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Langston Hughes' Blues Poetry

and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...

The Tropics in New York

considering they are the only words that are linked/combined with dashes, which clearly emphasizes their metaphorical nature. Rill...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

'Out Far Nor in Deep' by Robert Frost

at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...

Sisters' Metaphor and Ezekiel 23

(Larue). If Ezekiel had been exiled into Babylon, it can be argued that it would have been impossible for the author to...

Glorida Anzaldua's 1980 Letter to Women Writers of the Third World

concerning the proprietary message of mainstream society that writing is a privileged activity, that is, a white activity. Havin...

American Revolution and Family Metaphors

of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...

Poems of Emily Dickinson

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

Firoozeh Dumas' "Sweet, Sour, and Resentful"

example, the author describes how her mother always shopped for fresh ingredients, and prepared fresh herbs, such as "parsley, cil...

Marketing Metaphor of the Water Cycle

the ground, runs off the surface to creeks and streams, or evaporates back into the atmosphere to be carried to another destinatio...

An Examination of 3 Rhetorical Essays

insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...

A Scenario Analysis Using Morgan's Metaphors

are inherently composed of a wide variety of interacting systems, each of which is composed of a number of policies, processes, an...

Reaction to Philbert's "Good" Plus a Brief Autobiography of the Student

I must master the processes associated involved in writing clearly as my ultimate goal is to teach middle school, and I must, ther...

"Size Six" by Mernissi/An Analysis

those who enforce religious laws" (Mernissi). In other words, by being larger than a size six, Mernissi, in the salesladys opinion...

Friendship and the Metaphor of Trees

one can also perceive the manner in which humanity has overstepped the boundaries that bring together ethical conscience and human...

Notebooks of Melanin Sun

This writer/tutor does not, of course, have any idea how the student feels on this topic, or, for that matter, the specific course...

Sylvia Plath, Mirror & Metaphors

topic was greatly on her mind. This can be discerned due to the fact that the poem is written as a riddle with "pregnancy" as the ...

Metaphor and Symmetry in Escher's Works

In ten pages this paper examines Escher's works in a consideration of the mathematical, scientific, metaphorical, and symmetrical ...

The Government Metaphor of Al Capone's Chicago Control

In a research paper consisting of five pages the similarities between a government and Al Capone's crime syndicate are compared in...

Lord Byron's Poems and the Metaphors of Love and Fame

more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and the Rain Metaphor

In five pages this paper discusses how death and separation are metaphorically represented by rain in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewel...

Literary Metaphors Involving Water

In five pages this paper examines how water is metaphorically depicted in 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy, 'The Innocen...

Metaphor in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...

Films Yol and Raise the Red Lantern Uses of Prison Metaphors

of Yol. This story, instead of focusing on four wives as in the Zhang film, focuses on the choices that will be made by four commo...

Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 and Metaphor

is symbolic of life. Man hopefully lives a long, full life full of many experiences that culminate to form the "autumn" of the in...

Metaphors of the Body

rational level. In order to accomplish this task, the article informs the reader that the US plans to spend $3.5 billion to rebui...

Thomas Nagel/”Moral Luck”

that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...

The Use of an Affair as a Metaphor in Literature

the end get her into trouble with a loan shark. Eventually much of her and Charles property is confiscated. Her illicit affa...

Reaction Essay to MS Article

was when a respiratory infection became severe and his doctors prescribed the use of an iron lung to aid ventilation. Macurdy desc...