Essays Tagged: "Dim"

A Futuristic Interview With Romeo

e someone 'behind the times.' So sit back, relax, and watch as the past becomes the present.(Lights dim, machine hums, beam of light appears center stage. Through the beam, people are visible, walking ... isit mine ancestors and prevent this filthy mess from even starting! Farewell!(Machine hums, lights dim, and shaft of light appears. Romeo steps into the light and laughs.)ROMEO: My, does this feel st ...

(5 pages) 42 0 4.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

A developmental study of Alex in the Stanley Kubrick production of A Clockwork Orange using modern psychological theories

ect rule, following his every word, and decide to challenge his authority. The three Droogs (Dim, Georgie, and Pete) join Alex on his romp to a local 'fat farm' to pillage the goods therein. In ... h a rather large, ceramic replica of an erect penis. When he leaves the outer gates of the complex, Dim surprises him by smacking a milk bottle against his face. His counterparts escape while little A ...

(8 pages) 227 5 4.2 Dec/1996

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

This essay is about the price our country pays for the priviledge of freedom.

ing sloshed out of the cup leaving her with horrible burns on her legs. However, instead of feeling dim-witted about her carelessness she sues the restaurant. The restaurant ended up having to pay the ...

(2 pages) 118 5 2.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Elizibeth Bishop's thought-provoking poem entitled "Filling Station"

etry with the skill of an artist-- she seems to have an eye for detail as shecontrasts the dark and dim reference of a filling station to a more homey, pleasant atmosphere. Bishop aptlyarranges her wo ... filling station moves to each new stanza with the mention of these words: In the fourth stanza, 'bigdim doily', to the second last stanza, 'why, oh why, the doily? /Embroidered' to the last stanza, 's ...

(4 pages) 87 0 3.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

John Muir, his achievements and his journeys

ghtening a machine belt with a file, the file flew out and pierced his right eye. His left eye grew dim to the reaction.John's friends and neighbors tried to help him and brought doctors. Some friends ...

(6 pages) 62 0 3.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Mechanical Engineering

The Book Report on "The Power and The Glory" by Graham Greene

rough village streets, and across impassible mountain ranges, half-believing that I would glimpse a dim figure stumbling in the rain on his way to the border. There is no greater tribute possible to y ...

(7 pages) 83 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A Clockwork Orange a critical anylsis of the critically acclaimed novel by anthony burgess

t occupy their time throughout the night. At fifteen years old, Alex is set up by his Droogs--Pete, Dim, and Georgie--and is convicted of murder and sent to jail. At the Staja or state penitentiary, A ... complete control and a dictator-like position, at one point even referring to one of his droogs as 'Dim the soviet.' This idea is often tested in physical confrontation. This is one of the recurrent t ...

(9 pages) 119 1 3.8 Sep/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Here are two short creative stories. I got an (A) on both stories. The first story is on train incident. Second story is called after a dream.

nt to the subway. Suddenly I am stuck between 159th and 125th. All power goes out making visibility dim. In that moment, I encountered the most bizarre thing. The fat, stoop-shouldered gangster in the ...

(1 pages) 705 10 4.4 Nov/2002

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

Comparison of three John Hopkin poems. God-man poems "God's Grandeur", "Peace", and "Pied Beauty"

ry. Hopkin's also describes God's creations through antithesis. "Swift, slow; sweet, sour; a dazzle dim;" describes extreme opposite words balancing one another to the extreme differences of all that ...

(2 pages) 92 1 4.6 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Jane Eyre Literary Analysis

ther example of the positive side of fire is Jane's reliance in light. Everywhere in Lowood is very dim, and Jane needs a candle to see. This shows her conflict to be self-reliant, yet she does need a ...

(2 pages) 62 1 3.6 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Loss of Innocence - Describes how young people lose innocence in relation to the short story "Eve in Darkness".

's. However, the young girl's world doesn't take place in a garden but rather in her "grandmother's dim, austere living room" where a statue of Eve holding an apple stands (18). God had only forbidden ... She does not think that it is strange for the statuette to be unclothed. The young girl is the embodiment of innocence. She and Eve are "conspirators" (18). Her cousin Victoria tells her that the sta ...

(5 pages) 45 1 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A poem that flows nicely and is about Charlemagne. Charlemagne was the first Holy Roman Emperor. This poem details his life, trumphs, defeats, and much more.

ed to kneel before him,'Cept when his mother orders him, he does,Wanted to unify Europe, out of the dim,And into the light, where they were one,So anxious to get started,He soon begun,Not a journey fo ...

(1 pages) 57 0 4.5 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History

Subject: Title: Morning Beach. Its a description essay about the morning site on beach, Referres the beauty of nature.

t morning beach. Where's the place for you then?It was early in the morning, when the sky was still dim, I was walking on the beach by myself with my scandals off, feeling the grainy sand that comfort ...

(2 pages) 33916 1 4.2 Feb/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

Explication of The First Paragraph of Jack London's "To Build a Fire"

continues, "the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little traveled trail led eastward..." London lets us know that the man is choosing a trail ... " London lets us know that the man is choosing a trail that is lightly traveled, where the light is dim, foreshadow that the man is taking steps to his eventual demise, a place were light is not preva ...

(4 pages) 126 1 2.9 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Short Review of the film 'Of Mice and Men' based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

're simply two men but together they are the perfect man. The muscle and the mind -Lennie being the dim-witted giant and George the sharp-thinking man.Their travels (or their trouble) bring them to Ty ...

(2 pages) 73 2 3.4 Apr/2003

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

A minor response to the poem "Softest of Tongues" by Vladimir Nabokov

rrupted by the din of the tunnels" depict how the persona strives to appreciate literature but the "dim of the tunnels" or their surroundings always seem to interfere. The "drab designs that habit sel ...

(3 pages) 22 0 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

BLackouts and Air Raids During WW2

hool became very difficult during the winter when it got darker earlier, as street lights had to be dimmed and we could hardly see where we were going. We also used to get into trouble for walking out ... e were going. We also used to get into trouble for walking out in front of cars because they had to dim their lights. Women and children would report that they had been followed home by men and were n ...

(3 pages) 47 1 4.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Comparative study between sonnet 18 and 130

much damage to the sweet buds of may while the sun's light in summer is sometimes is too bright and dim. The poets friend is however more lovely than a summers day. All beautiful things will lose but ... darling buds of May.2---sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed3---but the eternal summer shall not fade.The imagery thing of this poem is darling bud, lease ...

(2 pages) 62 1 3.8 Apr/2004

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

A Morning at the Beach.

It was early in the morning, when the sky was still dim. I was walking on the beach by myself with my sandals off, feeling the grainy sand that comforts ...

(1 pages) 118 5 3.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a novel by: Lew Wallace

s tongue, the old Jebel is the parent ofnumberless wadies which, intersecting the Roman road--now a dimsuggestion of what once it was, a dusty path for Syrian pilgrimsto and from Mecca--run their furr ... erelish with which the good servant took to the food, he turned andagain scanned the world of sand, dim with the glow of the verticalsun."They will come " he said, calmly. "He that led me is leading t ...

(35 pages) 37 0 2.3 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers