English Essays

New York Times. 19 Mar. 2011. Web. 7 Jul. 2011. . This article from the New York Times reports that Japanese food safety inspectors have found high levels of iodine 131 in milk and spinach, at farms up to 90 miles away from the nuclear plants.

However, many people take the calendar for granted and different versions have come up depending on their purpose. Therefore, it is important to trace the history of the calendar to validate its relevance to the modern time. According to Judge (4), in earlier days, people measured time by observing nature such as the rising and setting of the sun, the movement of the moon and the stars, and other manifestations of nature manifestations in the environment such as human cries at dawn, cattle lowing in the gloaming, natural disasters, comets, heavy rains, changing seasons, cocks crowing in the morning, and so on.

“The Yellow Wallpaper”: Subjugation of Women. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, can be viewed through several prisms: as a Gothic tale, as a tragic narrative, as a horror story, as a psychological thriller. However, whatever be the view adopted, there can be little doubt that the story is, first and foremost, “one that offers the detailed and chilling account of a woman's entrapment, defeat, and movement toward madness--one caused by patriarchy,” (Hume,ebscohost.com).

In this essay we would be discussing question 1 which involves the role of religion organized and not, by focusing our attention on some of the primary characters of the novel. Solitude envelops the town of the Buendias and they seemed to be condemned to live a solitary life with no escape.

American Fiction in the beginning of XX century The peculiarities of fiction of 20s-30s on the example of works by Scott Fitzgerald "The Ice Palace", William Faulkner "That Evening Sun" and John Steinbeck "Flight” can be outlined in the following way: personal wanderings and searching of people for themselves in the Post-war period are leitmotifs of all these three works.

The total cost of the thirty-three year old model’s cosmetic surgery is a whopping $83,000!! This ‘total body makeover’ has led Reno to take out several loans, and she is now heavily in debt. (abcnews.com). This is a telling indictment of one of the greatest commercial exploitations of contemporary society by vested interests.

Since times immemorial, the use of monsters has been rampant in popular fiction, novels as well as movies. Monsters had been created by people in order to scare others and create an element of mystery that cannot be explained. For a long time, the use of monsters within our culture was restricted only to scaring young children in order to discipline them.

Historians and scholars have elaborated this reality by putting emphasis on impediments to women’s involvements. Several of these hurdles have been mostly surmounted, but others persist to widen the difficulty for women to achieve top political positions.

The precepts of Transcendentalism seek to oppose the strict Calvinist doctrines which believe in the inevitable degeneracy of man. Furthermore, Transcendentalism also challenged the idea of the Christian Trinity and put forth the idea of unity of the erstwhile divided principles.

Fantasy can be described as a creation of one’s imagination. A fantasy can be a creative mental image that a person may dwell on for a long time. This fanciful thought maybe a reflection of the individual’s conscious or even unconscious wishes. The oxford dictionary describes fantasy as “an idea with no basis in reality”.

[Your full name] [Instructor’s name] [Course name and code] July 16, 2011 With the increased danger of physical disability, College football players should be paid to play. Although every game that is played in schools and colleges, like soccer, volleyball, and football, has the risk of physical injury to the players, but increase in physical disability to players while playing football has put forward a hot debate as to whether or not the college football players should be paid to play.

The paper tells that the term utopian literature has the indication that it is produced with the intention of making the readers aware of the flaws in the existing system and to make them think so that they look for alternatives. A debate on utopia or dystopia is bound to sound intellectual, but it is just another extension of man’s quest for more security and materialistic satisfaction.

William Faulkner (1897-1962), is a well known American writer, whose writings mostly evolve around life in the South. His story, “A Rose for Emily” is the tale of an old woman, and it reflects a community’s account of the life of one of its oldest citizens, Emily, whose death represents the decay of Jefferson town in which she has lived.

The speeches conveyed the credibility of the speaker to the listeners and they also appealed to their emotions in order to convince them and in addition to that the facts in these speeches were supported by evidence and logic.

All the Pretty Horses is a novel by Cormac McCarthy poignantly describing the coming of age of a lonely cowboy. It is about a young man named John Grady and his adventures and misdeeds as a cowboy.

At year-end 2009, it reported that there were 743 incarcerated per 100,000 population. In 2009, over 7.2 million people were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole at yearend. This comprised about 3.1% of all U.S. adult residents or 1 in every 32 adults.

Myth as one of the concept of understanding the reality Man wanders through all paths, even the most trivial ones just so he understands the ultimate reason for his reality. One such concept is the belief in myths. Even in these modern times, men unconsciously turn their faith to myths and similar sub realities to find answers.

In order to develop their country and for the individual success government and individuals are both working together to promote learning abroad. This paper aims to analyze the pros and cons of studying abroad and analyze the issues on personal, social and educational grounds.

Why are UFOs Still a Mystery? Unidentified Flying Objects, UFOs have always been shrouded in mystery. In spite of the numerous sightings of flying saucers and alien beings reported worldwide, the existence of UFOs has never been confirmed. Debates of all kinds exist until now, and all arguments, either in favor or against the existence of UFOs, will continue to perplex the public.

The United States is one of the largest and most diverse countries in the world, and thus it is understandable that any political issue will have contentious debaters for both sides. This is especially true of welfare; the United States has everyone from leftist liberals advocating a socialist revolution to anarchist rejecting the very premise of government and focusing on community welfare without the artifice of a state to libertarians who grudgingly admit that a government must exist, but think that any government program beyond safeguarding the physical safety of its citizens inherently violates rights.

Jane Eyre is a novel written by Charlotte Bronte.  It was initially published as an autobiography under the pen name Currer Bell.  It is a critically acclaimed literary work that is considered ahead of its time due to the successful exploration and presentation of the themes which include the complexity of human struggles not only within one’s self but also in the interaction with other people.

Teenagers get involved in gang violence when they get acquainted with the wrong friends and youth who are engaged in violent activities. Teenagers are at a very critical age and they act before they think. Because of this, they tend to end up in fights for silly reasons and when they do not get proper guidance things can get even worse.

It is these all-too-common conditions as well as other reasons that contribute to homelessness, a situation that is rarely a choice for persons who are forced live outside the security and comfort of a home environment. This paper will investigate the homelessness subject including why and what kind of people are homeless.

The critical theory that has been chosen is the Marxist criticism. ‘The law of life’ authored by Jack London belongs to the Classic American short stories genre. Jack London is from America who acted in the triple role of author, social activist and journalist.

It is about a woman called Aimee who is the owner of a tribe of monkeys for three years. These mammals can perform several tricks including pulling off a vanishing act. They climb into a perfectly ordinary bathtub and when it is lowered, they disappear! No one, including Aimee, knows how or where they go, but they do return back to the tour bus.

Biff is an ex-football player who in Willy’s eyes, has turned out to be a bum. Willy is caught in the past with his brother Ben who he has hallucinations about throughout the story. Willy put in 30 years of faithful service in sales, but it has not made him the living that he sought.

The current situation sees cannabis as a controlled or even criminalized substance in many parts of the world. The purpose of this exploratory paper is to determine through research whether this is the correct course of action particularly in terms of the State of California after assessing the effects that criminalization will have on public health and economy.

The title of the essay is an unambiguous ‘signpost,’ and makes the subject of the piece, and its purpose, self-evident. It is a rousing call to awaken the conscience of the affluent, and make them accept famine relief as a moral duty. Singer makes a well-reasoned argument against “the present division between acts of duty and acts of charity” (9) which prevail in contemporary Western society.

Through the dystopian novel, the writers express their opinion regarding the evil society more dramatically and its influence on the minds of the people. The protagonist of the novels who are victims of political oppression and sufferers from a psychological complexity carries a political message as designed by the author.

Hundreds of thousands of people watch news channels on a daily basis. These people start believing in what they see on these news channels. The views presented by the presenters are often enough to sway the people. It is an ideal way of controlling the minds of the people; their independent thoughts get swayed when they watch these news channels.

The researchers experimented and concluded that those violent game players were less stimulated physiologically by real-life violence as compared to their non-violent counterparts. This led them to conclude that individuals who play violent video games are accustomed to all the violence and ultimately become physiologically insensitive to it.

The problem of racism grew due to the movement of different nations toward better life. In this respect the locals will never appreciate the foreigners, and such a problem gives rise to xenophobia, as the main source of faction. In this respect racial discrimination and oppression is not the problem of solely one country of the world.

Araby is a masterpiece work ever written by James Joyce published in his collection of short stories known as Dubliners in 1914. Araby is a story of realization and disenchantment. This story reveals the difference between the meanings of real life and the ideal in life to a young boy on his quest to explore the real meaning of life and romance which later turned into his greatest disappointment.

