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  • William Blake - Man Obsessed with the Divine

    William Blake - Man Obsessed with the Divine

    William Blake was a man desperately obsessed with the divine. In “the Sick Rose,” “the Lamb,” and “the Tyger” he clearly demonstrates this dedication to examining that fascination through the use of three very tangible metaphors. One doesn’t have to look very far to observe this fascination for it is readily evident in every stanza of these poems; the deeper meaning behind his words can sometimes get lost in the details. “The Lamb” is, at

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    Essay Length: 938 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Jon
  • William the Conqueror

    William the Conqueror

    I chose the topic William the Conqueror (William the 1st of England) because I have heard a lot about him already, and from what I have heard he seems to be an interesting person to learn about. I know that William, before becoming the king of England, was originally the duke of Normandy. William was born around 1028 and was the illegitimate son of Duke Robert 1 of Normandy, and Herleve (also known as Arlette)

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    Essay Length: 275 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Artur
  • William Faulkner’s "a Rose for Emily" Character Analysis

    William Faulkner’s "a Rose for Emily" Character Analysis

    In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” the main character Emily Grierson is a woman completely isolated from her town. She has grown up her whole life in the same house, with the same butler, and primarily the company of only her father. In the eyes of the townspeople she is depicted as a “fallen monument” (526). She is a lonely woman who has fallen privy to her father’s and “crazy” relative’s skewed perceptions of

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    Essay Length: 329 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Max
  • Biography of William Shakespeare

    Biography of William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare Biography HЬ_2004-06-13 William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. There is no record of his birth, but his baptism was recorded by the church. His father was a prominent alderman in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, and was later granted a coat of arms by the College of Heralds. Shakespeare attended the Stratford Grammar School, and did not proceed to Oxford or Cambridge. The next record

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    Essay Length: 357 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Macbeth Written by William Shakespeare

    Macbeth Written by William Shakespeare

    Macbeth is a popular play written by William Shakespeare, which is a tragedy. In order for Macbeth to be crowned king, King Duncan would have to die. There are two main characters in the play that want the power from Duncan and are too anxious to wait. Those two characters are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Lady Macbeth was the one who came up with the ideas and schemes to kill King Duncan. Whenever Macbeth would

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    Essay Length: 923 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Andrew
  • William Tyndale (mla Format)

    William Tyndale (mla Format)

    1 The smell over whelming in the air. The brunt flesh cast a shadow with the dark smoke that the fire created. Some people cheered, some people cried, and yet others smiled greedily under hidden cloaks. The people of England had decided to burn one man that stood up and translated the bible from the original manuscripts into what we have today. William Tyndale cried out with his last breath, " O Lord, open

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    Essay Length: 1,437 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare

    Macbeth by William Shakespeare

    In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, we discover that Macbeth is a tragic hero. There are many factors, which contribute to the colapse of Macbeth. Macbeth is very brave and courageous, and is later portrayed as a moral coward. All of these qualities lead to his tragic death at the end of the play. There are three major points, which contribute greatly to Macbeth's character collapse. The first was the prophecies, which were told

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    Essay Length: 918 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Vika
  • The Help of Sir William Wallace

    The Help of Sir William Wallace

    The Help of Sir William Wallace Sir William Wallace is one of Scotland's greatest generals and was a great help towards the freedom of Scotland because he brought patriotism to the minds of his fellow Scotsmen in order fight for the freedom for which was nearly taken away by the their English neighbors. He would ride through Scotland gathering clans both from the high and lowlands. Over the years after his death, Scots have proclaimed

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    Essay Length: 1,482 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • John Smith Vs. William Bradford

    John Smith Vs. William Bradford

    John Smith and William Bradford were two important people who led to the settlement in America. They were fine leaders who made survival possible on this new land. They created relationships with the natives and won and lost some with their own men. Both of these men were amazing leaders. They led their men across the ocean to settle on lands that were never previously settled by Europeans. They had all of their crew adapt

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    Essay Length: 304 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • William Faulkner’s Rose for Emily

    William Faulkner’s Rose for Emily

    Escaping Loneliness In “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner’s use of setting and characterization foreshadows and builds up to the climax of the story. His use of metaphors prepares the reader for the bittersweet ending. A theme of respectability and the loss of, is threaded throughout the story. Appropriately, the story begins with death, flashes back to the past and hints towards the demise of a woman and the traditions of the past she personifies.

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    Essay Length: 1,688 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Mikki
  • William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, plays out an act of love and trouble that tags along in and throughout its story. As Romeo is deeply in love, he has trouble thinking of anyone else, at least that is the story until he attends the Capulet banquet and lays his eyes upon such a beauty as Juliet. Thus is born a new love; from the first sight of Juliet, all is ridden from his mind, including

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    Essay Length: 698 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Edward
  • William Blake

    William Blake

    From William Blake’s “Chimney Sweeper”: And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark And got with our bags and our brushes to work Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm In the wake of the French Revolution in the late 1700s, a political subtext can be seen in many of the literary works of that time. Such is evident

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    Essay Length: 789 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Strong Females in the Work of Miller, and Williams

    Strong Females in the Work of Miller, and Williams

    The theatrical theories of Arthur Miller are filled with ideas that relate to the common man in his struggle to achieve his rightful place in the world. Miller believed that the tragic hero is any character that would die before they lost their dignity, or maybe it's better to say before their dignity was taken from them. The tragic hero, according to Miller, is a character that doesn't lie back and take it, when the

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    Essay Length: 2,023 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Jon
  • Getting Past Katrina by Juan Williams

