their permission for the publishing of her essay. Helen’s story got in and mind didn’t. In retrospect, mine didn’t deserve to get in. Why? In an overzealous state to write an epic, I took what was originally 2 pages and turned it into six pages of unnecessary details, overcomplicated world structure, and random vocabulary in a classic freshman attempt to sound intelligent. It didn’t work. Three years and four months later, I’m realizing that my essays usually don’t need me to add as much as subtract

periodical of the Romantic Age, The Liberal. If we go by the generic distinction this document is primarily an essay based on the reminiscences of the author of the experience he had almost twenty five years back when he met a “poet” for the first time in life, a moment of “baptism”, as he says, in the world of poetry and philosophy (Hazlitt, First Acquaintance). The essay can be taken as a memoir because it moves round a particular incident in the author’s life, i.e., his meeting with Coleridge, the

purpose than a writer of a nonfiction book. This is the case with Tobias Wolff and C.S. Lewis. Both well known authors, Wolff and Lewis have completely different styles of writing, and therefore, different purposes behind their writing. Wolff’s memoir, This Boy’s Life, and Lewis’s Mere Christianity are quite different, yet they both reflect their respected author’s purpose. Despite being so different from each other, Wolff and Lewis do share some common ground with other writers and essayists

In George Orwell's analytically essay, Shooting an Elephant, Orwell reflects on the five years he spent working as a police officer for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, India. While writing about a serious issue in his essay, George takes a less formal approach to this particular piece of writing; reflecting on past events in a form of a personal memoir. It is within his memoir, Orwell explores the cruelty of the human race and the actions people, including himself, take to prevent further ridicule

Angel Discrimination and Racism: A Comparative Essay Anna Kitchen Unfortunately, racial, ethnical, linguistic and religious discrimination is a major issue in today's society. When a refugee or asylum seeker finally escapes from their 'home', the least they expect when they arrive in their new country is to face discrimination. In hiMe's memoir Casual Racism, the author narrates snippets of her life since migrating to Australia in 1984. Her memoir focuses on racism inside a local community as a

The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel gives an in depth view of Nazi Concentration Camps. Growing up in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel, a young Jewish boy at the innocent age of 12, whose main focus in life was studying the Kabbalah and becoming closer in his relationship with God. In the memoir, Elie Wiesel reflects back to his stay within a Nazi Concentration Camp in hopes that by sharing his experiences, he could not only educate the world on the ugliness known as the Holocaust, but also to

By doing writing project #1, I had read a few of the memoir samples, so I know how the structure going to be for writing project #2. In my memoir, I shared my own experience on the language I used in my daily life. I talked about the language use were different between talking to my chinese friends and American friends. Also, I talked about how do

typical green leaves turn once they have lost their chloroplast. The purpose of this essay is to examine BUCK a MEMOIR by MK Asante and his use of Allegories to help give the reader a visual on what it like to be a young Buck. While reading this book there are many things that are typically seen to be “good” that is often colored with a paintbrush and dipped in pain. The author Asante does his best to tell his memoir in away to reach out to the younger generation. Asante talks about remaining