Jill Ireland

Home is a very broad topic for an essay, but not as broad for me. I have lived in the same house in Cary since I was born in 1996. I have never been out of the country and the longest that I have been out of the Raleigh area is a week. Kind of dull, but living in one place my whole life really solidifies what I call home. When I move out it will be harder to call my new house home. There are significant characteristics and people that make my home special which are my family, my friends, and the…

Although he first proclaimed to be from Ireland, he later changed his identity and boasted that he is from Formosa, where almost no one had a single piece of knowledge about its culture, language, and ways of life. Although he surely had a look that did not resemble that of an Asian man but that…

During the Neoclassicism movement, writers immensely based their work on those of ancient Rome and Greek, emulating what they saw as restriction, reasoning, and dignity of classical literature. Jonathan Swift’s satirical essay, “A Modest Proposal” draws attention to Ireland’s problems by advising the poor Irish people to sell their children as food to decrease poverty and overpopulation. Fanny Burney’s diary, An Encounter with “King George III” recounts an undesirable meeting with the king, and…

The long June nightfall blurred into night. Dublin lay wrapped in haziness yet for the diminish light of the moon that shone through warm mists, giving a pale light a role as of moving toward sunrise over the avenues and the dull waters of the Liffey. Around the ambushed Four Courts the overwhelming weapons thundered. All over through the city, assault rifles and rifles ended the hush of the night, uncontrollably, similar to pooches yapping on solitary ranches. Republicans and Free Staters were…

Home. A home is not always a building, sometimes it is a person or a feeling that makes a person feel warmth within themselves. Toni Morrison’s (Beloved) uses plot and style to demonstrate to us that a place we might call a house is no the same place where we might feel at home. Throughout the life story of Sethe in the book Beloved, Morrison demonstrates how it is that even if anyone has lived in the same place for many years it may never feel like home but just a house. In the beginning…

In his satirical piece, A Modest Proposal, Dr. Jonathon Swift’s use of pathos demonstrates that civil neglect has debilitating effects on the poor in Ireland. Swift uses reduction to convey the degraded value of human life. Swift proposes that “the skin [of a child...] will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen” (I. 94-96). Since poor children are an eyesore to the upper class in the streets begging for food and money, Swift proposes that these children should be…

Scotland has a great variety of landscapes for its size. “The landscapes of Scotland include towns, countryside, hills, glens and coasts with the human and cultural aspects of place and history” (Landscape Variety in Scotland. n.d). The cultural dimensions of Scotland’s landscape are widespread and variable. This is due to modern period designs being imposed on patterns of older use. For instance, there is an old field system on the edge of Edinburgh which is now also a golf course. Each part of…

It was a day like any other day so the three brothers started to build their houses and the firstlittle pig built his house out of straw so he could have more time to play.The second little pig did the same except he builthis house out of tree branches or logs and went to play with his brother. The third little pig was smarterand a hard worker so he built his house out of bricks.The next day was pretty much the same but around lunch time the two little pigs whereplaying outside when all of a…

The Tale of The Rainbow Once upon a time, there were rainbows all around Ireland and people used to come from all over to see their beauty. The rainbows stayed there for a long time, and people lost fascination in them. However, one boy whose name was Daniel, lived in a village above the rainbows, came to see the rainbows every day after school. For years these rainbows stood tall like giants for years, until a rumor surfaced that at the end of the rainbow, there were pots of gold! Daniel’s…

The word home can have many different meanings depending on the person. To me, it used to mean the place where I was raised. It was where my parents brought me home from the hospital as a newborn and where I grew up, developed, and felt most like myself. But the word home lost this meaning for me, after my house went into foreclosure. Now the only meaning that home has is that it is just the place where I reside. There is no replacing my old home with any other; it was mine. After moving, my new…