Conor Oberst Essays

  • The Happiest Place on Earth, An Interpretation

    752 Words  | 2 Pages

    tightly into thirty-six short lines is a depiction of America today as viewed by Conor Oberst, front man for the Desaparecidos. "The Happiest Place on Earth" covers their opinions on patriotism, drugs, greed, pollution, military, technology, and the establishment in general. The overall feeling of the song is rebellion towards the industry, but there is also a sense of hope and a longing for social change. Conor Oberst, the writer of the song, started the music life when he was fourteen years old

  • Essay on Camus’ The Stranger (The Outsider): Meursault as Metaphysical Rebel

    2000 Words  | 4 Pages

    Herbert R. Albert Camus: A Biography. New York: George Braziller Inc. 1980. Masters, Brian. Camus: A Study. London: Heinemann, 1974. McCarthy, Patrick. Camus: A Critical Study of his Life and Works. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. O'Brien, Conor Cruise. Albert Camus of Europe and Asia. New York: Viking Press, 1970. Quillot, Roger. The Sea and Prisons. University of Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1970

  • Elementary Education Career

    653 Words  | 2 Pages

    “I used to work at a school as a teachers assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don’t know, I think that’s a pretty good life, teaching kids.” - Conor Oberst. Spending seven hours a day with young children of the world and helping them grow and learn is what elementary education is all about. Pursuing a career as a elementary school teacher is an ideal job for a person who wants to work with kids and help them grow and develop, wants to teach the basic subjects to learning

  • Emotion in T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

    1454 Words  | 3 Pages

    Emotion in T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock In his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot subtly conveys a wide variety of Prufrock’s emotions; he creates pathos for the speaker by employing the “objective correlative,” which Eliot defines as “a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events [that] shall be the formula of that particular emotion” (“Hamlet and His Problems”). The first stanza introduces Prufrock’s isolation, as epitomized metaphorically by “half-deserted