|
|
|
» Browse English Term Papers
Epic Of Gilgamesh
Number of Words: 1649 / Number of Pages: 6
... people, can relate to. There are similarities between Gilgamesh’s journey and our own journey through life. Some of the texts that will be compared with The , are the Bible, and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The characters of these stories are all have that burning desire to be successful in life, which we can relate to. These texts span across different time periods and societies illustrating how human nature, particularly the desire to obtain more than one possesses, plays a significant role throughout written and present human history.
It is in human nature to want ...
|
|
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: The Role Of Women
Number of Words: 2354 / Number of Pages: 9
... criticism of the system. The poet is showing Gawain's reliance on chivalry's outside form and substance at the expense of the original values of the Christian religion from which it sprang. The first knights were monastic ones, vowing chastity, poverty and service to God, and undertaking crusades for the good of their faith. The divergence between this early model and the fourteenth century knight came with the rise of courtly love in which the knights were led to their great deeds by devotion to a mistress rather than God. The discrepancy between this and the church's mistrust of women and desir ...
|
|
Comparing Two Poems
Number of Words: 701 / Number of Pages: 3
... whales evokes sad and compassionate feelings from the readers.
Great whale, crying for your life
Crying for your kind
The poem Package for the Distant Future produces images of desperation new generations and the history and evolution of old civilisation being held on a scrap of paper.
We had a lot of things we did not like
And could have lived without
Do not invent gods
I hope the earth is nearly clean again.
This image could be seen to be rather disturbing, so to can the pictures produced by The Song of the Whale, which depict image of cruelty, sadness and the absolute ig ...
|
|
January Chance
Number of Words: 1075 / Number of Pages: 4
... feel what is happening as the poem is being read. The literal meanings are said through words like time, voyaging, and seat backs. The metaphorical terms are expressed through the more thoughtful words like white noise, time, and train.
The first stanza of the poem begins talking about the relationship between the two passengers. "All afternoon before them, father and boy" tells a reader that they are together early in the day or, metaphorically, early in their lives. Also, as stated above, the father and son do not share a closeness, and maybe this is why it is so important for the fathe ...
|
|
Why Write
Number of Words: 757 / Number of Pages: 3
... lies in the intended audience. A journal is for the writer only, while a memoir is written with the purpose of communicating the memory to others. In 'Finishing School' by Maya Angelou, she writes a memoir to tell of her upbringing as a black child being taught white female etiquette. Here, her intentions of the piece is to give an understanding of what it was like for her as an underprivileged slave child to interact with her white peers in the 1930's.
Writers write to explore the self. To most, this is the easiest form of self-discovery. While this purpose is somewhat similar to writing t ...
|
|
The Great Gatsby - The Green L
Number of Words: 1219 / Number of Pages: 5
... is wanted. It is like the saying, "So close but yet so far away."
There is money everywhere we go, but it's hard to get it. We can't just rob a bank, we
have to earn our own assets. And in the same context, Gatsby could not go kidnap Daisy,
he had to woo her and win her love.
Color symbolism is really popular in novels written during the 1920's. One such example is Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. There is much color symbolism in this novel, but there are two main colors that stand out more than the others. The colors green and white influence the story greatly. Green shows many thou ...
|
|
A Modern Day Odysseus
Number of Words: 1267 / Number of Pages: 5
... He went even further with his good intentions to code
one of the most powerful steps towards greater civil liberty, specifically,
"Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)," which enabled the unbreakable encryption of e-
mail. In other words, he extended to people the right to free speech that
no one, not even the government, can listen to. Before PGP, the United
States government had spied on people through simply steaming open
envelopes and recording phone conversations. Not only that, but e-mail was,
and still is to this day, notoriously simple to intercept. With a set of
good intentions, Phil Zimmermann c ...
|
|
Riches, Knowledge, And Power....
Number of Words: 388 / Number of Pages: 2
... layer or improve surgical technics. So if I could be smart then i
could someday think of something that may help the world and to me that
would be much better then being famous for being rich or to have a power.
If I was smart I could also see some bad points to being extreamly
smart. If I was too smart then nothing in my life span would be a
challenege. Everything would be so easy to finish or accomplish because
i'd already know how to do it. Being smart would also be bad because you
wouldn't learn new intreasting things like how a car works, or even being
excited by going on your first roll ...
|
|
Black Boy
Number of Words: 1350 / Number of Pages: 5
... racism, which is one way of society keeping Richard Wright, and all other blacks in the South down. Another example is when is at the rail road station with his mother, and as they are waiting for the train, he sees something he has never seen, "…for the first time I noticed that there were two lines of people at the ticket window, a "white" line and a "black" line," (55). This excerpt is demonstrating how this scene of Jim Crow laws is keeping a certain group of people apart, which is also another form of societal oppression. Societal oppression occurs again when Richard is "hanging" out with his ...
|
|
Romanticism
Number of Words: 933 / Number of Pages: 4
... It reflects interesting in nature because the Romantics describe their story and poem about America wilderness or countryside or they depicted nature. This element that the reader can recognize clearly in the compositions of these writers above. The third element that the Romantics interest in unusual or ordinary. Furthermore, Romantics had a strong belief in democracy, a deep awareness in the past. Some writers explore the mysteries of nature, the inner self and the relationship between the nature and human imagination. Also it delved into a history of young nation or tradition of th ...
|
|
|
