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Various songs have been sung about America and how beautiful she is, but rarely is there a poem that describes the voices of those songs. In I Hear America Singing (1860), Walt Whitman conveys his concept of America as a unified nation. His poem explores the differing sort of people that Whitman contributes to creating America. They are exuberant, and strong. Although the poem is focused on the people, the title of the poem, I Hear America Singing, shows that Whitman thinks of these people as…

The “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a great example of a bildungsroman. This is because the story follows the evolution of Huck’s morality and conscience. Throughout the novel, we get to know more about our main character as he develops as a person. Huck goes through a lot of situations that eventually leads him to make manly decisions and think effectively about his life choices. All these situations that he has to face throughout the novel helps him to mature and become a better person.…

In line 135 the narrator tells us how he hid the body, he states, “I then took up three planks of flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.” This proves his sanity because if this man were insane after he cut up the body, if he even would have, he would have just left it to rot because he does not know right from wrong…

Two Accounts of the Early Career of St. Bernard, c. 1150 In the Life of St. Bernard we first learn of Saint Bernard’s childhood and how he came to be a Citeaux monk. Initially he had sought to hide away from the world, but instead found his true calling when he thought all was lost. As the text continues we get to read a detailed account from later in his life. Bernard, an abbot at this time, sets forth with a small band of monks to establish the Clairvaux. It is a difficult journey, but his…

explaining that “there are only two types of therapies for minors that are notable and that are controversial at present. One is ex-gay conversion therapy and the other is transgender hormone therapy, and I hardly believe that Tony Perkins was putting a plank in the Republican Party platform endorsing the rights of parents to provide their children with transgender hormone therapy.” Many LGBTQ+ citizens are concerned, perhaps rightfully so, about what the Trump-Pence era holds in store for the…

Elaboration over “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” This piece of literature in a sense could be terrifying for the reader, due to the extreme down to detail madness described by the speaker. Just by reading the title one could assume a dark and sinister piece of work is about to be read, and Emily Dickinson did just that. Dickinson was able to correlate everyday actions to much more profound meanings; with this mastered ability of hers, the reader could share the same obscure thoughts as the…

like "mourning", "treading", "beating", "creak", "solitary" used in the poem, illustrate a few examples of Dickinson imposes the ominous loss of the mind, the slow slide into madness and loss of reality, in which she ended the poem. "And then a plank in reason, broke..." this creates an atmosphere whereby the sense of a familiar aspect of life; thus, the ability to experience a weakness and loss of oneself, a funeral, and follow the death, a break from reality. For instance, it is well…

seem alive; as if they had a soul within. In certain circumstances it was simply through personification, where objects or animals are given human attributes. An example can be located on pages 43 to 44, “Qyoule hooked is fingers under the window planks and heaved. Like pulling on the edge of the world. …, clenched the nails fast. They came out crying.” In other circumstances it is done in a more subtle fashion; through metaphors and similes. Examples can be found throughout the novel, but here…

The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe’s work, titled The Tell-Tale Heart, uses elements symbolism, tone, and horror to emphasize the theme of guilt and how it effects you. Although more elements of fiction can be seen within the story, these three elements allow the reader to understand the narrator’s situation and the theme of the story. With very little detail and simple sentences, Poe manages to show just how simple it is for guilt to make you crazy. Poe’s usage of symbolism in The Tell-Tale…

My grandfather served in the United States Navy in World War II where our ships encountered what was to them a new style of fighter: the Kamikaze pilot. The Kamikaze pilot was an individual who would quite literally drive a Mitsubishi Zero plane that was unequipped with guns and flew their planes directly into American ships to keep them away from reaching Japan. The word Kamikaze has an ancient origin. Literally translated it means “divine wind.” Kamikaze was used for close to a thousand years…