As I Lay Dying

Police brutality Police brutality has been a rising issue for what seems like forever. Every day we have adults and children dying due to the excessive force that some police officers use. The issue with police brutality is that we have less officers serving and protecting and more officers breaking the law. The imbalance in the justice system is ridiculous. Are police departments letting this type of ruthless behavior slide? This is an important issue for society because the police…

Phillip says to him “I want to be your friend” (pg 72) and acknowledges in his head that he began to change that day. By this point, because he is now blind, Phillip has become reliant on Timothy; “I did not want to think of the possibility of Timothy dying” (pg 81). Phillip has now accepted Timothy as a friend, but has realized how much he needs him in order to…

happen. When I was young I went through a traumatic experience when my grandmother died and since then I was scared of dying.im scared of death because I don’t know what going to happen after I die. This myth relates to my theme because it talks about death and finding a way for dealing with dying. According to my assumption that I believe that I won’t be able get over death because of what happened to me. I still believe in this I can’t undo what happened ten years ago but I did learn that I…

Israelites or the Aryans and Dravidians of the subcontinent, worshipped and feared gods they had never seen, yet their trust and faith lay in those gods that they shaped with their own hands, the carved images of gods, their faith in these gods, like the golden calf, had been far deep than the faith the Israelites had in the God of Moses, the God who said “I am who I am.” It makes me wonder the…

Deciding on whether Beowulf is flawed or is fundamentally good is a decision that has many possible answers, and mostly is not able to be decided fully upon. I believe Beowulf may have begun fighting as a reason to do good, but once he realized how much praise and fortune he would receive from the fights, he began to risk himself time and time again simply for the glory. It seems he may be blinded from this truth, however, since he believes himself to be the only hope of winning, specifically…

The figurative language so artfully embedded in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” furthers the at times almost tangible sense of the passing of time as the speaker lays out his story as if he were setting the table for a meal. One such instance presents itself when, in the first stanza, the speaker unceremoniously lays out the initial setting, saying, “When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table” (2-3). This simile places the poem in a peaceful…

Hurst of Hurstcote E. Nesbit’s short story, “Hurst of Hurstcote”, is an eerie tale that takes place in England. The short story had a confusing start, but the further I got into it, the more it started to make sense. The narrator, Bernard, tells the story of his old friend John Hurst, who would later become John Hurst of Hurstcote, the owner of one of the nicest mansions in England. John attended Oxford and was not particularly popular with the other guys because of his strange infatuation with…

Miller writes, “Hathorne: And the name of this man? Giles: Why, I - I cannot give you his name. Hathorne: And why not? Giles: You know well why not! He’ll lay in jail if I give his name! Danforth: In that case, I have no choice but to arrest you for contempt of this court, do you know that? … Elizabeth: Giles is dead, great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. ‘More weight,’ he says and died”…

situation actually went, rather than reading bullet points of facts on a PowerPoint slide. Poems give the reader visuals by having comparisons and detailed adjectives. A main event that is frequently brought up and taught in History classes is World War I. You know all of the facts about how many people died and where it happened, but you do not get a true understanding of it until you watch the film from 1930, All Quiet on the Western Front. The poems “Break of Day in…

the Dying Negro’s representation in Day and Bicknell’s poem, Olaudah Equiano casts himself as the sentimental hero in his Interesting Narrative. Mark Stein, in his article, ‘Who’s Afraid of Cannibals? Some Uses of the Cannibalism Trope in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative’, remarks that ‘The Interesting Narrative can be read in the context of an array of genres: autobiography, spiritual, travelogue, testimonial/confession, ethnography, and economic treatise among them’. For this paper, I…