... our society, and the overall severity of this problem of murder in the streets. The inner streets of our nations' cities have, over the years, proven to be war zones. Gangs are roaming the streets to protect their territory, making gunplay an everyday task. The smell of fear, death, and misguided souls reek to the nose of the onlooker. Brent Staples does an outstanding job of describing the severity of these problems. His brother, Blake, leads a life molded by this street life. His official cause of death was murder. However, at the young age of twenty-two years old, they should have noted his death as a casualty of war. He played a part in the war of gangs ...

... Second, in Gilgamesh, women are viewed as a powerful temptation who is able to easily control any man. The trapper’s father speaks: Go to Uruk, find Gilgamesh, extol the strength of this wild man. Ask him to give you a harlot, a wanton from the temple of love; return with her, and let her woman’s power this man (3.14). This shows how the women were used as a powerful distraction to seduce a man and take his mind off of what he should be doing. Finally, In Oedipus Rex, the role of women shows the power of royalty and persuasion. Jocasta, Oedipus’ wife and mother, speaks: And as for this marriage with your mother have no fear. Many a man ...

... (Pg. 157) Homer is rewarded for being the man of the house by getting love and shelter from his family. Love is needed from the family to keep Homer supporting the family. Homer becomes mature by working, but looses his one and only childhood. Death is a very important theme, because delivering death messages is what made Homer mature. For example, Homer told his mother “All of a sudden I feel different—not like I ever felt before.” (Pg. 33) Delivering telegram message changed everything for Homer because he was no longer a child. Furthermore, delivering death telegrams made Homer sick. At the age of fourteen, when Homer had to del ...

... a kind and gentle horse who loved apples. But there is one thing that sat him apart from all the other horses he could talk, like Mr. Ed on Nick at Night. Lighting was as real to me as the next door neighbor's dogs. Lighting was like my source of salvation when I was in trouble. When I got into trouble and was sent to my room he always came and rescued me. He would take me to places like Disney World and Six Flags and of course he got to ride the rides to. He would even go with me to school some times. Thank goodness he was just in my imagination or I might have gotten into trouble by the teachers. He was my bestfriend, up until about third grade. He was alway ...

... associations; however, the poem is the opposite of pagan barbarism. The presentation of the story telling moves fluidly within Christian surroundings as well as pagan ideals. Beowulf was a recited pagan folklore where the people of that time period believed in gods, goddesses, and monsters. It’s significance lies in an oral history where people memorized long, dense lines of tedious verse. Later, when a written tradition was introduced they began to write the story down on tablets. The old tale was not first told or invented by the commonly known, Beowulf poet. This is clear from investigations of the folk lore analogues. The manuscript was written by two scri ...

... of Jane Austin’s first novel. It deals with a very proud man and a woman that has too many prejudices. It isn’t before they both see that they are wrong that they can love each other. Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel in which manners are very important. It’s been first published in 1813. My version: Blackbirds 1992 THEME: Idea’s and manners can be changed. I don’t know what else to make of it. It’s the only lesson I can find in the novel. I read because I enjoy it, not because I want to be taught life visions. STORYLINE: Title: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austin [Chapter 1] Mrs. Bennet tells her husband, Mr. Bennet, to vi ...

... of these columns, you incarnate insult to the English language.” (p. 21) The audience’s sympathy is intensified when we see Eliza’s wretched lodgings. These lodgings are much contrasted to those of Higgins in Wimploe Street. Not only does Shaw play on the audience’s sympathy for an impoverished Eliza, but also presents her insecurity to us. In the scene with the taxi-man, she appears significantly defensive in her response concerning the cost of the cab ride. Eliza feels humiliated by the taxi-man’s sarcastic response to her. From the start of Higgins and Eliza’s relationship, Eliza is treated like a child. Higgins says to her, “If your naughty and id ...

... way to really regulate what is on the Internet. Essentially, the government has no place on the Internet. This world is free of from laws. As society moves closer to advanced technology, the government becomes removed. There is no way for them to regulate society’s actions once everything is computer based. In , Stephenson creates the Metaverse. In this society no laws exist. Hiro, the Protagonist, is the narrator of the novel. As Hiro tells the story, there is no form of government anymore. The government has long been over, and has been replaced by individual corporations with their own sets of rules. There were many corporations, Mr. Lee’s Greater H ...

... book in , we see Satan wrestling with himself over what has happened (his fall), and what it is he is about to do (his completely setting himself against God). He is able to recognize that God’s forgiving nature extends even to himself, "I could repent and could obtain By Act of Grace, my former state", and is if only for a moment, unsure as to "which way I shall fly"? However, Satan knowingly chooses to cling to his foolish pride, and is unwilling to ask and receive the forgiveness of God, "is there no place left for repentance… none left… disdain forbids me". It is important to understand that Satan fully comprehends the sin he i ...

... sales trip to Hartford will solve his problems. He vows to his wife, “I’ll knock ‘em dead next week. I’ll go to Hartford, I’m very well liked in Hartford” (1809). However, in those moments that he begins to realize the truth, his wife Linda while understanding his situation, supports his delusion. She says to him “…you’re the handsomest man in the world” (1809). But the truth is being popular and good looking is not the key to success. Success is achieved through hard work and perseverance. The American Dream has long turned sour for Willy. At the beginning of his life, he remembers travelling in a w ...