The right to healthcare is one of the essential prerequisites for every human being in order for them to live a healthy life and to get proper medical right in time of need. Many of the countries in the modern world provide universal health care system to their citizens and people from those nations are leading a comparatively healthy life than people in the US.

This essay compares two poems, Philip Larkin’s “Church Going” from 1945 and Seamus Heaney’s “The Sharping Stone” from the end of the twentieth century, along with two short stories, Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” from 1950 and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth” from 2008 to demonstrate that while many structural elements of literature have remained the same, the focus and sensation of literature has changed dramatically in the past sixty-five years.

He has done number of short works and novels which created revolution in the mind of people around the world. Tolstoy was a novelist, critic, educator, farmer and aesthetician. His greatest work was Anna Karenina and War and Peace which gained him acclamation from all over the world.

Year round schooling. National Association for Year-Round Education puts the estimate of students attending year round schools in the figures from 2.3 million to upwards in the U.S. public schools. Every year when the students are given a vacation for three months starting from June, they look forward to three-months of barbecues and beach vacations.

They were born in a time where women were expected little more than to look pretty and secure a husband at balls many girls attended which afforded them their only permitted physical contact with the opposite sex. Girls did not have any legal rights at the time and the accomplishments they were encouraged to possess were nothing of greater significance than such things as piano playing, sewing and finery, drawing, and foreign languages.

” For Ivan Karamazov, a child’s suffering cannot be justified for the sake of eternal harmony. Anyone with a conscience would probably say no to Ivan’s rhetorical question and reject child abuse even for the sake of eternal harmony of the world. Yet, while many children suffer from sexual predators and cyber-bullies, parents seem to be unaware of the dangers lurking behind the internet or they do not bother to disturb their own harmony and take the burden of supervising kids.

One of the greatest issues of concern today has to do with patentability of software. The debate of copyright and patent rights has been around for as long as man has been in existence (Stobbs 15). Who holds the patent rights to the art and science of lighting fire? Who can claim to have invented writing? Who invented the English Language?

The literature have suggested that with the increase of adversity in climate change there is a solid chance that the world can turn into next ice age or par more global poverty. The economies are built on system of industries which are regulated by high emission of energy and their maturity can be affected and result in more economic crisis.

This paper is one such study on the character of Anais portrayed in the story “The Reptile Garden” by Louise Erdrich, published in the New Yorker. It is an analysis of the reasons behind the actions and personalities of the different characters in the story, especially that of Anais, and repeated references have been made to the story itself throughout the paper.

Introduction When the American Civil War ended and equality in all its aspects reigned, the world was convinced that there will never be a government again that would try to sow the seeds of pertinacious cruelty and grave injustice. Nevertheless, this belief was proven wrong when traces of racial inequality in South Africa were revealed among the member states of the United Nations.

The author of the article cited above legalization of drinking within the young people in public places would reduce their task in the enforcement of the law and that they can focus on other problems. The issue of drinking, including the effects and consequences in the young adult transcends to the most basic element of the society which is the family.

Social Factors Missing In the Development of Will Hunting and His Crisis of Identity. “Good Will Hunting” directed by Gus Van Sant is a wonderful movie which deals with various aspects of human behaviour and development. It stars Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver and Ben Affleck in lead roles.

Plan 9 from Outer Space. Costume Design. Most costumes were generally based on real life and were very believable. The costumes of the police officers were true to life, and the other assistant roles such as that of Jeff Trent (an airline pilot) and his wife were also very appropriate for the day.

One of the main justifications for the United States' involvement in Afghanistan is the belief that Al Qaeda’s attack on the United States violated the "just war" theory. The just war theory explains that only government-led groups can lead an attack, but they must do so for a just cause.

The Story of an Hour. Throughout the course of history we find that women were granted lesser equal rights and opportunities to pursue their personal and professional lives or careers. The reason for such generalization was due to women being regarded as images of motherhood and therefore their primary duty was directed towards bearing children and looking after them.

The unison of the collective is embodied through the expression ‘we all’; this unison assumes a virtually individual character. The collective ‘first person’ is still indefinite; it avoids any definite definition or limits and in so doing makes the audience unsure. Filled title, the storyteller sustains his detachment from the outlook of the folks who bought the flowers for the funeral of Emily.

Introduction The Englishman’s Boy is a historical novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe, which depicts the 1873 Cypress Hills Massacre whereby a band of American wolfers assaulted a group of Assiniboine. The book deals with philosophical and moral issues that arise from the manner in which these historical events were recorded almost fifty years later by those who benefited in the massacre.