Figure 8 Essays

The character role of Blanche in the play, A Streetcar Named Desire was full of fantasy and delusion where Stella and Stanley started to live a life in romance. The place names were real, the journey foreshadowed Blanche’s psyche orientation throughout the play. Blanche’s desires had led her down paths of bad sexual relation and alcoholism, and by making contact with the Kowalski; she had crossed the limit. Blanche’s desire to escape made her to isolate from the world around her. By the end of the

The hero's journey is a pattern of human life. Every man has a story to tell and this is mine. Let's start from the very beginning. I was a normal Georgian boy. I planned to study in a normal school, have average grades and get an average job to be able to sustain my family. In other words, live an average life of an average human. I had no enthusiasm, no motivation of achieving something exceptional in my life. However, there came a moment when everything started slowly changing. Up to the age

A virtuous hero is someone who, despite the odds, follows their morals. Virtue itself is not born into a person, but is a choose everybody has. In life not everyone is born into a positive environment or family, but they can choose to be virtuous, or not. Similarly people who were born into privilege can still choose the wrong path. The choose to be virtuous is not easy;it requires sacrifice, and there is temptation to do what is easy and go against set morals. Being virtuous, however, does not automatically

In the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger readers are introduced to a young man named Holden Caulfield who introduces himself and begins to tell his story of how and why he left his school; Pencey Prep. In the story, Holden explains how he is being kicked out of school and doesn't want his parents to know and so leaves school early. throughout the story, Holden explains what happens to him before he must go home and act like he is home from school for a break instead of being kicked out. When

The Lightning Thief is a fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology. It explores Greek mythology in a modern setting but, it does so as a humorous work of fantasy. It is the first novel in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It is a modern retelling of the Classical hero’s quest. It is perfectly paced, with electrifying moments chasing each other like heartbeats, and mysteries opening out in sequence. The Lightning Thief is an “An adventure-quest with a hip edge” (School Library Journal

Why walking is better than running? As a human you started to crawl in the beginning and then slowly you started stand and then to walk. As you grow you are committed to your work and other activities which have reduced your walking practices. Everyone usually needs some reason to walk and to do exercise. Yes, it is true that many among us walk nowadays because their doctors have advised them to do so. Do you know that, walking is the only simple exercise which can be regularly followed by everyone

Inner Conflict The nature of an inner conflict can vary from culture to culture, but one aspect that we can all agree on, is that inner conflict is the emotional and mental battle one has with him/herself. Whether it be an ethical or moral dilemma, it is the tiresome and difficult struggle one has to face when battling his problems, queries and insecurities. The main purpose of inner conflict in the novel Catcher in the Rye, is to reveal to the audience Holden's insecurities and doubts he faces with

Everyone holds a place in their heart where they find themselves the happiest, the most comfortable, and the most themselves. What is your special place? One place where I find I can clear my mind and let go of everything is the cold setting of the Rim Park volleyball courts. The countless hours that I spend within the complex remind me of what I have been through during provincials, and reminds me of the many things that contribute to make my special place a whole. When I reflect on the place I

In the past few years, the government has been encouraging the use of computers in teaching and learning and has spent millions of dollars on purchasing both hardware and software for schools. The educational merits of information technology have been thoroughly debated. While some educators welcome new facilities that provide an alternative learning platform, others doubt the pedagogical value of using computers in lessons. This paper examines both the arguments for and against using computers in

Psychosocial Assessment: Summary When preparing to complete this assignment I had several road blocks. The first one was figuring out how to format the assessment, and what assessment style to use. St. Francis has a couple of assessments that they use, but they require training that I have not use completed. St. Francis is also in the process of update the assessments, and even pondering the idea of bringing in new ones. After I had completed this assignment, my supervisor told me that I would be

The earliest references to using drugs for this purpose date back almost three thousand years to the first Olympics, when competitors boosted their testosterone levels by eating crushed sheep testicles.(eBook). The doping in sports controversy began when athletes from all sports have made their intentions clear--they intend to use performance-enhancing substances no matter how severe the punishments(Cashmore 1). Doping in sports became a problem because doping jeopardizes the health of the athlete

Traits, they can be imperative in a child’s life. Some traits define whom the people persist up to whom they will become. Most of the people who obtain the ability in the development of these traits onto a road of success aren’t aware they carry such power. These traits develop a mindset; a mindset that helps a child’s brain through development into not only wanting to yet, in fact, accomplishing the strive for success. Many of the people don’t realize or are being misinformed of such aspects in

The Hero’s Journey in Into the Woods The world is an objective place. Yet, each person’s individual world is extremely subjective. Mythology gives life meaning; the way in which it affects each person depends on their views of the world. In the musical Into the Woods, the Baker and the Baker’s Wife go into the woods to complete their quest. The Baker is the hero, and his journey integrates those of several other fairy tales. Each fairy tale character in this show has their own reason to go into

“How am I going to finish this in time?” I ask myself. “What if I just…no, I would never. Well, it would save me some time,” I ponder as I drift off to sleep. What is the line between right and wrong. Cheating seems to be a vague one to me. I mean, I just need a little help to get me started. As they say, the internet is a mighty source of power, why not use it? “Where am I?” I call into the darkness. Waiting for an answer, I begin to fret. “Is there anyone there?” the phrase comes out

Tuesdays With Morrie is a heart wrenching philosophical movie about a rekindled relationship between a former student Mitch Albom and his college professor Morrie Schwartz, who’s dying from ALS. Every Tuesday, Mitch visits his college professor and learns a valuable lesson on some of the most complex problems life has to offer such as dependency and fear. Throughout the film, there were numerous amount of quotes that represented a significant lesson regarding life, but there were three in particular

Advantages of Online Education It’s not difficult to see why online learning has become so popular when you consider the many reasons why people choose to take an online course instead of more traditional methods of study. Some of the advantages are listed below.  Greater choice One of the major advantages of online learning is that students aren’t required to travel to an institution, and can learn from their home at the click of a button. In the age of online learning, students can study at top

Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help develop and inform the text's major themes. One of the prominent themes in the novel The Catcher in the Rye and one of great interest to the narrator himself, would be the omnipresent theme of death. It could be argued that the novel is not only full of references to death in the literal sense, physical disappearance, but also in the metaphorical, taking the form of spiritual disappearance, something which Holden often

Fairy tales are characterized by their happy endings. In “Briar Rose” by the Grimm Brothers this is seen in Briar Rose’s marriage to the prince. Jane Yolen’s version of Briar Rose, however, differs greatly from the Grimm Brothers’ in answering what a happy ending implies. Yolen does not shy away from the trauma that Gemma, a Holocaust survivor, endures and subsequently, how it changes the way she deals with her past. In her version of Briar Rose, she transforms into a princess woken by true love’s

The American Dream has forever been a controversial topic in which it is either achievable or not and it all matters on the perspective it is looked at, to the upper-class it is very well achievable as they might already be there but to the lower class it is not. The novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the portrayal of the American Dream and how it appears to represent liberty and the capability to make people wealthy through determination and hard work, but exposes the truth behind

The Living Situation Affects Carrie’s Moral Judgements In Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Carrie Meeber, a poor young provincial girl without too much life and working experience, comes to alluring Chicago alone. She is with hope and dream. She wants live in a high level life in urban, yet she must suit the law of the jungle. At the same time, she has to face two choices: “Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, to rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes