Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole, is a novel that describes the adventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, a peculiar young man who lives in 1960’s New Orleans. To please his overbearing mother, Ignatius embarks on a seemingly everlasting quest to find a suitable job that he can sustain. Throughout the story, Ignatius exhibits many different characteristics while getting himself into sticky situations. Although he is a character of many qualities, Ignatius’s two main qualities are gluttony…

A child will always grow up, but does a child loses its innocence. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee spins a heartfelt story about the prejudice in the world through the eyes of a young naïve girl named “Scout” Finch who will slowly discover the world in Maycomb and out. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about the innocence of childhood and reveals coming of age comes with the end of childhood innocence through use of symbolism and conflict. Dill, Tom Robinson, and the mockingbird…

First of all, woodworms or similar insects play an important role since they are present in nearly every story. After the first chapter, which is narrated by a woodworm, woodworms are prosecuted for having destroyed the Bishop’s throne in chapter 3 (62f). Ironically, a piece of the parchment containing the verdict was eaten by termites, causing the disappearance of the closing words (79f.). The fifth chapter concludes with the remark that woodworms are living in the frame of Géricault’s painting…

Sneakerheadz. Dir. David T. Friendly and Mick Partridge. Perf. DJ Skee. Jump-Films, 2015. AT&T, 2015. Web. 17 June 2017. The documentary Sneakerheadz, explores the recent pop culture phenomenon which revolves around buying shoes worn and marketed by basketball icons. The documentary begins by exploring the origins of the so-called “sneaker culture”. They justify how on the fateful day of September 15, 1984, Nike releases the first Jordan shoes, the “Air Jordan I”. It was a very important sneaker…

To Kill A Mockingbird Essay In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee chooses one character and rarely incorporates them in order to show the importance of the topic. Her purpose to to try and destroy the innocence of the people, which is resembled by a mockingbird. In the novel, the author uses Boo Radley to confront how evil and kindness can be found within each other and within one person. In the beginning of the novel, Harper Lee explains how the mythical human, who no one has seen,…

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a fictional book set in the small segregated town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930’s. Narrated by young girl named Scout Finch who is growing up with her older brother Jem and friend Dill. Scout explores with little understanding the concept of racism through the town gossip, and her own first hand experiences. She begins learning more about her father Atticus Finch, an attorney who strives to prove the innocence of Tom Robinson, a coloured man,…

“Ghosts” is a stage play written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The stage play was written in 1881, and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois. (Mulyani, 2014) It was starred by Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Branagh, Freddie Jones and Natasha Richardson. Ghosts begins with a conversation between Mr. Engstrand and his daughter Regina. He tried to convince his daughter to come back home, and leave Mrs. Alving’s orphanage, which was built for Captain Alving’s, her husband, 10th…

Kaelyn Hui Period: 6 American Pika Table of Contents Section 1: What is an American Pika and Where it Lives Section 2: Their Appearance Section 3: How They Behave Section 4: Food Habits Section 5: What you Should Do What is an American Pika and Where it Lives Introduction These mountain dwelling rabbit relatives are disappearing and nobody even knows who they are. The American Pika is a less known animal that everybody should know. They…

In his play, “Death of a Salesman”, Arthur Miller utilizes many symbols to illustrate the themes of success and failure. In many instances throughout “Death of a Salesman” Willy’s late older brother, Ben, appears to him in times of despair. Other symbols presented to the readers is Willy’s desperate attempt at planting a garden at the end of the play, and the tape recorder. These symbols represent Willy’s final attempts to be successful and the failure he cannot escape. As a young man, Ben set…

Without evil, there is no good, without good, there is no evil; no one is ever comprehensively virtuous or immoral but rather at intervals with both. Within Harper Lee's bildungsroman, To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem Finch recognized this as he and his younger sister, Scout, grew up in Maycomb, Alabama. As he matured over the years, Jem learned that the concepts of good and evil are complicated ideas that take on a variety of forms. Whether it be from the Radleys, Mrs. Dubose, or the trial of Tom…