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Around the turn of the century, there was widespread fear throughout Europe, especially in Ireland, about the consequences of race mixing and the rise of lower classes over the aristocracy in control. In Ireland, the Protestants who were in control of the country began to fear the rise of Catholics, which threatened their land and…

People communicate for a number of different reasons such as to express their needs and wants, to express their feelings, to give and receive information, to learn, share ideas, and also for social pleasure. Give some examples of methods of communication? Methods people use to communicate are: Speech, tone, hand gestures, body language, touch, expressions…

A good harvest has always been vital to civilizations. After the fields have been prepared and the seeds sown, the farmer can only wait and hope that the proper balance of rain and sun will ensure a good harvest. From this hope springs ritual. Many ancient cultures believed that growing crops represented the life cycle,…

Despite having seen the movie of The Bourne Identity, I could recall very little of it. Therefore reading the book made me feel a little like Jason Bourne: fragments, names, and faces coming back to me at irregular intervals, but with no context in which to place them. I’ve never been all over Europe trying…

In The Great Gatsby, the narrator vividly describes a large and lavish party, capturing its atmosphere and feeling through varied sentence structure and descriptive word choice. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses polysyndeton and asyndeton, as well as lengthier sentences with less punctuation, to convey the endless excitement of the party. Polysyndeton is employed in the quote,…

The Poetry Club had its first Ubuntu Poetry Slam on November 15th in Douglass basement. The word “Ubuntu” is an African Proverb that means, “I am what I am because of who we all are” and last week 8 of Wooster’s finest poets wowed the audience, “you didn’t really hear what they were saying but…

xymorons EssaysJohn Ashbery’s Paradoxes and Oxymorons This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level. Look at it talking to you. You look out a window Or pretend to fidget. You have it but you don’t have it. You miss it, it misses you. You miss each other. This poem is sad because…

“Hey, Brian! Can we have a talk?” asked Shiao Wei tiredly after three hours of band practice. “I mean you and I. One to one. ” Probably because of repeatedly movements in the band practice and tiredness, his hands were shaking slightly; salty sweat just swelled from his forehead and his chest like running tap…

Everyday Use is a literary explanation of what culture is. In Everyday Use, the author Alice Walker confronts the question of what are the true values in ones heritage and culture. In the conflict between Dee and her mother, Alice Walker shows that ones culture and heritage are represented by neither the possession of objects…

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. In his life, he created two major books of poesy: Vita Nuova and The Comedy. The Comedy, which was later renamed The Divine Comedy, is an heroic verse form interrupt down into three books in each of which Dante recounts his travels through Hell, Purgatory, and…