Cliff Lee

Two Gender Styles For decades, researchers have concluded that women and men have different forms of acting, thinking, and even communicating. Due to the differences in their behavior men and women usually do or say things that disappoints their partner. In occasions a simple misinterpretation of a response can make a person feel bad. Could it be that men and women express their words differently? Or does the communication style make men and women to decode the response differently? In what…

A young boy named Tim was running away from home on a cold night because he wanted to see what life would be like at a young age like him. Without his parents even noticing he jumped out of the window and ran into the woods and he walked into these big cities and towns. Keep on reading and you will hear the whole story. Tim was born on July 21,1861. When he was 4 years old his dad told him how to run,play baseball,and told him how to walk. When his dad told him all of these things,Tim told…

Within the Jamaican society music plays an integral role in the shaping of the everyday lives of most individuals. It is through this medium that some individuals are able share their day to day experiences. In Jamaica there is a strong bond with music and film; some film directors started their career with directing music videos before making their debut on the big screen and as such music becomes the background on which many scripts are created. There is a long history with the Jamaican…

"After sitting at the same desk for three years I figured I was beyond seeing anything new. I was wrong." I was wrong because I made a decision that definitely wasn't the right one.... One late night about two years ago I was out walking around thinking about life. That's when I heard someone whisper my name. When I didn't hear it again, I went to go look where it came from. It came from the very dark, very creepy alley that gives me the shivers. I didn't want…

A commotion in the hall startled Saban. He opened his eyes and sat up on the cot confused by the unrecognizable surroundings. A dim light seeped into the dark room through cracks in the wooden door. On his way to the door, he stumbled into Elisaveta’s cot jarring her awake. He opened the door, peered down the hall, and shuffled toward the sounds. A hand touched his shoulder. Turning, he saw Elisaveta. She smiled, and he took her hand as they walked toward the activity. Four people had gathered…

In the poem, “Annabel Lee,” Edgar Allan Poe utilizes repetitive structure to reinforce the importance of a woman to an unnamed narrator, and specifically how it influenced him to the point of looking to an exposition for justification of his love’s mortality. Intricate usage of stylistic elements including symbolism, rhyme, and a specific point-of-view further relate the consistency within the poem’s structure to the narrator’s obsession with Annabel Lee. Poe references motifs, secondary…

Killing Innocent with Fear “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” (Mark Twain) Humans live in fear every day, fear in the littlest things from spiders and ants, to big things like cliffs, but in the book To Kill a Mockingbird the people in Maycomb fear difference. They don’t want people to look different, sound different or even think different from them, because they are afraid of what will happen, if they accept it. Maycomb should not be afraid of anything but…

after routing the Union Army of Virginia under Major General John Pope, General Lee led his own Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac into Maryland. Reasons for this assault included taking strain off the Shenandoah Valley which was referred to as” The Breadbasket of the Confederacy” during the harvest time. Believing the directed Union Army would require necessary time to rebuild after the difficult conflict, Lee took the courageous step of separating his own army and sending portions to…

really gives us any details about Annabel Lee herself; she doesn’t talk and we don’t really know what she looks like so this allows the reader to characterize Annabel Lee however they see fit. Also, this could be the poet’s way of showing that she is perfect in his eyes and is made of pure beauty. Annabel Lee is first mentioned in line 4 when the poet refers to her as a “maiden,” which almost makes her sound like fairy tale character. He mentions Annabel Lee again in lines 25-26 saying. “That…

surroundings, and is a critical factor to determine their personal beliefs. If an individual can look at a situation in an unorthodox perspective, their position can be altered. This concept is presented in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel, Lee displays varying perspectives on a court case between a black man and a white family. Atticus Finch, the lawyer appointed to the case, changed the perspectives and beliefs of individuals regarding equality, by getting them to look past the…