My Summer Holiday Essay

Vietnam by early 1968, devastating the country by following the orders given to them by their superiors. For example, soldiers were directed to conduct the My Lai massacre by Lieutenant Calley. In the small village of My Lai, American soldiers rounded up the inhabitants and ordered them into a ditch, where they were shot to death. In his book My Lai 4, journalist Seymour Hersh wrote, “‘It was estimated that between 450 and 500 people- most of them women, children and old men- had been slain and…

This caused the soldiers to lose their morals and commit war crimes. One example of this the My Lai Massacre. During the war, in 1968, an estimated 300-500 innocent, unarmed villagers were brutally killed by the American soldiers. Chris Taylor’s experience mirrors this event when Chris Taylor and his troop marched into a village of innocent people…

To be a woman in the 25th Century world of Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination is to lead an inherently dangerous and confined existence. In it, jaunting–an act more or less equivalent to teleporting–has made women into something of a protected class in the face of the looming threat of sexual assault. Many, such as Jisbella McQueen and Olivia Presteign, express, in their own divergent ways, a dissatisfaction with this existence, and seek to either overtly or in secret defy its confines.…

Although many scholars argue that “Milton writes sonnet [nine] to console and encourage [his lady friend, but] carefully eschews giving any advice [and only] pays her the compliment of merely describing with satisfaction what she has done,” (“Variorum Commentary”, Bush) this is one of many interpretations. The idea that Milton “consoles” and “encourages” his lady friend to be part of a religious institution is only visible on a surface level scan because if one reads in between the lines, he can…

on describing the setting but instead focused on the events and the character’s emotions. Word: external conflict Definition: The struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story. Quote: " ‘What 's the matter? Wuddaya want?’ I said. Boy, my voice was shaking like hell. ‘Nothin ' much,’ old Maurice said. ‘Just five bucks.’ He did all the talking for the two of them… ‘Let 's go, chief,’ old Maurice said. Then he gave me a big shove with his crumby hand.” Title/Author: The Catcher in the…

There is a quote by C.G. Jung that reads, “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves”. I want to use this as the scope to understand the speaker in Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess. In the psychologically charged poem, the Duke (the speaker of the poem) uses the dramatic monologue to convey his feelings of his late duchess, as well as why he had her killed. The duke puts immense value on his imaginary hypotheticals, in an attempt to rationalize…

Myrna Pena-Reyes’ “Breaking Through” and William Carlos William’s “This is Just to Say” expresses the relationship of the persona with another person through the use of different figurative devices. In “Breaking Through”, we see the persona as the daughter and the “you” in the poem as her father. Meanwhile, in the poem “This is Just to Say”, the persona of the poem is the husband, while the “you” in the poem refers to his wife. These two poems present a similar conflict – the persona is…

To achieve a goal is not easy which people have to face the challenges and difficulty on their life. In the play “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, the major theme of this play is about American Dream and the interpretation about dream includes memories, confliction, and arguments of Willy Loman. Willy Loman who is the main character in this play has to face difficulty to achieve the America dream like others. However, the reality is often different to the imagination, so that Willy Loman…

Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, based on the Greek mythology of the same name. It features a poor, uneducated girl, Eliza Doolittle, who is taken on a journey to become a duchess, to open up a flower shop. She is mentored by a professor, named Henry Higgins. By the end of the play, it is unknown if Liza ever marries Higgins, or a young man named Freddy Eynsford-Hill. As mentioned, as the story comes to a close, it leaves the reader something to think about. Does Eliza…

The paper would begin by introducing the ideas and theories that exist around the notion of identity in Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette, examining them and carrying them forward to show how success or failure in case of a “diasporic” identity may depend upon their ability to adapt themselves to the environment/space they migrate…