Essays Tagged: "Grey"
GOOD DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY
ossy and golden. All I saw was a scalp blanketed in bareness. Her eyes, once electric, were dry and grey. Her lips, once passionate, were indifferent. They could no longer taste the sweetness of life- ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
"To Build a Fire" by Jack London. Descriptive and defined points and quotes
places a strong emphasis on the setting in the introduction to the story. "Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey..." He repeats these phrases to redefine to his readers the impact t ... places a strong emphasis on the setting in the introduction to the story. "Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey..." He repeats these phrases to redefine to his readers the impact t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Hard Lesson
It was a grey, foggy night that no one from our town would ever forget.This was the night our town would lear ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens.
l or figurative."'Keep still you little devil or I'll cut your throat!'A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg."Early on in the novel Great Expectations, Dickens introduces the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
"This Is a Photograph of Me", by Margaret Atwood
e. The poem begins with a "smeared print..." (1047) of a photograph. The photograph is described as grey; blurred and blended, therefore at this point the picture is fairly undeveloped. She is very un ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Explication of The First Paragraph of Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
To Build a FireThe first line of Jack London's "To Build a Fire" states, "Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey..." London repeats the words "cold and grey" to emphasis the environ ... he is in a temperature that is seventy-five degrees below zero. Extremely cold and forbidding, the grey casts a pall over the man, enveloping him and his dog. That the man pays no attention to the co ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Study notes on the Anti-War, Post-1900 poem by Wilfred Owen; "Disabled"
st his legs and arms. A feature of this poem is Wilfred Owen's use of alliteration."Ghastly suit of grey.""Voices of play and pleasure."This alliteration gives the poem its rhythm. In the 2nd half of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"The Blue Heron" by Theodore Roberts a paragraph regarding the colours used in the Blue Heron.
dance of nature that exists in the area. Then the poem takes on a more somber tone, with images of "grey ... embers of yesterday" and "grey feather." The toned down, dark colors have a negative effect ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Something quite not right.
on her. For where there was beauty she could see and breathe. Not far from her she spotted a heavy grey bruised looking bench where three children sat. A smile flickered across her face. She adored c ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
Hog Farms and How They Affect The People of the Great Plains Region.
guments that address the issue of what large hog farms do to prevent the problems they create. Mark Grey, a professor of anthropology, is concerned with the development and growth of rural communities ... since 1980" (Hogging the Farm 1). Large hog farming corporations are rapidly expanding just as Mark Grey states, " In 1998, only 50 companies controlled 60 percent of the hog inventory" (Grey 1). If t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
"Catcher in the Rye", it describes the character Holden Caulfield shows the world with the true side of him.
o repress for the whole world to see.Holden is a simple seventeen year old, about 6 feet, partially grey-haired, and horribly skinny. He's also considered a total outcast. In a nutshell, he's the kind ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The color imagery in "The Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf.
l setting.Woolf uses each color to further implant imagery in the reader's mind. She uses the color grey to represent the elderly and sleepiness when she wrote, "When she looked in the glass and saw h ... represent the elderly and sleepiness when she wrote, "When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey, her cheek sunk, at fifty," and also when she wrote, "...as he was in a grey-green somnolence w ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
A 3 A4 page essay describing, in detail the full novel of John R. Fowles "the Collector".
e Collectorby John R. FowlesThe Collector is the story of the abduction and imprisonment of Miranda Grey by Frederick Clegg, told first from his point of view, and then from hers by means of a diary s ...
Subjects: Art Essays
"The Important Roles Of Women In The Odyssey"
Penelope--the central female character--is given both negative and positive attributes.Athena, the grey-eyed goddess of wisdom and battle, has a soft spot for Odysseus and Telemachos. The action begi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
7,000 Miles - A Story Of a Young Mans Travels on the Silk Route
7,000 Miles'Route: the way taken to get from place to place', a grey tedious word. The actionof moving from place to place has no story, but is a physical act. Yet ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories
Jack London's "To Build A Fire"; Inferiority of Intellect
nvironment along with the severity of the climate to the reader is superb: "Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey... The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice...As ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Venus!
VenusVenus is an extraordinary and interesting planet. The colour of this beautiful planet is grey and orange, it has spots of orange on it to make the planet stand out. This planet has very uni ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
Three scenes on domestic violence in a small community.
but they are hanging crookedly from the walls and the rest of the house is a muted, dusty brown or grey.There is a young woman, Jules, standing by the stove. Offstage you can hear a door slam. Jules ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Description essay for English 101. Teacher wanted supportive words and clear thesis and restatement.
etal structure, it's extremely hard to grasp the immense power and capabilities it holds. The bleak grey naval fighting ship, the USS Valley Forge (CG-50), is an amazing sight to be seen in the harbor ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Mise-en-scene Analysis of "Good Will Hunting"
ul. What you see is drabness personified, the colors muted to the point that they look a lackluster grey. This becomes even more apparent when you compare the scene setting of a Harvard class, where t ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis