As I Lay Dying

rap artists, such as Cross Movement, whose music is free of negativity. However, according to Science Daily, the drug references in rap songs have increased greatly between 1979 and 2008. (www.sciencedaily.com) In some of his songs, such as I Feel Like Dying and Kush, Lil Wayne raps about drugs and how he feels while using them. He does not discourage the use of drugs and, in fact, praises the illegal substances. His message is heard by millions of impressionable black adolescents who are…

the plague that Mercutio set on the two house preventing, Romeo from receiving the message. Now their fate is in the final stage because they just have to die. Their desperate attempt to change their fate ended in tragedy as they both still end up dying, Romeo and Juliet. Although society may have a part in the play being married at a young age and feuding families, but that doesn’t have to affect them. They don’t have to give into the peer pressure of the 16th century of marriage. They could’ve…

in the faint freckles up and down my arm. I take a deep breath as she brings the syringe , filled with the "magical" bring purple serum, closer and closer to my skin. I clench my jaw as I feel the needle pierce my skin while the serum is injected into me. When I hear the sound of the syringe being placed onto a tray I turn to face the nurse who instantly says, "That 's…

just dying as it is in general. Nearly every night I would sleep on my pillow of tears with a fully loaded army of morbid thoughts bombarding my bedtime as a child. Thoughts that one day I would no longer see the sunrise anew, I will stop breathing this air, no longer walk the streets in this world, and people will forget who I was, unless I made it into the history textbooks at school. The notion that my days alive will end and the hourglass will let down the last grains of sand to my life. I…

Dreaming about World War I ‘Pale Horse Pale Rider’ is a fictional retelling of Katherine Porter’s own experience as an influenza survivor during World War I. Porter does so in the form of a reporter, Miranda, and chronicles a month in her life, as she enjoys a romance with Adam Barclay, a young Army officer, until she becomes a victim of influenza. Adam nurses her, and before she fully recovers, he has to return to his unit, unknowingly carrying with the virus that ultimately causes his demise.…

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other – outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for (Leguin). This quote is best to describe the attitudes displayed in several of the writings that we have covered in this class. When we look at Irving, Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe’s writings we can clearly see men who were concerned with their needs and desires above anyone else…

provided inspiration to one of William Wordsworth’s greatest poems. The structure, now in ruins, lay swaddled by the nature that surrounded it. He states that he hadn’t been to visit the abbey in five years, however, quotes that “These beauteous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me as is a landscape to a blind man’s eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din of towns and cities, I have owed to them, in hours of weariness, sensations sweet, felt in the blood, and felt along the…

When he died, Kane dropped a snow globe that shattered when it hit the ground. The snow globe had inside a little house covered in snow, just like the scene of Kane’s childhood home when he was taken away by the bank. Along with this memory, Kane’s dying word was “Rosebud”, the name of his childhood sled he had been riding that same day. He had carried these memories throughout his whole life, demonstrating his attempts to hold onto his childhood disregarding what was happening in his life…

gullible nature, and Laertes love for his sister all led to their own demise. In this fencing scene, Laertes duels Hamlet and wounds himself with the poisoned blade. Laertes lays dying and reveals to Hamlet, “The treacherous instrument is in hand, unbated and envenomed. The foul practice Hath turned itself on me. Lo, here I lie, Never to rise again”(5.2.347-350). Although Laertes killed Hamlet, Polonius’ murderer, he did so at the cost of his own…

Who truly is the best American? It’s surely a tough question to answer, considering there’s so much debate about the topic, but I feel compelled to say Billie Holiday. First of all, Holiday made a plethora of contributions to society and the way we look at each other. She was a fascinating black role model despite her flaws and an abundance of vices. Her stance on prohibition also aided in it being repealed. She expressed her disdain for racism boldly with her music. In addition to these factors…