Get Essays On English

Home « Join Now! « Member Login « Questions « Support «

Enter Topic

» Get English Papers

Dracula-play Review

... the year 1897. The play occurs in Transylvania and England. The play begins with a lawyer named Jonathan Harker, visiting Count Draculas castle in Transylvania to finalize the count's purchase of an English estate. Soon, however the lawyer finds himself a prisoner of his client. This is not just any regular client though, it is the blood sucking Dracula! Finally Jonathan escapes from his scary host, and sends word of his escape to his fiancée, Mina Murray. Mina has him sent directly sent home to England. Mina's best friend Lucy, also t ...

Number of words: 828 | Number of pages: 4

The Cause And Effect In A Very

... found in his backyard, was itself seen as a threat to the townspeople. The threat was expressed by the old wise lady," He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down"; Pelayo and Elisenda feared that the angel would take their child, so they put the angel in the chicken coop. Later in the day, Father Gonzaga attempted to speak to the angel. However, to his surprise, the angel did not speak Latin, the language of God, in the Father's view. Father Gonzaga thought that the old man was an ang ...

Number of words: 750 | Number of pages: 3

Godlike Odysseus

... It was Odysseus blinded you,/ Taker of Troy, Laertes' son, Who dwells in Ithica.' " In other words "Ha ha, it was me, Odysseus the mortal, that blinded you." This sounds not only like a human or mortal, but a mortal little kid. The next time I noticed Odysseus acting like a human or mortal, was in the story of "Scylla and Charybdis" when Scylla ate some of his men. Odysseus at that time, lost what he thought, were his best men, he said that it was one of the saddest things he's seen: "As he, if then he takes a fish,/ Flings it aloft ...

Number of words: 517 | Number of pages: 2

Great Gatsby

... can have many great goals. Gatsby is a sensible man, But he has many false conceptions. Jay Gatsby believes that money can recreate the past, can buy him happiness, and can be helpful in achieving a level of prestige in the rich East Egg. Jay Gatsby believes he can buy happiness and this is show through his house, his clothes, and through Daisy. He owns a large portion of finances due to some mysterious source of wealth, and he uses this mystery source to buy his house, his clothes, and Daisy. Gatsby's house, as Fitzgerald describes it, is "a ...

Number of words: 1880 | Number of pages: 7

Wuthering Heights

... loss have ruined them, and thus stripped them of their humanities. McKibben and Hagan take different approaches to , but both approaches work together to form one unified concept. McKibben speaks of as a whole, while Hagan concentrates on only sympathies role in the novel. McKibben and Hagan both touch on the topic of Catherine and Heathcliff’s passionate nature. To this, McKibben recalls the scene in the book when Catherine is "in the throes of her self-induced illness" (p38). When asking for her husband, she is told by Nelly D ...

Number of words: 1031 | Number of pages: 4

Video Poker

... only person that truly profits from is the owner. Meanwhile numerous people suffer with out money to feed their family, because they spent it all pushing a screen or mashing a button. If the money spent on was spent on regular products in the state it would turn up 160 million in taxes for the state, instead of the 50 million in taxes on the licensing. 50% of the revenues from leave the state. On top of these on one in there right mind from another state would say lets pack up and go on vacation to Greenville and play in the back of a ...

Number of words: 445 | Number of pages: 2

The Adventures Of Huckleberry

... Hall in New York. Graft and corruption were at an all time high while black rights sunk to a new low. Even after experiencing freedom during the Civil War, their hopes of immediate equality died with the death of Lincoln. Groups like the KKK drove blacks down to a new economic low. What time would be better than this to write a book about the great American dream, a book about long held American ideals, now squashed by big business and white supremacy? Mark Twain did just that, when he wrote what is considered by many as the “Great American ...

Number of words: 2290 | Number of pages: 9

In The Lake Of The Woods

... existence; his whole life that made him who he was. John Wade craved love, admiration and affection. All his life, all he wanted was to be loved, and his father’s constant taunting hurt him immensely. In going to the war, John fulfilled his dream to become a figure who was both admired and respected. He was not a strong, macho man, who thrived upon violence and bloodshed, yet he was young and ambitious. Wade saw the war as a way of gaining ‘hero’ status in order to reach his lifelong ambitions of reaching the U.S Senate. When the revelat ...

Number of words: 830 | Number of pages: 4

I Corinthians

... Clement of Rome (c. 95-97) and Augustine (c. 400). The letter was written to the people of Corinth. Corinth was a strategically located Roman city on the main land route between East and West and was the crossroads for several sea routes. Corinth was famous for its intellectual and material prosperity and was honored with being the capitol of Ancaia. It also became famous for its corruption. Paul began his ministry there on his second missionary journey. He converted many influential people in Corinth, thus he stayed for a year and a half. M ...

Number of words: 531 | Number of pages: 2

Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop Frog": The Transcendence Of Frogs And Ourang-Outangs

... and their inability to acknowledge his transcendence, they are fated to never have the chance to transcend. 3. By the use of symbolism in "Hop-Frog," Poe reinforces the actions of the characters and strengthens the representations of their transcendence, or lack there of. Each of these of these three points coalesce to bring the significance of the transcendence of man, or the lack there of, into a focused view. Hop-Frog, the title character in Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop-Frog," is able to transcend the limitations of his physical bod ...

Number of words: 1270 | Number of pages: 5

Christina Rossetti And The Fea

... as animalistic and morally debase. Laura is saved by her sister Lizzie, whose character reveals Rossetti's wish to propagate a life devoid of sensory experience, because it will lead to a greater reward after death. Therefore, Christina Rossetti deems the physical senses as an inappropriate and unholy means of expression for women in her didactic poem "Goblin Market". Laura is more willing than Lizzie to induce her sensory perceptions and this leads to her demise. Laura the unwholesome sister of "Goblin Market", is stimulated and se ...

Number of words: 1466 | Number of pages: 6

Power 2

... focuses more on naming and “No Name Woman” focuses on un-naming. One’s power and position in a society can give them the “right” or ability to name or un-name a person. Someone can gain this right by his or her status socially, financially, and even racially. If it’s their own child, of course, they have every right in the world to name him or her. But in some cultures, as is evident in “No Name Woman”, they have the right to take away someone’s name if they have disgraced ...

Number of words: 1274 | Number of pages: 5

Pages: 1 ... 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 next »

Essay Categories

» Get English Papers