The Crane

There once was a girl named Beastie. She had been born in a field one spring. No one in the area would ever think that one little, powerful girl would grow up to become the most talented in the history of heroes. Little did she know that so many people would soon look up to her for her strength of becoming a legend. As a child, she had emerged from a golden ball. That golden ball had been her source of power since she was really young. With the ball, she would send all the horrifying, mysterious…

In “The Open Boat”, it is instantly recognizable that the men aboard the dinghy have no control over every aspect their situation. The crew steer the boat and row the oars, however as the men squeeze inside this tiny boat, they fall victim to naturalism. Naturalism says, mother nature is truly in control of the vessel, having no feelings of compassion or hatred towards it. Nature’s divine and uncharismatic power, is seen as nature hurls wave after wave toward the dinghy, sinks the captain’s ship…

A fishing trip turns into a terrifying test of survival after Salvador Alvarenga becomes one man against the sea. Salvador Alvarenga loved the simple lines of the fiberglass craft. No cabin or roof. Just a 25-foot-long narrow, canoe-shaped boat designed to carve up the waves like a huge surfboard, agile and fast, with the engine mounted on the back. Alvarenga was a 37-year-old Salvadoran fisherman living and working in Mexico. A heavy drinker quick to pick up the tab, he had no family tying…

When I read “The Open Book” by Stephen Crane it was very long and I found the wording in the story a little difficult to understand. I had to reread a few sentence and look up some of the words. However the complicated words didn’t stop me from reading the story because I was really into it. I wanted to know what was going to happen to these four men because Crane kept the readers at suspense as to what was going to happen to the four men. At first I thought these men were doomed that they would…

Walter Crane. Crane’s illustrations are of the moment Bluebeard’s wife leaves her company to go down the stairs to check out the forbidden room, Bluebeard’s wife pleading for forgiveness, and Bluebeard’s wife opening the forbidden door. Through various illustrations Crane creates meaning through symbols that supplement the written text. Crane illustrates the scene where Bluebeard’s wife leaves her company to go down the stairs. Crane’s illustration is an allusion to original sin. Crane…

Often times, the definition of a true “revolution” may seem rather skewed. Societies have the tendency to label certain changes as complete revolutions, even though not much among the people may have changed. The historian Crane Brinton believes that a true revolution is one in which there is “an overall restructuring of the political, social, and economic fabric of a society”. The definition that Brinton provides perfectly fits with the story of the American revolution. The American revolution…

"Untitled" by Stephen Crane enlightens the reader on how the emotions of a human heart can consume one's own conscience and how one must come to love their attributes good or bad. Crane begins the poem with symbolism relating to the original form of a human being. " I saw a creature, naked, bestial". The man is not masked with materialistic items that might cause confusion towards the image of the man. The man is in his purest form is free from the interpretation of his clothing that might be…

My short story’s name is “The Crane Man” set in the Great Depression in Vietnam before the August Revolution. The story targets the farmer class during the Great Depression. It discusses about ordeals, which they had to go through, as well as the forlornness, which they had to bite their lips and endure. The story is narrated in first person point of view, which is the view of The Teacher. Peculiarly, characters in my story do not have specific names. They are called by their characteristics,…

The Crane family consists of Carol (23, a program director), Hunter (3), and Olivia (infant). Carol is a single mother living in the inner city under very poor conditions. Although she has a job, she barely makes ends meet and receives federal assistance for her children. Carol has decided to see a counselor for counseling due to the inadequatecy and failure she feels as a mother. In addition, as result of Olivia’s respiratory problems and low birth weight(LBW) diagnosis at her concerns are…

Kansas v Crane I. Synopsis Based off the 1997 previous case of Kansas v Hendricks that upheld the constitutionality of the Kansas Sexually Predator Act that confined persons who were likely to engage in sexual violence. In upholding the constitutionality, the court deemed that sexual offender confinement would now be considered civil instead of criminal. So when Michael Crane, who previously was a sex offender who had a mental abnormality was committed, the court found him to civil confinement.…