Quirks mode

Many societies use torture as way of extracting information from people who will not easily give up much needed information. Torture is a topic of controversy in our world and has been for years now. Although torture may work in some instances, studies repeatedly show over and over that it is not effective. Oftentimes, people will say anything and even provide incorrect information to stop the suffering. I have analyzed opinion articles such as Torture is Morally Reprehensible by Kim Petersen…

Douglas Coupland's novel, Generation X is written in a unique and ironic way. Throughout the novel the reader is being told a story while the characters tell stories of their own. Andy, the protagonist, speaks to the audience through his narration of tales known as “bedtime stories” which are made up stories that he shares with his two acquaintances, Dag and Claire. The trio perhaps share these stories in order to refrain from revealing their “truths” to one another and alas fail to acknowledge…

Death often allows humans to recognize the overlooked significance that life holds. Marcus Zusak manipulates this concept by skillfully personifying Death and using him to narrate the story of Liesel, a little girl raised in Nazi Germany. Death’s narration, consisting of vivid imagery and foreshadowing, establishes a grim, yet poetic element in the novel and allows the audience to connect with the events. The novel opens with a thorough introduction to Death’s occupation. Through the use of…

Memory and Narrative in Proust’s, Joyce’s, and Woolf’s Novels Memory is important to Modernism, because of its relationship to the past. By using experimental form, modernists were able to reach a deeper level of understanding of the views, ideals, and thoughts they espoused. Three works that exemplify the exploratory form are In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, and The Waves by Virginia Woolf. In charting the formation of an artist,…

1 “Antigone” is mainly about the conflict between the ruler Creon, who has decreed that Polyneices shall not be buried, and Antigone, who wants to give her brother the proper burial rites. Antigone does not change throughout the course of the play, in fact one of her most defining qualities is her stubbornness and resolve to do what she thinks is right. Antigone serves as a foil to Creon in that she places the Gods’ values over the human rule of law, whereas Creon enforces the law to a fault…

Studies have shown that when two strangers are forced to talk and maintain eye contact, it can make them fall in love. This is what happened between Daniel Bae and Natasha Kingsley in the book The Sun Is Also a Star, by Nicola Yoon. Daniel is a Korean-American poet and Natasha is an undocumented immigrant who is being deported to Jamaica in twelve hours. When they first meet Daniel feels an instant connection, so he tries to convince Natasha that they are in love by following her around New…

Sam Selvon's definitive novel about London's West Indians' is noted as being a pinoneering text in Caribbean mirgrant writing. The structure of the novel is episodic, most likely due to the author's acclaimed ability as a short story writer. Although the structure of The Lonely Londoners makes for a less conventional novel, it has the effect of making the work's sense of time more seasonal rather than social. Three things that caught my attention after reading the novel for a second time and…

The idea of loss is prevalent in both “Stop all the Clocks” by W.H Auden and “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath. Auden employs the narrative voice of a distraught partner to reveal the travesty of death and the consuming emotions which accompany the devastation of physical a loss, whereas, Plath depicts the symbolic loss of identity through the inevitable process of ageing as told from the narration of a mirror. The initial stanza of Auden’s “Stop all the Clocks” introduces the idea of loss by allowing…

The book I chose for this project was Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I am going to talk about the first three sections not the whole book, since it is a long book and it jumps around so much it would take a lot longer to talk about. This book is a hybrid of fiction and drama. The first section of the book is “The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing” it is a journal written in the mid 1800s by a sailor stuck on an island while the ship he was on gets repaired. The journal has a total of fifteen entries…

“Schedule Your Way to success” was a chapter about helping incoming freshmen with ways to manage their time and helping them getting into the groove of having a good daily routine. The topic of my writing was scheduling and what it can do for you as an ISU student. The purpose was to inform and educate the audience, with the audience being our English 101 class or incoming freshmen. The timing of the chapter is Monday, February 20th at 3:35 PM the day it is due. The forum or where we turn it in…