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Imagery is a powerful tool that can make or break any literary piece. With careful employment, it can translate the exact experience the author wants to the reader. This paper is a brief discussion of the usage of imagery by three authors of varying writing styles in conveying the nature of the rather dysfunctional parent-child…

Since both the movies are great stories, I found it difficult to come at a conclusion to say which one’s better. But after thoroughly analyzing both masterpieces, I came to the conclusion hat the Romeo and Juliet has made a greater contribution literature than the pride and prejudice. BACKGROUND Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare…

Protagonist: Romeo – The son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague. A young man of about sixteen, Romeo is handsome, intelligent, and sensitive. Though impulsive and immature, his idealism and passion make him an extremely likable character. He lives in the middle of a violent feud between his family and the Capulets, but he…

As an ancient style of body adornment, body piercing practices have been important for cultural rituals and as expressions of beauty (Shaffer, “Origins of Body Piercing”). II. Cultural Reasoning A. There are many cultural reasoning for the nose piercing, throughout ancient history to today’s society. 1 . The practice of nose piercing is still followed…

One of the many people that get stereotyped are the African Americans or “Blacks” such as Maharani Bailey. Maharani is a 27 year old African American man from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Police stopped bailey four times between 2008 through 2010 while he was driving his Range Rover. What the police did not know was that he…

The rain on a cold night is not a pleasant memory for most people. In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway used the weather not only for its dramatic effect, but also to convey meaning in the book. Rain is symbolic of the harsh reality and despair experienced by the characters, bringing them back to reality…

Question Number One             In his introductory essay on Homer’s The Odyssey, Bernard Knox states that the term ‘odyssey’ refers to “a series of adventurous journeys usually marked by many changes of fortune” (3).Knox claims that this definition of the term was derived from the Greek word ‘odusseia’ which may be literally understood as “the…

The poem “Why Are Your Poems So Dark” by Linda Pastan exposes that no matter who you are, darkness will always be prevalent in your life. She does this by using an evident contrast between light and dark throughout the entire poem. Of major note in this contrast are the speaker’s point of view, Biblical…

Three characters from different stories are explored in this essay: the husband from Raymond Carver’s Cathedral, the narrator from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper,  and Connie from Joyce Carol Oates’ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? All three characters changed throughout the course of the story as a result of their decision…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play that takes the reader on a journey through the trials of many townspeople who are suspected of witchcraft. As the story unfolds, Reverend John Hale, an expert on witchcraft, starts to question his initial beliefs about the guilt or innocence of those accused. The events and consequences…