Literature College Essays Samples For Students

It is apparent that finding happiness at work is a mirage for many people. Many people work not because they enjoy or are happy with the work they are doing but because there are bills that have to be paid. However, Joanne Gordon’s introduction to “Be happy at work” focuses on how people can enjoy their work and be happy. She centers her issues on women and work happiness as the major topic of her text. According to Joan, women are happy at work when they like these aspects about their work; purpose, people and processes. She supports her ...

Response Essay "Jane Eyre" – The Emerging Feminist Self

Primary to understanding first, the novel "Jane Eyre" and, second, following the eloquently expressed reading on the subject of the novel's protagonist is the dire need for having a fundamental understanding of the times the author lived. Understanding the limitations of every woman of that era who maintained a superficial no matter her social status, education, and sense of self, she remained almost invisible in the world run by men. This academic response to "A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress" reading focuses on how the characterization of Jane forms the underpinnings of the fundamental angst experienced by women ...

When it comes to the subject of war, no two experiences are the same. Each individual leaves the battlefield having felt different feelings. They carry baggage home with them that only they can deal with because only they understand what they are going through. Two good examples of come from a comparison of Tim O’Brien’s, “Pro Patria,” and Brian Mockenhaupt’s, “I Miss Iraq. I miss my gun. I miss my War.”

O’Brien’s chapter from his novel provides an almost charming backdrop prior to O’Brien’s enlistment. He has a happy childhood, punctuated with trips ...

Family has always been one of the main topics of novels, short stories, poetry. Authors from all over the world discussed different families from different points of view. The families had different problems and habits. Moreover, authors tried to present their personal views on families when writing. Authors used different metaphors to present a family and different families to present a metaphor. Such works are the most interesting to read. It is interesting to follow an author’s mind and observe how a family is developing. Moreover, it is interesting to compare all the readings, all novels one has read and contrast ...

The research question being discussed is on primate evolution. From the scholarly article concerning Phylogency of living primates. The primary argument is the evolution is both complex and controversial. This is because the phylogeny is robust, and it shows primate evolution from the past to recent times (Seuánez HN 2011). It clarifies various controversies concerning taxonomy and provides recent data and findings on human evolution. The ancient lineages, different rates of evolution and dispersed distributions of insertions in the primate lineages are discovered (Perelman 2011). This helps in explaining the human selection and adaptation, the discovery of zoonotic ...

International Baccalaureate

Introduction
“The Joy of Writing”, a poem by Polish poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is an engaging piece that uses vivid images and everyday language to provide new meanings about the creative art of writing. The poem seems to centre on three questions about a commonplace character, related images created with written words and setting. The poem mentions of a doe that hounds the woods in order to drink water from a spring and lifts its head on hearing some ominous sounds. The initial images that Szymborska uses on paper as a writer using her mind and pen set her ...

Compare and Contrast Robert Frost's Mending wall to john Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” was written by Romantic poet John Keats in 1819 and is known for its profound meditation and conclusions on the nature of beauty. It highlights the issues of beauty, truth and eternity. It portrays Keats’ attempt to understand the eternity of sculpture, an art form. Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” was written in 1914 and depicts how two men meet on terms of civility to repair a wall between them. This paper will try to compare and contrast “Ode on a Grecian Urn” with “Mending Wall” with regards to form, structure, and themes.

Keats’ “Ode ...

Sarma, K M, and Lani Sinclair. Protecting the Ozone Layer: The United Nations History. Earthscan, 2002. Internet resource.

In this book, Sarma, a former secretary and acting consultant of UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) together with Anderson and an Environmental Protection Agency of the US published about the history of environmental issues as per researches done by UNEP. They talk about how the ozone layer agreement was successful and inspired the entire world community to handle the ozone layer problem and several other environmental degrading issues. The history covers the media coverage, diplomacy, science, business policies and technology stories ...

