Essays Tagged: "go home"

Under the Spell. A travel tale. Ireland.

reat advantage of having an ancestry like that of a mongrel dog is Ihave so many ancestral homes to go home to.'UNDER THE SPELLA travel tale by Danny O'brienWe caught the ferry from Le Havre, France t ... disorder. Ialmost broke out in sweat when I had to make my first right turn feeling as though I was goinghead on into the oncoming traffic.By the time we got through Wexford I was in desperate need to ...

(19 pages) 175 4 3.9 Mar/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Homeless Women.

ost homeless people blend into the daily flow of urban life.Many families are homeless. Many babies go from the hospital into theshelter system, never knowing what it is like to go home. Women areanot ... en who had been keptafloat by family members until, for one reason or another, the family had tolet go. For most women, living with relatives or receiving significant financialor other support form th ...

(4 pages) 88 0 4.2 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

A made-up dispute between Hephaestus & Aphrodite

ng down Rhea Street on Mount Olympus, he noticed his wife, Aphrodite, kissing Hermes, the messenger-God, next to the area's one and only Burger God (very well-known for its char-broiled Whoppers).'Wai ... very easily be resolved.' He sighed. 'I shall speak to her when she returns home. Until then, I am going to go home and rest a while--think things through.'And with that thought, Hephaestus made his ...

(5 pages) 31 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

Hunting and Foraging Societies. Speaks of The Kung San, Shoshone and Mbuti

together to hunt, like we to work, but when the hunt is overthey get paid, in the form of meat, and go home to their families. If they should choose to anygroup may leave the whole at anytime. The Mbu ...

(2 pages) 74 0 3.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Euthanasia, is there any individual liberty?

ividual liberty. If a person decides that he wants to die, perhaps you and I do not think this is a good idea, but what right do we have to tell him that he cannot do this? They usually describe a sit ... do much of anything. He is in terrible pain and begs to have these machines disconnected so he can go home and live out whatever life he has left in peace. But the doctors refuse, because turning off ...

(5 pages) 91 0 3.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Wizard of Oz

Then when she gets back home she tells Aunt Em that 'all I kept saying to everybody was 'I want to go home.'' This fits perfectly with the time, 1939, that The Wizard of Oz was produced. One reason w ... d troops away from home was very real. And, as stated by Paul Nathanson in Over the Rainbow (156), 'going home is fundamentally linked, for many Americans, with growing up.' With this in mind, it seem ...

(7 pages) 140 1 4.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

This essay is a naritive about becoming a vegitatrian. It's called Meat is NO Treat.

p. The next thing I knew my head was thrown into the seat in front of me."Shut up Trish, let's just go home." Heather growled half asleep."God! I'm so hungry!" I whined sitting up to rub my head which ... my head which was now a little burned from the heat of the leather seat before me."Well, you're not going to be satisfied if we stop at a crappy fast food joint anyway so let's just keep driving." Hea ...

(4 pages) 76 0 4.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Tv spoils children

watches TV in her spare time - the trouble is that she has all the spare time in the world. I don't go home very often, and every time I see her I see a different person. Its not that she is growing o ... d her being Wilma Flintstone or Daphne from Scooby Doo; I worried about her being Britney Spears or going boy crazy at the age of six. In my opinion TV is manipulating the young, and we should all wor ...

(2 pages) 84 1 4.1 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

Ironi in "A Cask of Amontillado", by Edgar Allen Poe

die so he can have his reprisal. Another example of verbal irony is when Montresor says, "let us be gone". In reality he is only referring to him self, but at the same time to Fortunato. For Fortunato ... y referring to him self, but at the same time to Fortunato. For Fortunato is going to die and he is going to go home. So in a way they are both leaving.Dramatic irony is when the reader understands so ...

(1 pages) 129 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Is the legal drinking age set too high? Perhaps 18 is the better age for legal drinking. Some might argue this but i think alot of people would agree with me.

ure is put on them. There are a lot of parties, college parties, frats, and clubs that young people go to. After a party is done everyone has to go home right...? Usually many participants are drunk a ... done everyone has to go home right...? Usually many participants are drunk and not aware of what is going on. They then jump in a car and zoom on home. Usually no one thinks to buckle up, lock the doo ...

(1 pages) 287 6 3.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Interior Monologue for the Lord of the Flies

Interior MonologueThis is really scary. I don't even really understand how we got here. I don't even know why we are here. It seems like we're on an island, but I don't think I'm ... ere. It seems like we're on an island, but I don't think I'm going to have fun. I want to leave and go home because I'm scared. I'm with other boys my age, but we're all so small, I don't think we can ... y. I miss my parents, but I am not worried because they say we will be rescued soon. I think I will go in the jungle in the morning, I'm excited.I am really scared. I went in the jungle and there was ...

(3 pages) 31 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

War on Iraq

d threatens a prolonged guerilla campaign similar to the one that ultimately caused the Russians to go home. American troops are particularly targeted. American bases are infiltrated with (take your c ... r power is touted as a template for what is to come in Iraq. The American public is being given the good news, withheld from the bad.A pillar of Iraq theory has it that al Qaeda is looking to arm itse ...

(3 pages) 151 2 2.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

American Revoluitions against the british in 1775-1783.

farmers who blocked the path of the British with up to hundreds of men, many of which were told to go home but refused this led to 8 minutemen being shot dead in Lexington's main street. Many minutes ... n Advantage and the Alliance with France. The homegrown advantage came about by the civilians would go out and have a war then simply go home for the weekend which would confuse the British, and once ...

(2 pages) 40 0 4.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Euthanasia and why it should be legal.

much of anything. You are in pain and all you want, is to be unpluggedfrom the machines, so you can go home to your own bed, and die in peace. However, the doctorsrefuse to even consider doing this be ... octor assistedsuicide, a Greek word that means easy death. Euthanasia is an easy way to die without goingthrough the grief and anguish that comes along with the disease or illness you may have. It isu ...

(4 pages) 67 0 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

"Philosophers' of Education" .

was probably a point in every class where you wondered who had the idea of making us wake up early, go to class and suffer through some lecture just so you could go home and spend a lot of time doing ... ughout our evolution, the form in which we have received our education has greatly changed. We have gone from receiving our education from under a grove of trees to inside a classroom. Philosophers ha ...

(6 pages) 253 0 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Philosophies of life

yone know who you were? Would people know you cared. Perhaps you should stop what you are doing and go let that someone know you love them.Are you still reading or have you lost intrest in this silly ... I let my anger take control.One day I had left home angry with my mom. I thought that I would never go home again. While I was out wondering about I wasnt paying any attintion, I pulled out infront of ...

(1 pages) 82 2 3.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

The Inspiration of Character.

The Inspiration of Characteris a short, simple story written from the gospel of Luke in the bible. This story is about a father and his two sons and the situations they f ... es, the younger son loses all his inheritance, becomes a citizen of another country, and decides to go home because of starvation and realization of how fortunate he is at home. The father demonstrate ... d fell on his neck, and kissed him" (Luke 15:20). No matter what the situation is, even through the good and bad times, this father has a love that cannot be bought.Another characteristic the father d ...

(3 pages) 29 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

What kinds of courage and Heroism are shown in To Kill a Mockingbird? This essay Reveals this

know what we want.' Another man said. 'Get aside from the door Mr. Finch.''You can turn around and go home again, Walter,' Atticus said pleasantly. P.g 167His courage extends beyond the outer layer b ... uphold righteousness, he states this to Scout.'This case, Tom Robinson's case, is something that's goes to the essence of a man's conscience - Scout, I couldn't go the church and worship god if I did ...

(3 pages) 49 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

The Advantages of Incumbency

their districts for long weekends. The "Tuesday through Thursday" crowd refers to these people who go home every weekend. At home is where the incumbents have the advantage over any challenger. Most ... challenger. Most of the time that a politician is away from Washington is spent making positive and good relationships with people throughout his or her voting district. The time is spent around town ...

(7 pages) 71 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Hypocrisy.

denying any accusations that would come his way and say that any thing he did was "Between him and god." It is my belief that this was the main way he expressed his theme of hypocrisy through charact ... different people where also and outlet of this theme. Once again Dimmesdale comes to mind. He would go out and preach his heart out and then go home and continue to defy his godly laws. Then the actio ...

(2 pages) 24 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne