More v The Great Gatsby “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” This quote by author F. Scott Fitzgerald describes his life perfectly. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. In June 1918 Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp […]
Les Miserables Connections to Charity Essay
True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity. -St. Francis de Sales It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God […]
Essay on Killer Whales Should Not Be Kept in Captivity
“Imagine if the world you lived in, the space you breathed in, and the freedom you played in were suddenly taken away from you.” (Free Willy) Orca whales are the largest members of the dolphin family. Orcas are very curious creatures, they like to sky hop, which is when they poke their heads out of […]
William Shakespeare’s Henry V Essay
William Shakespeare’s Henry VShakespeare’s plays can be divided into three distinct categories:histories, romances and comedies. Henry the fifth is a history. Henry V is the last of four plays by William Shakespeare which tellsof the rise of the house of Lancaster. It was written in 1599 but isset in 1415, two years after the death […]
History of English Literature
More v History of English Literature I. INTRODUCTIONEnglish literature, literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British Isles; it was during the 15th cent. that the English language acquired much of its modern form.II. The Tudors and the Elizabethan AgeThe beginning of the Tudor dynasty coincided with the first dissemination of […]
Essay about Moby Dick: Subjective Space
Moby Dick: Subjective SpaceOh! my God! what is this that shoots through me, and leaves me so deadly calm, yet expectant, —fixed at the top of a shudder! Future things swim before me, as in empty outlines and skeletons; all the past is somehow grown dim. (Chap. 135: 463) The sublime moment is the ultimate […]
Self-discovery in Desolation Angels Essay
Self-discovery in Desolation AngelsStripped to its barest essentials, Jack Kerouac’s novel Desolation Angels reads as a drug-induced stupor of casual sex (or fantasies thereof), mixed into a melting of jazz and poetry. The often-adolescent urges of Kerouac’s character Jack Duluoz, however, are mere episodes in the fast-paced, write-it-as-you-think-it, pre-literary notoriety phase in the life of […]
Essay The Miserable ( Les Miserable) Victor Hego
Journal 1 The Miserable ( Les Miserable) Victor Hego Victor Hego, a French poet and a spirtual leader, he wrote the miserable in 1862. Hego portrays a novel of misery, love, hope and pain through a cohesive flow of incidents through unique characters . The novel addrsses the French social life in the first half […]
A Comparison of Blake and Wordsworth’s view of London Essay
A Comparison of Blake and Wordsworth’s view of London========================================================== William Wordsworth and William Blake both wrote popular poems aboutLondon, but their views of it were very different, this could bebecause of the way they grew up. Blake was brought up in the city andsaw the more poverty-driven and polluted side to London whereasWordsworth writes about […]
Alex and Jack in A Clockwork Orange and Lord of the Flies
More v A Comparison of Jack and Alex The thoughts and actions of Alex in the novel, A Clockwork Orange are both alike and different from the character Jack in Lord of he Flies. Alex a young man at the age of fifteen is a bane on society. Rape, violence, and Beethoven are his main […]