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When I began to read Kate Chopin’s short story “The Locket” I thought it was going to be another predictable boring story with a sad ending. I imagined Edmond dying a horrible death while defending his country at war. A war he whose causes he didn’t want to fight for. Instead Edmund was longing to be with the love of his life Octavia. He dreamed of a home, family and perhaps career with her. His dreams were of the perfect American dream. These dreams made him homesick and hate war an all…

When asked to write about my visions for America it is hard to put just a few of the many things you wish to see change for the better in our beloved nation. My visions for America entails three key components: Peace, safety, and equal opportunities. Peace is a major vision of mine when it comes to make America better. Today we have so much hate and violence that covers up the good in America. Shootings, war, bullying, and terrorist, it is sad to see the way America is heading. My vision for…

In this poem the speaker talks about taking a stroll in the evening, gazing upon the crowds of people and hearing a lover sing to his beloved about how his love for her will never end, but then he imagines that the clocks start responding to the lover’s words. The clocks respond to the lover with contradiction by suggesting that love will end at some point because life ends. The lover’s tone appears optimistic, but the clocks’ tone contradicts the lover with words expressing candid cynicism. The…

In the short stories “Gwilan’s Harp” by Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Washwoman” by Isaac Singer, and “The Last Leaf” each character experiences loss. Either by losing a loved one or losing something dear to their hearts. In “Gwilian’s Harp”, Gwilians beloved husband dies which crushes his wife heart but the story ends with a redemption theme. In “The Washwoman,” the washwoman also died which results in the sadness of many families whom loved the washwoman. Yet the death of the dedicated woman impacted…

friend. “They were never meant to help tuck messy emotions into neat packages” (Kubler-Ross 2014, pg. 2. However, each of these stages are actually a necessity for people to get over a death. People have many responses with grieving the loss of a beloved family member or friend. And there is actually no predictable way of how someone will go through each stage. For instance, if a loved one is killed in an African American community from a tragic gunshot wound. People in that community might…

How Religion Changed the Slaves Since Europeans began bringing black slaves and indentured servants to the colonies, they have begun to tear away foundations that connected blacks to their African heritage. As slavery progressed, “Negroes” were forced to adopt European religion and were mocked for their own religious foundations as being witchcraft and primitive. These changes have continually affected the foundation of spirituality in Negroes, which continues to plague the black…

the prominent lovers, Phaedrus moves along the right lines when he reasons for love to be a teacher, but fails to understand the true meaning of love when he stays fixated on the concept of solely loving one other person (178E-179B). Likewise, as a beloved, Agathon fails to understand the concept of love because he is so focused on the idea that love is something young and eternally beautiful, simply “an ornament of all gods and men” (197E). The speakers at the symposium fail in climbing the…

Harry Hooks interpretation of the beloved novel Lord of the Flies, is not what viewers would expect after reading the famous novel created by William Golding, the film appears to be anticlimactic. The book sets the storyline after a tragedy of a plane crash sending many boys to inhabit a small island, the boys have to fight for survival, liberty and above all Hope. This not easy as the book so openly expresses. After one has read the novel, they go to watch the movie unexpectedly finding out…

was shocked and angry. I couldn't believe that they would take such a beloved story from my childhood and ruin it! But I also heard reports that there was nothing wrong with it. So Mitch and I went to see it last night and here is my report. If the director thinks he made a shining moment for the gay history, he's mistaken. This is not a look gay people are normal movie. It just isn't. The new movie follows the beloved cartoon almost word for word and scene for scene. There were some…

Troy’s beloved Hector has fallen to the hands of Achilles, and his body is now under the control of his killer. Hector’s father, Prium, goes to Achilles’ tent to ransom the body of his prized son in order to have him return to Troy to grieve his death properly. Prium shows an abundance of courage and distress in the scene when he visits Achilles’ tent. Prium, king of Troy, exemplifies great courage to go near his sons’ killer. As soon as he enters Achilles’ tent, Prium “stood close to…