Journey to the West

In 1942, he sailed the ocean blue with the Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. Columbus set sailed from Spain and planned to make it to Asia because he’s heard that’s where all the gold and spices are, but landed west of his intended location. He was actually…

In The Odyssey by Homer, a Greek warrior named Odysseus must fight his way home through the many obstacles that come up in his journey home. He visits many islands, and some of those islands have creatures, and other things wanting to harm him and his men, two gods, Poseidon and Aeolus, put curses on them. Even though Odyssous had many bumps on his road home to Ithaca, he eventually made it back. In The Odyssey, Odysseus is considered a weak hero. He lets his pride get in the way of what is…

his world, the story of The Man in Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road contributed to the birth of the ever-growing post-apocalyptic genre. Set in a time where the world is a place of depravity, The Man and The Boy are the two glimmers of hope. The journey down the perilous road to their idea of salvation inspired not only the other in the novel, but a large quantity of analysis, ranging from scholarly scrutiny of its effect in the history of literature, as well as its allusions in popular culture…

Going to West Ithaca High School has taught me various things about the Greek Culture. The great hero, Odysseus, has also taught me many lessons through his example. The Odyssey teaches about hospitality, patience, and vengeance. Being welcoming and a good host is important to the Greeks. Everyone should be welcome whether they are a boy or a girl or familiar or a stranger. When Odysseus wasn’t welcomed by Antinous because he was a beggar was considered very rude. In Greece, not only should the…

With James Monroe being in office he enacted the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. With this Doctrine in effect it outlawed all countries in the eastern hemisphere from owning territory in the western hemisphere. With eastern countries being kept out of the west for the fear of war this opened the doorway for the U.S. because they now had more territory to claim. Not all of what is now American was giving to them from this act. One of the biggest controversies in the 19th century is the Missouri…

For myself an explorer on this expedition, there were many difficulties on this journey. One of the greatest difficulties we had faced was carrying our canoe. Half way we dropped our canoe. When we dropped the canoe, it almost landed on one of us. As well on August 6, 1805 “Whitehouse had been thrown out of one of the canoes...the water been 2 inches shallower must inevitably have crushed him to death” On the journey carrying the canoe we had turns we had to make carrying the long canoe as well…

In the English language, there is such a thing as a homonym, that is the instance when words both look and sound alike but have different meanings. This is the case for the poems "Dream-Land" and "Dream Land," written by Edgar Allen Poe and Christina Rossetti respectively, in regards to the title; both of these poems use this term to refer to a certain life after death, although each interpretation is influenced by entirely different mythologies. The similarities of the poems extend to the use…

“this land was made for you and me” at the end of the first four stanzas (Guthrie 4). Guthrie uses imagery such as “endless skyway,” “golden valley,” and “diamond deserts” to give the reader a beautiful joyful image of what there is awaiting in the journey (Guthrie 6, 7, 10). Towards the end it changes tone to disappointment. Guthrie shows disappointment by stating, “Is this land made for you and me?” (Guthrie 24). I now see this poem as a disillusion Guthrie had about America. I start to…

Introduction The Gorillaz is a virtual “zombie hip-hop” and the most popular cartoon band that can be cited currently. It was founded by Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn (co-creator of Tank Girl). They created four fictional cartoon characters based on avatars. Each cartoon has a distinct personality. The two have created music videos, cartoons, multi-platinum albums, multi-media franchise of books and stage shows based around the virtual band. There is plenty of stuff you did not know about…

the world Columbian exposition in Chicago. This essay redefined history not just as a political narrative, but as the growth of the Western frontier. Turner makes the argument that, “American history is the history of the colonization of the Great West.” (Hollitz, 176). I, like Turner, believe that the expansion of the frontier helped mold America’s defining attributes of independence, diversity, and democracy. However, Turner tends to omit that what benefitted the white men during the…