A Great and Terrible Beauty

with those hard times. Everyone has very various means to deal with how they want to deal with the difficult times in their lives. In Cynthia Ozick’s essay “A Drugstore In Winter,” she writes about how she and her family coped with the effects of the Great Depression. Her family faced many obstacles during the depression, like their drugstore being shut down, but they survived by dealing with the difficulties. In the essay, she writes about how she faced many obstacles in her life, but how she…

Every person in their life has gone through a period of time where they doubted themselves because of society’s expectation of them, specifically body image. Many women are expected to be thin and sexy while men should be tall and muscular. Society says anything else is unacceptable. Everybody has stood in the mirror and thought their body was not perfect due to the pressures of society. The thoughts could have evolved from being bullied at school, mental illness, seeing magazines with examples…

Slavery as many Americans remember it began in the United States hundreds of years ago. The fact is that slavery took place thousands of years prior. Throughout the years slavery has impacted society in a big way. “My understanding is that slavery is an extreme form of a universal human tendency for some members of society to exercise domination over others. It is an institution in which all humanity and personhood are denied the powerless by the powerful” (Bradley, 2008, p. 482). This power…

selects the colors not based on his visual interpretation of the room but on the psychological and emotional effects it has on its occupants. He explains to his brother Theo, in a letter, that he uses the red and green in an attempt to express the terrible passions of human nature. The use of these colors helps to illustrate the intensity of the Café de la Gare and provoke the emotions of the viewer who may relate the bar scene to alcoholism or depression. He also balances the wooden browns and…

person who required him and cherished him. Be that as it may when it saw the world did not see anyone who at any rate provided for him an arm to remained up. Victor Frankenstein wanted to give life to a creature, but when he managed to do it “the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart…”. He was scared of what he had created and ran away from his creature, leaving it all alone and hurt. Victor Frankenstein made the first step into making the Creature a…

through physical difficulties while using personification when she states “While his gills were breathing in the terrible oxygen —the frightening gills, fresh and crisp with blood, that can cut so badly” (Bishop 402). This quote illustrates the physical problems such as the difficulty of breathing and the hooks that have severely injured its body. Throughout the poem, the fish has suffered a great amount of pain in it’s lifetime. Another symbol that lies being this quote is the struggles…

Upon first reading, Yeats’ poetry can be challenging but it’s incredibly rewarding when deciphered. Despite complex language and abstract metaphors, Yeats employs many stylistic devices to make his poetry more accessible. The area I found most rewarding was his subject matter. The philosophical nature was very demanding but offered us a different perspective on both life and Irish history. On a technical level, Yeats’ poems are superb. In my opinion however, the simple things, executed…

Everyone knows how much power the press and advertising have in shaping the news, how its choice of stories and words influence its readers. What are the media? Do the media reflect the views and values of society or is being influenced by it? The term media can be defined as the whole form of mass communications, including newspaper, magazine, television, and internet. As states in her article, “Television has become a scapegoat for all sorts of societal and cultural ills. Critics blame…

central theme of these two poems is in essence based upon the same subject, the perspectives taken by the two authors are so immensely different that they demand an entirely different reaction from the reader. Both poems make use of symbolism to great effect. The use of birds in order symbolize concepts that are crucial to human existence is clear in both pieces. In the Raven Poe uses the imagery of the Raven to…

Heart Reef The Heart Reef, in the Great Barrier Reef, is a beautiful organisation of coral and rocks naturally formed into the shape of a heart. The reef was created by hundreds of years of dead coral building up in a massive, underwater stone wall, which has then grown algae and new coral, which reproduces, dies and grows year by year. The Heart Reef is a beautiful array of stunning coral formations, naturally shaped into a heart. Surrounded by bright blue, crystal clear water, the heart…