English Essays

Reviving Ophelia
Reviving Ophelia Reviving Ophelia Adolescent girls growing up in today’s society endure many more hardships than in previous years. Adolescence is no longer a time of endless sunny days spent on the back porch with a glass of country time lemonade and a smile extending ear to ear. Adolescence for girls is now generalized as a dark and depressing period of life that often seems hopeless and never ending. Mary Pipher PH.D tries to illustrate just how drastically life has cha...

Rg Veda
Rg Veda The Purusha-sukta, Rg-veda is a very important scripture in the Hindu religion. The overall concept of the poem is the creation of the world from the gods who dissect the cosmic giant, Purusha. Purusha means man’s universal spirit and soul. In the poem he a man, but it does not state what kind of man he his, thus he is collective. Every man possesses almost everything about him about him. Sukta means to pay respect to someone or something or thank them for something gr...

Rights Turn into Wrongs for Macbeth
Rights Turn into Wrongs for Macbeth Macbeth is commonly known as an evil, selfish character, who is continuosly disliked. Unfortunately, even the worst kinds can have their good qualities, just like Macbeth. A dash of ambition, an ounce or courage and a cup of love for Lady Macbeth, give his character a sprinkle of likable qualities. many characteristics about Macbeth are assumed as immoral, but in reality many socially accepted people do immoral things. Although, Macbeth ha...

Road Not Taken
Road Not Taken Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous life. A straight path never leaves speaker with one sole direction on which to travel. Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is about how the choices affect speaker’s life. Frost illustrates speaker to make a difficult decision about choosing one of two equally promising roads to travel on. When speaker comes to a fork road, a decision needs to be made. Both...

Robert Frost Nature in His Poetry
Robert Frost - Nature in His Poetry Robert frost has many themes in his poetry. One of the main themes that is always repeated, is nature. He always discusses how beautiful nature is or how distructive it can be. Frost always discusses nature in his poems. First, in the poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” there is a lot of nature expresses. Frost’s very first sentence already talks about the woods. “whose woods these are I think I know”. Also, in the ...

Pride and Predjudice
Pride and Predjudice “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” were the words that Shakespeare’s Juliet whispered in Romeo and Juliet to express her feelings of the insignificance of naming. Perhaps this holds true for almost anything in any century. Jane Austen first wanted to call her book “First Impressions,” but finally settled on Jane Austen first wanted to call her book “First Impressions,” but finally settled on Pride and Prejudice. No matter what A...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen In the novel Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, several, if not all of her characters, can verify the idea that in order to achieve happiness one must abandon their pride and in turn, replace it with self-respect accompanied by some humility. In addition, tolerance and mutual respect must replace one’s prejudice. In the inception of the novel, the Bingley sisters, Caroline and Mrs. Hurst, exhibit their prejudice towards Jane becaus...

Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice In the novel Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, several, if not all of her characters, can verify the idea that in order to achieve happiness one must abandon their pride and in turn, replace it with self-respect accompanied by some humility. In addition, tolerance and mutual respect must replace one’s prejudice. In the inception of the novel, the Bingley sisters, Caroline and Mrs. Hurst, exhibit their prejudice towards Jane because of their diff...

Private Pension Plan
Private Pension Plan Private Pension System The Current Social Security system should be replaced by a mandatory Private Pension plan. There are different types of investment plans one could choose before or even after they retire. Social Security is what everyone depends on once they retire at 65. Some people may even need to work beyond the age of 65 due to the lack of money they receive from Social Security. With a Pension plan you are insured to receive the money you wo...

Process analysis essay
Process analysis essay How to Live at Home While Attending College Deciding whether or not to live with your parents while going to college is very difficult thing to do. You are afraid that it is going to be just like more days of high school with your parents treating you as small child. This can be avoided if you and your parents both follow three simple rules: treat each other as peers, respect each other’s privacy, and help each other out. The first rule is usual...

Prodigal son
Prodigal son Acceptance, Forgiveness, and Hope: The Parable of the Prodigal Son Explained In the first century AD, Jesus told a parable to the Pharisees, who believed they were better than the common sinners of the world. This has since come to be referred to as The Parable of the Prodigal Son. In this parable, Jesus tells of a family consisting of a father and his two sons. The older son appears to be very well mannered and level headed, while the younger seems somewhat r...

Prophets in the Hebrew Bible
Prophets in the Hebrew Bible The Role and Character of the Prophets in the Hebrew Bible The characteristics and the roles that link Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, and Jeremiah are their willingness to denounce the blending and mixing of religions, idol worship, and social perversion. These pivotal prophets of the Old Testament are also alike in their courage in that they are willing to confront establishment figures and denounce them for wrongdoing while the people that they attempt t...

Proposel for the MP3 Industry
Proposel for the MP3 Industry As our technological generation advances into the new millennium, we are using our personal computers to expand our daily lives. One method of expansion recently developed on our World Wide Web is the abundant MP3 sites and programs. These sites gained instant popularity with our pop culture obsessed society. These sites and programs allow anyone to download music from almost any artist, any song at any time of leisure. Making a trip to the CD s...

Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction Throughout Quinton Tarantino’s horribly graphic movie, Pulp Fiction, women are treated and referred to as inferior to men. Both the women characters and the dialogue in the movie suggest that women have to be taken care of and protected by men. Even the most powerful of the women characters in the movie, Mia, is looked after by one of her husband’s thugs while he is out of town. On the other hand, Tarantino has the complete antithesis of ...

Purpose of Great Deeds
Purpose of Great Deeds Stories frequently consist of a main character attempting to accomplish some great deed. In order to accomplish that deed, the character must overcome great physical and/or mental challenges. The purpose of overcoming such deeds is often driven by the character’s need to prove self worth, overcome evil, or even fight their own mortality. A significant reason for a character to attempt a deed of great proportion is to prove his worth to himself as well...

Pygmalion
Pygmalion Higgins’ Philosophy Professor Higgins is seen throughout Pygmalion as a very rude man. While one may expect a well educated man, such as Higgins, to be a gentleman, he is far from it. Higgins believes that how you treated someone is not important, as long as you treat everyone equally. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as ...

Qualities of Atticus Finch
Qualities of Atticus Finch Many people act differently around different people and in different places. They put on faces in order to impress and to be accepted. In Harper Lee’s book, To Kill a Mockingbird, many people are not who they seem to be and have different sides to their personalities that are only seen in certain places or around certain people. Atticus Finch is an example to his children, and to the rest of the town, of an honest man who never pretends to be anyone ...

Quiet on the Western Front
Quiet on the Western Front I read All Quiet on the Western Front and viewed the movie. Both the film and the novel show the horror of trench warfare and the drawbacks of unquestioning patriotism. Both the film and the novel follow the same plot but emphasize different aspects. The beginning of both the movie and the novel start off saying. “This story is neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure for death is not an adventure to those who stand f...

Quilt Usage
Quilt Usage The Quilts in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” have different symbolic meaning to each one of the main characters. Dee thinks that she is in touch with her African heritage and that she would be able to take better care of the quilts. Maggie is really the one who is in touch with her African heritage. For this reason her mother wants her to have the quilts. The mother wants the quilts to be put to everyday use. Walker shows that Maggie deserves the qui...

Quotes
Quotes “In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption” -Raymon Chandler Art is art only in the eye of the beholder. Art is a skill that is acquired by experience study or observations. It is something that many people try to accomplish but not all are successful at. To redeem yourself is to buy back or win back something that you have lost. To redeem yourself in art is to express lost emotions or feelings through your work. For many ar...

Racism Today
Racism Today Racism Today There is an underlying problem that is promoting racism. It is the fact that a lot of people believe, and try to make themselves believe, that racism no longer exists. Many people today live their lives oblivious to what is happening in the world around them, often trying to convince themselves that racism is not a problem in their world. Others know all about the problem, but don’t really realize that they themselves could possibly be adding to ...

Racism in OConnor
Racism in O’Connor In O’Connor’s “The Artificial Nigger” the essences of prejudice and degradation are captured to a great extent. Reality shows us with needless consistency people in a need to feel better about themselves only achieve it by being better than someone else. Therefore every opportunity at hand, including racism, is taken advantage as a form of gratification. Mr. Head, the grandfather, is an example of one of these people. He is in com...

Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison-Invisible Man “Who the hell am I” (Ellison 386)? This question puzzled the invisible man, the unidentified, anonymous narrator of Ralph Ellison’s acclaimed novel, Invisible Man. Throughout the story, the narrator embarks on a mental and physical journey to seek what the narrator believes is “true identity,” a belief quite mistaken, for he, although unaware of it, had already been inhabited by true identities all along. Ellison, in ...

Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man As Jazz
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man As Jazz Invisible Man As Jazz Invisible Man by Ralph (Waldo) Ellison, is intriguingly complex. It narrates the history of a life, but is unfinished at the end. Its incomplete structure echoes that of jazz music, where the written form does not contain the extent of the music. In this way, Ellison uses the book to prepare the reader for something, for some final confrontation which is suggested but never recounted. It is a chr...

Philosophy of Jeremy Bentham
Philosophy of Jeremy Bentham Over time, the actions of mankind have been the victim of two vague labels, right and wrong. The criteria for these labels are not clearly defined, but they still seem to be the standard by which the actions of man are judged. There are some people that abide by a deontological view when it comes to judging the nature of actions; the deontological view holds that it is a person’s intention that makes an action right or wrong. On the other hand ...