The Tempest

overall moments that went from bliss to an over whelming fear for our lives. The essays of choice that served as a bases for forming a universal theme were, "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams, offering a look in to cancer as it is now an epidemic. The second essay was a little dry despite the title "Holy Water," by Joan Didion, I felt while it was universal it did not capture my interest enough to feel the passion spilled…

merican author and activist, Terry Tempest Williams, in her personal essay, “The Clan of the One-Breasted Women”, criticizes the United States government for its deceitful doings and the adverse causes and effects nuclear testing has on the human population. Williams’ purpose is to reflect on why so many of her family members and people living in Utah were diagnosed with cancer, and the beliefs she held before her revolution. She adopts a haunting tone in order to convey to her readers the…

uses the literary technique of a metaphor, in which she compares the battling forces of America to the Greek forces of Eolus, King of the Winds: “How pour her armies through a thousand gates: As when Eolus heaven’s fair face deforms, Enwrapped in tempest and a night of storms” (Wheatley 362). This metaphor adds to the tone of the poem and prepares the reader for the poetic language in reference to the military: "first in peace" and “great chief” to refer to Washington as the commander-in-chief…

I have always been interested in Shakespeare; however, not until now, did I start to wonder if all this famous literature I have been reading, had not been attributed to the person I’ve always thought it was? This project will help me identify important facts and theories to who the true author is of what we call “Shakespearean Works.” Starting off, I’ve always believed that William Shakespeare authored his works but I did not actually read any of his works before so this may change by the end…

raven flies in; the narrator began asking the bird questions to witch it always responded “Nevermore” as the poem goes on the speaker gets more aggravated and it becomes obvious that he is not sane as he yells at the bird “ get thee back into the tempest and the nights plutonian shore!” (Poe…

The title of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is ironically a quote from another author. However, said author is the great Shakespeare. Huxley uses a line from Shakespeare’s The Tempest in a masterful way. John the Savage quotes the play’s line “O brave new world that has such people in it” (139). This simple phrase is not only a driving factor of the novel, but a philosophical adventure. John the Savage says these lines at first with hope and enthusiasm. His ideal world is at his hands, and he…

Aaron Torres Gonzalez Professor Burns Bus 117 08/01/2017 My Cousin Vinny “My Cousin Vinny” begins with two students who are from New York deciding to road trip all the way to go to UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) where they will be attending school. However on their way to their future school they stop at a gas station and then are later arrested for the murder of the convenience store clerk. They are mistaken for somebody else who committed the crime but are an example of bad…

Thanatos is the motivation or desire to escape and therefore this completion of oblivion seems to conclude the poem. Further the ‘tempest’ brought Thomas a vision of nature of both life and death as it ‘tells me [him]’ and gives him a glimpse of death, which is at once a ‘bleak’ sense of consolidation. The epiphany that Thomas experiences gives this sense of awareness of mortality and the value of life. The oblivion of death is contrasted with the gift of life as Thomas describes himself as…

Colossus” which are inscribed on perhaps our nation’s most recognizable symbol: The Statue of Liberty. “Give me your tired, your poor, /Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, /The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, /Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me: /I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” If we wish to stand by our principles that we founded our nation on, we must help the Syrian people. Their homes have been destroyed by the very force we hope to expel from the world.…

while referencing a ‘lionlimb’. Again, the paradox arrives in the contrast of unfathomable and destructive feelings to the basal and primal nature of destruction for the poet. From Hopkins’ words: ‘darksome devouring eyes’, ‘bruised bones’, and ‘tempest’ we see the figurative language of loss and damage. By using these concrete expressions of damage, we are able to see it in relation to his physical and emotional state being damaged at the hands of ‘Despair’. Unpack…