Carlos Castillo Armas

Yvonne De Carlo once said “I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.” Margaret Yvonne De Carlo was born on September 1st, 1922, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her parents were William Middleton and Marie De Carlo. When Yvonne was three years old her father had abandoned her and her family, which drove her mother to pick up extra jobs as a waitress to make ends meet. Since she was Marie´s only child, she wanted her daughter to have a career in entertainment, so…

In the short story “The Use of Force,” by William Carlos Williams, a doctor narrates his visit to the Olson Family whose daughter, Mathilda, may be sick with diphtheria. The doctor explains that he is trying to be nice to Mathilda, but seeing that she refuses to let him examine her he asks the parents to consent to a forceful method. Eventually, he uses excessive force to get the diagnosis. Are his actions justifiable? Given that Mathilda is finally revealed to have diphtheria and the doctor’s…

transcendental thoughts and moving word choices to bring a sense of motivation for his readers aswell. Over time, many of Walt Whitman’s pieces of literature have influenced numerous writers and poets in the past century. For example, poets like William Carlos Williams and Hart…

The Spanish siege of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán is largely known today because of the written reports by of those who witnessed it. In 1521 the Spanish took over the capital city of Tenochtitlán, resulting in the ultimate demise of the Triple Alliance. Versions of this historical event tend to vary due to the array of perspectives involved. For instance, whereas Spanish solider Bernal Diaz wrote his personal account The conquest of New Spain, multiple Aztec informants, including Aztec…

Sports Tourism: 2017 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters Sports tourism is a growing and worthwhile field that allows spectators to either watch or actively participate in their favorite sport. For tennis fans, one of the ultimate experiences is spectating the 2017 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. In order to fulfill the wishes of many tennis fans, a sports tourism organization named Destination Tennis has agreed to take 10 tennis spectators to this tournament. To do so, Destination Tennis must have a clear…

For the purpose of this paper, two poems will be compared and analyzed. The first poem is about the emergence of plants from winter into spring called “Spring and All”. This poem is written by William Carlos Williams. The second poem is one speaking of the transition from autumn to winter, written by Archibald Lampman titled “Winter-Solitude”. First lets compare the form of both poems, starting with “Spring and All”. This poem consists of 27 lines organized into seven stanzas. The first stanza…

memories in a vain hope that they will not resurface. Exposing the open wounds of memory and extracting moments from the past bring with it the former pain and anguish. In the most dire cases, even the promise of death is more alluring. In William Carlos Williams’ “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”, a despondent woman yearns to escape the clutches of her past memories. In her final confession, we learn that she wishes to succumb to her depression by “fall[ing] into those flowers and sink[ing]…

Noof Ahmed Ms. Messer Honors ENG11C October 15, 2017 “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost Robert frost is a male writer who wrote “The Road Not Taken”. He was from America, born in San Francisco, California. He was the only American writer in his time. His passion in high school was writing .Robert was an intelligent guy. For collage he was studying in Harvard University but then dropped out, to help his mother in things like teaching. After collage he moved to England where he wrote…

Authors may use other literary works as a backdrop to help show a message or theme of their own works. In the works “Musee des Beaux Arts,” “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus,” and “To A Friend Whose Work has Come to Triumph,” the authors use the myth of Icarus and Daedalus as this backdrop. Auden, Williams, and Sexton use the myth of Icarus as comparisons in their poems, but for different reasons. The authors, Auden, Williams, and Sexton, allude to this myth in their poems to either show…

There seems to always be big important people in everything. For example, these people exist in sports, businesses, and even poetry. The American poet, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), was one of the four major American poets or in other words, one of the big guys. Williams always loved literature; however, he went to medical school in hopes of becoming a physician. Despite his schooling, Williams still enjoyed writing. With his love of writing and physician degree, he really had a huge…