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My Literacy Is the Foundation of My Personality
I learned to read at a young age. It’s not something I think about often, because it's so far beyond any concrete memories. Mom read to me every night, starting the day I came home from the hospital. My earliest memories are sitting on my mom’s lap, and following the words she was speaking with my eyes I don’t know if she started by sliding her finger across the page, or if I figured out the motion on my own.…...
CultureLiteracyPersonalityThe Hobbit
Learning a Lesson on the Source of Money and the Need to Save It
As a child, I learned that money doesn’t grow on trees. I learned that there are only a few ways we can get money; find it, win it, receive it as a gift, or earn it. It is very rare to find money randomly on the ground. I have personally never found any dollar bills on the ground, but I have found coins. It’s not common for people to find anything other than coins on the floor, but some people…...
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Caring About Money Makes Us Lose Compassion Towards Other People
Do you think that some people care too much , and not about people? In today’s day and age, it is common for people to care more about money than anything else. I believe that most people don’t worry about others. They just worry about themselves and their money. That is just what today’s world has come too. Because a large amount of people care too much about money, they are losing compassion for other people. I believe that most…...
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The Unforgettable Good Experience in Teaching
A good experience in my education was having me second-semester chemistry teacher. I had a teacher in my first semester of chemistry that was hired to replace a teacher on paternity leave She had a degree that was for working in a lab. It was a class that no one took serious and the class average was a low C. No matter how hard people tried or how much they studied, no one did very well in her class. I…...
CommunicationEducationFictionTeaching
The Outsiders: The Book Versus the Movie
"The Outsiders” in both written and film is focused on a teen gang rivalry between social classes. The “Socs” are considered to be the “lucky ones, the rich kids with all the breaks.” On the contrary, the “Greasers” are poor, and judged by their physical appearance The characters are the same, for the story is fixated on the gang containing Ponyboy, Sodapop and Darrel Curtis, as well as Tw0<Bit Matthews. Dallas Winston. Johnny Cade and Steve Randle. Other important characters…...
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Why The Outsiders Should Be Read by Students–Not Banned
Did you know that at Dutchess Day School the eighth graders read a book that is on the banned, censored, and challenged book list? The Outsiders by SE. Hinton has been banned in some schools for gang violence, slang, bad language, smoking underage, and drinking underage. The Outsiders is a fictitious novel about a fourteen-year—old named Ponyboy who has grown up in a gang. Throughout the book, Ponyboy fights. smokes. and talks about his friends drinking underage. I believe that…...
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Ponyboy as a Hero in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Outsiders by S.EtHinton is a great book, and I really enjoyed reading it, This is because I learned how different life can be for other people. In the book we saw how people became heroes and how enemies became friends. I also saw how we don’t have to follow the crowd in making decisions like Ponyboyt While reading this book we learned that no matter how terrible our living conditions are we shouldn’t give up in pursuing our dreams.…...
AdolescenceBullyingThe OutsidersViolence
The Outsiders’ Conflict: Rich vs Poor
The main conflict that occurs in the novel called “The Outsiders”, is Man vs Man. This novel tells a story about the rivalry between two groups, the rich kids called the Socs and the poor ones called the Greasers Ponyboy, our main character, is a Greaseri This friction that exists is explained in the first chapter of the novel when Ponyboy, was jumped by the Socs. To scare him, the Socs threatened that they will cut his throat, showing this…...
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The Importance of Empathy towards Other People
It was a dark and snowy night, We had only been out for an hour, yet my fingers were already frozen into a stiff “c“ shape around my pen, and the crook of my arm was frozen to the cold metal of the clipboard I carried. The low that day had been forecasted at thirty degrees, yet the temperature continued to plummet well into the low twenties. I was unaccustomed to such temperatures, but my will remained strong and my…...
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Positive Benefits of the Emotion Empathy According to Azar Nafisi
At face value, Azar Nafisi’s inspiring words only speak of the positive benefits of the emotion empathy; however, upon delving deeper into the meaning of the aforementioned words, her essay sheds light upon the purposes of studying literature. Nafisi employs a common sentiment experienced by all human beings in order to reflect on the power of imagination and on the ability to transcend one‘s mental and spiritual limitations This multifaceted article serves to convey the purpose of reading literature, explore…...
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Remarque’s Definition of War
War is a lie told by the government. During war, many young men all across the world are persuaded to join the military as a proud citizen and defend their home. The government portrays war as a place of glory where if you join you will be a hero in the eyes of your country. The ugly truth about war is that it permanently damages the men and they are either killed in battle or left abandoned by their country…...
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The Authors’ Comments on Social Issues in The Sacrificial Egg
Lu Xun and Chinua Achebe were very acclaimed writers for their time. They were both from different time periods as their writings portrayed their surroundings. Intricately, Lu Xun and Chinua Achebe's stories are representations of how the authors comment on social issues in their work. In Chinua Achebe's "The Sacrificial Egg", the main character, Julius Obi, did not believe in such superficial beliefs and customs until he stepped on a sacrificial egg and is frightened that he had woken the…...
CultureLiteratureSocial Issues
The Importance of the Concept of Ritual to Creativity
The concept of ritual is essential to creativity, speaking in this case to the "solemn ceremony" through which something is created. The term "ritual" brings along with it spiritual connotations, suggesting that ritual is in itself a divine act and thus declaring that what is performed in ritual or created by it is fundamentally sacred. With this in mind, I believe that William Wordsworth's The Prelude is an example of writing as a spiritual ritual of self reflection. This idea…...
CreativityPoetrySpirituality
The Power of Comfort Food That Lives Within Me
I love mashed potatoes and pizza. I love them so much and probably way more than I should, However, the truly great thing about mashed potatoes and pizza is no matter what mood I am in, they make me happier after I eat it. To me they are a comfort food. I could be having the worst day ever and you could tell me “Hey, it’s no problem. Just eat a box of pizza”, and I would. I believe in…...
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Procrastination Leads to Dereliction
The title is not as bad as it seems but it does apply to the one time procrastination cost me greatly. I learned that when Mrs. Risner tells you to do something It gets done, If you don't...then well you'll be just like me, and trust me that is not a good thing. I had walked into Adv. Biology that day l was wondered. "What does Mrs. Risner have in store for us todayfl" I knew I should have never…...
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Procrastination and the Changing of My Perspective in Life
Aclock reads half past eleven, a student sits tirelessly at his keyboard scrabbling together nonsense. Thoughts of regret enter his mind, the weight of procrastination creeps up behind his acing shoulders His fingers tremble, his eyes twitch, and his mind withers to a staggering haltr Time seems to be slipping away as the ever-nearing deadline approaches, With eyes fuller than the moon he completes the assignment, but with a price. Like an owl in the moonlight glow he looses sleep…...
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A Comparison of Ichigo Kurosaki and Ichimaru Gin from the Anime Bleach
Pierce the heavens. Kill the gods. These powers seem similar but belong to two vastly different characters. Ichigo Kurosaki and Gin Ichimaru aimed to stop Aizen, a man who threatened to kill the Soul King. Ichigo is impulsive, strong-willed, and honorable while Gin is manipulative, sarcastic, and sadistic. While both have immense power that can even change landscapes, they are two very differing characters. Ichigo Kurosaki is a stereotypical teenage hero. He gets into fights, doesn't do well in school,…...
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A Review of the the Long Running Anime: Japanese Animation
In the long running Anime (Japanese animation) Dragon Ball Z, author and illustrator Akira Toriyama presents are wide range of heroes and villains who choose to either defend the planet Earth and other worlds, or to join evil in destruction and ruthless tyranny. The main protagonists are Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Kuririn, Tien, Yamcha, Bulma, Trunks, Bra, Piccolo, and Chaotzu. While many of the characters are humans with superhuman strength and/or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes anthropomorphic animals and later,…...
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The Influence of Japanese Anime and Comic Books in American Culture
Japanimation ... manga ... anime ... by now, these terms have become widely known. This style of Japanese art with it's "cartoony" people and very detailed machinery has taken this country by storm, and has many influences in American movies and comic books. In this essay, I will first show that both anime (Japanese term for animation) and manga (Japanese term for comic books) have sufficient contact with the American culture to generate influence, and then proceed to point out…...
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American Literature During the First Half of the 19th Century
In general, American literature during the first half of the 19th century is categorized under the Romantic Movement. The movement began in an Era of Good Feeling , when Americans felt proud of their young and rapidly expanding country. The good feelings are reflected in William Cullen Bryant s poems. The rise of Transcendentalism brought about a change in attitude and philosophy to a more critical and analytical tone. Finally, toward the end of the Romantic Movement, writers such as…...
