Essays Tagged: "first person"
A Short Biography of Benjamin Franklin
id everything from making cabbage-growing more efficient to making political decisions to being the first person to study and chart the Gulf Stream movement in the Atlantic Ocean.Franklin was born in ... s own boss. That day would come.In 1730, Franklin married Deborah Read, who was the daughter of the first Philadelphia landlady. Read was not nearly so well educated as her husband. In old letters tha ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
good essay written in the first person as Stanton. -I was once called the most dangerous woman in America because I dared to a ... bated the fine points of the law with his clerks. It was while reading my father's law books that I first discovered the cruelty of the laws regarding women, and I resolved to get scissors and snip ou ... adian border, the start of the struggle for women's rights began. Lucretia Mott and I organized the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, along with the draft of the Declaration of Sentimen ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
THROUGH THE VIEW OF A READER, THE REASONS WHY MACBETH IS MORE GUILTY BY HIS ACTIONS THEN LADY MACBETH IS BY HERS.
and then encourage Macbeth to gothrough with it. Macbeth did the actual murdering, he was also the first person whothought about killing Duncan. Furthermore he did some killing on his own. Lady Macbe ... in these cases. Based on these facts, Macbeth would be found moreguilty than Lady Macbeth.The very first murder in this story was committed on Duncan. This crime was planned byboth Macbeth and Lady M ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
Censorship
op Killer] is fiction, not fact. At no point did I go out and say'Let's do it.' I am singing in the first person as a character who is fed up with policebrutality. I ain't never killed no cop. I felt ... elevision and music industry. What exactly is censorship? Some feel censorship is aviolation of the first amendment right. Others say censorship is a must in the violent,abusive world we call 'society ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Analysis of "Thirteen Ways to look at a Blackbird"
ut what it means to really know something. In this poem, Stevens shows this connection by writing a first person poem about a poet's observation and contemplation's when viewing a blackbird. He does t ... rd. He does this by making each stanza an explanation of a new way he has perceived this blackbird. First, he writes about his physical perception of the blackbird as an observer. Then, he writes abou ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's guilt
and then encourage Macbeth to go through with it. Macbeth did the actual murdering, he was also the first person who thought about killing Duncan. Furthermore he did some killing on his own. Lady Macb ... in these cases. Based on these facts, Macbeth would be found more guilty than Lady Macbeth.The very first murder in this story was committed on Duncan. This crime was planned by both Macbeth and Lady ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
A Compare and Contrast Essay Between Anthen & A Handmaids Tale
The two novels, The Handmaid's Tale and Anthem, are both haunting, first person tales of personal hardship in a closed and controlled society. In this essay I will poi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Huck Finn as the Narrator in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
that Huck Finn is a living, breathing person who is telling the story. Since the book is written in first person, Twain had to put himself in the place of a thirteen-year-old son of the town drunkard. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain
Eddie Vedder is a Vampire?
Although at first he may seem to be just your average angst ridden lead man for a popular rock and roll band, Ed ... used vampiric images before - for instance Sting, in Moon Over Bourbon Street, which was written in first person - but Vedder is unique in that his lyrics evolve over time as being indicative of his v ... ampiric tendencies became apparent in the lyrics to "Versus", Pearl Jam's second album. Pearl Jam's first album, "Ten", contains no real evidence of vampirism, and his lyric writing style is subtly di ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Editorial Concealed. Robert Wright, both reporter and commentator in Time Magazine. Includes review of his article "The evolution of despair"
ce in his readers, thereupon interjecting his own opinions without arousing suspicion.The article's first paragraph is a perfect example of how a writer can establish intimacy with his reader. The fol ... a writer can establish intimacy with his reader. The following example demonstrates Wright's use of first person and emotional appeal:'Whether burdened by an overwhelming flurry of daily commitments o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"Babi yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
peal to non - Jews as well as Jews, imagery, and his voice and diction as a whole.In his use of the first person, Yevtushenko is able to drive the horrific acts against the Jews close to home. He writ ... nne Frank, I am she' and 'I am every old man shot down here.' Thus, the Holocaust is portrayed as a first hand, personalexperience, which deepens the meaning of his message. Also, he uses the first pe ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Reports discussing "My Antonia's points" by Villa Cather
is a quotation from Virgil: 'Optima dies... prima fugit.' This sentence, meaning 'the best days are first to flee', helps incorporate all the elements of the novel I would like to discuss. It not only ... t only goes back to the prairie, but more importantly, he retreats to the innocent days of his very first memories. While this reflects on the focus of the paper, I will use two characters, Jim and &A ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Ressurection in A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
ioninvolves certain aspects of all of these themes and brings the story together.Dr. Manette is the first person to experience resurrection in A Tale of Two Cities. He is taken away from hispregnant w ... eriorates until heforgets his real name and mindlessly cobbles shoes to pass the time. In 'Book the First', he is released by the Frenchgovernment and then put in the care of Monsieur Defarge. He is s ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
"The Black Cat"
ustworthy, ' . . . my very senses reject their own evidence.' The narration of this story is in the first person, which would lead you to believe the narrator could be trusted to relate to you the tru ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"The Catcher in the Rye" by Salinger. The first novels written with young adults in mind
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, is one of the first novels written with young adults in mind, though it is a classic within mature reading circles ... n with young adults in mind, though it is a classic within mature reading circles. It is written in first-person format, with the main character, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield, telling the story.H ... represents a changing or loss of virtuousness, which is exactly what Holden is fighting against.The first point at which Holden first comes into conflict with the protagonist, being innocence and chan ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A review of "A rose for Emily" by Faulkner
that person is missing the meaning of the story. 'A Rose for Emily' is told by a nameless narrator(first person) describing the life of a pathetic women, Emily representing a figure from the past. He ... t corrupting the past, but the values of the old south that destroy the present.Faulkers use of the first person by a well informed member of the community is masterful with the story of Emily. He has ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Devil in the Shape of a woman. Speaks of examples of women in America being executed as witches.
witchcraft took place among too educated of people to dismiss it as mere 'superstition.' (P.10)The first person that was executed, as a witch, in America was Margaret Jones, in 1648. Jones was a midw ... ularly associated with witchcraft, by both the clergy and the larger population . . . ' (p. 22)This first account, in Karlsens' study, brings to the surface some of the community's views of witchcraft ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Alternative
An esaay evaluating and explaining symbolism and rhetoric devices used in the novel The Stranger
y satirizes the conformity of society, but religion and the legal system as well. By writing in the first person (from the standpoint of Meursault), he draws in the reader, making the evils of society ... ppreciate life after his is effectively over. His apathetic approach to life is made clear from the first page: "Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know." This foreshadows his approach to e ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Death. Comparing Emily Dickinson And William Cullen Bryants Poems on the topic
t unsimiliar.One of many things that is similar is the fact that both authors present there poems infirst person view,but the way they describe what happens to you after death is what isvery dissimila ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Fordham Essay
urning to my birthplace, my home, my origin; my Fordham University.When I arrived at the campus the first person I saw was my former actinginstructor, the great Larry Sacharow. Just seeing him set me ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing