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  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan was quoted in saying, "Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved." Bryan and I see eye to eye, for I also believe destiny is something you control. I want to be accepted into the National Honor Society so I can indeed steer my destiny towards a favorable pathway. The NHS can provide me

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    Essay Length: 766 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Steve
  • William Blake: From Innocence to Experience

    William Blake: From Innocence to Experience

    With his individual visions William Blake created new symbols and myths in the British literature. The purpose of his poetry was to wake up our imagination and to present the reality between a heavenly place and a dark hell. In his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience he manages to do this with simplicity. These two types of poetry were written in two different stages of his life, consequently there could be seen a

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    Essay Length: 2,055 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Dark & Light Imagery in Shakespeare's Macbeth

    Dark & Light Imagery in Shakespeare's Macbeth

    Shakespeare is known widely for his amazing talent in play writing. His use of intense detail builds up the setting and personality of the characters in his plays. In the play Macbeth, Macbeth himself, drowned by greed and complete darkness, kills the king in an effort to be crowned. His reign of terror, driven by insanity and darkness builds the suspense in the play. The evil atmosphere in Macbeth grows darker with every pain staking

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    Essay Length: 962 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Mike
  • Shakespeares Villains: Iago and Claudius

    Shakespeares Villains: Iago and Claudius

    When reading a story, people tend to identify with the hero. They like to think of themselves as heroes in their own lives and the success of a hero in a story makes them feel better about their chances of success in their own lives. However, a hero is only as great as the obstacle he can overcome. The obstacle can be a natural disaster or even a wild animal but it is a human

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    Essay Length: 2,111 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Janna
  • Shakespeare

    Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden approximately in late April 1564 in Stratford -upon-Avon. His father was a prominent and prosperous alderman and later became a leather merchant. In William’s family there was at least 8 children, including him being the 3rd and eldest son. There is no solid proof as to which school Shakespeare attended, but there is an assumption it was at Stratford. The school was competitive and

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    Essay Length: 560 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Delusional Characters in Shakespeare

    Delusional Characters in Shakespeare

    Delusional Characters in Shakespeare "Delusion can often lead to unhappiness." Comment on how characters you have studied in a text this semester have deluded themselves and other. What was the outcome of this delusion? In William Shakespeare's play text "Macbeth", we are shown delusion can often lead to unhappiness. Many of the characters in the play deluded themselves and others along the way. A deluded Macbeth destroys his entire kingdom by deluding others around him

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    Essay Length: 2,591 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • Critical Analysis of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Critical Analysis of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge spearheaded a philosophical writing movement in England in the late 18th and early 19th century. Although Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge are often considered the fathers of the English Romantic movement, their collective theologies and philosophies were often criticized but rarely taken serious by the pair of writers due to their illustrious prestige as poets. The combined effort in the Lyrical Ballads catapulted their names into the mainstream of writers

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    Essay Length: 2,481 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Artur
  • A Man’s Vision of Love: An Examination of William Broyles Jr.’s Esquire Article - Why Men Love War

    A Man’s Vision of Love: An Examination of William Broyles Jr.’s Esquire Article - Why Men Love War

    A Man’s Vision of Love: An Examination of William Broyles Jr.’s Esquire Article “Why Men Love War” History 266 Sec 004 The University of Michigan 11-22-2000 Prepared For Ken Swope Prepared By Mike Martinez “Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. This is the great distinction

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    Essay Length: 3,088 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: July
  • Tennessee Williams’s Life Story

    Tennessee Williams’s Life Story

    Tennessee Williams's Life Story Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie, originated in the memory of Williams. Williams' family embodied his father, Cornelius Williams, his mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, his sister, Rose Williams, and his younger brother, Dakin Williams. Cornelius was an alcoholic, always away from home; Tennessee and Cornelius did not have a strong relationship, "By the late 1920s, mother and father were in open warfare, and both were good combatants. He came home drunk

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    Essay Length: 1,287 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Sounder by William Armstrong

    Sounder by William Armstrong

    Sounder by William Armstrong is a story of compassion about a great hunting dog that impacts a boy’s life in an amazing way. It is a story that depicts ways in which animals and humans can share great bonds among each other. It also shows how the emotions of animals and humans are not that different. In many circumstances, the feelings are almost quite mutual. Chapter one begins with the father standing on his porch

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    Essay Length: 527 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Tommy
  • William Blake’s London

    William Blake’s London

    London, by William Blake William Blake’s poem, London, is a very dark and rich work that reflects Blake’s feelings of disillusionment and sorrow over the inequalities he saw in London, England. First published in 1794 in Songs of Experience, London shows the horrors and suffering that were commonplace in Europe at that time. William Blake was born in London, England, into meager circumstances. He was educated by his mother and became proficient in art, especially

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    Essay Length: 622 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: regina
  • Shakespeare

    Shakespeare

    a Sonnet 18 Unlike the movie “Shakespeare in love”would lead one to believe Sonnet 18 is not written in the name of true love, Sonnet 18 is not as much about the muse of the poem than it is about the poet himself. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The emphasis in the line is not the comparison that is being made but rather the way Shakespeare will take that comparison and make

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    Essay Length: 940 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Bred
  • Social Status in Shakespeare’s Plays

    Social Status in Shakespeare’s Plays

    In Shakespeare's time, the English lived with a strong sense of social class -- of belonging to a particular group because of occupation, wealth, and ancestry. Elizabethan Society had a very strict social code at the time that Shakespeare was writing his plays. Social class could determine all sorts of things, from what a person could wear to where he could live to what jobs his children could get. Some families moved from one class

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    Essay Length: 1,994 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Fonta
  • An Unfolding of the Symbolism in William Wordsworth's

