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BEOWULF ESSAYThis essay is the comparison between Beowulf and the modern day hero, which I thought that any soldier would be my modern day hero. In this essay I will explain in three paragraphs of how my modern day hero is like Beowulf. With in these three paragraphs I will go over how they are…

There are peculiar verse forms that seem to catch peoples oculus, but while we read the verse form we drop our attending. It is really hard to measure these types of verse forms. Robert Hayden s, Those Winter Sundays, is the complete antonym of the type of verse form that was merely described. The rubric…

You can look at the structure, the length of sentences, the kind of address to other characters, Imagery (e. G. With l, 3 11. Off. , general eloquence, . What does his style reveal about his state of mind? 1,3  monologue is well-structured long and complicated sentences  polite address tot he senate and the Duke …

Old Major was a stout-looking boar of twelve years of age. He was wise and benevolent. He was highly regarded by the other animals on the farm. It was Old Major who, one night, dreamt of a world where all animals were equal and Man was no more. He told his dream and visions to…

Albert Camus was a French philosopher/writer who was born in Algeria (part of North Africa that was owned by the French) in 1913. He wrote this book showing how life is “absurd” because death is final, therefore making life meaningless. This is a very basic look at the philosophy and you shouldn’t assume that what…

Ignoring the detrimental issues of the world, does not cause them suddenly vanish from our own eyes, it only gives them time to flourish and expand into the beast that they aspired to become. Case in point: the decimation and near annihilation of an entire ethnic and religious group, the slaughtering of an innocent six…

Common Characteristics of The Trial and Nausea I am happy I took the opportunity to explore Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea and Franz Kafka’s The Trial. These novels are considered by many to be two of the definitive works representing Existentialist philosophy. Many other authors have dealt with the subject of existence in the form of a…

For this book report I read the Strange Case Of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger. This book is about a group 6th graders who believe in a origami Yoda that tells the future and give advice about various topics. There are multiple characters that have problems that are resolved by origami Yoda. There are three…

Assignment, compare how two poems are structured, the use of the language and the message. Over the past 3 weeks I have been reading, analyzing and comparing poems, about similar themes such as; love, loss, murder and culture. I will compare two poems written by the same poet, Carol Ann Duffy, so I can observe…

“Suicide Note”, Janice Mirikitani’s poem express the depression of a girl that killed herself, because she thought was not good enough to her parents. Mirikitani use the simile in the poem, (2) “ink smeared like bird prints in snow.” The simile itself serves to compare the black words she is writing on the paper to…