Section I

Many students come to class with a grand vision of their future. Personally, I did not come with a vision in handy as I joined. The only thing I hope is to do well in class and sustain a good grade that will steer me to the next level in school. To be able to achieve a quality grade, I have to demonstrate coherence of the topics covered. I took this class, as part of the general requirements as writing was not a pivotal niche in life. I have the tenacity to catapult this condition and perfect my writing to meet the ...

The main idea of the article “Creating the Myth” is that, while there have been thousands and thousands of stories written over the course of human history, they all come from a very small number of universal stories. Whether these are “search” stories are “hero” stories, the vast majority of stories come down to one of the various types of myths. The author goes through the various stages of the myth and describes how some of our most famed stories fit the pattern. For example, the author draws heavily from the Star Wars cycle, and the Odyssey of Homer, to ...

Identifications of Mullah Qutlug and Rustam

Mullah Qutlug. Mullah Qutlug was a Bukharan who had spent considerable time in Moscow, Russia and was very fond of reading. He refused to wear a turban while in Bukharan .He sits and reads in his place in Bukhara where he intends on reading in his vacations but Rustam takes him lang to meet some acquaintances.

There Mullah Qutlug discusses that Bedil who was a revered poet, was not fully understood because people concentrated on his words alone and not the ideas in his poetry. Then he explains the radical ideas of Bedil.

Qutlug was of the opinion that the ...

Instrumentation for the Detection of Deception

Instrumentation for the Detection of Deception
Specialists in the area of criminal law often face many challenges related to human factor. Deception is one of such challenges that hinder the process of solving the case. For this reason, certain techniques and instrumentation for the detection of deception were developed. Polygraph is probably the most known instrument created for such purposes. However, even the polygraph does not give the results of 100% accuracy. The test on polygraph is based on the physical reactions of an individual to one or another question that may indicate whether this individual is lying ...

Violent Media is good for kids

For several years, it has been argued that fantasy violence depicted in video games, television shows, or movies have a negative impact on the lives of children. However, other people such as comic writer Gerard Jones have opposing views by arguing that violent media does not affect the life of children. This paper provides an analysis of Gerard Jones's book Violent Media is good for Kids by analyzing the different viewpoints the author used to support his arguments. While the author used an array of examples to support his arguments, it failed to persuade me to believe that violent media ...

Business Law and Ethics-The Relationship between Law, Business, Ethics and Economics

In “Business, Law, and Society: The Systems Approach to Law and Management,” Constance Bagley presents a systems approach to law and management. This system explains the effect of public law on a competitive environment as well as the resources of firms. The author also demonstrates how a manager can become astute at using the law to exploit opportunities and develop a firm’s value proposition. Furthermore, the article discusses how a manager can use his or her legal knowledge to select and even perform some of the value chain activities. Constance Bagley goes further to describe the social context within firms operate. According to ...

Poetry is an art where the poet plays around with words to pass a message that is always hidden in a few words. Poets concentrate in using a few words imaginatively, arranging the words in a creative ways such that a very long story is told in very few words. Also, poetry has to sound as good music to the listener. Poets from different parts of the world always take reference in things that are found in their environments. This fact is what always brings out the difference in the way in which poems from various regions of the world can be compared and ...

Reflection paper

Grace Lee Boggs is a prominent feature in this discussion, and importantly so. Both her book and film are apt adaptations showing the possibility of human beings to adapt to the social situations and involve in constructive activism in the development of the country’s social-economic agenda and in striving towards living in harmony with each other. The movie ‘The American Revolutionary” addresses the different phases of her life as a revolutionary dealing with the various scourges that have faced humanity during her lifetime, ranging from the cold war to the Bush administrations inadvertent attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan. The enduring ...

John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem” and William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” are two different poems that are separated by four centuries, but the poets have successfully presented the “ideal” poems to represent the “ideal woman” in a grounded world with all her flaws. The poems reflect that love on the surface is superficial when compared to the inner beauty of a loved one. Honesty and integrity are more effective when dealing with true love.