American LiteratureRomanticismTranscendentalism
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain as the Father of Modern American Literature
Twain is considered the father of modern American literature and is known in particular for his classic novel The Adventures of huckleberry Finn (1884). Breaking with the genteel traditions of the nineteenth century, Twain developed a lively, vernacular narrative style which served as the vehicle for his satirical observations concerning human folly and social injustice and which, during his lifetime, led to widespread denunciation of his works as coarse and improper. Subsequently, however, Twain's works have come to be regarded…...
American LiteratureCultureMark Twain
An Overview of the Non-Conformism in American Literature
Some people naturally choose a path in life that is different from that chosen by the majority. Henry David Thoreau famously said, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." Literature is filled with proof of that. Whether it is as aged as Patrick Henry's Speech in the Virginia Convention or Jerome Lawrence's and Robert E. Lee's The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, as civil as Martin Luther King…...
American LiteratureHenry David ThoreauMalcolm X
Romanticism Author in the History of American Literature
Edgar Allan Poe is a most influential romanticism author in the history of American literature. He is both a poet and a novelist. The life-time poverty and the experience of struggling in the sea between life and death seeking for foothold in the mainstream of American literature endued him with better understanding of pain and death, as well as with the death topic of his works. At the same time, the appetency of beauty, which was buried deeply inside of…...
American LiteratureAnnabel LeeEdgar Allan Poe
An Analysis of the Post-Civil War American Literature
Post-Civil War American Literature saw a transition from the prominence of romance to the development of realism. In the late 1800's, the United States was experiencing swift growth and change as a result of a changing economy, society, and culture because of an influx in the number of immigrants into America. (Spiller 35) Whereas authors previously sought to "idealize human beings, fall in love with a dream, and then, reject the real man or woman who had inspired the dream",…...
American LiteratureRomanticismTragedy
Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston in American Literature
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's and early 1930's was a period of immense African American literary and intellectual activity, centered in Harlem, New York City. During this time many writers emerged, among them Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright. Respectively their works "The Gilded Six-Bits" and "Almos' A Man" are literary reminders of the early South. While attending college in New York, Zora Neale Hurston became part of the Harlem Renaissance's literati and hung out with the likes of…...
American LiteratureCultureHarlem Renaissance
An Introduction to the Analysis of Dialects in American Literature
Dialects in American Literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries dialect was not common in American Literature. Writers who attempted to accurately capture American dialect and slang often failed to make it believable. In my essay, Dialects in American Literature! I will compare and contrast three writers who used dialect in their writings and explain the difference between effective and ineffective use of dialect. The writers I will be discussing are Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and William Dean…...
American LiteratureLanguageLiterature
An Analysis of American Literature
American Literature looks at and depicts our American Heritage. It goes into depth what many history books could never cover. Whether it's poetry, drama, novel, short story, biography, satire, humor, or folk literature, all Literature holds a special place in many Americans hearts. America has produced every type of literature, and has done it well. The first American writings were not literature. They were reports of what was happening to the settlers. The colonists kept diaries and wrote their travels…...
American LiteratureNathaniel HawthornePoetry
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in American Literature
Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the differences between Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn become quite evident. The two boys are almost opposites, Tom a romantic and Huck a realist. Tom is a boy with a wild imagination who likes to pretend and play games of adventure like in his romantic novels. Huck on the other hand has little faith in the things he reads and hears, he believes only what he sees and experiences. They have…...
American LiteratureFictionHuckleberry Finn
Franklin & Emerson: Major American Writers?
Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Waldo Emerson are both widely recognized names in the American literature landscape. They share many of the same qualities in their views and beliefs. Both believed in free thinking. Franklin's early life and writings show the division of the classes in society at that time. Many believed you were born into your destiny and you could do little to change whatever that might be. His life and works are proof that an individual did possess the…...
American LiteratureThoughtVirtue Ethics
American Literature and the Life of Yolande Cornelia Nikki Giovanni
Nikki (Yolande Cornelia) Giovanni has made an enormous impact on African American literature. She uses her own experiences to write wonderful poetry. In the poem Nikki-Rosa, Nikki Giovanni writes the opposite about her growing up in her family. When I first read this poem, I pictured a poverty-stricken family living in a small apartment, much like the Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun. Evidently, the family is poor because they have no inside toilet and take baths in…...
American LiteratureNikki GiovanniPoetry
Important American Writer
Very few people will contest that Walt Whitman may be one of the most important and influential writers in American literary history and conceivably the single most influential poet. However many have claimed that Whitmans writing is so free form as evident in his 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself that it has no style. The poetic structures he employs are unconventional but reflect his very democratic ideals towards America. Although Whitmans writing does not include…...
American LiteraturePoetryWalt Whitman
Interesting Things to Do When You’re in Hawaii
'I don't think there's genius in my writing'Observer: What is Hotel Honolulu about?Theroux: 1 see it as a book about a place which is very difficult to write about. There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody, and then the place that's never been written about. I've tried to find a form that would accommodate the place that I've been living in for 11…...
GhostHawaiiLiterature
An Analysis of Symbols used in Lord of the Flies, a Novel by William Golding
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” Lord of the Flies by William Golding tells the story of a group of boys stranded on an abandoned island. The boys start off working well together, though their savagery begins to be apparent later on in the novel. The island soon becomes very war-like, as the boys become less civilized, and it becomes a dog-eat-dog world. The symbols in…...
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Lord of the Flies by Golding: From Civilized to Savage
By using Roger's transformation from a civilized person to a savage in the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding proves his belief that evil is built in to humans. Ralph uses the conch to gather everyone on the island together. Immediately, the question of authority arises. "The dark boy, Roger, stirred at last and spoke up. 'Let's have a vote’ ‘Yes!' 'Vote for chief!'” (Golding 22). On the first day of the plane crash, Roger is the first person to…...
CultureLord Of The FliesPolitics
The Unconscious Beast in Lord of the Flies
The children questioning of if a beast exists on the island reminds me of when I questioned if there was a monster living inside my room during the night. I would wonder if the monster was hiding in the closet, or under my bed, or if it was right next to my bed but I couldn't see it. I couldn't fall asleep because of the fear that the monster may eat me once I wasn't looking. I got scared to…...
ExperienceLord Of The FliesPsychology
Who is the Lord of the Flies?
In Lord of the Flies, Simon encounters two visions of the Beast. In chapter 8, Simon sees the white teeth, and the half dim eyes filled, “...with the infinite cynicism of adult life (Golding 137). The Beast is now introduced as the Lord of the Flies as he talks with Simon. He talks of how Simon is a “silly little boy" and how they others think he's batty. The Beast questions Simon if he is afraid of him and reminds…...
Lord Of The FliesReligionTheology
Id, Ego, Superego in Lord of the Flies
Sigmund Freud was a neurologist who later became to be known as the father of psychoanalysis. His ideas of psychology included psychosexual development, the Freudian slip, and the ID, Ego, and the Superego. Freud's theory was that personality was divided into three elements. These three elements worked together to create complex human behaviors. Golding used the ID, Ego, and Superego to effectively show how human development works in complex situations. The ID is driven by the pleasure principle, which strives…...
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Identity Loss & Savagery in Bacon’s & Golding’s Works
In analyzing both Sir Francis Bacon's Painting and William Golding's Lord of the Flies, one can see common themes. These themes are the loss of identity and the coming of savagery. When Man is overtaken by the instinct of survival due to the loss of social order, the themes are demonstrated as inevitable fates. The boys in Lord of the Flies and the man in Painting are overtaken by the instinct of survival due to the loss of social order.…...
Lord Of The FliesPainting
Piggy: Most Deserving Survivor?
In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, I believe Piggy is the character most deserving to be rescued at this point in the story. He is the most intelligent, patient, and the most rational on the island and there are plenty of reasons that show he should be rescued. For example, the author wrote in chapter four, "He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow. The rest were shock-headed, but Piggy's…...
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Flaws in Lord of the Flies
The theme of flaws is a central topic throughout the novel 'Lord of the Flies' and Golding presents the flaws of characters in various ways. Even though Golding did not intend to write a traditional Shakespearean tragedy, the protagonist Ralph fits the characteristics of the 'tragic hero' in Shakespeare's plays. The main idea that Golding focuses on is Ralph's ‘hamartia' and how this leads to the tragic fate of the boys on the island. Even though Ralph is shown to…...
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