Essays Tagged: "strangely"

Before the death of innocence- a insight into premature depression

something worth living for.A wave of pine disinfectant hit me as soon as I walked in. Followed by a strangely clean smell of sickness. I hate hospitals. Especially this one, I've never been here befor ...

(6 pages) 67 0 4.0 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

The untold Story of Theseus

hat gave white light in stead of yellow.''These men that shone their fire sticks at me were dressed strangely; all in blue. They spoke in an unfamiliar tong and shoved myself into what I could only de ...

(3 pages) 45 0 4.4 Sep/1996

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

My First Murder

My father said, 'good job.' The government said thatI was acting within the limits of the law. Strangely, I felt no comfort in knowing I had myfather and the government on my side. I still su ...

(4 pages) 65 0 3.0 Oct/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

A Violent Illumination of Salvation. Speaks of Flannery O'Connor

cost, a soul must find salvation. O'Connor states, 'In my own stories I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of ...

(7 pages) 152 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Was Jesus a Political Revolutionary?

le that may prove the idea of Jesus being a revolutionary. He goes about being a revolutionary very strangely, but I believe that he was one.Let us start by stripping Jesus of any God-like powers and ...

(3 pages) 32 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Lengthy plot summary of "Chuck and Buck"; including a detailed explanation of its application to Human Sexuality functioning.

ged to Carlyn and maintains a white-collar job as a music record executive in Los Angeles. Buck has strangely maintained his child-like mentality. At his mother's funeral reception, Buck asks Chuck an ...

(4 pages) 51 1 4.6 Mar/2003

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

Christianity in Viking Age Scandinavia.

in hand, and as the North became part of the literate European Christian community its vitality was strangely sapped and the Viking Age came to an end"Although attributing the end of the Viking Age to ...

(8 pages) 63 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Me myself and I a narrative essay written for a friend describing a day when a girl finds her best friend is herself.

we were talking loudly and making fun of each other. There were many people looking at Kasey and I strangely. We just laughed at them and continued walking.When arriving at the almost deserted park w ...

(2 pages) 124 0 4.1 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost.

Robert Frost's poetry is always simple and direct, yet strangely deep. Everyone can read into his poem but with different kind of expression. Frost has bee ...

(10 pages) 381 1 4.8 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

A comparison of the short stories "Good Country people" and "Where are you going, Where have you been?"

rreal and twisted endings. Their main characters, Hulga and Connie, are shockingly similar, and yet strangely different, one a 15 year old wishing to be older and beautiful, the other a bitter 32 year ...

(4 pages) 111 1 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Halloween.

Halloween in this country is a colorful festival tosay the least, but one that seems to strangely celebratethe opposite of everything "good". Its imagery promulgatesdeath and horror, and d ...

(7 pages) 171 1 3.9 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Affirmative action

nts, the affirmative action movement was implemented to promote equality. Like some Americans, I am strangely confused when anyone talks about affirmative action. The reason that I have such confusion ...

(11 pages) 317 0 3.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

The Pedestrian

in this story as a non-conformist, went out for a walk every night. However, the night ended rather strangely resulting in an arrest by the police. The police imprisoned him for existing as a non-conf ...

(4 pages) 42 0 2.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Macbeth (Summary and Commentary on Act III Scenes IV-VI)

away from his ordered life as he is tormented thoughts of his victims. He hallucinates and behaves strangely in front of the lords of the state. Even the state has begun losing faith in him and seeks ... chatting about what has happened. Lennox talks in a sarcastic tone about Macbeth. "Things have been strangely borne," he says talking about the disorderly events that have taken place. He finds it dif ...

(4 pages) 59 2 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

An analysis of the cinematic techniques that are used in the portrayal of the 'outsider' in films. Why are such films popular and what do they tell us about society as a whole? GCSE A grade.

them. You start to feel how someone who is made fun of feels and because they look different or act strangely you don't forget them quickly, which is what the director wants. All three protagonists ar ...

(15 pages) 115 0 4.7 Mar/2004

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

Unsatisfied Quest modernisum "Araby", by James Joyce compared to "Bartleby The Scrivener", by Herman Melville

cter is narrating his childhood. He told of his friend Mangan and when he sees his sister, he feels strangely and passionately drawn to her. The young boy dreams of Mangan's sister, who lives nearby: ...

(4 pages) 67 1 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Recylce! Americans are very "polluted" people!

ar wrapper into the trash bin without hesitation (some of you don't even make it that far! You have strangely adapted to the idea that the outside your car window is your waste can!). Ok, Ok-- I will ...

(2 pages) 62 0 2.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Silver Lake don't rush the ending

t at his feet. He picked it up again. There must have been some property that made this rock act so strangely. Surely there was a scientific explanation for it. But if there was one, he didn't find it ...

(7 pages) 62 1 5.0 Apr/2004

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

EXPANSION TO MARS PAPER!! This tells about what they plan to put a colony on Mars

lect rocks and dirt samples for testing.Mars's surface has many features like Earth and some others strangely different. Mars has some features such as: volcanoes, canyon systems, river beds, cratered ...

(4 pages) 67 2 3.4 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Space

The Thin Red Line compared to World War II (tutor's comment: i like that you see the comparison and soldiers do have dreams of something other than the hell they face.)

ng of his wife, a newly hatched tropical bird, colorful macaws, and other scenes of beauty that are strangely out of place in a war movie.The movie shows the destructiveness of war through the juxtapo ...

(2 pages) 35 0 5.0 May/2004

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