Author Sketch Sandra Cisneros writing style in the novel The House on mango Street transcends two genres: poetry and short story. Cisneros poetic style makes the novel easier to read and comprehend than a novel written in a traditional style. She writ...

When I read Bradbury‘s short story "The Veldt" I thought in how technology has been slowly changing the humanity. At first we did not had any kind of technology, all the work was done by hand and we had no form of technological communication, we only had to speak person to person o...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1. AUTHOR Harper Lee was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Huntingon College is where she first started her college eduacation in 1944 to 1945. In 1945 she went to the University of Alabama to study law. She also attended Oxford Univ...

The movie "Hadlyburg," which is based on Mark Twain's short story, is a strong satire. In this movie the inhabitants of the town of Hadlyburg, who were priding themselves on their unparalleled honesty, where really just as susceptible to temptation, and not as honest as they believed themselves to ...

Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Cat in the Rain" is, on the surface, a simple tale of an American couple in Italy. However, the reader soon realizes that this uncomplicated tale illuminates much deeper meanings. Of significant important is the author's attitude toward the main characters. Hem...

Frida KahloFrida Kahlo was born on July 6th, 1907. She was an important figure in Mexico because many people admired her and grieved toward her when she died. She only lived for 47 years but in that short lifetime she completed more than a normal human could accomplish in an expanded lifetime. Fri...

?Geeks are great?I favor ?geek? as a supplement to the Australian language because it?s comprehensible and it?s short. However, I abhor the way we use it almost wholly as an offensive word. We only apply it to adolescents who wear glasses and dress in unfashionable clothes. People quickly assume tha...

The PlungeA short, muscular, slender skydiver stands teetering on the brink of his extinction, listening to the roar of the gale force winds sweeping around the bullet shaped plane. His angular knuckles and face become pale with fright and insecurity. GO! His muscles tighten and he's out. A sudden s...

ANTARCTIC PHYTOPLANKTON CONTENTUpon a short period of very extensiveresearch, one can conclude many things about thephytoplankton content of the waters surrounding thecontinent of Antarctica.First of all, what isphytoplankton? Phytoplankton is defined asplanktonic plants and other autotrophs which ...

The Ford Escape appeared on the scene just as everyone else was getting into the compact-SUV act, yet it may become the most successful light-duty sport utility vehicle to date. Before the 2001 model year, light SUVs, or "cute-utes," had been successful, but they all fell short in one or more areas ...

Life Is Like... Life is like a car. When it's new, it usually works all right. As time drives by, it breaks down and needs repairs. Life is like a leaf. In its youth, it needs love, attention, water, and food. During its life-cycle, it fertilizes the earth, but as time goes by...

A Story of IsolationIn the short story "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner tells the sad story of Miss Emily's unstable state of mind. The theme in this story is that of isolation. Here is a woman who never left the sanctity of her home for something like 30 years. She did give china painting le...

Daniel Keyes was born in Brooklyn in 1927. Once an editor, he married a fashion photographer and had 2 daughters. Keyes was once an English teacher at Midwood High School for 6 years after getting his Bachelors and Masters Degree at Brooklyn College. He was also the junior commissioner for Wayne Sta...

Everyone's ultimate goal is survival. Nobody wants to surrender their life before they naturally should. Hobbes says that being thrown out of society will cause an early death. Outside of society there is a "condition of war wherein every man to every man is an enemy" and in this...

Reading the short stories "The Widow and the Parrot" and "The Apple Tree", I have discovered some compare and contrast between these stories. They both deal with poverty, and each character in the stories cherishes everything they have. Also another thing they have in...

In the short story "The Enduring Chill" by Flannery O'Connor there is a very strong relationship between mother and son. Asbury, the son, is a college student who constantly comes home to see his mother because he is not feeling well. The protagonist, Asbury Fox, is obviously at ...

What Daddies Do As a young girl, my father would often read to me before I went to bed. I can distinctly remember the book What Daddies Do; a short rhyming tale of the different jobs that fathers customarily have. Though the book seemed to be aimed towards a male audience I found great joy w...

There are many different reasons for someone wanting to enter the Food service Industry. For some it is the fast job growth rate, and for others it is the chance to make a lot of money. I am interested in entering the Food service Industry cooking is something I have always enjoyed. I would also ...

This short storie is about a 43 year old woman is single and raisin her two grandchildren, there ages now are 9 and 11 years old. we'll when this woman first took her two grand children in her custody they were 3 and 5 years old. The mother of the children just got up one day and left them in her ...

The noon day sun beat down on the red clay infield at Harry Harris Park. Runners on first and second squinted from the glare as they watched the pitcher\'s mound for the opportunity to run. Advice for the runners as well as the batter was screamed and from the stands of spectators. Adding to the...

Recently Delphi Corporation announced a myriad of layoffs after a late 2005 declaration of bankruptcy in an effort to effectively realign the high operating costs incurred with negotiated union employee contracts. "We took this action because we are determined to achieve competitivenes...

Margaret Johnson, only daughter of Mary Murphy: found dead in the East River at age 23 Margaret Johnson, also called Maggie, was a successful seamstress and the only daughter of Mary Murphy died on November 19 in the East River where she was spotted floating atop the freezing cold water. The...

Anglo- Saxon Gods The Anglo-Saxon period was very interesting. Especially the ancient poems and mythology. While looking around, the Gods captured my attention. Three of them to be exact, Woden, Thunor and Tiw. Woden is known as the most important God of warriors, the God of wisdom and the ...

Genetics Genetics should be used to improve humans. Genetic alterations would be the most important thing to humans. If you genetically alter a retarded person, you could make them normal. It would cost a lot of money to be genetically altered, but the parents would gladly pay any price to see th...

In his short story "salvation", Langston Hughes describes an event that happens in his life. Langston has hatred toward whites and this hatred is expressed in this story. He thinks white people think of their own selves as superiors over everybody. That whites are "saints" and th...