Man on the Moon: The End of Day

now there has been always an unequal balance between men and women. And this situation of women has been a subject for literary works. Although they have different points of view, one is mostly about the woman character and the other one is about man character, we can compare the two novels. The male characters ^which we will compare are Norm, Mira’s husband, and Lanny, Mira’s…

(Smith 140), in the poem Browning is saying that she has a pure love that she doesn’t expect to get any reward out of it. This poem is expressing the love for someone in a strong way, that shows that Browning loves this person in every way and every day, she expresses this by saying “I love thee to the level of everyday’s, most quiet need, by sun and candle light” (5-6). Another way she expressed this in the poem is when she said, “I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life”…

In the aspect of identifying decision criteria, the members of the Apollo 13 mission had to do the same. Towards the end of the movie, (Grazer, 1995) there was a decision to be made about who would fly the spacecraft back into the atmosphere. Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, jumped into the pilots seat. He had more experience in space and was the leader of the mission. Jack Swigert, the command module pilot, was the other option. Swigert was supposed to be the pilot of the spacecraft, as…

“Thud!” The car door slams shut, with me inside the vehicle. The engine revved as my dad and I pulled away from James S. Rickards Middle School. As we got on Interstate 95 we were disappointed as it was the peak of Monday afternoon rush hour traffic. Nevertheless my imagination still swirling as it was my first time traveling to this destination. The destination was Markham Park Shooting Range. As the car ride took about an hour, that alone gave enough time for my excitement to bloom. When we…

Although, Harry Truman had an abrupt induction into presidency in 1945, he managed to end World War II by deciding to release two bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki leading to a victory of the Allies. Truman’s decision to release the bombs was very important for the United States as well as her allies. While World War II was one of the deadliest wars in American history, it was necessary to take the right precautions during this war. Neglecting this act and ignoring the attacks by the Axis…

bright on rainy days, that flickered so violently, you would swear a ghost was pushing…

"Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms father. . . . And one fine morning--So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." The last line of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's infamous The Great Gatsby. The main reason as to why he wrote such a novel was to create a consciously artistic achievement of something that was beautiful and simple, yet intricately patterned. What is really intriguing is why Fitzgerald used Nick as the narrator, or the amount of symbolism…

where Athenians struggle with heart desires, fairies dance and trick one another, and peasants work in a play to get paid. At first glance, this seems like a giant expansive world but in reality there are three distinct worlds that are interwoven. The man who brought this play to life was William Shakespeare, one of the most famous English writers to have ever lived. He has lived among the wealthy, and poor which explains his masterful usage of both classes’ languages. He is recognized for…

seeing “shadows most easily, then images of men and other things in water, then the things themselves. Of these, he'd be able to study the things in the sky and the sky itself more easily at night, looking at the light of the stars and the moon, than during the day, looking at the sun and the light of the sun” (Allegory 2). I believe that the sun is a metaphor for philosophy. Plato believes that philosophy is the only thing that can drag us out of ignorance and into the reality of things which…

Why Tom is Unhappy and, Eventually, Leaves In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, a young man named Tom Wingfield leaves his family to pursue a more fulfilling life. Tom’s leaving is based on three major factors within his life: the mundane routine of a job he dislikes, his mother’s constant nagging towards everything he does, and the severe lack of excitement. Following in his father’s footsteps, the departure is selfish and for the most part unsuccessful. While he does escape the…