Essays Tagged: "Knitting"

This essay was written as a compliment to the novel, "Ordinary People."

my-of-the-year, called the attention all the parents, who were in little cells, some chatting about knitting or the weather, some eating Nancy Hanley's delicious hors-d'ourves. They were just cheese p ...

(3 pages) 58 3 4.5 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Describe how wine and knitting are used as symbols to foreshadow and explain the uprising of the poor.

Knitting and wine are elementary symbols to understanding A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens collectively ... endously.Dickens uses foreshadowing to confuse and strengthen the plot. With the serene and mindful knitting of Madame Defarge and a cask of spilt wine described by Dickens in perceptive detail, the p ...

(2 pages) 22 0 1.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.

Knitting and wine are elementary symbols to understanding A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens collectively ... endously.Dickens uses foreshadowing to confuse and strengthen the plot. With the serene and mindful knitting of Madame Defarge and a cask of spilt wine described by Dickens in perceptive detail, the p ...

(2 pages) 36 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Antigone: The Tragedy of Creon: Aruged why the play by Sophocles is Creon's tragedy, and not Antigone's. "Antigone" by Sophocles. Translated by John Annoulih

was told of her son's death, she waited carefully until she had finished her row, then put down her knitting calmly--as she did everything. She went up to her room... and there Creon, she cut her thro ...

(3 pages) 185 1 2.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Women's Role in Civilized Society, According to Marlow; From Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."

men have.The first women introduced are white European women at the office of the Company. They are knitting black wool, which may symbolize the Natives of the Congo or the Darkness itself. These wome ...

(3 pages) 36 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The role of sport in our life.

For many people a fovourite way of spending their free time is lying on the beach, fishing, knitting, watching TV or reading. Others quickly get bored with such passive entertainment and prefe ...

(1 pages) 33688 0 2.3 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Evils of war

laden smooth talk carried out by officers. At home, their anxious mothers, wives and children wait, knitting their worries into warm jerseys for their men, jerseys that will soon be used to cover thei ...

(2 pages) 35 2 2.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Feminism Through Adrienne Rich

d encouraging others to do the same for themselves."Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" is a poem about a woman knitting a quilt or some type of blanket. On the blanket, the tigers that she is creating represent ...

(4 pages) 83 0 5.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Interview with world war two nurse

the RAAFNS. My brother was a Doctor in the Army and she helped in a Service Canteen and was always knitting for Service People. She enjoyed getting our letters. Maybe she missed us but I think she wa ...

(4 pages) 31 0 4.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Virginia woolf

wider thanmen's.1st Granddaughter: hello Grandma, what are you reading?Grandmother: nothing! I was knitting something!2nd granddaughter: I saw you grandma! Do you read for Woolf? She is excellent!Gra ...

(3 pages) 58 0 1.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Portrayal of women in a tale of two cities

Madame Defarge. From the beginning of her appearance in the novel, she has been sitting quietly and knitting in the wine-shop; we later find out that it's a list of targets for the revolution. She pos ...

(1 pages) 41 1 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

ONE REASON A Monologue

ng. Stood still looking fiercely, he ranFADE(Telephone rings, next my bathroom)Gandra-Pundro, was a knitting specialist, she sowed all the brand tags to those weird urban shirts. 'Kumar, I need to com ...

(4 pages) 33 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Young Enterprise program.

hose gazing baffled eyes seemed like scorching beam of laser surrounding me. They supplemented with knitting eyebrows to inform me how little the audience made out of my five minute speech for the pos ...

(3 pages) 21 0 0.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens: Foreshadowing the Revolution.

a wine cask that was shattered. Also, we find a macabre scene in which Madame Defarge sits quietly knitting but we later discover she is knitting a list of victims slated die. Later, the theme of rev ... owd can become when they are amassed for a common purpose.Later in the novel we find Madame Defarge knitting what we later discover is a death list. Madame Defarge and her husband hate the upper-class ...

(3 pages) 26 0 0.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

Analysis of The Poem "The Cambridge Ladies Who Live In Furnished Souls"

are invariably interested in so many things_at the present writing one still findsdelighted fingers knitting for the is it Poles?Perhaps. While permanent faces coyly bandyscandal of Mrs. N and Profess ... or social gatherings. The tone of this line is extremely bitter.With "delighted fingers" they are " knitting' for any charitable cause or minority groupes. It is fashionable to support a charity, even ...

(4 pages) 20 0 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Faith

t a scarf for her friend's birthday present and was getting frustrated as it proved difficult to do knitting without the help of her eyes. However Tag continued to tug her, making Diane mad and was ab ...

(3 pages) 50 0 4.3 Mar/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Scarlet Letter

s like cleaning, cooking, etc.Some of their hobbies were to find a way to keep their children busy, knitting, reading, etc. For Hester Pryne on the other hand, her housekeeping meant that she had to b ...

(4 pages) 14 0 3.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

D.W. Griffith

fore but between two different stories taking place in different time and setting. He also used the knitting of four different stories into one and involving a climax in every separate story. You begi ...

(3 pages) 31 0 4.8 Nov/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Gold Toe Industry Analysis, presented from Case Study of Harvard Business Review

ess of manufacturers, and intense advertisement campaigns) will significantly affect Great American Knitting Mill's (GAKM) Gold Toe brand market share.Although Gold Toe's unit sales growth is flatteni ...

(7 pages) 28 0 0.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Unemployement - the unavoidable consequence of ne

estroy their livelihood and opportunities for work (Jones 1996, p.22). They were opposed not to the knitting and lace-making machines as such, but more to the ?de-skilling? involved as these machines ...

(6 pages) 26 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics