Leave of absence

Kevin Wang Streckenbach Senior English P.7 8 February 2015 Formless Throughout history, men and women side by side were never equals. In fact even now, inequality persists however incomparable to the past. Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare explicitly revealed the treatment of females during his time through his play. In the play, Polonius’s daughter, Ophelia, evidently presents herself as a puppet that adheres to her master’s will until the strings that control her loosens. In her…

two different types of guilt. I always assumed that guilt was an emotion that stemmed from the conscience. The commonality of these types of guilt is the fact that they have a lasting effect on the lives of the people that struggle with it. Guilt leaves us with a sense of shame. Overwhelming feelings of guilt often causes an individual to become withdraw from family, friends, and sometimes life altogether. Therefore, someone that is struggling with guilt should be handled with care. Essentially,…

the turn of the century. In his stories, Joyce brings to light some of the struggles and disappointments that many of the Irish faced in their daily lives. Joyce’s stories are marked by epiphanies, specifically ones where the character realizes the absence of the divine opposed to the recognition of it. Examples of this can be found in “Araby” and “Eveline” in the way that both main characters undergo the transition from innocence to experience through epiphanies, causing them to see that their…

According to The Native American Aid, “Often, heads of household are forced to leave the reservation to seek work, and extended families pool their meager resources as a way to meet basic needs” (“Native American Living”). Most of this absence of economic growth is causing many families to fall into the lower class. Consequently, poverty can often lead to severe health issues. “The cultural and social barriers…

of this poem highlights the grief and sorrow he feels. The reader understands that his wife left him a widow and the implications behind this. The narrator discusses the vacuum she leaves behind and the effect it has on him and the atmosphere. Moreover, the speaker uses the vacuum as a symbol to represent the absence of his dead wife. Through the figurative language the narrator implements, the reader can assume that the vacuum symbolizes his deceased wife since women are stereotypically…

neighbor Mr. Shears, leaving Mr. Boone to take care of Christopher on his own. After she left, Mr. Boone told Christopher “that she died of a heart attack” and that he wouldn’t be able to see her again(27). By not revealing the truth of his mother’s absence, he fabricates the truth by saying that she is dead, which is a lie. Christopher hates lies and he says himself that “ loving someone is … telling them the truth” so by Mr. Boone not telling the truth about his mother, to Christopher that…

Caesar Dies on the Senate Floor Breaking: Today, Julius Caesar, our ”dictator for life” of our great Empire, is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey’s Theatre. Caesar was a military genius, he defeated Pompey and he also defeated the annoying Gauls up north. Caesar was also very generous to us and we elected for many political positions and he satisfied us. Today he dies at the age of 55. Caesar was killed today morning at a meeting hall next to Pompey’s Theatre.…

just as ordinary and ridiculous as before. With the possible exception of the grandmother, we know them no better.” (Stephens 1188) At the penultimate moment before death, the Grandmother is not reflecting on her family. And while Tom’s decision to leave was the result of his untamable need for independence, the Grandmother’s choices never crossed her mind until being faced with…

relationship—by locking himself inside his bathroom—but it was when the narrator did something for his marriage. What the narrator learned is the importance to find why the narrator’s marriage was never meant to be as a love story that tells the true way to leave what was difficult to let go. In the short story ‘Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot’ by Robert Olen Butler, the author wanted his readers to understand his concepts of reincarnation as an intellectual story to convey the truth…

the absence of tension” (10). By this definition King indicates that white moderates are sympathetic to the presence of pressure, in other words, they have an absence of tension to peace, meaning that they have the absence of justice. King defines unjust as a code exists for the purpose of creating justice, and that when they fail to do this they become the dangerously structured barriers that block the flow of social progress. He hopes White moderates understand that in the South the absence of…