In Bloom

demonstrates granny’s mental wobbliness from the starting point to the finish effect as the cause of her death.” Granny Weatherall emerges as a salty-tongued, independent old woman, who refuses until the very end to give up her right to self determination” (Bloom 99). Granny is unable to cooperate with the doctor. Hallucinations tamper granny’s views of reality and the author describes a lucid image of her thoughts. The word in the title itself “Jitling” sparks and describes her…

with them when emigrating. These men were all of the Irish-Catholic descent and claimed to follow the religion, they opened the meetings with prayer. Then when they had finished praying, immediately began to discuss the murder agenda for the week (Bloom). Unfortunately for the Mollies, the American Catholic Church outlawed secret societies making the Mollies a disgrace to Catholicism. Archbishop James Frederick Wood had an extreme view on the Mollies stating that the society as a “society…

There are many different themes in these four stories. First, I will be talking about the theme of brotherly love. Brotherly love has some of the characteristics of loyalty, respect, courage, honor and mercy and concern for that other person. It’s not the kind of love you have towards your wife, but the kind you would have towards your closest friends, or your father. You can see these characteristics in each story, with almost all of them apparent in Beowulf between himself and his men. Between…

In today’s society many people only care about fame and money instead of having moral principles. Watching the film Nightcrawler portrays how modern day media is covered because in the film it shows behind the scenes of how producers react when going on live and what is the process behind when purchasing a video from any type of video company. In the film the main point being made is how technology has changed the news industry and how producers only want the views. News stations such as Fox…

This is evident specifically in lines, “Bloom, O ye amaranths! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!”(Coleridge). This expression of unsuccessfulness and victimization relates to the speakers feelings of entrapment in the proletariat class and his never ending cycle of work and lack of fruitfulness…

The pollution from the fertilisers cause algae blooms to form. Another way that humans have affected the environment is through the use of irrigation for crops. The use of irrigation causes the salinity levels in the Murray-Darling Basin to rise. The abnormal salinity levels make it harder for natural plants around the basin to grow, as well as making it harder for farmers to grow their crops. The Murray-Darling Basin also has economic…

Introduction: The great American author, Jack London, wrote many novels and short stories, but his writing was heavily affected by his adventurous life. The early life of Jack London played a huge role in his writing. Jack, through rough times, found reading as a way to get through the tough times. 1. Jack’s reading led him to becoming a reader that studied and focused on the text. He wanted to understand what he was reading, not just having fun while reading. He wrote, [I] was an…

Stretching a total of about 3,964 miles, the Yangtze River has played a considerable role in the lives of Chinese citizens for thousands of years. Along with serving as a major form of water transportation and trading, Asia’s longest river is considered a key role in China’s agriculture and economic system. Where the river runs through Sandouping, one would find the Three Gorges Dam—the largest, and possibly the most infamous, dam in the world. Even though the Chinese government had intentions…

As demonstrated by psychologist Abraham Maslow, it is impossible for one to achieve a higher level of human prosperity if basic human needs remain unfulfilled. Maslow is memorialized for his creation of a structured model known as the hierarchy of needs. It models individual’s growth, beginning at basic human needs and moving upwards towards esteem, belonging, ego, and eventually self-actualization. Maslow once wrote, “[i]f the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick…

careless as she was. This woman was Daisy Buchanan. Daisy portrayed a character who was torn between her husband and her former lover. To Gatsby, marrying Daisy would give him the ability to fulfill the American Dream, moving up in social class. Harold Bloom notes in his critical article on The Great Gatsby, “Whatever the American Dream has become, its truest representation remains Jay Gatsby.” (5) Overall, in…