Nonfiction

Throughout the 1800’s there were many ways of life, religion playing a big or small role. What role does religion play in your life? Puritanism was the way of life that one would put God first. Deists believed that there was a God, yet he set up the universe and left, sort of like clockwork. Transcendentalists believed that in God is secondary, and yourself is first. They used nature to connect with God. Throughout the major literary philosophies in the United States one can see how the ideas…

The nonfiction novel, “The Murder of Helen Jewett”, by Patricia Cline Cohen took place in New York City on April 9th, in 1986 at a brothel. Rosina Townsend, the owner of the brothel, found Helen Jewett, a prostitute, dead in Helen’s bedroom. It began with Rosina locking up the brothel and once she locks up no one is allowed to get in or out without the key. She was woken up by a noise and got up to check on everything. She ended up going to the second floor and saw smoke coming from her room.…

I am the kid that likes to read nonfiction—my favorite book is Al Franken’s insightful memoir, Al Franken: Giant of the Senate. I am proud to say I have spent some late nights intently reading Profiles in Courage or The Prince. I have made my brother stop playing the latest NBA video game…

Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. A collection of essays, poems and stories all from a predominately lesbian group of black writers. Out of all the authors included, a small minority is still writing fiction. Instead most of the authors are writing nonfiction about lesbian life.…

Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath (Pearl 306). He also won the O. Henry best story of the year award for The Murder, a short story (John 20). Sadly, after winning the Nobel Prize in literature, he only wrote nonfiction (Web). In a majority of his books, the setting was California (John 13). A common theme was telling how humans must work together or face bad consequences (Pearl 306). Steinbeck also wrote about normal people and problems (Web). His Inspiration…

“The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, at last realizing, as the house realized, that only silence was here.” This quote from the literary article “There Will Come Soft Rains” provides the reader with an understanding of the author, Ray Bradbury’s, negative opinion of technology by comparing how the dog and the house differentiate; the animal is able to detect that the silence resonating throughout the home is due to a lack of occupants. Throughout the course of the text, an…

Many different authors portray their writing in a plethora of different ways. Virginia Woolf, the author of the nonfiction long essay A Room of One’s Own, has a unique writing style that intrigues readers from around the world. Many writers, after stating their thesis, will only explain why their thesis is correct. Woolf showed her concept of feminism by writing the detailed train of thought that lead to her thesis of having “money and a room of one’s own to write fiction” (Woolf 1). By using…

The Sport industry is enormous and has a connection to every possible event occurring in the world. Sports played by children to professional athletes creates an attraction for people. The kind of attraction depends on the type of the sport and people’s belief towards that particular sport. The business world uses different techniques to perceive and attract people towards the sports, techniques such as advertisements, shows, news, charity, games, and more. Through these, they create a community…

Research Questions This research seeks to answer the following questions: 1. How does the life and works of 16th-century writer Veronica Franco and 18th-century writer Leona Florentino defend or promote women's rights in the earlier centuries? 2. What specific issues of women’s rights did their work address? 3. What struggles of the poet are reflected in their works? Theoretical Lens The use of the second-wave feminism called as “Gynocriticism” as a theoretical lens will help us understand…

incomplete without the reference to Germany, its involvement in two world wars, its division into East and West as a symbol of the larger division of the postwar world, and its reunification at the end of the cold war,” as stated by William R. Horne’s nonfiction, Germany. Germany is an important culture in my family because my ancestry is mostly German. My father’s grandfather was a full German, as everyone before him was. Also, my great grandfather participated in World War II, and my…