Essay About Inspiration

Many authors draw on past events and people in their lives to serve as inspiration for future works, with Harper Lee, winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and many other accolades for her debut novel To Kill a Mockingbird, being no different. Harper Lee’s childhood and personal background had a great effect on her writing in that what she had experienced and witnessed over her lifetime inspired many of the most distinct aspects of To Kill a Mockingbird, such as the setting, one of the major…

power, stories of the family were well known and Shakespeare had to have heard the stories and used them as inspiration. Shakespeare had many successful pieces of writing and poetry, but the authorship has to be questioned on particular pieces. One man, could not have possibly written the amount of original works claimed in such a short lifespan. Shakespeare could have easily found inspiration and wrote the same story just embellishing events for the sake of the theater. Theater was so important…

slaves escape to freedom. Like slavery in the 1800s, child labor is occurring all around the world, they get paid a very low wage for working long hours and dangerous jobs. Harriet Tubman is relevant to today’s society because Harriet Tubman is a inspiration to today’s brave people and her actions can be learned to revise other issues today like child labor. Like the other abolitionists, Harriet Tubman is a brave woman. Harriet Tubman is a brave individual who risks her life to help slaves…

Writers use the world around them as inspiration. Accordingly, Chaucer was no different in this respect. This 14th century writer observed the death, disease, and senseless violence in the world around him, and exposed the world to these disturbing actualities in the severe, yet veiled spotlight of the page. Even more so than these grim themes of the world, Chaucer uncovers the jarring realities of the culture at the time. He eventually packs all of these medieval sensibilities into an epic poem…

When I was sixteen, my English teacher wrote this comment on the bottom of my Macbeth essay: Have you thought about majoring in English? She didn’t know that I spent all my free time reading and rereading my favorite books, or that I was working every night on a new chapter of my novel. In school, I struggled to get through the reading material and I wasn’t the most reliable class participant—often shy and unwilling. I wasn’t the best English student in the class, or even particularly good at…

of the woman rights movement she supported at that time. Sanger had believed that women are being tied down because of the babies they have and they cannot move forward in life and cannot pursue their careers. Although, he kept this part of his inspiration a secret, it was not a secret anymore after…

Austrian quarry to figure out plaster and marble sculptures. Lily’s presentation began with belt buckles. Her inspiration was the truck drivers that she had met on the road. A belt buckle gives a sense of identity about the person who is wearing it, but in an awkward part of the body. She used American history, Contemporary American Culture, and personal stories from truck drivers as inspiration when designing the belt buckles. I liked how Lily used person stories from truck drivers and embodied…

Joker needed a more prominent henchman, or maybe even a henchwoman. The inspiration of the character came from one of Paul Dini's dear friend, Arleen Sorkin, in 'Days of Our Lives' where she dressed up in a jester costume and had the voice and look inspiration he needed to make Harley Quinn. When Harley's design was complete and ready to be put into Bruce Timm's cartoon, Arleen Sorkin voiced the character, as she was the inspiration, and Harley's first appearance was in the epsiode 'Joker's…

enjoy participating in activities that will keep my brain sharp as I grow older. In addition, it is important for me to plane for my future in the event that I may need to support my family financially. Several important people in my life are an inspiration to me by their example in furthering their own education as older adults. Attending college is a very important part of my life. The number one reason that I attend college is I desire to keep my brain sharp as I get older. I feel I will…

Ultimately this comprise of three types of lung volumes. The first is tidal volume (TV) that refers to the volume of air derived from normal inspiration and expiration. The second classification of lung volume is inspiratory reserve volume (IRV). This is the maximum volume of air that can be inhaled right after a normal inspiration. The last type of static lung volume is expiratory reserve volume (ERV). ERV refers to the maximum volume of air that can be exhaled following a tidal expiration…