… with frustration and sadness concerning his ambiguous age. In the first paragraph, Douglass describes how slaves never had an actual record of their births since owners preferred to keep their slaves ignorant and thus powerless to take over or runaway.…

… exploded. Now it hoped to find a new world that would offer the necessary ingredients for survival. Then he found planet Earth. The people dressed weirdly, the food smelled bad and they didn’t even have Hugalactoby Pikachums,…

… of an Hour” was the amount of irony Kate Chopin used throughout the story. This gave me a mixed reaction to her work. At first I didn’t understand her usage of irony and thought that it made the story less somber than I thought it should…

… weighed, his will is not his own, for he is subject to his birth.”[pg. 1106] This quote from Laertes to his sister, Ophelia, is stating that Hamlet is a victim of circumstance. Hamlet, who has been attempting to get with Ophelia, is a prince, which…

… Voyager In "Now, Voyager" Bette Davis plays Charlotte Vale, the spinster daughter of an domineering, high-society Boston matron. Charlotte is so completely under her mother's thumb that, in her first scene, we see her hiding cigarettes from her mother…

… today find their origins in the monasteries and churches of the Middle Ages. Access to these schools was limited to nobility and those being trained for the clergy. Today access is much more open but over the years as more and more people were able…

… Gay, is an excellent example of the satire prevalent in the Tory writers (namely: Gay, Pope, and Swift) of the time. Receiving the brunt of this mock-heroic play is First Minister Walpole, and the upper class Whigs in general. It is key to include…

… “A Sunrise on the Veld,” written by Doris Lessing, takes place in Africa, as do many other novels and short stories written by Lessing. Most of Lessings works are autobiographical and reflect the background of her very own childhood. Much of her…

… the Gulf of California with his wife Juana and son Coyotito. Their simple hut is made of brush, and the couple sleeps on mats thrown on the dirt floor, while Coyotito sleeps in a hanging box. Like others in their poor village, they depend on nature…

… literary phenomenon: a brief, bright comet, brilliant from every other writer from his time. Stephen Crane is a crucial transitional figure in American literature. His contribution to the American literature is fairly slight in bulk: one classic…