Essays on Literature

The Journey of Sonya Sotomayor The first Hispanic and third woman to sit on the Supreme Court bench, Sonya Sotomayor is undoubtedly an icon to many in the world. Her great feats, however, caused many to be curious about her journey. Sonia's appointment as a supreme court judge has dramatically fueled...

Everyone has friends who have acted out of character, who have said or done something that is not like them. When such a person is not acting like himself, we know him and how he or she should behave. A Mockingbird, for instance, defines a creature that does not do...

In this assignment, I will be analyzing the use of rhetoric in both Christopher Newfield and the Edu-Factory Collective s The Corporate university and the Financial Crisis: What is Going on (Newfield piece) , and Lazzarato s Governing Debt . Both pieces convey the same idea that student...

On August 28, 1963, at Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC Martin Luther King delivered the speech “I have a dream “which he is famously known for. It was the culmination of the March to Washington protest. It gave the Civil rights movement in the United States a boost in their quest...

Language used in poetry or the works of literature affects the audience differently thus interpretation can also vary. Interpretation of words used can lead to varying ideas about the feelings of the writer even when he/she has not indicated in the work (Mayo 131). This essay compares and contrasts use...

Frank Baum's story Frank Baum’s story is a fairy tale about a girl named Dorothy, who was an orphan and lived with her uncle in Kansas. One day a wild cyclone swept across the community where Dorothy and her uncle had been living in and swept their house (Baum 7). At...

Betty Keller's Short story Tea Party Betty Keller's Short story Tea Party is an interesting story about two aged sisters Alma and Hester who recall about their experience as they wait for the paper boy. Betty has effectively employed all the literary skills to make the story interesting and to pass...

The major events in Nicaragua in 1980s include the Sandinista regime and the US interventions in the country. The Sandinistas took power in 1979 after Nicaragua experienced an intense civil war in which over 30,000 people were killed in the fighting and about half million homeless (Hager Snyder,...

I wish to take this opportunity to thank you for your guidance in Academic English 20 course during the fall of 2018 quarter. The academic quarter went well and served as a turning point in my education particularly in the field of academic English. I had the opportunity of polishing...

The Parable of the Sower The parable of the sower occurs in the post-apocalyptic Los Angeles that has been influenced with the disease, conflict, and poverty. The narrative is about the life of Lauren Olamina, an African American. At fifteen years, she stays with her family in Rodeblo a slum within...

The Death of Honesty by William Damon published by the Hover Institute in 2012 addresses issues related to dishonest that threatens democracy. Damon agrees that in some situations honesty has lost its importance especially in the society and is likely to cause downfall citing some examples in the...

Eileen Myles writes the poem Mad Pepper from a feminist point of view. The poem gives a symbolic meaning to the word pepper, which the poet equates to masculinity based on its hot nature. Mad pepper is about masculinity, which the poet feels desolated from. She uses the word itself...