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An essay on Michael Jackson's moth collection To delve deeply into Michael Jackson's moth collection is an exciting adventure. At first glance Michael Jackson's moth collection may seem unenchanting, however its study is a necessity for any one wishing to intellectually advance beyond their childhood. While much has been written on its influence on contemporary living, it is impossible to overestimate its impact on modern thought. Crossing many cultural barriers it still draws remarks such as 'I…

I was impressed when I read Closer. Unlike the previous plays, this one features multiple locations, and that makes the story feel more realistic. In our last discussion, when we were talking about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, I remember somebody bringing up the fact that the film version had Honey passed out inside a car, while the play had her in the house bathroom. Considering that this scene is the one where Nick and Martha try to have sex, it makes more sense to have Honey (Nick’s wife)…

In Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own,” she creates Judith, a fictional character who is the sister of William Shakespeare. There are challenges Woolf claimed that she would have experienced in her lifetime, and also believes that women from the Elizabethan era did not write. For this assignment, specific examples from the essay will be discussed. First, Woolf describes many challenges women would have faced during the Elizabethan era. For one, not much is known about them. “They…

Our teams choose and watched Remember the Titans (drama) and Guess Who (comedy). Both movies have great examples of intercultural communications. In Remember the Titans, was made in 2000 and is based on a true story of an all-white school that is racially integrated with African American coaches and players. Boone played by Denzel Washington took over as head coach. He knew that in order for the team to success that they must put their racial conflict aside and work together to become a winning…

The Buffalo Creek Disaster is a book by Gerald M Stern, about how the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal-mining company. The book … by Gerald M. Stern is about a disaster that happened in 1976 …The book was review by prominent persons search as the former President of the United States who termed it as “A shocking, timely book”. Also, The New York Times Book Review talked of the book as “a fascinating tale of how investigative lawyers…

The Latin-derived term horror vacui translates to “fear of emptiness.” Within literature, the utilization of horror vacui elucidates the human desire to maintain a grasp on the material world in times of adversity or turbulence. In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, this fear of existential emptiness is manifested into the characters’ own materialist strategies to cope with it. Whether it be through the accumulation of…

Standing Here Ironing in My New Dress As a single parent children have different meaning for standing when it comes to being discipline by their parents. To us standing is shrieking up to be heard for the children they shriek down to heard. What I’m trying to say is if we do not take control in our children’s life style how are we to know when they or shrieking up or down. Sometimes one have to take the time out and explain to your children why these situation occurs even if it is bad on our…

Writer, Virginia Woolf, in her speech, “Professions for women,” discusses the controversial topic of women in jobs, and argues that women are taken for granted in the workplace. She explains her job as a writer, leading her audience to believe it was an easy profession to acquire. Woolfe then turns around and lists difficulties she had when she first started out. She speaks with a condescending, stuck up tone at the beginning of the speech, but later transitions into a vulnerable tone, to allow…

. The reader learns immediately from Louis, another outlier, that “…Bernard, Neville, Jinny, and Susan (but not Rhoda) skim the flower beds with their nets” (Woolf 6). Woolf’s use of a parenthetical statement, which interjects a modifier into the sentence, emphasizes Rhoda’s absence from the activity. In addition, Louis’s statement about Rhoda and her lack of participation in the butterfly catching is the first external description the reader has of her as a character. By making this initial…

The United States has always been a nation that has been segregated. The Nation was founded on segregation and has long remained a part of its history. Especially during the Antebellum Period, the United States were not as united as one would think. Sure, each of the states that existed in that period were united as one whole country. However, each state instead, based on its location, was more segregated than ever. The states became victims of sectionalism which was how the division…