The Howling

The Struggle of the American Dream From the 1800’s to the 1900’s, many pieces of literary work explain the significance of the American dream in many different ways. The American dream was not always a success for some. The cause of failure of the American dream can be described as “the level of subconscious hopes, illusions and individual ideals.” (Schestakov). As a result, while the American dream is a reality for most, for some, it 's only an illusion or an imaginary dream people can only…

Captivity in Different Eras At first glance, one might assume that an author publishing her works in 1682 would have no realistic chance of sharing a common message as a man publishing his story one hundred and seventy-three years later in 1855. However, captivity narratives have been popular topics throughout history which enjoyed a wide readership. Despite their separation in in the gulf of time, Mary Rowlandson and Herman Melville shared similar experiences in witnessing captivity at the…

Rhetorical Skills in “Votes for Women”: Not Diverse, Still Well Used I was given an assignment to analyze the background history and the rhetorical skills used in a speech that I selected. The one I picked was a speech called “Votes for Women” by Mark Twain and the reason why I picked this is because both The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that he wrote are the two of my most favorite novels, and the speech itself also looked interesting in terms of both…

Howling at Moloch Examining a poem and a film in detail to find how they each work as individual pieces and how they function together helps to better understand them. The 1968 poem, Howl by Allen Ginsberg, was the basis for the 2010 film by the same name, which was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. One of the main themes throughout both the poem and the film was Moloch. The author introduces Moloch in his poem as a metaphor for all the terrible things that separate humanity from…

environment. This scene will have a dark backdrop, with a moon on the top left hand corner. The lighting required for this scene will be a blue mixed with green and black tints of lighting along with a fog machine and sounds of groans and a bit of howling of wind to give the scene an ominous feel. The stage will have four actors upon a synthetic stone front faced platform giving the looking of a castle lookout. With the use of a holographic machine we have the ghost of the late King Hamlet…

Once upon a time in a land far away, A duke named Theseus, the most prestigious of Athens, was due to marry the love of his live, Hippolyta. To celebrate he planned to throw a large festival. Whilst working on the plans, a fellow nobleman, Egeus, entered with his daughter Hermia and two other men. Egeus explained that out of the two men, one, Demetrius, was due to marry Hermia. This would all have gone to plan if it wasn’t for Lysander, the man Hermia had fallen in love with. To resolve the…

Just like the news mentioned Puerto Rico was devastated. The island was no more. With debris all over the island and no green grass or trees. Upon approach to the gate of my home, there they were, my beautiful dogs were alright. My dogs were howling wagging their tails with…

George MacDonald’s works are known for their uses of Biblical symbolism. MacDonald’s works are a product of his calling to reawaken the perishing Christian faith (Scorgie 108). MacDonald started his ministry as a pastor in Scotland; but still feeling the calling of God, he started to use the medium of artistic writing to help revitalize the Christian faith (Scorgie 108). MacDonald is even known for influencing some of the greatest Christian writers of today, including the very famous C.S. Lewis.…

smokeless—and therefore fruitless—fire, Piggy harshly chastises the other boys: “The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach. It wasn’t half cold down there in the night. But the first time Ralph says ‘fire’ you [the boys] goes howling and screaming up this here mountain. Like a pack of kids!” (Golding 45) Piggy’s fierce outburst (despite he himself being socially weak) demonstrates his pragmatic nature and his self-restraint, as Piggy himself did not participate…

As I swished the paddle through the lake and back up, I felt the warm sunshine against my face, and cold little sprinkles of water on my hand, it felt as if someone sprinkling a salt shaker on my hand. I looked up from the water to see the air filled with beautiful green trees staring back at me. I could just smell the aroma of bushy pines. I could hear the voices of other kids and parents talking. I looked back down at Glendale lake and saw a bundle of small gray fish swimming through the…