The Satanic Verses

“The Writer” by Robert Wilbur portrays the speaker, a father, who sincerely hopes for his daughter’s success in her writing career as well as in her life. As, a writer himself, the speaker silently waits for his daughter in the staircase as he hears her struggle through her writing journey. Robert Wilbur, not only creates the title “the writer” to convey the audiences the daughter’s aspiration as a writer, but to convey that writing itself is a journey. Wilbur seems to direct this poem to other…

Walt Whitman wrote a poem about making connections from the perspective of a spider and his soul. Using both literal and figurative observations he shows the conflicts each face and how both overcome their difficulties. Why would his soul struggle to make connections? How will observing a spider help with this challenge when both are so different? What has impelled the poet to have an observer watch the spider? What significance does writing in the literal and then the figurative tense have on…

The poem “Good Hours” by Robert Frost is a poem that alludes the feeling of solitude and loneliness to its readers. Frost himself faced a great deal of heartbreak in his time. While “Good Hours” is one of his lesser known poems, it is no doubt beautiful and artistic in the least. Much like almost all of Frost’s poems, this poem uses nature to reveal and analyze the narrator’s feelings. Renowned poet, Robert Frost, in his poem, “Good Hours”, describes a scenic walk through a village on a winter…

between good and bad poetry. This example supports my assertion that although Moore portrayed humans as incoherent to comprehension, she is establishing advice within her own views of poetry. Another one of her poems “The Fish” is written in a syllabic verse with eight five-line stanzas with the syllabic pattern of 1, 3, 9, 6, 8. This organization supports the poems visual shape of the sea it describes. With this form of syntax, the movement of the poem is emphasized as “one keeps/ adjusting the…

The Indictment is movie that follows the prosecution of the Buckey and MacMartin family. The average family was being accused and tried for child abuse, child molestation, and even satanic rituals. The Buckey’s and MacMartin own a preschool in California where these allegations are said to be derived from. The first time these allegations came to light was when a mother of a child from the preschool, Judy Johnson, said her son was touched by Ray Buckey and also his father. From there,…

Cheryl had worked at a daycare along with her mother Violet Amirault. These two ladies were accused of rape along with Cheryl’s older brother Gerald Amirault. The children told the investigators they were tied to a tree naked attacked by a clown, raped with objects and forced to watch the Amiraults kill birds. Police closed the schools and called concerned parents to a meeting. They suggested that parents question their kids, specifically about a magic room, a secret room and a clown. But…

Most people will say that lying is never the answer, but they don’t always tell why. Lying often ends unethically, not only the can the lier be punished or feel guilty in the process, but it often goes further than anticipated. When looking back there seems to be more consequences on the result of the pretense than what the reward would have been if everything worked out and there was no lying. The Salem Witch Trials, the McCarthy Trials, and the McMartin Trials all proved that it is important…

Take a moment and look back on a memory that you would rather forget. Maybe you are picturing a relationship that ended badly, or perhaps the death of a family member. Maybe you are remembering a traumatic incident in your past, or maybe you are a war veteran trying not to relive the horrors of war. Regardless of the memory you have recalled, it is likely that, at some point in your life, you have come across one of these painful memories and wished there was a way to erase them from your mind.…

Prosecutors. 1. The text discusses the prosecutor’s office at work. From the tape, cite some examples of work issues related in the text. The prosecution office at work was a method used by the prosecution team to highlight certain photos and children’s accounts about alleged sexual abuse at the McMartin preschool to gather more evidence to convince the jury that defendant Ray Buckey was a sexual deviant, and that his family was guilty of similar actions. There are several examples or…

Elizabeth F. Loftus was born in Los Angeles, California on October 16, 1944. While studying to become a math teacher she discovered psychology. She received a BA in math and psychology. While at Stanford became interested in long term memory. She was an expert researcher on the malleability and reliability of repressed memories. Loftus’s work has made a huge contribution to psychology and opened a unique and controversial aspect of psychology and memory. She began her research with…