Graveyard

didn’t expect anything much from the cemetery, as my head was filled with one apprehension, “What am I going to write for my polished piece of prose?” I, in fact, have never planned to write about the trip. Given the opportunities to explore the vast graveyard, I decided to turn left and vectored toward the quietest part of the cemetery, which also appeared to be the hottest due to the absent of shades. I continued walking, attempting not to deviate too much from the rivulets of roads, while the…

a power grab by the elite, incorporating equality and utopia content as an inducement. This is progressivism, this is European Union progressivism in action and this is how it 's achieved, previously producing a 20th century Europe resembling a graveyard. Progressivism and its reliance on creating a utopia based on eugenics and racial theories is where Hitler got many of his ideas. In today’s society, think 1% political elite, corporatism, international bankers and what looks like the…

Poems frequently use words that can have multiple different meanings to provide readers with various ways to understand the poem. When only looking at the basic definition of a word it does not allow the reader to completely grasp all of the ideas represented in the poem. In the poem “because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, the word death has numerous meanings that provide the readers with insight into the intended meaning of the poem itself. To thoroughly understand the use of…

(Dashner 79). When someone reads this, the boy collapsing to the ground is the last thing anyone would’ve expected to happen, but that is why Dashner did it, to make one feel unsure of what is going to happen next. The next sentence takes place in the graveyard when Thomas is with nobody else, or so he thought… “He saw only a flash of pale skin and enormous eyes-the haunted image of an apparition-and cried out, tried to run, but it was to late. The figure leaped into the air and was on top of…

Former US poet laureate Billy Collins has made his mark on modern poetry. Addressing topics from pears to poetry itself, Collins’ unique writing style helps his poems become more relatable to most readers. Like many modern poets, Collins writes in free verse, eliminating formal structure and allowing creativity to blend in to every line. In his poems “Budapest”, and “The Dead”, Collins uses various poetic devices to create meaning for the reader. YouTube animators Julian Grey and Juan Delcan…

Not only was there smokers dying, but other people that did not smoke caught second-hand smoke and end up in the hospital or in a graveyard. ‘’Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable and premature death, killing an estimated 443,000 Americans each year. Cigarette smoking costs the nation $96 billion in direct medical costs and $97 billion in lost productivity annually. In addition…

The Enforcement of the Fictional Pact. The question remains whether the author´s offer a fictional pact for No Advantages? How can the author´s notion of story-likeness be understood? Seeing that, according to Munro fictionality constitutes literariness, story-likeness might be connected to fictionality. To answer these questions, I will now focus on the narratives that seem to resemble stories. The narrator inserts three stories about or related to her ancestors, namely William Laidlaw (Munro…

World War I: The Graveyard for People and Values The Great War was a dreadful experience for many people that put Victorian values six feet under. The war experience exploded the generation’s faith in cultural and social institutions of the 19th century. I will demonstrate how World War I poems stretched beyond the trenches into the souls and bones of the Europeans and their civilizations. This experience will directly reflect T.S. Eliot’s postwar epic poem, “Wasteland” that showed the…

“Haunting Olivia” depicts two brothers searching for tangible evidence of their disappeared sister, Olivia. The brothers struggle to answer the question: at what point can one let go without feeling guilty? During the explorations of Gannon’s Boat Graveyard and the Glowworm Grotto, Timothy and his older brother, Wallow, stand on opposite ends of the spectrum of guilt. On one end, Wallow will not cease his quest until he is able to tell his sister that he is sorry and can find some sort of…

In “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn--Also known as Huck or Huck Finn-- go to the graveyard one night to go see the Devil come get Hoss Williams body so Huck can try a superstition. While they were there Huck and Tom witness a grave robbery that involved Doc Robinson--A young doctor needing a body-- Muff Potter--A town drunkard-- and Injun Joe--Half indian half white--robbing the grave of Hoss Williams. When Potter and Injun Joe wanted more money and the doc…