William S. Burroughs

Noof Ahmed Ms. Messer Honors ENG11C October 15, 2017 “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost Robert frost is a male writer who wrote “The Road Not Taken”. He was from America, born in San Francisco, California. He was the only American writer in his time. His passion in high school was writing .Robert was an intelligent guy. For collage he was studying in Harvard University but then dropped out, to help his mother in things like teaching. After collage he moved to England where he wrote…

works “Musee des Beaux Arts,” “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus,” and “To A Friend Whose Work has Come to Triumph,” the authors use the myth of Icarus and Daedalus as this backdrop. Auden, Williams, and Sexton use the myth of Icarus as comparisons in their poems, but for different reasons. The authors, Auden, Williams, and Sexton, allude to this myth in their poems to either show Icarus’ story in its insignificance or in its triumph. In W.H. Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts,” he uses the myth of…

big important people in everything. For example, these people exist in sports, businesses, and even poetry. The American poet, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), was one of the four major American poets or in other words, one of the big guys. Williams always loved literature; however, he went to medical school in hopes of becoming a physician. Despite his schooling, Williams still enjoyed writing. With his love of writing and physician degree, he really had a huge effect with the style, this…

City, after Carlisle Indian school, where she then became an assistant at the New York Public Library. At the time there were lots of known poets roaming the streets of Broadway, and so Marianne Moore got a chance to meet a few of them, like William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. She became friends and mentors to a lot of them. She served as acting editor of the Dial from 1925 to 1929. Along with the work of such other members of the Imagist movement as…

He, in opposition to Radical Republicans, agreed with Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan and pushed it forward. Johnson’s goal for Reconstruction was to see a speedy restoration of the states, believing that they had never truly left the Union, and thus should again be recognized as loyal citizens to the United States. To Johnson, African-American suffrage was a distraction, and it should be a state’s responsibility to decide who should vote. Johnson, pushing these policies through the government, gave…

His personality stands out as the gentle one of the gang, but he “was a good fighter and could play it cool, but he was sensitive and that isn't a good way to be when you're a greaser” (88). Ponyboy knows that Johnny could fight if he needed but Johnny says “fighting’s no good. . . .” (148). He believes that fighting does not answer the problems the greasers and the Socs have. Before Johnny died he wrote a note in Gone With the Wind and left the book for Ponyboy. His philosophy on fighting is…

Prompt & Utter Destruction is a book by J. Samuel Walker that details the events leading up the decision for the United States to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Narrative-like descriptions of cabinet meetings, personal diary entries of important players, and first-hand accounts from soldiers in the war are all artfully pieced together to recreate the story of Truman’s decision, overturning many common misconceptions about the era and presenting new…

Abraham Lincoln is known as one the most resilient presidents in the United States history. This was largely because of his triumph over adversity during one the most turbulent times in United States history: the American Civil War. Lincoln had many positive traits attributed to him by historians and the general public alike such as honesty, charisma, a silver tongue, and a sense of equality. While the previously mentioned traits helped Lincoln in his political career, Lincoln had to possess…

Britain for quick installation; after that it brought the mostly assembled cars back to the United States. In addition, the other influence of supply chain is that there is absolutely no inventory of Tesla, which means if people want to buy a Tesla Model S, they need to order it online first, and then the…

setting. The first chapter details the siege underway that has “the Confederate army, under the command of General Robert E. Lee…pinned inside the city [Petersburg, Virginia] for more than 250 days by Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant” (O’Reilly, Dugard 4). Grant believes that if Lee’s army is allowed to escape south to the Carolinas “a reunified United States of America” (4) will never be realized; “America will continue to be divided into a North and a South, a United…