Ted Bundy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph and Rose Kennedy. John, commonly called Jack by friends and family, suffered from many illnesses as a baby with the worst coming at age three when Kennedy contracted scarlet fever. After about a month, he miraculously recovered. That same year, the Kennedy family moved from John’s birthplace of Brookline, Massachusetts, to a neighborhood just outside of Boston. Like his older brother, Joseph, Jr., Kennedy attended Choate Rosemary…

Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Apprehensions,” details the scariness and darkness of the mind. Through the depressing tone, the use of imagery and color association, the speaker, assumed to be Plath herself, allows the reader to enter her mind and experience her thoughts. At the beginning of the first stanza, Plath presents a calm, peaceful image. The stanza starts with the statement, “There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself.” This example of color association illustrates that the…

The Immeasurable Impact of Sylvia Plath "Her voice, once she found it, was too strong, too strange, not to have struck a note of challenge, her life too brief and intense not to have been packages as that of yet another doomed female genius." (Katha Pollit) Sylvia Plath is a controversial female writer that is still being speculated over to this day, shrouded in mystery and known to have met an abrupt and painful end. One simple thing cannot be refuted: she continues to offer a voice for women…

and Plath. The Minotaur, who Plath is linked to in the poem, presents a series of emotional connotations. Although the Minotaur is often seen as an aggressive, murderous animal, some presentations of it show the Minotaur as a thing to be pitied. In Ted Hughes’ work, the metaphor of the Minotaur reoccurs, especially in ‘Birthday letters’. One interpretation of this is that…

deemed one of the most shocking losses in literary history because of its suddenness and because of who were left behind. People of all statuses and locations have provided their reactions to Plath’s death. These reactions ranged from death threats to Ted Hughes, the man accused of driving Sylvia Plath to her suicide, to making movies celebrating her courage in facing death on her own terms. These reactions tend to lean on…

The Story of an Hour is a short story by author Kate Chopin, that was published in 1984. The story was originally published in Vogue, on December 6th, titled "The Dream of an Hour”. Louise Mallard, the main character, has heart problems. Therefore, at the beginning of the text we are told that she must be informed of her husband’s death in a careful manner. Her sister Josephine delivers the news. The reader is also told that Louise’s husband’s friend, named Richards, had learned about his…

Tuesdays With Morrie: Themes In Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom, Morrie uses several aphorisms to teach Mitch about life. In the memoir, life lessons taught by Morrie are learned on Tuesdays, leading up to his death. Morrie, a professor of sociology, suffers from ALS, in which he learns the true values of life. He learns the importance of love, family, and where a person’s values are placed. Morrie talks about a different topic on each of the Tuesdays over a span of fourteen weeks. He…

Dickinson’s life influenced her poetry to a great extent. The things she experienced and the situations that drove her into seclusion so that she can write shaped her poetry. Her style has influenced other great poets of her time and has also affected American literature. Her life influenced her style and dictation and also was used to express her feelings. The themes of Death, Love, and Friendship can be also seen in her poems because they were impacted by the people in her life. Many people in…

UNBROKEN A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption By Laura Hillenbrand Table Of Contents Topic Page # Introduction 3-4 Themes 5-7 Writing Style 8-10 Book Talk 11-13 Book Summary 14-16 Questions 17 Works Cited 18-19 Introduction Laura Hillenbrand was born in 1967. She began writing in 1988 about thoroughbred racing. After starting her writing career, she became a contributing writer/editor for Equus magazine. Laura won the Eclipse Award for her…

Poetry is the key to many different emotions. A poem can cause many different feelings and memories, both good and bad, to bubble to the surface of our minds. Readers use poems to find a simple piece of artwork they can relate to, however are usually unprepared if it hits too close to home. Elizabeth Bishop, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, had a difficult early life when growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father passed away when she was at a young age, and her mother admitted to…