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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…

Katherine Frank’s novel A Voyager Out tells the life narrative of Mary Kingsley. She negotiations of her childhood, her immature grownup life, and her traveling life. She wanted to state the universe what this adult female adventurer did for Africa. Mary Kingsley had a celebrated household, many of whom were authors. Mary herself wrote two…

She wakes up in an alley covered in snow, I wake up at the same time looking out my window and then thinking my day is ruined cause it has been snowing , She wakes up every morning struggling to get something to eat I wake up every morning fighting about eating breakfast. She sees…

The water we use today is the same water the dinosaurs used. We cannot create new water. For millions of years, the water we have has been used and reused. This has been possible because of the natural cycles that clean the water each time we use it. Because of this, it our duty to…

  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…

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…

1) A. Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney General in the 1920s, gained the nickname “fighting Quaker” due to his excessive efforts in apprehending suspects during the Red Scare. In total, approximately six thousand suspects were rounded up. This campaign to eradicate radicals intensified in June 1919 when a bomb destroyed Palmer’s home. 2) The case of…

The mere mention of the name Joan of Arc brings us pictures of a lady leading soldiers to battle. Many books have been written about her heroic exploits in the French and English battle fields. Her storybook legacy climaxes with her being tried by a bias court where evidences are fabricated and other cards stacked…

Each field that the English Departments Offer are designed to improve analytical skills, critical thinking skills, reading comprehension, writing techniques, and etc. Fortunately, the field of creative writing is often overlooked and frowned upon when it comes to improving the necessary skills for students to use outside the academic world. This paper is designed to…

“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…