Summer

Joseph Ellis, a modern day American historian, wrote Revolutionary Summer, an analyzation of the American Revolution. Ellis has a lot of knowledge of the American and British military decisions, and the outcome of the entire revolution. This previous knowledge makes it very difficult for him write a narrative, yet Ellis is able to provide the reader with great detail of both the American and British successes, losses, mistakes, and opinions of the Revolution. Most history books explain the…

5.”The denied” – Summer and Smoke – Alma Winemiller Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke was written in 1948 just after the war. It was the time of the beginning of the New Era, the start of the TV’s popularity, the baby boom, and the decline of marriages ‘numbers. In contradictory, the set takes place in 1916, in Glorious Hill, Mississippi, during World War I. The plot concentrated on a relationship between John Buchanan and Alma Winemiller. John is a young doctor who comes back to his…

and are never truly felt the first time you look at them. The title of this piece is called “Summer Image (For My Mother)” and is an abstraction by Jay DeFeo. “Summer…

I think the theme of One Crazy Summer is, that no matter how independent you are there will be times when you want or need some help and support. In the book Delphine is shown as an independent person who cares alot for her younger sisters. One time she shows this is when they are at the center for the first time and she defends Fern’s doll by saying “That’s not self-hatred. That’s her doll.” She also proved she was independent when she planned an entire day trip to Chinatown, The Fisherman’s…

satisfied with your marriage, their love is not eternal. Sometimes trivial jealousy reveals secrets or may cause irreparable circumstances. In this short story “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses” by Irwin Shaws, the author shows how important having a trustworthy and honest relationship is. Based on "The Girls in their Summer Dresses", Frances says "You always look at other women." (Shaw64) Michael and Frances are having a problem with their marriage because Michael keeps looking at every girl…

Sam Kerley Henderson 3/19/18 Per.8 The Freedom Summer Murders On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers went missing in Mississippi. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were working with the Congress of Racial Equality during the summer of 1964, also known as Freedom Summer. During this time, white people came to Mississippi to register black people to vote. This act showed that citizens wanted the American Society to cease segregation and racism from continuing in their…

So I finally settled on the poem “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver. The overall theme of the poem has the meaning of nature and finding one’s self. I found this poem to be enticing because the whole idea of figuring out who you are is the epitome of life and a crucial part of everyone’s lives. Oliver begins the poem with three rhetorical questions. These questions increase in specific detail order. The first question surprises the reader because the answer is obvious. This introduces another…

The novel, The Summer before the Dark is an optimistic novel of Doris Lessing as it traces the protagonist’s (Kate Brown) journey from darkness to light. Kate Brown is an extremely talented, intelligent woman who rebels against the stereotypical standards set by the suppressive society on women. Every journey that she undertakes is shown as a stepping stone to find her real ‘self’. She attempts to search her identity through dreams and languages. Her family has always enjoyed her services as…

“All Summer in a Day”, by Ray Bradbury, and “Happier”, by Ed Sheeran. In “All Summer in a Day”, Margot’s classmates put Margot down by bullying her and robbing her of her chance to see the sun, although they soon become aware of how unpleasant they were to her, which results in them being upset and depressed. In “Happier”, Sheeran becomes aware of how much he feels contrite about his mistakes in the past that negatively affected the girl he loved, and as a result, he has a hard…

The poem High Summer by John Hodgen critiques the affect prominent poets have on the thinking of future generation and examines the validity of these critiques made on the subjects they write about. In this poem, John Hodgen describes, in a plain spoken and blunt way, Walt Whitman helping wounded Civil War veterans in a makeshift military hospital. He uses candid comparisons to prove his points and alliteration to improve the readability of his poem at the end. In order to understand poems,…