Present tense Essays

I have always been interested in digging out more information about the conflicts that is happening right now in the Middle East. What is the root cause of all the chaos? Why does it last so long and doesn’t seem to end? Why do the world leaders allow it to happen and pretend there is nothing wrong? No matter how much research is done, nobody can experience is worse than the innocent civilians who are greatly affected by the tragedy. One of the tragedies that happened was the Lebanese Civil War

year ends, they becomes less and less verbose. The quatrain describes how quickly the year's gone by, how time has almost disappeared because the student was so preoccupied with his work. The quatrain is in present tense and late in the school year. The second quatrain is also in present tense, like the first quatrain the second one describes a lot of the troubles

Abstract: This article explores and analyzes the roles of Identity, Gender and Racism as depicted by Alice Walker, mainly in her novel The Color Purple. Alice Walker has been a prolific and highly respected writer. She became internationally known in the 1980s with the publication of The Color Purple and its subsequent film release. In the novel, Walker deals with the powerful, expressive fiction about the black woman’s struggle for survival, wholeness, and sexual, political, and racial equality

Robert Browning rested during the Victorian age, such an age where love co-shadowed with confusion, religion and unrest. To the extent, Robert Browning is a poet of enthusiasm and love. Browning’s works portray the various thoughts of emotion, whether it is the simplicity of the spiritual love or the complexity of the thoughts and nature of love in Porphyria’s lover and in My Last Duchess. To portray a comparison between Porphyria’s lover and My Last Duchess it is important to perceive the common

Ready Player One - “Fireflies” The book Ready Player One is a sci-fi fiction novel set in the near future - 28 years in the future, to be exact, written by Ernest Cline. The song “Fireflies” is a song written by Adam Young, a synthpop with a medium tempo, three and a half minutes long and with lyrics throughout. “Fireflies” is a song that centers on a dream world - not being able to fall asleep at night, having very vivid dreams, and feeling as if they could come true; while Player is about a virtual

My Learning Summary What I Have Learned About Writing Notably, during this semester, I have learned about the importance of the first word of a paragraph and the last words. While looking back at my older essays I noticed in my first essay I wrote for this class, Giving Opportunity, I began my first paragraph with “during”. If I were to re-write that essay, keeping in mind the importance of the first word, I would begin my essay with “traveling”. Another lesson I have learned is that good writing

American's Lady otherwise known as Wynette, Texas series is a series of novels by Susan Elizabeth Phillips the American bestselling contemporary romance author. The debut novel in the series was the 1987 published Glitter Baby that was first published in 1987. Since then the author went on to write several more titles in the still ongoing series. As a writer Phillips has been writing contemporary romance with her unique combination of emotion and humor since the early 1980s. Susan was born to John

Emily Dickinson was a poet who wrote over 1,800 poems mostly about death even though she was young. Emily Dickinson’s writing was different than many other poets in the 19th century. Dickinson’s writing incorporated her emotions, metaphors, broken rhyming meter, use of dashes, and intentional capitalization unnecessary words. Dickinson’s fascination in nature that is exposed through her continues theme of nature’s beauty and the gothic movement in 19th century England most heavily influenced Dickinson’s

poet supports her theme by describing how teenagers are being affected, establishing a social conflict of false need to achieve trends by identifying motifs for teenager’s actions, incorporating the use of life experiences from the past to the present tense and finalizing with a shift to highlight positivity in change of habit. Baird’s purpose is to illustrate a major conflict among young women who are being affected by social idolization of being skinny. She creates a mood of hopeful in order to

Literary Analysis of The Swimmer Thesis: Cheever uses symbolism, imagery, and tone to convey the theme of narcissism and suburban emptiness during the 1960’s. Symbolism Pools Storms Seasons End of youth Decline Imagery Setting Characters Tone Conclusion: Cheever’s use of literary devices drives the plot of the delusion of suburban emptiness. Literary Analysis of The Swimmer The Swimmer by John Cheever was published in 1964. The short story show the reader the emptiness many experienced

In most books that people read, there is always a certain character that everyone loves because of the humor that they bring to the plot of the story. For Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, that certain character is Mercutio, one of Romeo’s best friends. For Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, that character is Percy Jackson, a son of Poseidon, God of the Seas. These two characters have a lot in common, and they also have their differences, other than age of course. Percy

Love. The sole word generates depictions of passionate acts, entwined lovers, romantic glimpses, murmured expressions of compliment, and an all-embracing sentiment that exceeds the corporeal. In Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover’ and E.E Cummings “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond” love is theorized as a play of power where lovers assume active and passive roles based on their dominance within the relationship. By juxtaposing Browning’s passive male speaker who cannot accept the

Simultaneity in fiction chronicles the same events from different perspectives all with conflicting, but correct accounts. David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest collects addiction narratives where characters all suffer from similar archetypical human urges. At first glance, they compose a Stand Alone Complex, their actions uninfluenced by a sole originator, but nevertheless still capable of combining into a collective narrative that manifests in physical change. Their lives are chronicled unrooted

The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams 1944 The text The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams written in 1944 is a semi-autographical drama written in play form. The text can be conveyed differently by two different readers supposing one reader is from 2016 and the other is from 1944. Many of the symbolism used in the drama would represent something different depending on the time era. For example back then Laura couldn’t be what she wanted to be, today on the other hand Laura could be a secretary

been deeply in love with Alaska since the moment he met her: “And I said, ‘Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,’ and the Colonel whispered, ‘I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,’ and I said, ‘No. Not past tense.’ She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense,” (Page 152). Right after Alaska had died in a car accident, Pudge was overwhelmed with grief and sadness. However, The Colonel helps him realize that he was in love with the idea of being with Alaska, but

shifts it causes concern within the town. Faulkner focuses the story on Emily’s mental collapse and the popularity conversion among the town habitats to isolation. Faulkner does not rely on a conventional linear approach to present his characters’ live. Alternatively he presents, a fractured and manipulated time structure that describes Emily’s life through a sequence of flashbacks. Faulkner displays two visions of time along the story, one is based on the objectivity of reality, in which time moves

Midterm Essays Luke Kaiser “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver is a story about a struggling relationships end. The story is short yet meaningful. A couple seems to be breaking up and fighting over who has possession of the child. This is what drives the plot of the story. “Popular Mechanics” uses a very real problem with stock characters to allow the reader to fill in the blank of what is happening based off of their own views/experiences. This means that when the reader tries to understand what

“Solitary the thrush, the hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, sings by himself a song,” (Lilacs, stanza 4, line 3-5). The author creates an image of being in solitude usually occur when someone purposely wants to be left alone, or at times when it is unintentional. Throughout Whitman’s poems, a different tone is depicted, but in some, they share the similarity in tone. Walt Whitman uses the symbolism of nature to depict his loneliness. One part of nature is the animals, Whitman

various colors; the bear is still, fierce, relentless, and menacing. Both of the creatures are frightening, scary, terrifying, for which humanity several times has been tempted to go back. Soon after that, a lion, head-on and with a rabid hunger, presents in front of Dante. The Dantescan lion seems alive, real, as if you could see it. We cannot say the same about the lion in the mosaic, as the second fair was ruined by man. In fact, we can only identify the hind limb, tail and thigh, which seem like

As I stepped out onto the field, my gaze drifted upward. The sky was speckled with millions of tiny, glittering stars. We were so isolated out here that even the Milky Way was visible. I had never seen it in person before. That’s just one of those things that only happens at camp, the most magical place I know. Still admiring the constellation, I took a deep breath of cool mountain air and started walking. Under the dim light, I could see the faint features of my cabin mates and my counselors. Even