Essays Tagged: "heap"

4 descriptive essays

hed as I walked towards the old barn. Hay mixed with dust spotted the concrete floor and stood in a heap by the corner. The shutters banged rapidly as the wind picked up. Light, shown only through the ...

(2 pages) 408 1 4.2 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

"Eliot's Waste Land"

rld, as a prophetic voice with an Old Testament sound announces: ?Son of man . . .you know only / a heap of broken images, where the sun beats, / and the dead tree gives no shelter? (l. 20-23). To con ...

(2 pages) 161 0 3.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Children of the Sun- A fantasy short story about a young girl and her brother living on a foreign planet.

get out of here, wherever we are."Lela didn't move, she just laid there like a rag doll thrown in a heap on the floor. Then it hit him. Like the blow of one of Kyrria's awful barbaric border guards' n ...

(8 pages) 70 0 3.5 May/2002

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

Full description of Best Disease- about one page long bibliography included

r both eyes in central vision. People with Best disease, before the symptoms show, build up a large heap of fat-like substance that looks similar to an egg yolk in the area of the retina that enables ...

(2 pages) 93 0 4.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Why Service Stinks--A Critique

ization's most profitable customers, leaving the average Joe at the back of the line, bottom of the heap, and last on the waiting list. Let's get one thing straight first, in terms of Brady's article, ...

(4 pages) 94 1 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Travelling through the dark

to swerve might make more dead.By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the carand stood by the heap, a doe, a recent killing;she had stiffened already, almost cold.I dragged her off; she was larg ...

(1 pages) 52 1 1.7 Apr/2004

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

"More Money More Problems" A dolls House by Henrick Isben

problems and sometimes this is true. Nora, the main character, gets herself, and her marriage in a heap of trouble even though her husband is getting a big promotion that will bring them a heap of mo ...

(2 pages) 57 2 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Veronica's Morning

ly arose from the floor all she felt was cold, still not able to see straight she stumbles into the heap of clothing beside my dresser. She slipped on the damp shoes from last night's shower and heade ...

(2 pages) 17 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Mayans Weapons, Warriors, and Defensive Techniques

war. An example of this would be in about the ninth century, when the Mayan empire collapsed into a heap of destruction and war, although nothing was as bad as the Yucatan peninsula. What happened the ...

(2 pages) 68 1 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Burn Baby Burn-- a creative piece of writing based on St. joan by Bernard Shaw

Coursework - Saint Joan"Burn, Baby, Burn"The market square in Rouen. A large heap of wood is stacked in the middle of the square arranged for a long awaited burning. The executi ... ff, ( with an evil laugh) so try to burn slowly to give us value for money.As Joan is tied onto the heap of wood she once mores looks at the crowed pitifully and saysJoan: You poor fellows, if you had ...

(3 pages) 19 0 0.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Discussion Jamaica Kincaid

string of hypnotic, militaristic admonitions: "Wash the clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk barehead ... words spoken by an unidentified voice. ''Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk barehead ...

(12 pages) 120 0 4.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Girl Jamaica Kincaid

Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk barehead ...

(3 pages) 47 0 0.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Mirrors Conclusion

t to myself a lot.For I believe that beauty isn't skin deep,For I searched for mine and landed in a heap.I hate my nose, and the mirror doesn't lie,I hate my legs, o god I could cry.When you look in t ...

(1 pages) 121 6 3.8 Aug/2004

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

A story about being on hallucinogens

l allowed them to take over mybody time and time again. Suddenly calming down, I fell into a heap on the floor, maybe sleep would come to me after all...I shot out of bed. Where in hell's name ...

(7 pages) 19 0 3.7 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Title: Literary Analysis of the short story "Girl" by Jamica Kincaid.

ea that a woman's place is in the home. "Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry." (Kincaid 296) This ...

(3 pages) 25995 0 2.3 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Forgotten Ones (Descriptive Essay on a place visited comparison to what I saw and what it has done to society in the area)

e path that calls you to its grand doors. A spire that once stood tall atop a tower now lies upon a heap of rubble. Windows that once gleamed in the sun are darkened with grime. Winged creatures of th ...

(3 pages) 24 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"To Walk In A Dead Man's Boots", lost love: personal experience.

sidered, the vehicle looked sad, almost like now, dead, it was resigned to its fate, a rusting, old heap, a coffin of men, out here in this long-ago and long since no-man's land. The hole was what did ... to keep a sharp and focused mind on the task of clearing and searching for mines. I made it to the heaps. My handiwork lay before me, a morbid testament to the razors-edge of my training. The poor ba ...

(7 pages) 23 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Martin Luther King

ng racial inequality for his own personal gain.Most Blacks were still on the bottom of the economic heap despite desegregation. Black test scores were not rocketing upwards in the new desegregated sch ...

(7 pages) 88 1 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Prologue to a Story

rely embedded itself into the rough bark of the tree for a split-second and fell to the ground in a heap.The 5-year-old sighed exasperatedly, running a tired hand through his short hair, "I've been ...

(4 pages) 10 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

An important aspect of urban Australia represented in 'Strange Bedfellows' the movie.

ch, cow - are the first words spoken by Vince complaining about his ex-wife who has left him with a heap of tax debts to pay.Initially Vince and Ralph are both adamantly a man's man who are against ga ...

(2 pages) 13 0 5.0 May/2006

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