Essays Tagged: "Roommate"

Theme of war followed throughout the novel "A Separate Peace."

orld War II, but also there is an emotional war between the main character, Gene Forrester, and his roommate Finny. Throughout the novel, Gene feels that there is a war between Finny and himself, but ... . "I'll bet you knew all the time Finny wouldn't be back this fall. That's why you picked him for a roommate." (79) Brinker does not exactly say that Gene pushed Finny off the tree; rather, he says Ge ...

(5 pages) 55 0 3.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

My Method of Writing. A short essay on writing styles focusing on my own.

stractions that they encounter are minimized and they are able to concentrate more effectively. My roommate, for example, is the kind of person who sits on the couch with the television off, the inte ...

(6 pages) 223 0 3.9 Dec/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Automotive Companies

"A Farewell to Arms" by Earnest Hemmingway.

The narrator's name is Frederic Henry. There is also Rinaldi, one of the narrator's friends and his roommate. We also meet the priest, whose name we are never allowed to know. The narrator seems to li ...

(6 pages) 69 0 4.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

Respect

treat our siblings, the way we greet each other when walking by on the street, the way we treat our roommate, the manner in which we eat, the way we answer the phone, the way we dress when we are at w ... tory. Last weekend was a very stressful weekend for me due to the disrespect I was experiencing. My roommate had about eight friends from home come to visit her. Usually this would not be an issue for ...

(8 pages) 119 0 3.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Center Stage.

rough with her dream of becoming a professional dancer. Once there, Jody becomes close friends with roommate Eva (Zoe Saldana), also recently chosen for the Academy, who has what it takes to be a prof ... as an attitude problem whose manner virtually challenges the director to throw her out. Their third roommate is Maureen (Susan May Pratt), a highly talented ballerina who has been at the Academy since ...

(5 pages) 66 0 3.4 May/2003

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

A Descriptive essay on a girl worshiping God in her dorm room.

nfriendly in sight and touch, always adapting to the temperature it is outside. I look across at my roommate as she lies upon her bed, reading a book. I pretend to be writing in my journal as she conc ... tense moment I have just seen, run through my head. I smile as I realize how blessed I am to have a roommate as such. Touched by the moment of her vulnerability and reverence to the Lord, I drift off ...

(3 pages) 73 2 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

The novel C"atcher In The Rye" is written by J.D Salinder is the story of Holdens quest for maturity.

ol, Holden is only days from his expulsion from Pency, because of awful grades. Straddler, Holden's roommate, goes on a date with Jane, who is one of Holden's former friends. Holden agrees to write a ...

(8 pages) 35 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A book reprort on A Separate Peace by Gene Forrester.

t person narrator, fights a war within himself.Gene remembers how he and Finny, his best friend and roommate, had gone near a large tree by the river one afternoon. Finny, who was by nature daring and ...

(4 pages) 25 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography

xford in 1810 he had already published a novel named Zastrozzi. He attended Oxford until he and his roommate were expelled for writing a pamphlet named The Necessity of Atheism.His father visited him ...

(2 pages) 26 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Seperate PEace

mature young man. Gene is shallow and immature because he always wants to be better than Finny- his roommate and best friend. This is depicted when Finny wasn't in the room and Gene started trying on ...

(2 pages) 16 0 1.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Process paper- How i leaned to skii. Take you through the process of skiing

there a couple times a month, especially during ski season. A few months ago, my friend invited my roommate and me to spend a weekend. Since neither one of us had skied before, we signed up for "lear ...

(3 pages) 81 0 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

The Catcher in the Rye, By J.D. Salinger Holden "Trapped in Adolescence"

en was about thirteen.For example, at the beginning of the book Holden had to write a paper for his roommate Stradlater. He was supposed to write a paper describing a house or a room, but Holden could ...

(5 pages) 42 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger Holden's Character

s. He is about sixteen years old and he goes to Pencey High in Pennsylvania. Stradlater is Holden's roommate. Holden is a mean kind of guy but he never shows it. He is almost always nice and never sho ...

(1 pages) 39 1 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Moby Dick

their wives were mourning of lost sailors in the sea.When Ishmael gets back to the Spouter Inn, his roommate Queequeg tells him he wants to go with Ishmael. Ishmael and Queequeg then go on a ship to N ...

(3 pages) 60 2 3.9 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Veronica's Morning

he date was February 23, 2004; waking up at 8am for class was every college student's nightmare. My roommate Veronica's eyes were still half shut, my vision blurred, and her hand still numb from sleep ...

(2 pages) 17 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Time line of Dell computer

begins his computer business at the University of Texas at Austin, often hiding his IBM PCs in his roommate's bathtub when his family would visit. His dorm room business officially becomes Dell Compu ...

(2 pages) 76 0 1.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

A Busy Place, Now Deserted

rd the footsteps in the hall, and the key turning in the lock before the door was opened. It was my roommate, Jubb."Did you see what the paper said this morning?" She asked while threw her jacket on h ... r.After all, I decided to stay in Beijing, because the university was closed for only two weeks. My roommate also stayed in Beijing to accompany me. We were fine and were very careful and took the nec ...

(3 pages) 44 0 3.9 May/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

Health Improvement project

l perform my goals on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday at six pm. My two supporters will be my roommate Carrie, and my aunt Sandra. I can achieve my meditation at home all these nights of the wee ...

(2 pages) 35 0 0.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

To Cheat or Not to Cheat? - A Philosophical Decision Utilizing Kantian Reasoning

Basically, this student's choice, if he copied his roommate's paper, would not be consistent with the Moral Law as understood by Immanuel Kant through ... in regard to the specific questions at hand, whether or not the philosophy student should copy his roommate's paper) we can apply Kant's fundamental and formulaic principle of morality in making our ... dard of knowledge ensured by completing assigned coursework. If the student in questions copies his roommate's paper he will not only be in violation of the University's laws, but also would be falsel ...

(6 pages) 60 0 5.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

The catcher in the Rye.

ck in the dormitory, Holden is further irritated by his unhygienic neighbor, Ackley, and by his own roommate, Stradlater. Stradlater spends the evening on a date with Jane Gallagher, a girl whom Holde ...

(7 pages) 30 1 4.6 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers