Essays on Man Page 2

This story by Somerset seems to have been written in a tearing hurry. The style though simple and to the point, is void of much background information which should be at least revealed vaguely so that the reader does not feel cheated. Tone is again abrupt. The climax and irony is also not quite uncommon,…

A black man talks of reaping I have sown beside all waters in my day. I planted deep, within my heart the fear that wind or fowl would take the grain away. I planted safe against this stark, lean year. I scattered seed enough to plant the land in rows from Canada to Mexico but…

Man Rays Violin DIngres is a perfect example of a modernist photograph. Man Ray pushes both how photography is perceived and what is possible within a photograph in this example. Man Ray himself was an American, born as Emmanuel Rudnitsky, but moved to Paris and engaged in very non-American photography. Europe lacked the American ideals…

In Part I we got a flavor of what the outlaw life was all about as we followed Bill Doolin as he progressed from small crimes to major crimes, meeting a violent end and crossing paths several times with legendary lawman Bill Tilghman in the process. The life of William Matthew “Bill” Tilghman began in Fort…

A Reflective Report Introduction             Every man has a dream uniquely configured for him. Such dream is particularly designed specially for him based on the purpose by which he was probably created. Hence, the fate and destiny of man would somehow depend on the importance of such dream to him and the degree by which…

My Better Half Thanks God! I found my perfect half. I know many women cannot believe that the perfect man exists, but I am very tankful because I found my perfect half. We met for the first time in a family party in Colombia and since that day we have been together. It has been…

   So oft in history we are swept away by penned images of what we in modern times shall never experience within our lifetimes.   Throughout the captured pages images like those of the Old West, buzzing with fur traders, wagon trains and of course Indians, are alight in the hearts of children and adults alike. …

The Man of Hypocrisy’Manners are the happy way of doing things’; according to Ralph Waldo Emerson. According to Emerson people use manners as a front to make themselves look better. Inherently, this will lead to a contradiction of the front and the reality. One such man who is most concerned with manners is the protagonist…

Paul Theroux’s perspective on the idea of manhood in America is something I personally disagree with. According to Theroux, masculinity is like wearing an ill-fitting coat for one’s entire life, contrasting it with femininity which he describes as nakedness. Essentially, he believes that men have to constantly hide behind a facade of toughness and masculinity…

The Man from the Board, Richard Rive Living as a black man in a white area in the 1980’s, it’s only natural to be suspicious and defensive when a white man from the board shows up and wants to be let in. This is exactly the situation the main protagonist Isaac finds himself in when…