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Unexpected Company: Outsiders Console Within Themselves The concept of being an outsider suggests that an outsider would be isolated and detached from their surroundings. This idea is contradicted in “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris, “Homeschool Insider: The Fighting Pterodactyls” by Ron Carlson, and “Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner, where each protagonist is…

William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of King Lear is a dark tale of betrayal whose popularity is seen in its many productions and adaptations. The play itself not completely original, in fact, as the main plot and characters are Shakespeare’s versions of the British cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth’s recounting of the story in History of…

Macbeth In Shakespeare’s life-time he wrote many dramas. Many of them were  critically acclaimed and others cast aside. The crowd ever wanted to be more  exhaustively entertained and Shakespeare ever tried to maintain up with the  people’s demands. In 1605, Shakespeare was being hounded for another work of  mastermind. Hamlet and King Lear had merely…

asdThe poem, “Barbie Doll,” written by Marge Piercy tells the story of a young girl growing up through the adolescence stage characterized by appearances and barbarity. The author uses imagery and fluctuating tone to describe the struggles the girl is experiencing during her teenage years, and the affects that can happen. The title of this…

NO one wishes for anything bad or awful to them, just the opposite. That is the way William Shakespeare chose to write it, in a way that truly draws in the audience and makes them feel as if they are a part of the story. It could be argued that their deaths were caused by…

How to read others’ thoughts by their gestures ALLAN PEASE is the managing director of a management consultancy company based in Sydney, Australia. He produces books, films, and cassettes that are used by numerous organisations around the world to train personnel in communication skills. He did ten years’ study, interviewing and research before writing BODY…

In the Iliad, Achilles heroic strength and presence in battle is widely acclaimed. In this book, Achilles is the main character. The book follows him as he struggles to make decisions regarding his pride, and the Achaean people. This internal struggle is much of the driving force in the Iliad, particularly in Book 9, as…

The word “ecocriticism” was likely first used in William Rueckert’s essay “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism” (1978) and was later accepted in critical vocabulary when Cheryll Glotfelty, at that time a graduate student at Cornell, revived the term at the meeting of the Western Literature Association in Coeur d’Alene in 1989. She recommended…

omparison compare contrast essaysComparing the Book and Stage Versions of Dracula The play was very enjoyable. It brought to life many of the most interesting aspects of the book. There were however some differences, that, having just read the book, were very obvious to me. However, this altering of the Dracula novel, did not diminish…

To Kill A Mockingbird Injustice is a problem that everyone faces. Nobody likes to suffer from injustice; yet, it is done to other people constantly. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, there are three characters that suffer great injustice. Their names are Atticus, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. Atticus, a…