    Getting Past Katrina by Juan Williams

    The essay “Getting Past Katrina” by Juan Williams focuses on the increasing poverty of population in the country and discusses the possible ways of escaping it. The author talks mostly about African-Americans whose poverty rate has increased since the beginning of this century. The thesis sentence of the essay states that the shock of Hurricane Katrina awoke many of the Americans to the reality that poverty persists even after implementing different social reform programs. The

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    Essay Length: 253 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Edward
  • William Whipple

    William Whipple

    William Whipple William Whipple was born in Kittery, Maine in 1730. His father was a native of Ipswich, and was bred a maltster; but for several years after his removal to Kittery, he followed the sea. His mother was the daughter of Robert Cutts, a distinguished ship-builder, who established himself at Kittery, where he became wealthy, and at his death left a fortune to his daughter. His education was limited to a public school in

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    Essay Length: 412 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The Second Coming by William Yeats

    The Second Coming by William Yeats

    William Butler Yeats, a multitalented individual won the Nobel Prize in 1923. Born the son of a well known Irish painter and religious skeptic had many influences in his life. Eventually, he converted to Paganism from Christianity. He is till this day considered one of the greatest poets that ever lived. To understand the meaning of William Butler Yeats poem “The Second Coming”, you must first understand the difference between Christianity and Paganism. Yeats was

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    Essay Length: 1,272 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Anna
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

    In the Play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, no single person is the blame for the tragedy that takes place. The tragedy was the inevitable result of the mutual rivalry and enmity between the Capulets and Montague families, hasty decisions made by our characters and a lot of bad luck. Firstly the main and most important reason that our heroes met their untimely doom was the continuous strife and struggle between the families

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    Essay Length: 697 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Bred
  • William Graham Sumner

    William Graham Sumner

    William Graham Sumner was born in Patterson, New Jersey on October 30th, 1940. He grew up in Hartford, Connecticut with his sturdy, working-class, English immigrant father and his English wife. As a youth he relished in critical thinking. He inherited his father’s strict financial views and by young adulthood had saved enough money to enroll in Yale University. There he was educated in the classics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1863. While at Yale,

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    Essay Length: 520 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Jessica
  • William Faulkner

    William Faulkner

    William Faulkner was a prolific writer who became very famous during his lifetime but who shied away from the spotlight as much as possible. He is remembered as both a gentlemanly southern eccentric and an arrogant, snobbish alcoholic. But perhaps the best way to describe Faulkner is to describe his heritage, for, like so many of his literary characters, Faulkner was profoundly affected by his family. Faulkner's great grandfather, Colonel William Falkner (Faulkner added the

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    Essay Length: 1,758 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Yan
  • Sherwin Williams

    Sherwin Williams

    BACK-GROUND INFORMATION: Sherwin-Williams was founded in 1866, by Henry Sherwin and was joined 4 years later by Edward Williams. Sherwin Williams makes paints and coatings worldwide and has developed many new pigments, lacquers, and enamels. Today the company produces 130,000 products and has over $5 billion in sales. Sherwin-Williams operates over 2300 stores and has thousands of external customers, some of which include Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Sears as well as automotive and tire stores. The company

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    Essay Length: 1,073 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Garden of Love by William Blake

    The Garden of Love by William Blake

    The speaker of the poem tells of his visit to the Garden of Love and of the chapel that is now where he used to play as a child. Instead of welcoming him in, the chapel has 'Thou shalt not' of the Ten Commandments written over the door. The speaker sees that this negative morality has destroyed the garden as well, transforming the 'sweet flowers' to graves and tombstones. The emotionless ritual of the priests

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    Essay Length: 306 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Yan
  • A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    Faulkner’s Plot Priority In “A Rose For Emily”, by William Faulkner, plot plays an important role in how the story is played out. Faulkner does not use chronological order in this short story. Instead, he uses an order that has many twists and turns. It appears to have no relevance while being read, but in turn, plays an important role in how the story is interpreted by the reader. Why does Faulkner present the

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Yan
  • A Prayer for My Daughter Sailing to Byzantium and the Long-Legged Fly Analysis of William Butler Yeats

    A Prayer for My Daughter Sailing to Byzantium and the Long-Legged Fly Analysis of William Butler Yeats

    To contemporary readers, Yeats can seem baffling; he was opposed to the age of science, progress, democracy and modernization, and his occultist and mythological answers to those problems can seem horribly anachronistic for a poet who died barely sixty years ago, but what is strongly identifiable throughout Yeats writing his the personal honesty that he arrived at. In terms of the evolution of his poetic craft, With the brutal arrival of the new age of

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    Essay Length: 717 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Victor
  • Hamlet - Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

    Hamlet - Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

    Hamlet In the play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, the tragic hero, young Prince Hamlet is brought to see the ghost of his father. His father commands Prince Hamlet to seek revenge for murder and to protect Denmark from the evil King Claudius. This command must be upheld by Hamlet out his own duty and honor. Hamlet at first believes that Claudius is evil because he does not like the fact of Claudius

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    Essay Length: 1,006 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Janna
  • London by William Blake

    London by William Blake

    William Blake, London London by William Blake is a poem characterised by its dark and overbearing tone. It is a glimpse at a period of England’s history (particularly London) during war and poverty, experienced by the narrator as he walks through the streets. Using personification it draws a great human aspect to its representation of thoughts and beliefs of the narrator. The author uses a rhyme scheme that mirrors the pace of walking. The pace

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    Essay Length: 547 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Janna

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