Essays Tagged: "laments"

Gore Vidal's argument for the legalization of Marijuana.

to do with the marijuana issue per say; it is mostly a way to capture his readers' attention as he laments American culture and all that is wrong with it. His argument is not flawless, neither is it ...

(3 pages) 131 0 4.4 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Henrik Ibsen's play, 'A Doll's House.'

bordinate. Initially, these remarks appear to be appreciated by Nora, but by the play's finale, she laments to Torvald that he has managed her like a doll throughout the entire duration of their eight ...

(1 pages) 80 0 3.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Essay question answers on Jeremiads and Puritans.

oks of Isaiah and Jeremiah. It also contains the characteristic I have mentioned before. Rowlandson laments over the sinfulness of her community, while quoting scripture to justify the punishments as ...

(1 pages) 26 0 4.7 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Differences between Spearman and Gardner

st have a lot of intelligence, but they are affected by their abilities to perform verbal tasks. In laments terms, if you scored well on a verbal test, you studied and have the brain capacity to under ...

(2 pages) 77 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Water symbolism in Lycidas

ses dark'. The ship is a metaphor for the soul, condemned by original sin to suffer death. The poet laments not specifically King's death but the common death of all with particular reference to his o ...

(2 pages) 19 0 4.3 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Great Imagination Heist by Reynolds Price

freely, without outside influence. The word "heist" indicates the intention to rob or steal. Price laments what he perceives to be the robbing of original, personal thought. He longs for the days whe ...

(1 pages) 14 0 0.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Good Poor And forgotten Country people..... Elegy written in a country churchyard

he poem in 1742, shortly after the death of his close friend Richard West. An elegy is a poem which laments the dead. Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is noteworthy in that it mourns the ...

(4 pages) 49 1 3.5 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Developing Character of "Miss Brill" using metaphors similies, etc.

r, Miss Brill further characterizes the fur coat and states that is a "little rogue", which further laments her personification of the fur. Furthermore, she feels that she is attracted to the personif ...

(3 pages) 59 0 3.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"Catcher in the Rye" book report

York City, where he finds himself to be more lonely and depressed than ever. He is all alone and he laments, " What I really felt like doing was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out of the wind ...

(2 pages) 18 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

T S Eliot's "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"

The Love Song is the lifetime of laments that one old-aged man remembers, which consist of his past failures. He then puts them into ...

(3 pages) 94 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

One Scene of "Julius Caeser" Written in a Different Dialect

rtemidorus"10Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,And as a suitor will I give him this.My heart laments that virtue cannot liveOut of the teeth of emulation.If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst ...

(1 pages) 1004 0 0.0 May/2006

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

A critical appreciation of the poem 'On My First Sonne' by Ben Jonson

lling used. Also it tells us that this poem is about is eldest son. The poem is an elegy meaning he laments the death of his eldest son and is expressing his grief through words and poetry. The genera ...

(4 pages) 16 1 3.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Natural Law in "Veritatis Splendor"

confused about the place of natural law in moral theology. In its opening pages Veritatis Splendor laments the rejection of traditional natural law morality by those who dissent from Church teaching, ...

(5 pages) 26 0 2.5 Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

More than anything else, imaginative journeys are about the process of speculation. (Lime Tree, Frost at Midnight, A Beautiful Mind)

es his unwillingness, while the word 'prison' evokes imagery of his physical constriction. The poet laments his inability to follow his friends on the hike and envious, begins to speculate about the j ...

(4 pages) 43 0 5.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

A Peace

otential soldiers, Finny's injury makes him a "casualty," especially to Brinker. Also, Dr. Stanpole laments in Chapter 12 that the risks always present in life are more formal in war and in the operat ...

(1 pages) 927 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

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to have Foible arrested.Mrs. Fainall enters, and Foible confides her pitiable condition to her. She laments that Lady Wishfort has gone to fetch a constable to arrest her and that Waitwell is already ...

(3 pages) 1408 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Frank o haras the day lady die

onventional patterns of elegiac poetry. Instead of the common reflection of grief, utilizing tragic laments and a recount of greatness now gone, O'Hara's seemingly ordinary poem very subtly evokes a s ...

(1 pages) 1270 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Sleep and the Affective Response to Stress and Pain

he materials used, the main method of data collection involved EMA (Stone & Shiffman, 1994). In laments, EMA included multiple assessments of a participant’s daily life in their natural envir ...

(4 pages) 13 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Comparing Texts of The Epic of Gilgamesh, Get in Debt and Nineteen-Eighty Four with Teenage Culture in Today's society

ilgamesh” illustrates the value of relationships as well. After Endiku’s death, Gilgamesh laments for “7 days and nights” because he treasures the unique bond he and Endiku shared ... “To Kill a Mockingbird” when Dill returns to Meridian after the summer. In the novel, Jem laments, “I was miserable without Dill… [and] wished I had left with him”, which is s ...

(4 pages) 15 0 2.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology