Dehumanization of Women in Tagore’s “Punishment”

The human condition has been evolving for centuries. As a species, we have done terrible things to each other and to this world. Brute power and brawn have dictated much of our behavior, which in turn has cast certain members of society as weak…

Identity in Mary Rowlandson’s Capture Narrative

Explication of Mary Wroth’s “Sonnet 39”

Chapter 10

Mary Wroth’s poem “Sonnet 39” crafts and defines a woman’s selfhood. The speaker intimates the nature of the dramatization by speaking in the first line about “mine eyes” (1568). The eyes indicate closeness to the…

Janie Starks and Determinism

Determinism in Their Eyes Where Watching God

Nature is the intruder that wakes us in the middle of the night. It is powerful and ruthless without consideration for our petty human endeavors. It does not pray on the weak. It does not bless the fortunate…

Success as an Outcome of Relationship Building

Success is obtained by the pulling together of resources and people. Some resources are provided by the state, like the public school system, but more than likely an individual’s support network will develop from their private life in everyday…

Poe, an American Writer

Analysis of Poe’s views on Beauty

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s “What is an American” describes an American as “a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must, therefore, entertain new ideas, and form new opinions” (Crèvecoeur 312)…

Holocaust Stories

I had to read Tadeusz Borowski’s “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” for class.

Thesis of Woes

Out of the darkest moments in one’s life the best pieces of literature are born. Maybe they may not be pretty, rather grimy and full…