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130”, was probably written to ridicule the traditional love poem that showed women as divine angelic creatures with no flaws. Shakespeare recognizes ...

This article clearly shows the beautification of the Mughal art and architecture. Taj Mahal made by Shahjahan for his beloved wife, and the art of this place makes many to wonder. The historians of that era wrote in a very clear manner that this art piece will be thoughtful for the people in the coming time, and people will remember its architecture for years. And the same thing happened. The Taj Mahal is not only the tomb of the Mumtaz Mahal, but it was an opening for those who love nature and beautiful places. The Shahjehan has made many other ...

Write an intricate, confessional, or embarrassing essay

Introduction

Today, there is an obsession with reality and this is reflected in the great number of TV shows and series such as Survivor, The Apprentice, Hell’s Kitchen, Shark Yank etc. The success of these “reality” shows goes to show that life is made up of different components and is not a neat narrative as previously implied in conventional novels and fiction stories. This is captured by the statement: "As a work gets more autobiographical, more intricate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments" (Shield 308). This statement is true because people are bored with the ordered fiction ...

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece of the American literature. Twain discusses the events in a captivated way and by this; he wins the hearts of human across the globe. The book Huck Finn by Mark Twain bases its story on the aspects of racism, companionship and social criticism as it explains the relationship and way of life of Huck and Jim, the slave. At the beginning of the book, Huck and Jim have a constrained relationship but later on, conditions bond them to great friends. Huck racially discriminates Jim based on color, but it takes long before he accepts ...

Langston Hughes’ in his poem "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" and Lorraine Hansberry’s "A Raisin in the Sun" look at the impact of racial prejudice in the lives of African-Americans. The main idea of both writers is show how the economic effect of how racism leads individuals to dream about a better life. Both writers describe the psychology of having dreams and ambitions, and the how living in a society built on racism conflicts with the success of dreams.

The link between the both pieces is far more intricate than just an individual facing racial prejudice. It is about risky ...

I was fourteen when I first heard of the “F” word. I was walking down the street to a friend’s house when a man standing by the corner suddenly said it to my face. This happened in the UK where I was taking up an English course. I did not know what the word meant, but by his facial expression I knew that it was nothing good. At this time, I was just starting to learn English, and the word did not appear in the textbooks. ...

Introduction

The film, City of God, provides a broad perspective over which a number of issues can be drawn. A story is told of a generation of children trying to survive in one of the biggest slums in Rio de Janeiro in the sixties and the seventies. Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund direct the movie the city of God. The main character in the movie is Li’IZe. At a tender age, Li’IZe who is the main character in the movie had wanted to become a leader in the City of God. Through Li’IZe’s aggressive and ambitious nature, he becomes ...

Summary of “What Makes a Great City Great” by H. V. Savitch
In “What Makes a Great City Great,” H. V. Savitch argues that city greatness could be assessed by reference to four distinctive sets of criteria. By examining four major American cities (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago) in terms of currency, cosmopolitanism, concentration and charisma (the 4Cs), he claims that it is the cumulative impact of those attributes that renders a city great. His paper is designed as a response to the ambiguity created by previous scholarly articles on the matter and aims to provide a critical examination of ...

Essay on Auerbach and Everything is Illuminated

Auerbach’s book Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature discusses the manner in which Homeric story telling is leisurely and digressive. To Auerbach, the Homeric technique illuminates through relating detailed past events and easy discussions. As such, there is no rush to create suspense. This aspect is typified by the long digression in the center of a significant moment from which the essay draws its title. That is moments before the nurse is on the point of recognizing Odysseus. What matters at this point is the outer description rather than the psychological aspect, narrative suspense, or historical development. ...

Brett and Kate McKay come up with outstanding presentation “Appeal of June 18″ by Charles de Gaulle. The appeal is interesting on how it covers various issues that surround France. He succeeds in presenting France as conqueror despite losing to Germany in the past. He uses various techniques to convince the reader on the sensitivity of the issue that surrounded the nation. If France gets another chance, she could perform better against Germany.

