S. N. Goenka

Between the years of 1945 and 2000 a total of ten presidents served in the oval office through the 55 year period. Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush, and Clinton served the country during some of the most difficult years in this Nation’s history. However, the tale of ten presidents elected in a 55 year period is one that is filled with deception, war, and assassination. The question that is raised out of this time is what determined the success of…

Dally and Johnny Often, people who seem to be opposites are not so different at all. Throughout The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton proves this, but never as well as with Johnny and Dally. Although they come from similarly abusive households and care immensely about the other, the characters have very different philosophies. They have different outlooks on the law, and the world in general. Despite their differences, Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade have many similarities. Neither Johnny nor…

poetry in existence. It is preserved there until this day along with several other poems similar to it´s style and theme. The poem itself can be divided into three parts or, rather, 2 testimonies and 1 realization: "each of the narrators" depicts a different attitude and a different experience.…

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on the 1st of February, 1902 in Missouri. His parents got a divorce when he was young, and he was raised by his grandmother till the age of thirteen. He worked odd jobs such as assistant cook, launderer, and busboy. In 1930, he won the Harmon gold medal for literature. He wrote several novels, short stories, plays and poems, and he was well known for his interest in Jazz and how it influenced his writing. His life and works helped start the Harlem…

that gives hints to the person’s character, their psychology, and the situation that they are in. I think that it is depicted with the narrator’s internal thoughts expressed like in “Jenny,” when he refers to her as “poor Jenny” (ln 18) or he “wonder[s] what [she’s] thinking of” (ln 59). These lines reveal that the narrator holds a curiosity with the women, but also maintains condescension throughout the poem. Showing that he does not quite respect her, but he is still maintaining an interest.…

The Outsiders is about a story written in 1960s by the main lead, Ponyboy Curtis. Through narration, the story was told in a first person perspective. The story evolves between two groups of people, the lower-class group of Oklahoma youths called greasers and the upper-class youth from the west side of town called Socials, Socs for short. One night, some of the Socs were unhappy with some of the greasers when they befriended their girlfriend, Cherry Valance and Marcia at a drive-in. Later that…

In Robert Pack’s poem “An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page”, the narrator is uncertain about what comes with death. He worries about his future and what may happen to him. As the narrator asks questions into the emptiness, he finds answers in the echoes of his voice. Robert Pack uses literary devices such as rhetorical questions, selection of detail, metaphors, juxtaposition, and connotation to construct the meaning of his poem. Beginning in the first quatrain, the voice is very anxious and…

Camille Bruce Mr. Evans English 12, Period 3 3 January 2018 Poem Summary The poem “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot talks about the struggles of the men/women in a special world. These people are called hollow men and ultimately represent many of the people in the real world. Eliot is trying to show the similarities of the hollow men to the people in the real world by saying they are lacking certain things such as happiness, love, and hope. The first section of the poem talks about the…

2. The phrase “five score years ago” is an allusion to the event that happened 100 years ago from the date, which is 1963. The event, which occured in 1863, was the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all black slaves from the slave owners. This allusion gave Dr. King a strong start to his speech, as he uses the date as a stepping stone to approach the topic of racial injustice that Negroes are facing in America. 3. King’s allusions to the Declaration of Independence and the Bible occur as…

Sasha Maharaj has used a personal tone to convey emotions underlying her feelings about relationships in the poem, “Worthless’’. In this essay, I disclose how poetic devices, diction, syntax and other language functions have been utilized to reveal feelings/emotions of the writer in regard to relationships. Taking into account the title of the poem, one cannot put a figure on what or who is worthless. Nevertheless, it is known that worthless is an adjective; meaning something that has no use or…