Essays Tagged: "dusk"

Bad Choosers

n some foreign country that doesnot tax (In which case, the man would slave away in the fields from dusk until dawn whilethe woman would wash a dish, tie their eighteen ignorant children down to a cha ...

(7 pages) 80 0 4.6 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Ancient China's Culture and Customs. This is very simple and straighforward, but has a bibliography.

called the workers together and beat out a work rhythm. The drum could be heard from sunrise until dusk (Millar, H., 1996, pg.19). Poor people's houses were made of mud and straw, while rich houses w ...

(8 pages) 363 2 3.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

"Of Mice and Men" A review of the novel and information about the author, Steinbeck

ran away with him. Running together, the twofrightened men hid out in the Salinas River waiting for dusk to come. When duskarrived, the two men gathered wood and built a fire. Luckily, George had thre ...

(7 pages) 116 1 4.1 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

A short story, Freshman Comp Class

ishing troller, which was more a floating tub than anything else, and we would fish from dawn until dusk. The boat had been patched, and repatched, and repatched again, so much so that you could not e ...

(4 pages) 70 0 2.7 Jul/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

The Need for Handgun Restrictions

Shortly after dusk, a sixteen-year-old boy stands on the street corner talking with a friend about what happened a ...

(6 pages) 66 0 3.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

An analytical outlook, the uses of reverse psychology in "The Cask of Amontillado"

ortunato into making him come down into his death trap is very interesting. The story begins around dusk, one evening during the carnival season (similar to the Mardi gras festival in New Orleans) in ...

(2 pages) 163 0 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Military Man.

ghter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk.He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can strip a rifle in 30 ...

(2 pages) 51 1 4.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

"Cask of Amontillado" by Allen Poe.

ato into my catacombs and kill him.As I planned, 50 years ago, I came to the season carnival at the dusk. Fortunato had connoisseurship in great wine and he loved it every bit. I had to refer to it so ...

(1 pages) 79 0 1.9 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

Analysis of Norman MacCaig's techniques in his poem 'Byre'

the extent to which I feel "Byre" fits in with these topics.In "Byre" various sections of a barn at dusk are skilfully described to the reader. The crux of the poem is that different parts of the barn ...

(2 pages) 35 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Summer Of Sin:Christianity and Homosexuality

ow in the western sky. It was beautiful, but my thoughts were not. They were angry, hurt, confused. Dusk was my favorite time of day, ordinarily. Tonight was different. If there was a breeze I hardly ...

(7 pages) 47 0 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

The Cask of Amontillado By: Edgar Allen Poe

y words in his stories to set the tone and setting of his works. To begin, he sets the scenery as a dusk setting with a carnival. The idea of dusk provokes a dark feeling as it is close to night. Most ...

(3 pages) 114 2 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

THE VIOLET CAR. Variations of the story: Change the resolution of the story and imagine that, thanks to the nurse, Mr.Eldrigde gets over his fears and is cured. Choose one scene and rewrite it.

- I had promised him to stand near that corner for five minutes, and I stood there in the deepening dusk, looking up towards the downs and the sea. There were pale stars. Everything was very still. Fi ... un had come out there would be nothing to worry about, for although the downs can be quite tough at dusk, the weather is peaceful and calm at sunrise. I woke up early in the morning and head to the la ...

(5 pages) 21 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Polio

old fashioned roomFifties wall-paper, fifties furniture.Close the shade please she whispered.At the dusk of lifethe sun still doesn't bring her joy.It never had.As a child there was no playing,no ador ...

(1 pages) 109 6 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

The Park

Essay # 1March 15, 2004The ParkThe wind whistling through the crisp cold air, birds chirping in the dusk of daylight, and the babbling brook running through. The cool air makes you relax and forget ab ...

(1 pages) 37 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

Child labor on the united states

mill or anywhere he or she could earn money for food, and spending the whole day in doors until the dusk. Their work environment was guaranteed to be insanitary and highly dangerous. Their wages were ... duction of candy. During these events, children no longer worked their usual six day a week dawn to dusk day, they had to work everyday for about eighty hours a week. The following is part of a descri ...

(6 pages) 115 1 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

question was:"How does "Cane" make use of the blues, jazz, spirituals, or other forms of African American Music? Can you detect any parallels with James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"?

vial, but never meaningless.In Toomer's first story "Karintha", the opening stanza;Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon,O cant you see it, O cant you see it,Her skin is like dusk on the easter ... brokenly. A Jewish cantor singing with a broken voice. A child's voice, uncertain, or an old man's. Dusk hid her; I could hear her song." (Toomer 1180) These two wonderfully stated phrases find me fee ...

(3 pages) 75 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Creative Writing "The Last Mile In The Rain"

The Last Mile In the RainHe picked the rose at dusk, just as the sky was beginning to turn deep shades of crimson and orange. Dark clouds roamed, g ...

(9 pages) 125 3 4.8 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Heaven- A description of Heaven as a brief spin-off to Dante's vivid description of the bowels of Hell.

the right touch of billowing white clouds that you can reach out and touch; cool, misty cotton. At dusk, the sun gradually hides and leaves behind a trail of magnificent colors, bright pinks, dark pu ...

(2 pages) 32 1 3.7 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

A biography on the Rosembergs

mbers of police had the special mission to watch the dark jail of Sing Sing in New York, before the dusk of Friday 19 of June of 1953.(angelfire.com) Inside, a group of six men of the FBI, equipped wi ...

(6 pages) 21 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Gothics

By TamaraEnglish 1FictionThe GothicsBy Tamara HollowayIt was just now dusk outside. The golden-brown sun was quickly setting along the horizon. Rakon slowly surveyed his ... g the horizon. Rakon slowly surveyed his surroundings to make sure that he was all alone. It was at dusk when the other Goths would come out to search for potential victims for the up-coming winter mo ...

(12 pages) 65 2 4.7 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories