J. B. Priestley

During the play, an important discussion between Biff, Linda, and Happy occurs regarding the paternal alpha figure in the play, Willy. Prior to this discussion Willy displays himself as a hardworking, forgetful, and prided man. These traits begin to contradict each other which lead to this discussion about how Biff feels towards his father. There are many underlying factors that lead to why Willy has created this gossip between his kin, the concealment of the truth, and the solitude of Biff’s…

The novel The Woods by Harlan Coben is about a rising prosecutor named Paul Copeland, whose sister disappeared 20 years ago at their summer camp. When the body of the boy who also went missing that night is found with his body aged showing that he was only recently murdered, Paul believes that his sister might have also survived that night. Paul reunites with his old friend Lucy from the camp and tries to question her father, Ira owned the camp at that time to find answers. The author uses…

“ You need not be sorry for her. She was one of a kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls”. (J.M Barrie Peter Pan) My mother read me Peter Pan when I was younger and wanted to explain the importance of eventually growing up. She said that growing up is a scary thought for some people, and I am one of those people. The thought of having to take PSAT, SAT, and ACT stress me out, how am I supposed to do well on a test when I don't…

A fifteen year old with ADD, performing stand-up comedy, getting a job as a janitor, and dropping out of school just to support his family. A young boy with an intellect that became well known but with depression beyond no other. Both of these famous individuals started from nowhere, and are now everywhere including two life changing commencements. Many colleges have their valedictorian, a school administrator, or even a teacher address the graduates however, both Maharishi University of…

My idea of success is when you accomplish something that you’ve tried to complete for a long time. In the text, the author expresses how two different characters have two different ideas on what success is. The two characters are Biff and his father Willy. Towards the end of the text they began to bump heads due to this situation. In the text Willy feels that if you have money that means you’re successful because in his eyes the ultimate goal is to have money. He feels that his brother is a huge…

In the island town of Friday Harbor, Washington, kids were selling jellyfish to Osamu Shimomura for a penny apiece. The kids were an eclectic mix of locals, summer people, and the offspring of the scientists who had occupied the waterfront, but the jellyfish in their buckets were pretty much alike—formless, colorless blobs about the size of mice. They were blind and brainless, possessing only mouths, muscles, and weak stingers, and one more thing, of enormous interest to Shimomura—rims of…

The most fascinating thing about the word “courage” is the diversely different meaning it gives to different people. Courage has been interpreted through the years on many different avenues. Anyone who has ever dreamed, or strived to be something, could not achieve the end result without courage. Everyone is where they are in this world, because they had the courage to do so. The oxford english dictionary defines courage as “confidence, boldness” (OED.com), while Merriam webster's dictionary…

The Most Damaging Spy to Penetrate the FBI What would drive someone to betray his or her country and become the worst spy to ever penetrate the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)? Robert Hanssen had a loving family, great job, and respect from his peers. However, two years after starting at the FBI he began spying for other countries. No one suspected Robert Hanssen of being a traitor; he worked hard at his job, showed up early for work, and stayed late when he needed. Throughout all…

Images of war lingering in the mind of a soldier from WWII, for one with these thoughts it can be difficult to come back to society and live a normal life. J.D. Salinger writes about a young man by the name of Seymour Glass, who has returned from war and struggles to fit into society. In the short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” Seymour struggles in a life of alienation from society; a corrupt world with the lack of innocence. He tries to find innocence in this life and he holds on…

America in the 1960’s was an extremely important time for civil rights activists nationwide. The South was an especially difficult area for most activists to achieve much change and racist tendencies still remained alive in the minds of most native born white Americans. The movie Mississippi Burning attempts to convey the true story of the murder of three civil rights activists within Southern America during this time period but misses the mark on a few key ideas and important details.…