1. According to Henry Louis Gates, almost 50% of the Afro-American literary tradition was created when "it's authors and their black readers were either slaves or former slaves". 2. Slave narratives were produced for many reasons. One was to inform others of the hardships that slaves...

Canadian Literature, when traced from when the first settlers arrived in Canada until today, has changed not only in its literary form but also in its aspirations. As one might expect from an immigrant community, the first literary forms were epistolary in nature, describing conditions an...

Literacy and its many Definitions The traditional forms of literacy can be considered as the reading and writing alphabetic characters. This form is set in stone and will always be apart of our everyday activities. On the other hand as the years past by different types of literacy started t...

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy are both excellent literary works that both deserve equal praise. Hemingway's story is about a regretful, wasted author named Harry who is lying on an African plain dying of gangrene. Ivan, the main ch...

Gilgamesh (A Critique) Gilgamesh is known as the first great heroic narrative of world literature. Scholars have found that the origins of Gilgamesh were written on tablets throughout the Middle East and in cuneiform. The history of the text is far from being fully understood, but it is believed...

Text Analysis "A Third of the Nation Cannot Read These Words" "A Third of the Nation Cannot Read These Words" was written by Johnathon Kozol. The reader can analyze the text in three different ways: analytically, interpretive, and normative. An analytical reading reco...

Tarzan of the Apes When I was reading the story, "Tarzan of the Apes," I realized that throughout the whole story he describes the characters very narrative. He describes specifically the characters feelings, movements and characteristics. On the following, I will write about how the...

First of all I would have to say that Frank's "stop time" was a very interesting piece of writing. I am a very slow reader and to this date I didn't completely read any novel. It has always been very hard for me to get interested in novels; I would start and just get bored by t...

In Virginia Woolf's narrative essay, "The Death of the Moth," she describes a series of events that a tiny moth goes through one afternoon. The moth is stuck in a window, and struggles to get out of the window until its fate takes over, and it dies after trying for so long. The moth i...

Cannibalism: It still exists is written by Linh Kieu Ngo. The essay mainly discusses types of cannibalisms. I believe the author elaborated well on the subject of cannibalism because he organized his writing coherently and clearly, so the audience can comprehend the aspects of cannibalism. In additi...

Evolution of British Literature The historical events and mentality of a time period are a major influence on the context and style of that particular times literature. British Literature experienced many metamorphoses through the year's 449-1660. The literature traveled through four di...

English 12, Report 25 October 2001 Author Research Project The man Nicolia V. Gogol a well known author, a look at his life and events that effected him as a man and a writer. Through writing Gogol expressed his emotions, and used his since of humor to write stories that involve life through inj...

Peer Feedback In the article "Peer Feedback," by Jack Rawlins, the author explains the importance of having other people read what you write. Peer editor's make comments and suggestion about the text itself. It is not about "what's wrong" as Rawlins mention, it is about "alternative and connection....

Academic literacy has a great impact on how a person expresses and presents themselves in a scholastic environment. The tools to effectively read, write and critically think are skills that not only help a person in the scholastic environment but also in personal discovery. Through positive experien...

William Shakespeare is declared and worshiped as one of the most influential writers of English literature. Shakespeare has in many ways touched the lives of thousands upon thousands of readers throughout time. In addition to introducing new techniques and methods of writing, Shakespeare has had a m...

SONNET 102 Shakespeare's sonnet 102 deals mainly with the ideas of love and conflict in the relationship between a poet and his lover. The poets' lover simply does not think that he loves her as he used to, but has grown comfortable and bored with her. Shakespeare takes on this love-narr...

Susan Griffin\'s project is that she carefully constructs and describes history, particularly World War II, through the lives of several different people. She does not just state the history, she ties each of her topics and shows how they directly effected the other by the actions someone would take...

"Casa" In the essay "Casa" Judith Ortiz Cofer shows the reader how culture is transmitted from generation to generation. The purpose of the essay is to narrate stories in the daily life of a Puerto Rican family. The tone of this essay is anger towards men. The salient details a...

College Writing Rodriquez Richard Rodriguez's essay consists of his upbringing as a child, his education, and how it affected him and his family life. Through out the essay Rodriguez constantly mentioned Richard Hoggart and the idea of his "scholarship boy" to give examples of h...

Upon reading the introduction to Ways of Reading, I am more aware of the methods used for becoming a "Strong Reader". One method is to try visualizing that you are listening to a story narrated from the author that wrote the narrative. This seems a little different from a high school English ...

The narrative essay "A Plea for Video-Free Zones" written by Wyatt Townley is authentic and compelling. She uses numerous distinct methods to get her point across to the reader. The five stylistic devices that stand out most are examples, allusion, rhetorical questions, high diction, and ...

At its finest, literature is on the cutting edge of society, pulling on its borders, broadening its views, and bringing to it new ideas and concepts. In this way, an essay can be as effective as a vaccine or technological discovery. \"An End to Blind Obedience\" by Mary Wollstonecraft, is an exampl...

Reflection Its apparent as I put together my portfolio that I have progressed as a writer. I can follow the development of my writing skills as the little numbers written on the right margin start to disappear. Those little numbers used to be littered all over my writing, but now there are few t...

Literature has served as many functions throughout history. Writers such as Alexander Pope, Dryden and Defoe forever changed the way writing was done. Each writer in their own way has had an impact on other writings, as well as approaches to looking and judging other writings. Literature is a pow...

George Orwell: A writer of figurative language One of the extraordinary writers that wrote with figurative language in modern day literature was George Orwell. He used many different forms of figurative language including: personification, similes, and metaphors. He used this form of wri...