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Edna St. Vincent Millay’s works are complex packages to parcel through. A common theme found in her poetry is her sexual history, but one stands out more keenly than the rest of the selected readings. In her poem “I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently,” Millay subverts the conventional sonnet through her writing structure and her non-romantic narrative. First, we must examine the difference between the traditional sonnet and Millay’s unique flavor of sonnet. The traditional sonnet is a poem…

On June 12th, 2016 a 29 year old man killed 49 people and wounded another 58 in Orlando at a club because it wasn’t okay with people sexual orientation. In Portland, Oregon 2 men were stabbed to death trying to protect two women that were wearing hi-jabs. People see the government being racist towards Muslims (institutional racism) because al Queda or 9/11 and they assume it’s fine if they tag…

The enlightenment period in Europe was characterized by its emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism along with the belief that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy. (Often, a broad examination of ethics, politics, and society are seen established in the artistic works. Many beliefs of the enlightenment were based on questioning the legitimacy of ideas or values. One of the aspects of enlightenment that sets it apart from its predecessor the renaissance was the…

help of Shug she gained enough confidence to tell Abert she was leaving, “ You a lowdown dog is what’s wrong, I say. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.. Mr.____ reach over to slap me. I jab my case knife in his hand.” (199) She finally demonstrated actions of not having traditional gender role. More importantly, each day that passed, made her more conscious of why she left Albert. Celie wanted to be be independent, she began to…

quest for revenge. Through his showmanship Maximus is able to win the crowd’s support in his defiance of Commodus. His disrespect eventually grants him a fight with Commodus himself. He violently attacks him and at the end is able to defeat him with a jab to the throat. This allowed him to achieve his…

go the extra mile in saying "(the niggers) are the worst…I'm sick of you (niggers)"(1499). Likewise, to further add insult to injury, on the way home Johnson mistakenly perceives the (white) women's "announcement" of running out of coffee to be a jab of racial discrimination. Thus noting, "The girl looked passed him….tossing her head back a little" (1502) stating, "No more coffee for a while" (1502). Given these bold accounts of inflicted racial discrimination, Petry makes it easy for readers…

In Samuel Johnson’s, The Vanity of Human Wishes, he chooses to integrate satire into his poem to make fun at people’s desires, hopes, and dreams. Generally in his poem, Johnson pokes fun at everyone, not only for their imperfections, but also, for their inability to determine what is more important in society. The theme often demonstrated is the desire for power, for money, and for beauty, which creates corruption. Universally, everyone around the world is greedy, or has a desire for something…

I’m normally not one to talk about politics, but, well, this wasn’t a normal election. This presidential election was the first one that I, as a 21-year-old, was able to vote in, and you bet I exercised that right. I requested my absentee ballot, filled it out and overnight-ed it to my home state Florida, hoping that it would make a difference. Come Election Day, I flipped on CNN and vehemently watched the poll statistics pour in, only to find myself utterly shocked as Trump’s votes…

either. As I acted on each compulsion, I knew it was crazy to think this way, but I couldn’t stop. The best way to describe it is like having a religion. If I substituted OCD and my compulsions with Christianity and it’s traditions (no, this isn’t a jab at religion), it gets a little easier to understand. Why else do you go to Church every Sunday, say grace at your meals, and give up things for lent? Because it’s what God wants and if his will isn’t obeyed, then we won’t get into heaven. See…

Dhanush Venkatesh Mr.Christensen AP English, Period 7 10/7/15 King Lear Essay The origins of the creation of language have been lost in time, but we do know the overall purpose of it: to help us communicate with others and describe ideas, thoughts, feelings, and many other things. We often honor those who have a mastery over words as we feel that they are able to convey anything to another with clarity and detail. Writers such as Steinback, Dickens, Twain, and Tolstoy receive numerous amounts…