“The Oven Bird” by Robert Frost and “Encounter” by Czeslaw Milosz
In literature, birds often stand as symbols for countless things, such as freedom or oppression – flying free versus being constantly caged – love and peace – pigeons who will go to great length...
1984 – In the face of pain there are no heroes
George Orwell’s 1984 is a brilliant commentary on the dangers of totalitarianism, mind control, technology and both physical and psychological manipulation. The novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith,...
Marxism In the Novel 1984 Throughout time, rulers and controlling governments have used the ideas of Marxism to take and maintain control over the working class. Even today ideas such as classism and ...
A Comparison of Lord of the Flies to Sympathy for the Devil
The story The Lord of the Flies is a timeless piece of literature written by William Golding. Many who have read this story have been inspired in different ways, one of these groups being The Rolling ...
My reaction for this case was between shock and some anger. I was shocked due to the fact that the human resource director would even think that a college graduate would want to do such a demeaning jo...
“A Hanging” by George Orwell is a powerful short story on capital punishment. A Hindu man from Burma was taken out of his cell and walked down to be hung. The story never explains why the man was ...
“A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell is a short story that examines how women who have similar backgrounds and common experiences enable them to identify with each other and piece together a mu...
A Poem for “Magic”, written by Quincy Troupe is a truly dazzling poem. I’m not usually one who can easily relate to a poem but this one elicits so much passion for the game of basketball that it...
A Precise Thought on Hunger by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations was published in 1861 when the flowering of the Victorian Age had been at its height. During this period England was afflicted by many problems emanating from the changes in feudal ...
Refusal to change is the underlying theme of A Rose for Emily, a short story written by William Faulkner. This paper serves as an in-depth examination of how the main character, Emily Grierson, correl...