English
You can find material on EssaysForStudent.com to help you gain a better understanding of the intricacies of the English language. The language traces its roots back to the distant past and over 2 billion people speak it.
13,449 Essays on English. Documents 2,821 - 2,850
-
Critical Anylasis of Slaughter House Five
Critical Analysis # 1 A main issue that World War II raises for writers is how to represent the ultimately inexpressible horrors of that war and, at the same time, engage the reader in a talk that might create the savage indignation. In the novel "Slaughterhouse Five" Vonnegut has shown many themes and metaphorical issues of the time, this includes his participation in WW2 and his capture and imprisonment in the German city of Dresden.
Rating:Essay Length: 1,098 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: March 6, 2010 -
Critical Commentary on a Passage from Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Critical Commentary on a passage from Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee This passage starts with the words ‘as time goes on’ which suggests to the reader that something happened prior to this, but doesn’t explain what. Its goes on to explain that as the children grew up and left home, their mothers little habits got worse and worse. The writer gives good descriptions producing a visual imagery of these habits: ‘plant pots and newspapers
Rating:Essay Length: 1,135 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: February 7, 2010 -
Critical Commentary on a Passage from Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Critical Commentary on a passage from Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee This passage starts with the words ‘as time goes on’ which suggests to the reader that something happened prior to this, but doesn’t explain what. Its goes on to explain that as the children grew up and left home, their mothers little habits got worse and worse. The writer gives good descriptions producing a visual imagery of these habits: ‘plant pots and newspapers
Rating:Essay Length: 1,135 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: April 13, 2010 -
Critical Essay on for Whom the Bell Tolls
It takes a very talented writer to bring a work of fiction to life. Every single detail must have some minimal degree of appropriateness for the author to include it in his work, and this is especially true for Ernest Hemingway in the case of For Whom the Bell Tolls. The most prevailing theme in the novel is the loss of innocence in war, which, at some point during the story, happens to every character.
Rating:Essay Length: 1,324 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: December 21, 2009 -
Critical Essay on Jane Austen
As an extremely well versed (OK, modest) critic of English Literature and a fairly decent judge of people and character, I have chosen to write my critique, or paper, on a particularly good (a brewing controversy in some circles) author of the times. This particular author was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England on December 16, 1775 to a loving, well-educated, mother and father (1, page 1). Her loving parents did welcome this seventh (of eight)
Rating:Essay Length: 1,490 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: May 4, 2010 -
Critical Incident
3/24/05 Critical Incident I had the opportunity to look over the teacher’s grade book today, and noticed something disturbing to me: the homework section in the grade book were mostly blank spaces with marks down only a few names. For over the passed months, most of the students have not turned in their homework. There are a few that turn in their homework consistently and the rest have done nothing. I talked to my master
Rating:Essay Length: 399 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 10, 2009 -
Critical Interpretation of “the Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
Critical Interpretation of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost As a poem, “The Road Not Taken” is a great source of inspiration and able to be understood by all readers from an intuitive reader to a novice poem reader. A short poem with 4 sections, Robert Frost has given the main theme of the poem in its title, “The Road Not Taken.” Depending on the reader, the “road not taken” can ultimately imply any
Rating:Essay Length: 396 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: May 31, 2010 -
Critical Lens
Bravery and conscience take many forms, but the general perception of these qualities is a lack of fear in the face of danger, or the willingness to confront danger without regard for one’s own life. However, one’s life does not need to be at stake in order to be considered brave. Conscience, the ability to distinguish between right and wrong and to act upon that, to do what is right, and what is virtuous, even
Rating:Essay Length: 794 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: December 12, 2009 -
Critical Lens Essay
Accomplishment by definition means the completion or fulfillment of something. That definition tends to vary sometimes depending on the person life. An achievement is not only as a trophy but it is more of a moral value than anything. Two pieces of writing that illustrate this is the poem “soybeans” and Shirley Jackson’s narrative “fame”. The characters in both passages have some sort of achievement to their name. In “fame” the author takes pride in
Rating:Essay Length: 535 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 29, 2009 -
Critical Lens Essay - Macbeth, Animal Farm
William Faulkner once said, “The best literature is about the universal truth such as love, honor, pride, compassion, and sacrifice.” I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. Love, honor, pride, compassion, and sacrifice are the key elements for great literature both new and old. These elements keep the story intriguing and helps keep the reader thriving for more. For several reasons “The best literature is about the universal truth such as love, honor, pride, compassion, and
Rating:Essay Length: 470 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 8, 2009 -
Critical Lens Essay on Othello
Adrienne Rich once said, “Lying is done with words but also with silence”. This means that lying isn’t only when one tells something false, but also when one does not speak at all, the truth included. This is generally true. A text that illustrates this quote would have characters who do not reveal the truth at a time when doing so would be important. Othello by William Shakespeare satisfies this quote with characters like Emilia
Rating:Essay Length: 504 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 15, 2010 -
Critical Notes on Macbeth
Ч sleep: most vulnerable, innocent and yet prone to nightmare and hidden desires and fears; the dark, unconscious, unknown, uncontrolled and yet necessary realm of experience Ч struggle between conscious and unconscious; controlled and uncontrolled behavior Ч equivocation--the porter; fair is foul; confusion; dreams equivocate; ghosts; witches; prophcies; bubbles in the earth; equivocation of the fiend V.vi. 43 Ч tyranny and tyrannicide...problem of evil; integrity, saving faith; mistrust--Noriega, Cieaucescu Ч nature, kindness, growth, fertility, chain
Rating:Essay Length: 494 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 6, 2009 -
Critical Paper About Mi Ultimo Adios
Allan Gabriel J. Magpantay July 31, 2017 Image result for borders png ABM 12 – 1 21st Century Literature Critical Paper about Mi Ultimo Adios “To die is to rest” Death is a process. No matter what our beginning is, the end will always be death. The fact that, death has so many questions unanswered leaves us uninformed of what is coming next. It might me today, tomorrow or any other day of the week.
Rating:Essay Length: 1,301 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: August 2, 2017 -
Critical Response - Self Esteem
Critical Response- Self Esteem Nathan McCall’s Makes Me Wanna Holler points to the issue of self esteem. Self esteem issues arise throughout the novel and repeatedly suggest that McCall battled serious self esteem matters. He doesn’t seem to realize the extent of the inner problems he is dealing with. Self esteem is an influencing issue across all contexts. Malcolm, Beloved, and Buns, from the movie Belly, deal with their own issues of self esteem as
Rating:Essay Length: 977 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 23, 2009 -
Critical Response Paper to King’s "the Body"
Critical Response Paper to King’s “The Body” Stephen King’s “The Body” is a story about four friends who overhear from an older child that a body was hit by a train and is located in the woods. This sparks the interest of the young children and they venture out to experience this dead body first hand. Upon first reading the novel, it seems as though this story is nothing more than a simple journey with
Rating:Essay Length: 801 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 27, 2009 -
Critical Review
Introduction For this session of critical thinking, we have been given the task to evaluate 2 articles that has the same core subject of implementing a specific curfew time for teenagers living Down under (example : Australia ). The first article, entitled “It’s 11pm. The cops know where your child is” was written by an anonymous writer with the benefit of being anonymous, the writer has expressed his/her feelings regarding the redundancy of the idea
Rating:Essay Length: 964 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: April 8, 2010 -
Critical Review
Comparative reviews are typically more difficult to write than regular reviews. Instead of sizing the merits of one item, you're evaluating the details of two, pitting their qualities both with industry expectations and against one another. It's a tricky piece of writing to pursue and one that you should carefully handle in order to guarantee the most ideal results. RELATED ARTICLES How to Write a Compare and Contrast Essay Impress people through Compare and Contrast
Rating:Essay Length: 551 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 6, 2013 -
Critical Review on Daniel Defoe’s “robinson Crusoe”
Critical Review on Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” Daniel Defoe tells tale of a marooned individual in order to criticize society. By using the Island location, similar to that of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Defoe is able to show his audience exactly what is necessary for the development of a utopian society. In The Tempest, the small society of Prospero’s island addresses the aspects of morality, the supernatural and politics in the larger British society. In Defoe’s
Rating:Essay Length: 1,343 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: May 15, 2010 -
Critical Reviews: Frankenstein
Christianne Finlay Section 16 Denise Scagliotta Critical Reviews on Frankenstein: 19th Century Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, was reviewed critically after it’s first publication in 1818. There are three specific reviews that are of some importance, in that all of these reviews look at the educational and social aspects and impacts of the novel. At the time, there was crisis as to how educated the working and middle class should be and
Rating:Essay Length: 310 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: March 29, 2010 -
Critical Thinking and Language Essay
