It Was Written

The Middle Ages also more commonly known as the Dark Age was a period in time that lasted for a thousand years starting sometime the fifth and officially ending all the way in the fifteenth century. This period in time is mostly characterized in modern day by subjects such as the black plague, the hundred years war, tales of brave knights, rigid class systems and heavy religious influences. As the fourteenth century came about there began to be a gradual transition into what would be known as…

A Room of One’s Own is an essay written by Virginia Woolf exploring women’s roles as writers as well as characters in stories. The essay is based on her lectures given at at Newnham College and Girton College. The main theme concerning A Room of One’s Own is that of analyzing women’s role in society such as their accessibility to education or labor and how women are portrayed in fiction. She makes the point that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" which is…

spite of both being written about death and a big difference is the fact that the tone in Do not go gentle into that good night is stubborn and give a person a feeling of control over death and the tone in The Unknown Citizen is matter of fact, giving the sense that people have no control over death. Do not go gentle into that good night is written in the format of a villanelle with a very specific structure giving the reader a sense of safety and The Unknown Citizen is written in free verse…

Judith Kegan Gardiner writes in On Female Identity and Writing by Women that “[f]emale identity is a process and writing by women engages us in this process as the female seeks to define itself in the experience of creating art” (361). Elaine Showalter takes the case further in her discussion of gender differences in determining “whether sex differences in language use can be theorized in terms of biology, socialization, and culture; whether women can create new languages of their own; [and]…

religious beliefs or a faith. The Apostle’s Creed is used in Christianity as the basic belief system. Furthermore, the basic system for beliefs for Christianity is written in the Apostles Creed. The Apostles Creed says “I believe in the Holy Ghost... The forgiveness of sins. The resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.…

and balances on ministers in office”. A written constitution would provide a higher form of law and a constitutional court, meaning the Prime Minister and the cabinet would not hold whole domination of the legal system. A written constitution…

comparison between two poems written by Robert Frost. The two poems are “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowing Evening.” “The Road Not Taken” was about the author who was walking in the woods one morning and there were two roads and they looked exactly the same so he just took one and the road looked like it hasn’t been walked on in awhile and because him taking that path, it changed his life. “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowing Evening” was about this man who was riding on…

different views (Elwell and Yarbrough 94). Each gospel was written from four people, therefore four perspectives. Matthew is the story of Jesus, King of the Jews. This Gospel is written primarily for a Christian Jewish audience. Matthew dwells on Christ's fulfillment of Moses' laws and fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies. Matthew was also intentional in the language he used. He wrote in Messianic language such as "Son of David.” "The crowd was amazed and asked, "Could it be that Jesus is…

stood out the most for me was when I was a sophomore in High School. There was a girl in my class who I wasn't so fond of who one day decided to announce to everyone that she had begun to write her own stories. She showed everyone pieces of her writings expecting to get nothing but compliments and be to deemed the class writer, but when she finally showed me her work I cringed at how deplorable it was. The stories had no clear perspective of whether it was written in first person or…

The Butter Battle Book written by Theodor Geisel or better known as Dr. Seuss. Though this book of rivalry towns seems to be the main idea, there is an underlying political event this is based off of. This children’s book is written about the Zooks and the Yooks, two rival towns representing the USSR and the United States of America in the Cold War. Dr. Suess effectively persuades his readers of The Butter Battle Book is about the Cold War. Throughout the book, the point of view is a child who…