It Was Written Essays

  • The poem Carrickfergus was written by an Irish writer called Louis

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    Carrickfergus was written by an Irish writer called Louis MacNeice in The 20th Century. The poem "Carrickfergus" was written by an Irish writer called Louis MacNeice in The 20th Century. It was written in four line stanzas and now I am going to analyse this poem and talk about each stanza. In the first line of the first stanza, we notice that the child Louis MacNeice is using specific detail in his poem as he says he was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries. MacNeice was brought

  • Alabama Moon by Watt Key

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    things on his own including living alone. On page 3 I found out that he was ten years old because it said “I was ten years old and he’d taught me everything I needed to know about living out in the forest.” So this showed me that he knew how to live in his own out in the forest and that he was ten years old which was pretty young to be living on his own out in the forest. At first when Moon was scared and lonely without his dad he was aggressive with the other characters. On page 27 Moon really showed

  • Creative Writing: The Room

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    different headings. As I drew near the wall of files, the first to catch my attention was one that read "Girls I have liked." I opened it and began flipping through the cards. I quickly shut it, shocked to realize that I recognized the names written on each one. And then without being told, I knew exactly where I was. This lifeless room with its small files was a crude catalog system for my life. Here were written the actions of my every moment, big and small, in a detail my memory couldn't match.

  • comperative Analysis of Bronte and Hardy

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    This poem is about a woman who was buried long ago and thinks that the digging above her is her loved ones sending flowers, but they have all forgotten her. Therefore, from the three poems as stated in the text above, what is the comparative analysis of loss between Bronte and Hardy? Firstly, going back to Bronte’s poem, Remembrance, what are the main themes of loss interpreted? So, this poem is about a girl who died fifteen years past the time the poem was written. It is about a lover of the one

  • The Decade Changing Realism Of A Common Man From The 50’s

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    Changing Realism Of A Common Man From The 50’s When all literature is written, the author or poet is influenced by the happenings of the time or era in which they live. What this does is give the reader a sense of how the author or poet perceives the time. In particular the poem entitled, “Life Cycle of Common Man” by Howard Stanley Nemerov shows a direct connection between the poem itself, and the time in which it was written. Nemerov uses his thoughts and experiences from the 50’s and 60’s to

  • Smoke Signals Movie Analysis

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    movie, Smoke Signals, written by Sherman Alexie in 1998, is not a terrible movie, but it isn’t one I would recommend to all my friends. It’s more of the type of movie I would watch when I exhausted all of my other options. There were a few things about this movie thata caught my attention. The first was the acting. It was probably the best part of the film, closely followed by the script. The main thing that I noticed that ruined this film for me was the use of flashbacks. It was a little excessive

  • Flannery O’Connor’s Short Story A Good Man is Hard to Find

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    would be mistaken as to her status as a lady, an issue at the heart of every true Southern woman. She related stories of old mansions and of the little ‘pickaninny’ by a door. This was not a racial comment because for it to be there would have to be an intent to insult an African American and there was not. This was written to further convey the notion of her embodying all the true characteristics of Southern women, including their adherence to devout Christianity. The Misfit exemplifies the cold

  • Extra Credit

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    Going into Rpw 210 I had pretty low exceptions. Based off my previous Rpw experience I was expecting a boring teacher,topics and assignments which wouldn't teach me anything. But this class surprised me. Not just the teacher but the readings and bringing in or applying to every day made this class enjoyable. Last year my rhetoric and professional writing class was dreaded. No one took it seriously. If you looked around the room most students were on their phones. The teacher tried but gave up half-

  • Comparing Nothing's Changed and Half-Caste

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    culture. In Half-Caste Caribbean dialect is used. Nothing's Changed is written in standard English. However, both writers chose to use free verse meaning that neither poem follows specific rules or patterns. In Half-Caste the poem is written from the writer's viewpoint. Which means the reader is able to see the writer's personal feelings about the term half-caste. The opening line, "Excuse me" shows that the poem is written from the writer's point of view as excuse me is a phrase used by someone

  • Catcher In The Rye Coming Of Age Analysis

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    school walls and in the museum. Holden first find’s the words “Fuck you” written on the school walls of Phoebe’s school. Holden is appalled, thinking that some random pervet had probably written it. However, he finds it again in the museum. “Another “Fuck you”. It was written with a red crayon or something….” (Salinger 204). With the words “Fuck you” written with a red crayon, it is clearly shown that it was a child who had written it. It shows that the kids in the novel are also reaching the stage of

  • Argumentative Essay On Plagiarism

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    paraphrased, completely copied or fragmentally copied. Basically, plagiarism is “to take ideas or writings from another and pass them off as one’s own” (Webster’s New World Dictionary). Plagiarism has been around since humanities first words were written, making it is easy for students to turn to it. Students will

  • Hills Like White Elephants, by Ernest Hemingway

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    The most striking feature of this short story is the way in which it is told. It is not a story in the classical sense with an introduction, a development of the story and an end, but we just get some time in the life of two people, as if it were just a piece of a film where we have a lot to deduce, This story doesn't give everything done for the reader, we only see the surface of what is going on. It leaves an open end, readers can have their own ending and therefore take part in the story when

  • Explication of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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    Explication of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost When reading “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, I found that it was personal, especially to the author. The fact that it was written in first person form helped me to conclude that it was probably about the author. I think the reasoning behind his writing of this poem was because in life, you have many obstacles to overcome and many choices and decisions to make, which opens a path that leads the way to your future. Since those things

  • The Haunting Of Hill House

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    more elaborate than this poorly written paper, which your student copied off of an Internet website. The fireplace, walk out veranda, and library are just some of the thin... ... middle of paper ... ... It has almost become a friend. The paranormal encounters and psychological effects of the house made her almost, insane. Dr. Montague and the others all agreed that she needed to be home. It was for her own safety. The morning that Eleanor was scheduled to leave was like any other. Mrs. Dudley set

  • Paul Simon?s The Sound of Silence

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    its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains Within the Sound of Silence Apparently, this is not the first time that the speaker talks with his “old friend,” darkness. He had had “talks” with it since a time unspecified, suggesting a perpetual moments of seclusion by the speaker. Talking with silence would mean solitude, loneliness if not ennui. The reason for this resort to solitude was a vision that keeps on bothering him. He was looking for solace

  • Journey's End by RC Sheriff

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    Journey's End, written by R. C. Sherriff. Introduction The name of this play is Journey's End, written by R. C. Sherriff. The play was first preformed on a Sunday night in December 1928. By 1929 it was being shown at the Savoy Theatre where it ran for two years. Later I will be studying the characters of Stanhope and Osborne, and how they link in with the title "Journey's End", and I will also examine the idea of journeys. I will also study the impact the play had, why it was so successful

  • Memory: A Narrative Fiction

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    It all started with a something so simple as a sandwich. A small, hole-in-the-wall, stop-and-go-slash-sub-shop that served the best sandwiches I'd ever eaten. Of course, that wasn't its real purpose. The store was a quick-stop place, a mini-mart, if you will. You could pick up milk on the way home, or, if you fancied a soda and candy for the road, that could be bought, too. I would always go for the sandwiches, though. When the camp that I volunteered at let out for lunch, releasing a long drawn

  • Ariel Stotlettes: A Short Story

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    day it'll happen again. I like to call them Experiencers. Ariel Stotlettes was my first and only encounter with an Experiencer. "Wait, are we talking about drugs?" This was a perfect statement of Barbara Murray's IQ. "No, Barbara we're not talking about drugs." Ms. Clementine retorted. "Maybe if you listened more you would know that." Barbara ignored Ms. Clementine's second comment and decided bringing religion into it was the perfect answer, as she did most of the time. "Good, because God says

  • Ornate Style In Charlotte Temple

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    Charlotte Temple is considered to be the second American novel and the first popular novel. It was written in an ornate style and considered to be “heavily didactic, claimed to be based on truth, and followed what was to become a standard seduction plot. But these characteristics did not account for the book's enormous popularity”. Ornate style is considered to be “made in an intricate shape or decorated with complex pattern”. A simple style of writing will make the audience understand easily what

  • Greek Hero King: Oedipus Rex As A Greek Theatre Tragedy

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    of a Greek theatre tragedy, written by Sophocles, and first performed in 429 BC. The story features Oedipus, the King of Thebes, and his story to lift the curse off of his kingdom by finding the previous king’s murderer and prosecuting him. In a crazy turn of events, it turns out that Oedipus is actually the son of the late King Laius, and his father’s killer. Due to a prophecy divulged to Oedipus’ father, Oedipus was left at a crossroads when he was a baby because it was told he would kill his father