Essays Tagged: "ponders"

Hamlet's First Soliloquy

sad and depressed as Hamlet contemplates suicide. The tone changes to angry and bitter while Hamlet ponders the relationship between his mother and his uncle. Through Shakespeare's use of diction and ...

(2 pages) 82 0 3.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

This is a review of George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil."

20, 1850. He can read minds and can see the future. He says that he will die of a heart attack. He ponders upon his childhood informing us that his childhood seemed happier to him than it really was. ...

(1 pages) 30 0 3.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Dell case study.

ution models are successfully imitated, what will be their source of competitive advantage? As Dell ponders these disturbing questions, they consider changing the strategy that has done so well for th ...

(14 pages) 2030 0 4.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Computer and Electronics Companies

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens.

ly on Wallace Stevens' mind (as well as anyone else who has a mind to think). In this poem, Stevens ponders a small amount of the intrinsic mystery in reality and attempts to convey his feelings in la ...

(7 pages) 70 0 1.3 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

The monopoly of Microsoft.

Considering the fact that Microsoft has a monopoly over the entire IT industry, one ponders how it got to this stage.In the bustling industry of IT, it is undoubtedly clear that a comp ...

(2 pages) 155 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

"The Wood Pile" by Robert Frost.

decides to turn around, then decides to go further and see what lies ahead. The man sees a bird and ponders what the bird might possibly be thinking, until the bird finally settles behind a pile of wo ...

(2 pages) 56 1 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

This is a short story called, "The Deed". The assignment required the use of flashbacks and dialogues in a way that give a little twist at the end. The story revolves around boxing and retaliation.

t first but clearer with every step. He opens the gate and proceeds with little fear to a stone and ponders for a minute. His face looks two shades purple with his left eye puffed up like a balloon an ...

(7 pages) 94 0 4.2 Nov/2003

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

This essay compares Salinger's Catcher in the Rye to Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls in order to reveal the common plight of the two protagonists.

result, he sets his reasoning to the task at hand accordingly. The many times in the book, when he ponders on what his life might be like after the war, he stops himself, remembering that he is here ...

(8 pages) 41 0 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Study Notes on "Hamlet the Hero" for Valsinat

amlet as hero comes about because he goes through a greattransformation involving great bravery. He ponders, manyquestions in life such as suicide and the existence of manto the point of true and unab ...

(12 pages) 107 3 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. This is an essay about the lightness and weight of the character Tomas.

In the first section or part of the book, Kundera chose the title "Lightness and Weight," which he ponders about the philosophical question. How does lightness and weight apply to Tomas' everyday liv ...

(3 pages) 58 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Experiences in Nature, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Ode by Wordsworth

ufock looms at a dinner party contemplating human social interaction; whist Wordsworth's narrarator ponders his turbulent feelings of nature and aging. Trudging over opposite ideas, the narrarators sh ...

(7 pages) 80 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Lucky, the gods, and the Stupid.

d related foul up" ("Solo Projects of Newlyweds"). In an early episode of the reality show, Jessica ponders for a moment over a bowl she is eating from, before asking her husband, "Is this tuna? Or is ...

(5 pages) 41 1 4.1 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Personal and Professional Goals

o become a teacher, on the contrary I grew out of that dream. I think each little girl at one point ponders about becoming a teacher. Subsequently later on I sought after becoming a lawyer. I had my m ...

(4 pages) 132 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Beloved By Toni Morrison

e is at 124, in Cincinnati, as she recalls that it(124 Bluestone Road) is full of baby's venom. She ponders, "Who would have though that little baby could habor so much range?"Beloved offers powerful ...

(1 pages) 73 2 3.9 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A comparative essay between THE CATCHER IN THE RYE and GREAT EXPECTATIONS

ye and Great Expectations, by J.D. Salinger and Charles Dickens respectively, one usually stops and ponders, what can these two novels possibly have in common? Well I can tell you, quite a lot. To beg ...

(3 pages) 17 0 2.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The idea of death in Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

ea of death, and during the course of the play he contemplates death from numerous perspectives. He ponders the physical aspects of death, as seen with Yoricks's skull, his father's ghost, as well as ...

(6 pages) 27 0 3.7 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Macbeth" Character Analysis

t the beginning of the play, Macbeth is exposed as a coward. In the open of Act 1, Scene 7, Macbeth ponders the notion of killing King Duncan before being interrupted by his wife to whom he says, "We ...

(2 pages) 3547 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Comparative commentary: Flann O'Brien's novel "The Third Policeman" and "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac

extract from Flann O'Brien's novel "The Third Policeman", and it deals with an old country road and ponders the role of different kinds of roads and where they might lead. The text is probably meant f ... ime to himself to be walking up and down roads, looking at trees and hills. The second paragraph he ponders about roads and where they lead, and this lifts the whole story to an allegoric level. A fri ...

(3 pages) 25 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Discuss how The Human Condition is explored by Eliot as a struggle for fulfillment in a meaningless world.

soul to us. As the reader, we follow Prufrock through the streets as he describes the city while he ponders whether or not he should ask the all-important question. As the poem unfolds, it is revealed ...

(4 pages) 20 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"A Solid Home" by Elena Garro: The two most important tools that Garro employs to create the world of 'A Solid Home'

ing.This nine page, one-act play explores the afterlife as a group of eight deceased family members ponders their status and the purpose of their existence. Together in their common plot, these charac ...

(3 pages) 7359 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature