Essays Tagged: "shudder"
Triumph over tragedy. Speaks of Kate Chopin's "The avakening"
d. Thoughts of lost love and torments abound. The most human of emotions, sorrow, overwhelms us. We shudder, a chill creeps up our spine. We agonize over the tragedy, and the tragic figure. We lose si ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Written Word Lives On
everyday. With limitless pages bound by a common goal these books keep me ticking. At night while I shudder under my covers Ayne Rand and her John Gault have held me in a stupor for hours on end. Maki ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
This essay includes the book "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller in a 6 page paper on the importance of aircraft in WWII.
arbor, December 7, 1941, was day of infamy in American history. Even people that weren't alive then shudder at the stories of the screaming dive bombers dropping torpedoes at the ships in the early mo ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
The Odyssey: The Greek Ethical Mind - explores the implications of Greek attitudes, customs, and culture in Homer's the Odyssey
a dreamy paradise, isn?t it? For many this simple and crude life presents the utopian world. Others shudder at it believing it represents the worst of humankind and decadent living of the past. Some r ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"My Experience of '9/11'" 580 words. Narrative Essay - Writing from Recall.
'9/11' as if it was only yesterday. September 11th 2001, just the mention of that date causes me to shudder. I remember it clearly. It was about half past eight in the morning and I was well asleep on ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Leda and the swan
ighs?And how can a body, laid in that white rush,But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.Be ... ines twelve and thirteen). This verse describes the real act of rape when Zeus is inside of her. "A shudder in the loin engenders there" (line nine). The use of the word engenders is notable. Engender ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Underlying themes in the Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
s Amanda this. "I know I seem dreamy, but inside -- well, I'm boiling! Whenever I pick up a shoe, I shudder a little thinking how short life is and what I am doing! Whatever that means, I know it does ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Mark Twain: Master of Technique - A study of Twain's literary elements
Literary analysis, the very mention of those words makes anyone shudder and shudder I did. I had no clue which author I would choose; the fact was I hated non-ficti ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
How does Aeneas present himself and his people in Book 2 of the Aeneid?
showing that their eventual glory did not come without hardship. The book opens with Aeneas 'shudder[ing] to remember' the 'agony of Troy'. He emphasises the duplicity of the Greeks combined wi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
My Eden------A 5-paragraph descriptive essay
ee an innocent rabbit nibbling on some shrubbery. I wonder, is he also warming up in the beams? A shudder of fright jolts through me as I hear the magnificent scream of a mountain lion. The rabbit ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
Edgar Allan Poe
rs for centuries. Of course we, as the reader, believe it is simply his brillance that sends a cold shudder through our bodies as we curl up on the couch with The Raven or The Masque of the Red Death, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe
Science Fiction Short Story: Based on "Sunrise on Pluto" by Robert Silverburg.
thoughts and our silence. He slipped on a piece of ice that crumpled at his feet. We felt the earth shudder as his weight smacked the ground. Out of the crater beside him, crawled a tiny creature. As ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Awakening in Life
to hold on. And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and through a mantle of wet lashes you begin to loo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Hot to Maintain a Long Distance Relationship: A process analysis paper.
Long distance relationships - Do they work? Many people will shudder and cringe at the mere thought of a relationship, such as this, where other people may openl ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing
Descriptive Winter Essay
Whipping winter wind tears through the thin layer of Gortex. A giant shudder convulses my body as the wind makes contact, chilling me to the bone. Breath freezes the mom ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Lord Of The Flies
ked the alternative may be. When Ralph discusses about the beast during the night, younger children shudder and move close together as an indication of fear. Instead of seeking the sane choice of civi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers