of the narrative being paranormal investigators investigating a family haunted by a doll possessed by a demonic entity. Annabelle serves as both a prequel and spin-off of The Conjuring and narrates the equally-eerie ...

The short story "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid presents a list of instructions for a girl from her mother. When analysing this directive, it is possible to state that mother's message to the girl is quite contradictory in its nature: it poses strict limitations for the daughter clearly delineating what is acceptable and what is not, expresses a certain level of disdain towards the girl, but at the same time shows mother's care and concerns about her child.
When reading the story, it is difficult not to notice the manner in which the mother talks: she keeps giving instructions one by one ...

This paper discusses an episode (particularly episode 1 of season1) of the British TV series Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey is a period drama show which is set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate and follows the aristocratic lives of the residents living at Downton Abbey. Till date there are 5 seasons released in the UK each having 7 to 8 episodes. Each season can be viewed as a mini drama series.
Structurally the series is quite similar to that of a drama presented in the theatre. There is a script (referred to as a screenplay as it is viewed on TV screen) which ...

Two Kinds is a story found in the book ‘The Joy Luck Club’, written by Amy Tan. The short story is about the conflict between a mother and her daughter who are clearly separated by things such as age, culture and perception. Jing-Mei Woo is the main character, and it is clear from the beginning that the high expectations her mother has over her affect her way of life. Through the unfolding events that the author gives, we get to understand the course that events took. In essence, whereas Woo saw Jing-Mei as a prodigy in piano playing, Jing-Mei detested this internally ...

Introduction

There are different film genres that we have. Grouping of the film genres has proved to be quite a problem in the past. However, the different genres have been realized, and it is notable that most films have more than one genre (Friedman, 23). In some cases, the genres have a common similarity and have several differences. For the woman’s and noir films, they are both feminine based. They keep on changing as the film progresses.

In a woman's film, the protagonists are defined by the nature and the society unlike in the male genres where protagonists are defined by action. ...

Mary Wollstonecraft was born in Spitalfields located in London on 27th April 1759 and died in 1797 in London. Mary’s father was an abusive man to her and her family; therefore, she decided to live home and became a writer in 1780. This occurred after the death of her mother (Kaplan). She became an advocate for women’s right. In her short career, she was able to make a name for herself. When she was alive, her personal life was famous especially in her love life. It is claimed that she became involved with Gilbert Imlay and gave him a child. ...

In the script, Clytemnestra kills Agamemnon to avenge the death of her daughter. Earlier on, Agamemnon had slain his daughter as a sacrifice to the lords to grant him favor in the war that was brewing in Troy. Even though Clytemnestra does not say anything, she is pained by the way through which her daughter was killed like a goat. She pretends to welcome the King when he returns from the war and later kills him. According to her, he had brought shame and the wrath of the dismayed gods upon the people. Her murder is one of revenge and hatred. ...

Essay

Everyday use is a short story by Alice Walker, from her story collection “In love and Trouble”. The storytelling of the “Everyday use” is made by “Mama”, who is a narrator of the story. “Everyday use” by Alice Walker illustrates very well the difference between the narrator and her daughter, Maggie, both raised according to traditional black culture of their region and Dee “Wangero”, educated and successful daughter of Mrs. Johnson, which tries to scorn her roots in favor of the native African identity.
Narrator’s tone, addressed to Dee shows that Mrs. Johnson still considers “Wangero” as her daughter, ...

Imitation of Life is a drama film directed by Douglas Sirk in 1959 and recognized as one of the pinnacles of classic Hollywood melodrama. The plot is set in New York. The main character is a young widow Lora Meredith, whose dream is to become a Broadway actress. So she saves money and comes to New York with her six-year-old daughter Susie in order to try her fortune in acting. One day at the beach the paths of Lora and Susie cross with the paths of Annie, a colored woman, and her light-skinned daughter Sarah-Jane. Lora resolves Annie to live at her apartment, ...

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Psychology
Female genital mutilation is a practice in some cultural traditions, which is partly or total removing of the external genitalia of girls and young women for non-medical reasons. According to the article there are four types of going through the procedure; the first type is removing partial or cutting of the clitoris and/or the prepuce. Second type is removing partial or total, of the clitoris and labia minora, with or without excision of the labia majora. The third type is narrowing of the vaginal orifice by cutting and bringing together the labia minora and, or, the labia majora ...

A Reflection

Jean Beatty’s poem entitled “My Father Teaches Me to Dream” caught my attention from the first time I read it because it speaks of a truth that comes from wisdom. Also, I like the poem because I was able to relate to it in a sense. In reminded me of the tone my own father used to make around me when I get too caught up in my dreams that I forget the consequences of reality. I remember my father used to tell me not to expect too much. My mother would chide him for ‘ruining my dreams’ but he ...

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Factory workers are the backbone of the economy. They blend machine and manpower to provide steady industrial growth, economic prosperity and revenue inflow. In the United States of America, factory workers have represented and reinforced the concept of hard-working, middle-class Americans since the early 20th Century. The ideals of “Living the American Dream” has largely been inspired by the factory workers; a philosophy that epicenters hard-work, sacrifice and making an honest living. However, with the turn of the century, the conditions of factory workers have changed drastically and as we head towards ...

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The story, the poem is depicting is about a daughter’s trip back home to see a glimpse of her sick father. It shows how she faced the obstacles hurdling in front of her. It also explains the difficult relationship she had with him but still wanted to be beside her father before he died. From the poem, we can assume that the central character, the daughter, is determined and courageous as well as loving. She was responsible enough to realise that it was a daughter’s duty to be beside her father at the time of his need, especially at ...

Toni Morrison’s Sula and Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” are two texts that explore the African-American woman’s quest for sexual and social autonomy, in that both texts contend that the African-American woman’s construction of a sexual identity is primarily shaped by the women who raise her, as well as societal expectations and traditions. The process by which an African-American mother or mother figure teaches a young African-American female about sexuality is often laden with religious indoctrination, accusations of licentiousness, personal anecdotes about male duplicitousness, and fearful warnings about chastity. Both texts illustrate how the enforced standards and multiple instructions ...

I watched the Parker Family case recently, in which a social worker helps a mother and her daughter, who have difficulties getting along.
Apparently Mrs. Parker and her daughter Stephanie’s issues started since Stephanie’s father passed away. They were unable to hold a conversation with each other without it resulting in a disagreement. In fact, they couldn’t agree on anything. However, after talking to the social worker, they both agreed to one point, that the fighting had to stop. They were able to open up to the social worker due to her display of empathy and understanding with which ...

Prose Commentary

Prose Commentary
Selected Scene: “Disney Brave” is a story about a princess named as Merida, she was a brave girl who has expertise and skills in archery. The Scottish kingdom of DunBroch was the princess kingdom, and she was living with her mother, father and 3 triplet brothers. The scene I have selected is after ten years have gone her mother Elinor wanted her 16 years old daughter Merida to become a ladylike princess and act as royal children does as she has born as part of the royal family. Also, she should carry all the kingdom qualities in her to govern ...

Webster as a Parent and a Husband

Introduction
Anita Shreve’s “Rescue” is about the emotional and physical trauma between parents and children. A delicate and interesting novel explores the life of the Webster and Sheila, as they are trying to realize their past and begin again. Anita Shreve is a best-selling author who has followed a simple style in the novel “Rescue” that is straightforward and concise that has no confusing points of view or complex flashbacks (Bukowsky, 1). She has portrayed her characters in a way that are insightful that has never failed to take the readers into it, especially the character of Peter Webster. “Rescue” ...

Tom Wingfield, the character and narrator in the play, mentioned their father when he disclosed that he left the family a long time ago. Likewise, his father was described as a telephone man who left his job and eventually left them. The last memento received was a postcard from Mazatlan, a place noted to be on the Pacific coast of Mexico . The father may be the most important character since his absence adversely affected the other members of the family: Amanda, the wife; Tom, his son, and Laura, the daughter.
Obviously, the member who was extremely affected was Amanda Wingfield, their mother ...

Dear daughter,

I am writing this letter to you to introduce you to the interesting stage of life that is waiting for you ahead, which, unfortunately, I will not have a chance to witness. Still, I believe that with the knowledge and experience that you have already received in life with my help, you are sure to cope with all the future challenges and problems perfectly. In this letter, I want to show you how fascinating, it is to move along your path in adolescence and how much is waiting for you before you become an adult.
First of all, I ...

The makeup isle

People are spending more and more time worrying about their appearance and trying to dress like models. Young girls are particularly one of the most affected by this due to the media portrayal of what is considered beautiful. Magazines are particularly responsible for sending the girls all the wrong messages about hot to embrace the “hot” look. Today, even young girls are conscious about the supposed hot looks and want to imitate images that are often presented magazines and through the media in general. “The makeup isle” meme is about a father who sends a message to her daughter regarding the ...

The two life events that had a significantly positive impact on my life include moving away from Texas as a 13 year-old, and the birth of my first born daughter. I had lived with my single mum for a very long time until met my step dad. Since that moment, I became rebellious and became involved with the wrong group of people. I almost got killed while these groups. My grandparents were very supportive, and they let me move with them to Texas. While there, I felt like I had a new life to make something of my life and to make my ...

The story “The End of Life as she knew it” is about a lady, Joan Didion who suffered a devastating peril involving her family on the Christmas day of 2003. Her problems began on that fateful Christmas day when her daughter Quintana who had suffered flulike symptoms was booked to the emergency room at Beth Israel North Hospital in the city of New York. The untimely attack of Pneumonia and septic shock sent her to the intensive care unit and had her booked up to a respirator.
Five days later and before she could even show signs of recovery, Ms Didion’ ...

Latin American autochthonous mystery fiction happens to be a rarity, although Americans readers have avidly devoured plenty of translations of foreign whodunits or detective stories. Thus, “Who Killed Palomino Molero?” by Mario Vargas Llosa is an archetypal example of a non-English detective novel, written after the Latin American Literary Boom of the 1960s. However, Llosa happens to have quite a neat and skillful hand at detective fiction, has proven from the previous novels that he has written, such as “'The Perpetual Orgy.” On the surface, it seems that Llosa fulfills the requirements of the detective fiction genre, his novel moving at a slow ...

Characters used in works of fiction react differently to different situations and this in return communicates something to the reader. These reactions elicit feelings that a reader uses to analyze how the story grows from the beginning o is climax and conclusion. It is of importance to note that in as much as these works are mere fiction, they are meant to reach out to the reader and make the readers act in a certain way in reaction to their actions. At times, when a character in a work of fiction dies or is hurt, the reader becomes sad or happy depending on ...

Beloved is a lyrical masterpiece authored by renowned and award-winning American writer, Toni Morrison. American has a long and complicated history. Since its inception, the country has undergone metamorphosis from one epoch to another. Some of these epochsare more significant to an American than others. The Civil War of 1861-1865 was one of the critical ones. The institution of slavery was still prevalent and acceptable within the American society. Moreover, women were viewed as inferior to men and the society held the view that a woman place was in the kitchen. In is in this historical context that Morrison decided to tell a ...

It is about fifteen years ago when Brando Skyhorse alongside his young daughter found himself in a foiled murder scene. He was basking in the light at the Option when he watched a young woman feeling her way like a blind person into the crowd. The woman was about the age-mate of his daughter. She was busting with her own pain, desire, and courage. Although Brando had five hundred dollars, which was enough to take him with his daughter as far as San Francisco, he could not attempt to run because it was pathetic and cowardly. Besides, he was too exhausted and ...

I have chosen to examine four short stories whose characters are people with physical markings or mental disorders. People who have these traits are unusual and regarded as odd by "normal" people. Usually, they develop some mental powers and become able to achieve much more than people who have neither physical nor mental problems. Maybe these "marked" people achieve success because they believe in themselves, whereas, "normal", healthy people tend to be paradoxically more self-conscious which hold them back. However, they are always there to judge the challenged ones. The stories that were particularly interesting to me are: Roman ...

Terri schiavio was a woman who collapsed in her home in Florida as a result of full cardiac arrest. The cardiac arrest caused her extensive brain damage which resulted from proper supply of oxygen to her body and especially her vital organs. She was in a comma for two and a half months after which the medical team in charge of her health declared her state as a vegetative state. Attempts by medical practitioners in terms of physical therapy and speech therapy in order to revive her to full consciousness all proved futile.
Her husband was of the opinion that she had lost ...

In the present day American society, children are raised in different families with each family having different views about the education and academics of their children, how to help these children become successful later in life, and the role of parents in raising these children. While reviewing two articles: “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” and “Two Kinds” by Amy Chua and Amy Tan respectively, this will provide the explanatory analysis that seeks to find the similarities and differences in these articles. This paper focuses on the narrations of the authors of the articles to determine importance of parenting and ...

The Bridge of San Luis Ray is a novel written by Thornton Wilder. The story presents a dilemma as to whether the tragedy that occurred is as a result of divine intervention or by chance. The setting of the novel takes place in Lima, the capital city of Peru. It talks about the demise in titular San Luis bridge’s collapse when five people were crossing it. The novel explores the lives of five people who perished in the bridge and reveals their life struggles for survival. Moreover, it talks of the sadness that is created by the undying love of the ...

Introduction

Pugs and pigs refer to animals kept at home as domestic pets especially when they are young. The two kinds of animals boast of several similarities such as appearance and behavior. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the similarities as well as the dissimilarities that exist between pigs and pugs.
Both pigs and pugs are small in body size and have curly tails. Pugs usually weigh between 20 to 24 pounds. However, most of the pugs are susceptible to becoming overweight or obese. The two closely related animals also snort and both have wrinkles ...

Mitosis is an essential process in the cell cycle for the growth and development of an organism. Over the years, numerous studies have been conducted to understand the dynamics of mitosis and literatures about the process are fast accumulating. However the mechanism that is important in the vicissitudes of cellular shape during mitosis has remained unknown. Until later, a groundbreaking research on a “small ubiquitin-related modifier” (SUMO) will unravel the mystery that takes place when the cell changes its shape during mitosis.
It is a general knowledge that during the early stage of mitosis, the cell takes a round shape at the ...

Chris Rock is a curious man with the ability to encourage people to talk about matters that may appear private. He is quick in response to the conversations with the people he interviews. He also possesses a lot of information and at the same time misleading facts and opinions. This gives him strong grounds on convincing people to present facts and information relating to hair. Chris Rock establishes credibility on the subject of hair through interviews and research on various aspects relating to hair in the context of the way the American hairstyles are imitated by their black counterparts.
Chris is ...

Writing a Fairy Tale

Introduction
The book presents some ideas that I never knew and if I knew I knew the least. I was so much familiar with one of the weaknesses of writing that scholars do get into. I was so much conversant with the confusing caper concerning the super-long sentence as one of the pitfalls of writing. It is commonly obvious that if one has difficulty in briefing conversations, he or she not only confuse himself or herself but also his or her audience. This too applies to writing too long sentences tend to confuse more than informing. The first ...

Byron and David’s Ideals Of Love in Disgrace By J. M. Coetzee

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Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee begins with the narrator telling the reader how David Lurie, at age fifty-two has sex solved. It goes on to describe a situation in which one afternoon a week, David visits a prostitute whose real name he does not even know in order to fulfill his Eros, or desire for erotic love in his life. He marvels that sex under his first two marriages used to be so complicated and now it is all so simple. But love and sex, are inevitably entwined within the ...

In E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime, the American Melting Pot is represented by a variety of characters, all of whom experience and communicate with each other in numerous important ways. One of the more fascinating and closely-connected characters in the novel is Evelyn Nesbit, who is told by Emma Goldman early in the novel, “But there are correspondences, you see, our lives correspond, our spirits touch each other like notes in harmony, and in the total human fate we are sisters” (60-61). This sentence sums up the spirit of the book – everyone is connected, and everyone corresponds with each other in ...

Culture is defined as “the expression of human spirit in the fields of fine arts, literature, philosophy, as well as their reflection in everyday individual and social codes and values” (Gourtsoyanni, n.d). Ethnicities and cultures all around the globe have developed different ways of artistic expression over the years and it seems that people tend to use art for its unique qualities; those of passing on knowledge and information to others, stimulating senses, and expressing and affecting emotions. Moreover, numerous forms of artistic expression, like music, visual media, literature and film provide some of the best means for modern ...

Undercover Parent

In the article of Coben entitled “The Undercover Parent” that was featured in New York Times, the topic is the limitations imposed on parents when stepping in the privacy world of their children. The main thesis of the article is that the act of installing a spyware of parents on their children’s computers is considered appropriate if the children are still minors, but for children who are aged 18 and above, such act of the parents is considered a violation of the right to privacy. The initial reaction of Coben is commendable since he believes that it is appropriate for ...

Write an analysis of any one major character in Beloved

Introduction
The novel Beloved is the work of Toni Morrison an African-American female writer. It is an interesting story that revolves around the period after the American Civil War which took place between 1861 and 1865. This narrative is based on a true story of a black slave called Margaret Garner who, during the slavery period, had escaped from Kentucky to Ohio which was then a free state. Margaret killed her two-year old daughter than have her face the horrors of slavery after state officials invoked the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and attempted to take her back to her master. ...

Poe’s theory major statement pertaining his work is considered to be “The Poetic Principle.” He first delivered it in the 1848 in Rhodes Island when he was giving a lecture on it. This presentation was reported to have drawn an audience of two thousand people. It later took two years for the lecture to be printed on paper and where he never saws the prints as he had died the year before. In his theory, he read and briefly summerized or rather discussed a few poems by other writers. It also included several statements where he restated the purpose of ...

Introduction

In Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, female violence and ultimate rebellion is displayed. Women have gone through oppression for centuries and this sometimes could push women into rebellion and violence. The society in which these women are brought up in is a clear definition of misogyny. Titus could easily decide to kill Tamora’s son, his ability to decide who Lavinia could marry and his final decision and ability to kill his daughter Lavinia if only to dispose of his family shame. After Lavinia was raped, his father bore a great resentment for his daughter. He saw her as an unending source ...