This is a story about a dude that had nothing to write about so he sat in class and stared off into space. However he did have many ideas, he just rejected them all when he remembered he had to give these ideas to his class in the form of a story. Then "I" went home and my parents reminded me of...

Adam MooreShort Fiction essayFeb. 23, 2004Kvande1803Dominance vs. Weakness in Tobias Woolf's Hunters in the SnowIn "Hunters in the Snow", Tobias Woolf creates a tense and vindictive mood that quickly breeds irrationality and spite amid the three main characters. As the story unfolds and the elements...

"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...

Snowboarding is a solo sport that can be done at many, but only specific places. There are a few things to think about before you go snowboarding: where you are, or better yet, what area you would like to go snowboarding in is an even better question. If you are in southern California, you may want ...

While many other cities have blinding storms and teeth chattering cold- some even get more snow-Buffalo has been stuck for more than two decades for being the nations snow capitol. The Blizzard of 77 ripped through Western New York and southern Ontario, and left a path of destruction much like one ...

There seem to be two major reoccurring images in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms. Rain comes to represent death and destruction, along with its accompanying emotions such as grief, pain and despair. It also has a foreshadowing quality, for it always rains when troubling news is learned. ...

There are six stanzas, which are each seven lines long. This is written in free verse, it has no rhyming scheme and there is no rhythm that I can see. The lines are about ten words long, apart from the last two lines, which are shorter. The title is simple and straightforward. It is significant that...

Interpretation of a Theme: Citizen Kane The movie that I am providing my interpretation of a theme is Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane was directed and starred by a young and relatively unknown actor named Orson Welles. He was given one of the most lucrative movie offers ever given at that time an...

English - Book Reports Bierce and Hemingway Death is an intriguing thing. From time immemorial we have feared it, used it, pondered it. Frequently, stories allow the reader into the minds of those immediatly surrounding the one who will die; but all of us "will die." Our morbid in...

Anne Sexton Anne Sexton became one of the best known of the often-controversial Confessional poets. Anne Sexton wrote openly about menstruation, incest, adultery, and drug addiction at a time when these topics were forbidden in poetry. There's possibly no other American in our time that ha...

In his writings, Aristotle describes and tries to break down four senses in which the word cause is used. First of all, the four ways he says the word cause is used are, "that from which something comes into, then "what it is", next is "the source of change", and last would ...

According to Henry James, characters are only as interesting as their responses to particular situations. The character's response in the two short stories I have chosen is the reason I chose them. In Jack London's "To Build A Fire" and Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell...

In the 1940's, Malcolm Little (also known as Malcolm X) stood up against racism towards all Black people. This courageous act becomes even more courageous when it is considered that he was following in his Fathers footsteps, even though his father was murdered because of his philosophies abo...

One night around Christmas time, Gabriel Conroy, a youngish writer with gilt-framed round glasses, goes with his wife Gretta to the Christmas dance held at the home of the Misses Morkan: his aunts, Kate and Julia, and their niece, Mary Jane. A cheerful chaos reigns at the old women's house, with Lil...

Comparing Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Birches", and "The Road Not taken" Robert Frost was an American poet that first became known after publishing a book in England. He soon came to be one of the best-known and loved American poets e...

We've all heard about them. Some call them eccentric, strange, or peculiar. Others claim that they're just plain crazy. However, no matter how one classifies them, they seem to exist in just about every neighborhood. Maybe you've actually made contact with one or two in your lifetime, and maybe ...

Traveling down a snow covered slope can be a pleasurable experience as long as nothing goes wrong; however, while on the trip to the ski lift, a skier must obey many of the laws of physics. The descent requires the skier to stay in control by using different techniques. He must use friction as wel...

By Jack Londen Throughout the novel The Call of the Wild, we follow a dog named Buck through his journey through the Klondike. We experience a transformation in him, as he adapts to the cold, harsh land where he is forced to toil in the snow, just to help men find a shiny metal. Buck seems ...

home where everyone seemed the same and there was a feeling of despair. Paul, who was a young man, felt that his father, teachers and classmates misunderstood him and therefore were unworthy of his company. In ...

"She toyed, sometimes with her unsucked breasts, but at some point her lethargy has dissipated of its own accord and in its place was wilderness, the focused meanness of a flood or an avalanche of snow which only observers, flying in a rescue helicopter, believed to be an indifferent natural ph...

The present situation of the global climate and more importantly the action taken to move toward safer environmental prospects is the issue in the sphere of climate change. However, in order to fully understand this topic a brief introduction of the sources of climate change, it's subsequent e...

Acid Rain Acid rain is a significant problem in our world today. It causes fish and plants to die in our waters as well causing harm to our own race because we eat these fish, drink this water and consume these plants. It is a problem that we must all face together and attempt to solve. However...

These vehicles are stylish to have, but how safe are they to the public? The Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) is supposed of as one of the safest vehicles on the road today. People out looking for a new vehicle look at the design of a SUV and cannot see why it wouldn't be the best choice. Th...

One of the most effective methods of teaching children--and others--about complex processes and systems is by comparing them to simple and familiar concepts in their own lives. The bloodstream, for example, is often described as a train, transporting "goods" like oxygen and nutrients to ...

First Hunt I was lying under an inch of snow, completely covered and shivering from the large puffs slowly drifting from the trees above. My body was cold, tired and wet. It yearned for hot food and a warm bed after hours of being soaked. My mind though was sharpened steel. I endured my uncomf...