    An Unfolding of the Symbolism in William Wordsworth's

    An unfolding of the symbolism in William Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” written by William Wordsworth is an eight-line poem written on the topic of death. Usually any writing on the topic of death, whether it be a poem or an article from a newspaper, is written in a negative light, but “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” shows death in a positive light. The narrator, or

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    Essay Length: 435 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Shakespeare in Love

    Shakespeare in Love

    The movie that is being compared to a story here is one of the all-time best. The main theme portrayed in "Shakespeare in Love" is a love that is never meant to be. "Shakespeare in Love" parallels the play Shakespeare is currently working on, Romeo and Juliet, in which love is not meant to be due to the many obstacles in the way. Shakespeare's life in the film is very comparable to Romeo's life

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    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Examine the Ways in Which Shakespeare Develops the Character of Romeo Through His Use of Language

    Examine the Ways in Which Shakespeare Develops the Character of Romeo Through His Use of Language

    Romeo’s character is developed greatly throughout the play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, through Shakespeare’s use of language. Various themes are introduced to the play; love, tragedy and conflict are some examples. Romeo’s character can be identified by his connections with the themes. At the beginning of the play, Romeo seems quite mature, in the sense that he is in love, and growing up. However, immaturity is beginning to arise, as Romeo shows that he cannot cope

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    Essay Length: 935 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Fonta
  • How Can God Create a Universe in Which Suffering Is Allowed? Discuss This in the Context of the Tyger by William Blake

    How Can God Create a Universe in Which Suffering Is Allowed? Discuss This in the Context of the Tyger by William Blake

    The Tyger is a poem by William Blake in which Blake examines the concept of suffering and how the creator could allow it to occur. This essay will discuss the concept of suffering in God’s universe, using The Tyger as a reference. One of the greatest mysteries of our existence is how God can allow the suffering of innocents. Daily we are bombarded with images of seemingly needless suffering, of children starving to death, diseases,

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    Essay Length: 535 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Tasha
  • A Biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

    A Biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

    A Biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois To the many who admired him, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was, by strong-willed dedication and intellectual perseverance, an assailant of inequality and a guardian of liberty. A herald of "Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism" (Hynes), he passed away in self-imposed isolation with his ancestors in his land of comfort, the magnificent Africa (Hynes). Branded as a "radical," he was overlooked by those who held on to the

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    Essay Length: 654 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • How Does Shakespeare Use Dramatic Devices Is Act 3 Scene 1 of “romeo and Juliet” in Order to Make It an Exciting Scene and a Turning Point in the Play

    How Does Shakespeare Use Dramatic Devices Is Act 3 Scene 1 of “romeo and Juliet” in Order to Make It an Exciting Scene and a Turning Point in the Play

    Fate, love and violence are the three words to describe this play. Shakespeare uses these throughout the play to comment on men, women and marriage in society at this time when girls were betrothed to a man of their fathers choosing and under the condition that they were ‘pure’. Men were seen to be superior to women and dominated them, as women had very few rights and were property of their fathers, and then their

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    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Andrew
  • A Long Wait for Another Williams

    A Long Wait for Another Williams

    “A Long Wait For Another Williams” Sara J. Kuhl, who writes for the Wisconsin State Journal, wrote “A Long Wait for Another Williams” which is of course a review for the book Waiting for Teddy Williams. In her review she focuses on explaining the title of the novel. Teddy Williams being E.A.’s father who only shows up for the summer and E.A. has to wait for him to show up. Kuhl then run through the

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    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Analysis William Cronan's “the Trouble with Wilderness”

    Analysis William Cronan's “the Trouble with Wilderness”

    The rapid industrialization of the Earth has been one of the greatest changes the earth has undergone, surpassing in magnitude the numerous ice ages or massive extinctions. This industrialization prompted a large chunk of the Earth’s population to dwell in cities. As a result, much of the wide open spaces of “nature” were transformed into an environment dominated by buildings and congested with roads and people. It is then no surprise that humans separate themselves

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth William Wordsworth was, in my eyes one of the best know romanticist writers of his time. Most of his pieces talk about nature and religion. He, like most romantic poets of his time revolted against the industrial revolution and wrote many pieces about nature in order to go up against it. During the industrial revolution there were many factories being built up that took away most of the open countryside that everyone

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    Essay Length: 542 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Stenly
  • A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    In "A Rose for Emily", William Faulkner tells a story about a young women who is overwhelmingly influenced by her father. Her father controls her live and makes all of her decisions for her. Without him she could not do anything except stay at home. When her father dies, Emily has to confront a new life without her sponsor. Since she is not able to function without the presence of her father, it is hard

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Tasha
  • William Wordsworth's Poems and David Malouf's Novel, an Imaginary Life,

    William Wordsworth's Poems and David Malouf's Novel, an Imaginary Life,

    In both William Wordsworth’s poems and David Malouf’s novel, An Imaginary Life, it is evident how different times and cultures affect the quality and importance of the relationship humanity can have with the natural world. Themes that are explored in both texts include interaction with nature, the role of nature in childhood and adulthood, religion and the role of language. These all show the quality and importance of humanity’s relationship with nature and how times

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Shakespeare on Film - Observations

    Shakespeare on Film - Observations

    Shakespeare On Film 02/10/04 Hamlet 20002 Observations It was a difficult movie to sit through. It is not because the movie is inherently bad but because of my own neurosis. The works of Shakespeare, in my humble estimation, are not meant to be modernized. Modern settings, along with modern stylization detract from the original beauty of the work. It is illogical to watch Polonius giving fatherly advice to the young Ophelia in a penthouse

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    Essay Length: 718 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Tasha

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