Essays Tagged: "gradesaver"

Creative Autobiography: A First Person Account Of Henry David Thoreau

.My life began on July 12th, 1817 to my parents John and Cynthia Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts (Gradesaver 1). I was of the French-Huguenot and Scottish ancestry along with my older brother John, ... doctor, or a businessman, but I chose my center of attention to be on the subtle art of literature (Gradesaver 1). I often strayed from the normal class, and independently learned from the fully stock ...

(4 pages) 50 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

T.S. Eliot: The Evolution of a Modernist

-based economies with mainly "pagan" beliefs. T.S. Eliot's poetic works helped him be considered by Gradesaver (n.d.) as the "the voice of Modernism" and one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. ... 's anxiety about eating the peach, then, has much to do with his feelings of sexual inadequacy..." (Gradesaver, n.d., "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock")After recovering from a nervous breakdown in ...

(5 pages) 162 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Compare and Contrast the structure of "Waiting for Godot" with the structure of any traditional play.

dimir represents the intellect and Estragon the body, both of whom cannot exist without the other. (GradeSaver, 1999)When comparing the structure of "Waiting for Godot" with the structure of a traditi ... ently for the truth that will save it and at the end, he discovers the truth, and Thebes is saved. (GradeSaver, 1999). In "Waiting for Godot", the story seems meaningless or absurd. The progression is ...

(4 pages) 16 0 5.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature