Herman Melville

He became the minister of a Boston parish in 1803. Cultured, eloquent, and a persuasive writer, he became famed throughout New England for his oratorical gifts and as a theologian. In seriousness of purpose and in purity of character, Channing represented the strength and virtue of the old Puritan stock. His portrait, presenting him in the conventional black gown of the clergyman with the white bands at the neck, shows a face highly intellectual and refined, with features delicate, spiritual,…

Years before Herman Melville crafted his famous novel, Moby Dick, Edgar Allan Poe published his very own novel which deals with sea exploration; it is titled, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Interestingly enough, Poe, himself, was not too happy with his novel, he describes to William E. Burton in a letter, that his novel is “a very silly book” (“Edgar Allan Poe to…”). Within the novel, Poe (or supposedly, Pym) writes about a long and tragic sea expedition, an expedition which at…

The high school I attended is in a suburban area where the majority of the students are African Americans and the majority of the teachers are white. My college prep teachers didn’t care about teaching because the students didn’t care about learning. Being a student that did actually care about learning I decided to take Advanced placement and honors classes. Since the majority of the students that took those types of classes were the minorities of the school; whites, Asians, and Indians. I…

The company changed the way it compensated employees. So, in the summer of 2001, Sandra quit. The company’s return policy gave their customers, refunds for any reason. As workers, our commission for doing the work was taken back, so there was always a subtraction on my paychecks for refunds. If you were counting on a $550 paycheck, but including refunds, your paycheck may go to $400, with taxes, $320. It was hard to plan a budget. I became the team’s photographer, so it became my team. I carried…

Literature Today (1990): 1-8. Literary Reference Center. Web. 8 Dec. 2016. Yvonne Fonteneau analyses the criticism history of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and its ties to famous authors of Ellison’s time, including Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, and William Faulkner. These authors recognize the novel’s direction towards a time in America’s past that plenty of other authors would have never described to the degree that Ellison achieves; the diction and imagery forces the reader…

EXILE LITERATURE: some variants M.V. Ramana Moorthy, Associate Professor Department of English, K.L.University, A.P Abstract: Exile literature has always attracted a lot of critical attention because of the poignant issues it raised. Particularly significant is the wide range of variants that the exile of the mind has and the creativity and innovations it sets into motion. Some authors were exiled or ostracized for…

Unit 1- Native Voices- “AH ZEBENYA!” The Native Voices unit was all about nature and how nature doesn’t depend on us and in fact nature can run us over and not be effected at all. In this unit we learned that although we would like to think that nature would have mercy on us but in reality nature stops for nothing. The natives truly understand that about nature so they immerse themselves into nature in order to further understand the dangers so they can avoid them. As we saw with the story of…

Toni Morrison (1931- ) inherits a unique ability to create layers of significant meanings in her works. Her creations are not only rich in themes but she also masters in creating dynamic plots. Apart from the many particular themes that apply to specific novels, Morrison also runs many common themes prevalent in American setup in her novels. By taking a closer look at some of these common themes-such as racial tension, sexism, alienation, classism etc-it is evident that Morrison is extremely…

Powderly William Graham Sumner John P. Altgeld Samuel Gompers What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century? 2) How did the huge industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy? 3) What was the effect of the new industrial revolution on American laborers, and how did various labor organizations attempt to respond to the new conditions? 4) The…