Whitman

Rags to riches, power, voyage, and tragedy are common themes in The Great Gatsby, O Captain, My Captain!, and The Open Boat. In The Great Gatsby, death represents unfulfilled goals, while for both O Captain, My Captain! and The Open Boat represents that a sacrifice must be made. In all three pieces of literature involved the theme of herculean effort, which represents that giving your all does not guarantee accomplishing your goal. Lastly, the three text utilized the theme, dynamics of social…

Transcendentalism began in the late 1820s and was influenced by other movements such as Romanticism. Romanticism and Transcendentalism can be seen throughout the poems Thanatopsis, written by William Cullen Bryant, and Song of Myself, written by Walt Whitman, respectively. The tenets of Romanticism can be seen be analyzing Thanatopsis, Transcendentalism and its tenets are shown in Song of Myself, and both can be seen to be very similar. Thanatopsis is very clearly a Romantic poem. Many, if not…

my Captain! our fearful trip is done;” () We assumed that the “ Capitan” is a metaphor for Lincoln because, a Captain is a leader and the poem was written after the assassination. “The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,”() Whitman great imagery details makes us to connect with the glory, cheer and the yelling from the people from the excitements to share the victory with people. But, in the second stanza the rhythm changed from excitement to sadness. “But O heart! heart!…

An accomplished writer of short stories, poetry, plays, essays, autobiographies, editor, and children's book author, he is most known for his poetry. Hughes is often seen as the primary African-American poet of the twentieth century because of his ability to capture the Harlem Renaissance and the period of the blues in his writings. His poems “Too Blue,” “Ballad of the Landlord,” and “The Weary Blues” show his style of rhyming, making them almost song-like. His style of using rhythms and…

Environmentalist ideas have been present in literature and art for centuries, with landscapes scenes and the appreciation of nature depicted in the brushstrokes of Patenir or the poems of Whitman. It was not until the late 1940s, however, that the modern environmental movement began to take shape with the passing of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the first federal regulation legislation passed to monitor water quality. Since then, environmentalism has blossomed from that single piece…

In the book, The Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins, the author revolves predominantly around multiple students at Whitman high school, though it also introduces other people as the story progresses. In this work of literature, Robbins uses the lives of many students to portray the life of “overachievers,” students who pride themselves in working countless hours through a laundry list of extracurriculars and the “intensifying pressures to succeed and the drive of overachievers culture” (15).…

In 1955, Rosa Parks committed the most recognized act of civil disobedience in American history. She directly went against the law to pave a path of justice for her people, by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, and dealt with the consequence of her actions. This idea of civil disobedience came directly from transcendentalism. Many times, transcendentalists looked to find a higher power than society and tradition, to seek a higher truth. Civil Disobedience did the same by transcending a law…

There are three hundred million people living in the United States. However, not all of them are deemed to be American. Being an American is more than where you live, it is how you act, how you take care of your surroundings, and how you treat others around you. Being an American is not just being born in the United States, it is more of showing that you are grateful to be here, whether it is as small as taking your hat off during the national anthem or as big as fighting for the country. There…

Before we analyse eBay’s source of competitive advantage, it is crucial for us to use Porter’s five-forces model of industry competition to examine eBay’s external environment forces that are affecting its profitability (Dess et al., 2014, chapter 2). These five forces are as follows: 1. The threat of new entrants 2. The bargaining power of buyers 3. The bargaining power of suppliers 4. The threat of substitute products and services 5. The intensity of rivalry among competitors in an industry…

that you are not allowed to have guns on them. If we look at the massacre that occurred at the University of Texas in 1966 Charles Whitman entered the tower on campus and started sniping students. In arming the good guys Grant Arnold talks about how students and civilian went to their vehicles and laid down suppressing fire in order to limit the damage that Whitman could inflect (Arnold, 2015). This showed that armed civilians could limit the damage that a terrorist can do, if they are armed.…