Our Lady of Sorrows

Steinbeck had a negative attitude towards the people who “had it made.” One example of this use of sensory detail is seen when he states, “I saw the wild spending, the champagne and caviar through windows, smelled the heady perfumes on fur-draped ladies when they came warm and shining out of the theaters.” In this quote, Steinbeck describes the people of the upper class. He creates a vivid description by providing sensory details such as “fur-draped”, “warm and shining”, and “heady perfumes.”…

In her article, “Sense and Sensibility, or Growing Up Dichotomous,” Ruth ApRoberts claims Jane Austen’s work, Sense and Sensibility, is a reflection about relations “...between head and heart, thought and feeling, [and] judgment and emotion.” (ApRoberts 351). Through the beginning, the title already shows the readers it is a “test [to] the characters on its polarity” (ApRoberts 355), a metaphor to many of the characters in the novel. Each of them represents more with sensibleness or…

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe as we all know it did not have a good life. Death was the center of his life. Women figures in his life always died from tuberculosis. Each death always brought a poem of his love. Poe belongs in the Romanticism period based on his works. Poes journey begins January 19, 1809 in Boston. He is born as Edgar Poe his parents are Elizabeth Poe and David Poe Jr., he was one brother who is William Henry Leonard. Both of Poes parents are actors. “They travel a lot…

she cared my thought are left in despair becoming the man she wished me to be but it is I who wishes to become the man I wished left only to write words from the mind into paper to perceive in transcendence of emotion's of life’s to be hope of our love is now afar never to be seen except these lonely dreams. New Life In my mind tell a fairy tale that was left behind, To many words left unsaid, to afraid to just go ahead To compare would to judge As I starve for…

Table 1: culture-loaded words translation of appellations Appellations in the Chinese version Translations in the American version 皇上 the Emperor 皇后 the Empress 太后 the Empress Dowager 太妃 Consort Dowager 贵妃 Noble Consort 妃 Consort 嫔 Concubine 贵人 Lady or Noble lady 常在 Attendant or First Attendant 答应 Second Attendant 嬷嬷 Madam 公公 Eunuch 郡王 Marquess 贝勒 Count 3.2 Places translation In the Forbidden City, there were many palaces that were the symbol and center of imperial power. The palaces were a…

placed all over the patient’s body, and yet there’s no sign of recovery. After several weeks of repeating the same, suspenseful process, the ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) individual’s mind, body, and soul gradually changes to one of helplessness, sorrow, and…

My heart felt like it had been ripped from my chest and replaced with just pure sadness and emptiness. She was my absolute rock. I loved her as if she was my sister. I confided with her, cried with her, and laughed with her. We always talked about our future. How we were both going to get out of this town. She would move to a small town in Louisiana and become a truck driver, and I would move to a small town on the outskirts of Mobile, Alabama and become an orthodontist. Neither one of us wanted…

Memories of ‘My Happiest Moments in Life?’ I am not a happy man. My whole life is fraught with debilitating circumstances beyond human conception. Every success is trolled by a specter of sorrows and setbacks of gargantuan magnitude. This may be perhaps as intelligence suggested, was in my poor mother’s womb for about ten months and that the flabbergasted doctor at Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital Umuahia informed my distraught father that I was clawing at my mother’s entrails and did not want to come…

Death itself is not difficult to comprehend; the funeral is. This is clear as I am currently drowning in my sorrows, as my feet march into this black abyss. All I can hear is the heavy, pounding feet of others, as we march as one. Marching to our downfall. It is a difficult sight to witness: couple’s hands clenched together, gripping at each-other as though the pain will subside if they squeeze hard enough. It’s purely comfort. But sometimes I wonder if it is merely superficial comfort – to…

best he knew And the shield he wore was bright. This poem, “Follow a Noble Father” was written by Edgar A. Guest. It truly describes my Uncle John who has had the most profound influence in my life. We shared a number of interests together that made our relationship grow and strengthen to a lifelong friendship. He was an influence on me with things such as simple fun, similar interests, and his work and career. John had special qualities that would make me feel good about who I am as an…