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Every story has heroes, twists, and surprises. I am on my way to becoming a Speech-Language Pathologist. I will come to know each client’s world well: their dreams, their fears, and their expectations. Why is the communication of others my passion? I see a world of everyday heroes. Everyone has a history. I want to…

In This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the archetype of the wandering hero in a quest is repeated in the novel in the person of Amory Blaine. During the entire novel, he is as though engaged in a roller-coaster ride, a journey of sorts, in pursuit of his dreams – through his education…

“All Summer in a Day” is a short story written by Ray Bradbury, first published in 1954. The story is set on Venus, a planet where it rains constantly, except for one day every seven years when the sun shines for just a few brief hours. The story follows a group of school children who…

Throughout history, racism has been present in different societies. In times of war, individuals of a certain race may opt to separate themselves with the goal of asserting dominance in their society. John W. Dower’s book War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, published by Pantheon books in New York in 1986,…

            Introduction             The good woman of Setzuan is a play written by Brecht about a character by the name of Shen Te; a young woman who is depicted as being generous, but one who later turns into prostitution from the pressure of poverty. However, this young woman is later highly rewarded after welcoming three…

The Anglo-Saxon version of Beowulf and Dante’s Inferno are both considered epic poems. Both pieces of literature were written in very different time periods that reflected the culture of their time, causing contrasts in their themes and the author’s purpose. Dante wrote Inferno in the fourteenth century as a response to political events happening in…

I will be analyzing how ‘The Crucible is an allegory’ for what happened with Joe McCarthy, an American Senator in the 1950’s and how he accused many high standing members of Congress of having links with communism, communism was a major threat as communists had just taken over China and the red scare was very…

  Writers seem to be of a different breed than a lot of people. They have a “reputation of being enormously mentally unstable” (Gilbert 2013) and “manic, alcoholic depressives” (Gilbert 2013). It has been said that anguish and artistry go hand in hand (Gilbert 2013) but is that true? Is a troubled mind full of…

Brandon Wile Edgar Allen Poe “Eyes were tortured by even a faint light,” as written In Edgar Allen Pope’s The Fall of the House of Usher, shows a heightened sense of sight to the light. This Is known as hypersensitivity. Hypersensitivity Is a state of altered reactivity In which the body reacts with an exaggerated…

Why is this? Although dozens of studies have been conducted and proved that arts are essential for child development and should be incorporated into students’ education. Unfortunately, this is not the case because simply, the arts are not looked as important anymore. This is significantly different than how greek culture thought of the arts in…