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In T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the author isestablishing the trouble the narrator is having dealing with middleage. Prufrock(the narrator) believes that age is a burden and is deeplytroubled by it. . His love of some women cannot be because he feels theprime of his life is over. His preoccupation…

The Go-Getter is a story about one man’s drive and persistence. William E. Peck is his name and he is an ex-soldier who was injured in battle. Bill lost one of his arms and had one of his legs shortened because of a gunshot wound. But the story begins as the Ricks ; Logging Company…

In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the dominant/submissive relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity. Flawed human nature seems to play a great role in her breakdown. Her husband, a noted physician, is unwilling to admit that there might really be something wrong with his…

Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers. Tacitus saith, Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband, and…

In William Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet, there is much controversy to who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. In this tragedy, the two familys on-going feud drives Romeo to kill one of Juliets relatives and thus he finds himself banned from Verona. They then construct a plan to meet again,…

Past, Present, and Future: Finding Life Through Nature William Wordsworth poem ?Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey? was included as the last item in his Lyrical Ballads. The general meaning of the poem relates to his having lost the inspiration nature provided him in childhood. Nature seems to have made Wordsworth human. The…

Guilty pleasures are the things that hide inside our souls and capture our minds to do things that make our brains explode with addiction. It’s called a guilty pleasure for a reason and everyone has at least one. Whether it be small like collecting cards or something huge that makes our bank accounts lower each…

utureAlmost every person who has graduated from high school has taken the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), which is generally used for college admissions. We all remember the stress of taking a test that could affect our future educational plans. Now due to the “No Child Left Behind Act” of 2001, this kind of test is…

AlzheimersDiseaseAlzheimer’s Diseaseis a progressive, degenerative disease that attacks the brain and results inimpaired memory, thinking and behavior (Internet). It is a degenerative diseaseaffecting nerve cells of the frontal and temporal lobes of the cerebrum of thebrain. The disease is the major cause of presenile dementia (i. e. , the loss ofmental faculties not associated with…

The play of ‘The Fatal Shore’ was introduced to us with just the word put up onto an overhead projector. The class brainstormed their ideas of what they thought this meant, people came up with words such as death, sea, and sand, this was effective as it brought our imaginations into the work and everybody…