Critical Thinking and Language Essay The importance of language is immense, as it is believed that the more languages that one knows, the more he or she is capable of. Language is used to communicate by speaking, listening, reading and writing although none of these come close to the most important aspect of language. Language allows us as human beings to think. With language out of the picture one would not be able to think
Rating:Essay Length: 906 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 18, 2009 -
Critical Thinking and Language Essay
Part I-Metaphors Several years ago, I took a cruise trip with a close friend to the Bahamas. It was very fascinating and a wonderful experience. During the day, the ocean/sea was as blue as the sky on a nice day. As I looked down into the ocean I saw my reflection as if I were looking upon a mirror. I find that when looking upon the ocean and watching the waves interact with one another,
Rating:Essay Length: 830 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: January 30, 2010 -
Critical Thinking and Language Essay
Critical Thinking and Language Essay By Bobby Pearson University of Pennsylvania Shari Muench PHL 251 August 27, 2006 Critical Thinking and Language Essay 2 One Metaphor that my mom used for me was that she called me a “couch potato.” My mom called me a couch potato because she says that I stay on the couch all the time looking at television. Well I do. I would get off of work at seven in the
Rating:Essay Length: 1,359 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: February 7, 2010 -
Critical Thinking Simulation
This simulation was great in defining critical thinking and the importance of it. It was somewhat challenging because it placed me in a situation to where I was hired as a manager for a 3 billion dollar company that had several problems that needed to be identified and resolved in a short amount of time. It was also good because I was able to go back and repeat it until I reached the point
Rating:Essay Length: 747 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: February 25, 2010 -
Criticism on Sula
Despite the name and approach of the novel, Sula consist of three main protagonists: Shadrack, Sula/Nel and the black people who live in the community of Medallion. All three protagonists are bind together to form a center focus (Reddy 3). Reading Sula, readers may apply that the novel is based on only Sula’s actions and her unorthodox behavior she presents. She follows her instant passion unaware of the effect it may have on other people’s
Rating:Essay Length: 630 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
Critique ( Choices)
Choices The Emperors Club was an enjoyable movie about decisions torn between good and bad. This movie is not your average teacher and student film. In most films the teacher who is trying to better the rebellious students always turn out in a happy ending, but not in The Emperor’s Club. The choices that had to be made in this film were somewhat different. The teacher goes against his better judgement and does what
Rating:Essay Length: 948 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 15, 2009 -
Critique of a Study; Muscle Dysmorphia - Excellent Paper
Last year a study was performed to examine a model for the development of muscle dysmorhpia among male college athletes. The model is known as the Lantz, Rhea, and Mayhew Model and it describes the relationship between pre-disposing factors for the development of muscle dysmorphia and the negative consequences paired with the disorder. The study concentrated on male college athletes falling into three different categories: weight lifters, non-contact sports athletes, and contact sport athletes.
Rating:Essay Length: 1,122 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 27, 2009 -
Critique of Dinner with Friends
Theatre Critique of Dinner with Friends Play ACT I I thoroughly enjoyed this act. When I arrived I was not really expecting to have a good time, I was just doing what had to be done to complete the assignment. The play started out with Karen, Beth, and Gabe sitting at the dinner table. The lighting was very homey and the set closely resembled a real kitchen and dining room. The actors were very
Rating:Essay Length: 456 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 20, 2010 -
Critique of Gary Soto’s
Gary Soto’s “A Red Palm” 2004 When a person hears the title “A Red Palm” there are many things that come to mind. One could either think of a red palm tree, or more realistically, the strained palm of ones hand. After just reading through this poem a person feels as if they begin to know the man who is spoken about. One can relate to him because most Americans work very hard for a
Rating:Essay Length: 786 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: March 3, 2010 -
Critique of Genres at Home and at School
Nell K. Duke and Victoria Purcell-Gates insightful article, “Genres at home and at school: Bridging the known to the new” reports on genres found at home and at school for two groups of young children from low-socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. Duke and Gates identify genres commonly found in both settings, as well as those commonly found only in one setting or the other. Children encounter many different kinds of text in their daily life. There
Rating:Essay Length: 1,499 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 15, 2009 -
Critique of the Movie ‘a Streetcar Named Desire’
Critique of the movie ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) was a play by Tennessee Williams who also wrote the play The Glass Menagerie. It was a film of anger, loneliness, and shame. Every actor in the film made his or her own brilliant performance. The director was Elia Kazan who also directed movies like On the Waterfront, Splendor in the Grass, and East of Eden. The film stared Vivien Leigh as
Rating:Essay Length: 547 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: March 9, 2010