The target audience is anyone who would be interested in the history of the relationship of France and Germany. The article is highly attractive to ...

SUMMARY AND ATTONATION

The writer from page 150 begins by saying that sojourners hailing from New Orleans who used to drive in the afternoon would on several occasions spot two or three houses which had a beautiful and fantastic architectural features that helped them draw the attention of the public. Then there is also the aspect of religion whereby Creole is defined as a religious and also true to issue facing her and also fearless in expressing his empathy and sorrow for the an American invader who had been born in horror only to find himself sandwiched by hatred and a world of discrimination. The ...

Summary of Articles

- The Wit of Saul Steinberg
The article on Steinberg is a discussion on the effects of drawings and pictures in relation to written words on the same subject matter. The author of the book ‘Art and Illusion’ is also the author of this article who critiques and analyzes Steinberg’s paintings as a mode of communication. It is indicated in this article how pictures and drawings play an important part in articulating messages. In fact, the author describes Steinberg’s pictures as more precise in portraying a message better than his words ever could. The pictures presented in this article ...

Introduction

In the case of Manno however, the people are only surprised it has been sent to him. Had it been sent to another person, the townspeople would probably not have been so surprised. The society’s total submission or subscription to the Mafia ways is further exemplified when Manno is killed together with his hunting partner. Although the people are stunned about the murder, a fictional story is created by the people in regards to the reason for his killing (Sciascia and Foulke, 2000, p. 64). It is argued that he was secretly an adulterer and that his hunting partner ...

The book, “Venus in fur,” tells a story about love, dominance and slavery in a person’s feelings. It is based upon the imaginations of Server in, who is weirdly in love with a statue of Venus, the goddess of love. The fur in this case symbolizes power and dominance, where the narrator identified with the cruelty and power in a woman. The character meets Wanda, with whom he falls in love. The character is in love to the point of delivering himself to become a slave. At first, he does not look at Wanda in a sexually taken way because he still has the ...

When Jacques Louis David created The Oath of the Horatii, in 1784-1785, France was on the verge of the Revolution that would come just a few years later in 1789. David would play a role in it and was its ardent supporter (Tansey and Kleiner, 917). Enlightenment rose as a philosophical ideal that had an impact in art. It suggested that art should have a moral dimension and serve as a lesson to the viewer. At the same ...

The book entitled Apple's approach towards innovation and creativity: How Apple, the most innovative company in the world, manages innovation and creativity written by Muller presents innovations and creativity apparent from today's companies with particular focus on Apple Inc. Being a well-known organization, the book outlines ways in which the company has since established itself as the innovative and creative organization using its products as a platform to compete its counterparts that include Sony and Samsung companies. This book mainly focuses on the key aspects that make a particular organization innovative and creative, in doing this the book establishes ways in which ...

Going through the book “Curious reader” I have come across very interesting issues I had no or less idea about. Among the articles I come across were:

Hodgman, Ann. “No wonder they call me a bitch“ The Curious Reader. (2009)

This is an informative article on various kinds of dog food. It’s a commentary essay on low nutritional and bad taste in the dog food quality. She describes and compares the bad taste of food with play Doh. She vividly ridiculous all the promotion advertisement slogans and tactics linked with dogs foods. Mainly she opposes all the strategies ...

Voltaire identifies various flaws in the society that he lived. The scenario in the Voltaire’s world is analogous to the situation in the modern society. In his book, Voltaire highlights the problems in his society. He uses satire to express his discomfort about various issues in his society. The paper highlights how Voltaire’s approach of the use of satire can successfully be employed in building a better future. The paper suggests the plot of the book, which Voltaire would most likely write in today’s world. Essentially, the paper highlights how Voltaire would present these issues ...

The main objective of the research incorporated in this article was essentially to present Harm Reduction Model as the most appropriate model that ought to be utilized in harm prevention services with particular focus on the adolescence. From the article, it is apparent that no technical methodology was incorporated in this research; however, many of the ideas and associate sources incorporated in this research were retrieved from the evidence based literature. No numerical analysis of data was undertaken in this study since the chief mode of data collection entailed retrieving information from secondary data.

Apparently, to ascertain the ...

Coulter-Kern, Russell G., Paige,Coulter-Kern E., Aubree, Schenkel, A., Danielle,Walker, & Kelly,Fogle. "Improving Student's Understanding of Career Decision-Making through Service Learning." College Student Journal 47.2 (2013): 306-311.Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Feb. 2014.

This paper analyzes the effect of selecting a career path with the help of an experimental service-learning program designed for high school students to understand their career and make their career decisions. The researchers are proceeding with their study of college students that have attended the sessions on professional advising to get more information about their career goal. The research is based on two selected ...

Gender is defined as the activities, roles and behavior assigned in a social place with reference to women and men. Though it is normally confused with sex, it is not. Sex is the biological issue of whether a person is male or female. Gender on the other hand is the society’s code of behavior as to how a man or woman is supposed to behave and act. These distinct given roles are what give rise to inequalities. This difference is that which gives systematical favor to one group and disfavors another. This may occur in terms of health services, job opportunities, ...

The film is based on the short story "The Greatest Gift"by Philip Van Doren Stern written in 1939 and published in 1945. It was produced and edited by Frank Capra in 1946. It is a traditional Christmas movie in USA. It is very inspiring, and positive, it shows that everyone has his/her own calling, destiny and mission in life. The main character is George Bailey (by James Stewart), who decided to commit a suicide on Christmas Eve as he thought that his life is miserable. The film genre can be defined as fantasy comedy-drama. ‘It’s a wonderful life’ is considered ...

Influence in The Picture of Dorian Gray And The Book of Job

The Picture of Dorian gray is a novel written by Oscar Wilde. Dorian Gray is the main character in this book and it revolves around his life and how the characters in the novel influence the protagonist’s life. Dorian Gray is depicted as a wealthy, beautiful, and unspoiled male who changes his life completely by sinning and pleasure after meeting Lord Henry who totally influenced his life. Wilde writes a story whereby the main character Dorian Gray is influenced to embark on a hedonistic life; a life he had feared for a very long time. Dorian was an innocent man who was forced to ...

The article “A Homemade Education” in “Malcolm X and His View on Education” by Malcolm X is published on cantonlocal.org. In this article Malcolm X explains the contrast between the tough street life and experiencing the life in prison. Through its contrasting streets and prison, Malcolm x describes the difficulties faced while educating in the field of literature, and how the prison studies helped him to be self-empowered. He was an African American convict who served prison sentence. In this article, Malcolm X uses many different types of approaches to represent his argument to the many different types of ...

Asian film industry has been entertaining audiences since a long time with the help of a strong story, music and different other aspects of film making. Asian cinema has lodged its strong presence across the world and Asian movies have won several prestigious international awards. This paper intends to discuss some very famous Asian movies like Red Sorghum, Ran, Eye in the sky, IndoChine and Dhobi Ghat along with further focusing, how masculinity has been portrayed in almost all these movies.

There are some favorite subjects of Asian movie makers. Aggressive Jingoism, fantasy, epic and masculinity are some important components of Asian ...

Discussion on which medium – the movie or the book on Twelve Years a Slave can better transform political sensibilities Twelve Years a Slave, a memoir penned by Solomon Northup, is a poignant and extremely touching piece of literature, on the plights of an American slave. It is the autographical journey of the writer himself, and the twelve years he spent in bondage. Born as a free negro in New York, Solomon was tricked into slavery, and beaten black and blue to when he tried to regain freedom. He worked as a cotton picker, a carpenter, a mill-worker, and faced severe cruelty. His final reunion with his family after twelve years of sheer torture and loneliness makes for an emotional read, and an eye opener ...

In a world obsessed with so much technology, it is fairly easy to get sucked into electronic devices, social media and virtual networking. This has not only affected our interpersonal relationships, but our relationship with the written word as well. There are many people that could not even tell you the last time that they picked up a book. It seems as though in our busyness and with our hectic lifestyles that we have lost a certain level of companionship and intimacy that we once had with one another and with the world. Literature and/or reading, has always had the ability to ...

In this reflective essay, I will talk about my general learning experience as a writer focusing on this semester. I will include all that have been helpful to me and even those things that have been a challenge to grasp in the entire course. Also, I will touch on the specific aspects that I thing I still need to do so as I become even better writer. Indeed, I can say that the semester has been phenomenal experience. I have gained a lot not only in class but also to some of the experiences outside the classroom.

First, I have discovered ...

Writing good essays and outlines are important to me. Although, I have improved my writing in many ways by attending program English 101, this essay briefly describes three ways where the improvement is significant to I have decided to present them herewith. For the first time I started to apply some simple tools as presented in the courseware for remaining focused and avoiding distractions -generating new ideas for writing, for planning and organizing the material gathered over a period of time. Secondly, I began to keep a positive attitude as I gathered ideas from experience and reading. Third the most important ...

Tobacco became the success of Jamestown, Virginia when export to England began in 1619. With the income produced, the city decided to arrange for two imports: 20 black men for manual labor and 90 women from England as brides. Thus America began its history of slavery (Innercity.org 2014). Photographs, art, journalism, and literature displayed its brutality. The public was informed of families torn apart, beatings, murder, and rape. The general theme was inhumanity, but there were many owners of slaves that treated them well. history remembers beatings, rape, murder, and splitting families apart.

The indignities ...

This portfolio represents the changes that learning this course of English has brought in my writings. Prior to taking UWP1, I thought that writing an essay is a simple process of organizing thoughts and writing them down neatly. It was not until the beginning of this quarter that I realized my previous concepts towards writing were very naïve. The course introduced me to a variety of essay genres such as literacy narrative, rhetoric analysis and research blog, which I had hardly touched on before. I was first terrified at the complexity of genres and speech of tones correlated with various ...

Abstract

In the pre-colonial era and shortly after the colonial period, border crossing by communities was a common phenomenon and occurrence. The realization of indigenous communities of the presence of an immigrant community amongst them did not come as a shocker to the natives. These immigrant communities moved from one place to another for different reasons. There were those who crossed these borders in search of better lifestyles. There were those who had also been displaced by war activities and, therefore, had to cross these boundaries in search of peaceful settlements. Still, there were those who moved from one boundary to the ...

Interpretation of Emma Lazarus's Poem The New Colossus

The poem The New Colossus, written by Emma Lazarus, talks about the Statue of Liberty and how it gives hope to the hopeless. The statue welcomes immigrants from all over the world, and it offers high hopes and expectations to anyone coming to America. It id for that reason that the lines “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to break free" can be interpreted as America reaching out to all the people of the United States and the rest of the world; giving them surety that it will give them a home. Going by the mood ...

The book Big Math Activities for Young Children: For Preschool, Kindergarten and Primary Children reveal the manner in which young children are taught basic arithmetic’s using the readily available materials. The book expresses various concepts that include addition, and subtraction among others. Thus, the book guides children in developing mathematical reasoning using reasonable mathematic language, and thereby making them to enjoy learning mathematics. The young scholar are thus encouraged to take mathematics as a critical subjects because most careers require one to perform well in mathematics.

Questions from the book

- The children are required to carry out simple ...

‘The hardest habit to break, since it was the habit of a lifetime, would be listening to myself listening to him’. These were Wideman’s words in the story ‘Our time’. Throughout the story, one gets to know the character of the protagonists and relate with him and his feelings. The author has used a lot of imagery and very attractive words with deep meanings to tell his story. He may mean one thing but the reader reads another thing into the meaning. When he said ‘listening to himself listen’, he could have been meaning a number of things. Yet, what the ...

James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues” is a unique and fascinating tale full of history, tangible drama, and pressing insights into the plight of African Americans during the early 20th century. Telling the tale of two brothers – the unnamed narrator and Sonny – Baldwin’s work explores the nature of suffering, and how it is filtered through many different outlets (denial, judgment, drugs, music). The result is a well-written tale that offers the audience one of the most intriguing statements about the American experience, drawing on history and people’s perception of it to come to its ...

The setting is very important in any work of fiction. Often, the setting in the work of fiction carries a symbolic meaning that helps underscore the central theme of the work of fiction. In light of this, this paper will consider the symbolic function that the settings in A Worn Path and I Stand Here Ironing by Eudora Welty and Tillie Olsen respectively. The central theme in Eudora’s A Worn Path is the triumph of human love. This is seen through the protagonist who endures everything to make a journey inspired by the love for her grandson. Although she is ...

It is no secret that there are many short stories and novels written about certain periods of the humankind development. All the works have something in common (for example, they all describe an epoch or only several years – some period of time). However, they are different. This essay is aimed at showing the differences and similarities of two essays that I have read. The first short story was written by Gilbert Highet, and the second story was written by Bruce Catton.

The first similarity of both short stories is that they describe only one episode. Some may say ...

1. Some facts of Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde’s biographies are surprisingly similar: they both had elder brothers and younger sisters, both lived in Chelsea, Britain (though, under different circumstances and in different times: Edgar studied in a boarding school in 1817, and Oscar moved there in 1879 to establish a writing career). Also, both became estranged from their parents: Poe over his gambling debts during his university studies and Wilde due to his charge of "gross indecency" for homosexual acts. Both authors first started to write poems and both have the volume titles “Poems”, however they then moved ...

“Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain” is a book on the topic of neuropsychology written by David Eagleman. He is working as an assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston (Bilger, 2011).The book was published in 2011 by Vintage publishers.

This book is appealing and interesting in that it has presented the scientific concepts in an easy-to-understand manner and has successfully given surprising lessons in neuroscience. Eagleman has presented the tricks that are played by our brain and senses in this physical world. In the ...

Is Walt Whitman's poetry devoid of structure or shape

Walt Whitman is the typical poet that composes his poems based on the traditionally recognized forms of poetic structure and prose. His poems are unique and often appear to be unorganized in the most unorthodox of ways. Because of this, his poems might depict a lack in structure or pose. However, according to the fundamental forms of poetic structure, most of his poems do have a structure and shape needed to qualify them as poems. They are not easily recognizable, but that does not warrant their absence. Structure in poetry is inclusive of the arrangement of lines or stanzas that is ...

The sexual anomaly in this book is masochism. This was a new category in the sexual perversion. This kind of sexual perversion was very rare during the time of the writing. The writer had various published writings that helped him understand the various sexual cherished fantasies among people. People were able to recognize their secret desires as described in his writings. There were several cases in his book, which described the strange sexual desires. People however related to these strange sexual desires (Leopard, 1).

One such case described a man who wanted to be a slave to his lover. The other ...

Randolph B. Campbell is an author who carefully studied history before authoring his books. The two book reviews present Campbell as a historian author, teacher and researcher. This paper will explore what the two author’s perceived Campbell’s work. Ben Procter presents Campbell as an author who “meticulously researched” before writing the book. He notes that he studied an array of material; inclusive of newspapers, travel accounts, memoirs, government documents and manuscripts from diverse sources (Proctor 259). This implies he was a good researcher. Campbell is also portrayed as an investigator who deeply dug into Texas revolution, politics, and slave ...

1. In a sentence or two, list the terms in the poem that are now mere memories in technology. Then indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree that the various electronic “languages” are incompatible with each other. Is this incompatibility as frustrating or as possibly dangerous as the human situation in which people cannot communicate with one another?

In the poem 16-bit Intel 8088 Chip Bukowski mentions computer terms that were obviously new at the time when the poem was written but now they are not up to date anymore (e.g. Commodore 64, IBM PC, Kaypro, Osborne, ...