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Helen Keller was an extraordinary person with many accomplishments that helped and empowered people with disabilities. Her focus was on the blind but as a deaf person she intersected into many different lives, helping those in the deaf and mute communities as well. Her tutor, since the age of seven and through the rest of…

Sanity is defined as the ability to think and behave in a normal and rational manner; sound mental health. How does one go from sane to insane? Is there a line that once crossed you cannot go back from? Are people born insane or some more likely to become insane? All of these are questions…

Walt Whitman is known to be one of the most well-known and influential poets in American history. After travelling the American countryside, he developed Leaves of Grass then sold his house to print and publish it himself. “In Leaves of Grass, he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship” (“Walt Whitman”, Poetry Foundation). His community took…

Ray Bradbury’s 1953 Fahrenheit 451 contains a number of interesting stylistic devices. Robert Reilly praises Bradbury for having a style “like a great organ. …” (73). David Mogen comments on the novel’s “vivid style” (110). Peter Sisario applauds the “subtle depth” of Bradbury’s allusions (201), and Donald Watt pursues Bradbury’s bipolar “symbolic fire” (197) imagery….

In Part One, I detailed my discovery of the 1923 Little Blue Book (or LBB), Theosophy in Outline, by Frederick Willis and how it appeared to be source for Howard’s use of theosophical themes in some of his early works, like “Men of the Shadows,” rather than the previously proposed source, W. Scott-Elliot’s book The…

EssaysBurning Questions in Fahrenheit 451 For an author to grab hold of their reader’s attention, demanding they listen and understand the meaning behind a work, they must develop the skill to understand their audience’s preferences or curiosities. Fulfilling these emotions in his readers, Ray Bradbury creates a unique futuristic society, consisting of distorted character personalities…

Introduction “Look at me, so pail, weak and powerless. This can’t be me. I used to be so strong, so beautiful. Now, I feel so lonely and so near to my death. Section 1 I remember the day of my wedding, how could I even forget that day, the day that I was so foolish…

The story of Of Mice and Men presents a compelling and vivid portrayal of rural American life. It tells the tragic tale of George Milton and Lennie Small, who are both lonely and nomadic laborers with no sense of belonging. George takes on the responsibility of safeguarding Lennie, who is mentally disabled but physically powerful,…

Death is a shared human experience and therefore a universal theme in literature.  Poetry, fiction, and drama venture into the dark recesses of life by exploring the inevitable fate of everyone and everything that breathes. Death differs from person to person and the treatment of death in literature differs from author to author. Similarly intoxicating…

Plot Summary Jean Louise Finch (Scout) starts out to be a very immature child not knowing the prejudice times that surround herself, her brother Jem, and her father Atticus Finch in the town on Maycomb. Scout must learn to mature as acquaintances accuse her father, a lawyer, of being a “nigger-lover” for defending a black…