Norman Mailer: Excesses all around One of the giants among mid-20th century American novelists, Norman Mailer has been described in a recent review of his latest book, The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing, as "Aquarius in winter," a not-so-gentle aging of his own 1960s' sobriquet, Aq...

The two books reveal personal problems and problems of American society in American writers lessons: Nathaniel West "Miss Lonelyhearts" and Don DeLillo "White Noise". The book "Miss Lonelyhearts" is about the newspaper reporter who writes the agony...

The Cat Nobody Likes "COPY-CAT!!!" a child yells out to a peer who has copied his new-found idea. Many of us have used this term, yet do we really understand the depth of what we are saying? In today's world, there exists a large number of "c...

The eighteenth century's most exciting intellectual movement is called the Enlightenment. It's powerful dedication to reason and rational thought that until quite recently the era was sometimes characterized as the Age of Reason. The turn toward what became known by 1750 as the Enlightenment began...

Willa Cather vs. Sherwood Anderson The authors Willa Cather and Sherwood Anderson experience several similarities and differences in their stories. By approaching a common theme in their writings, the reader can easily depict the authors' styles. Sherwood Anderson's troublesome char...

Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse (1927) Introduction to Narrative Technique Stream of consciousness, the narrative technique used by Woolf, was a relatively new method of storytelling used by many modernist writers in the first half of the twentieth century. The term "stream of co...

Theme for English B One of the best literary writers of the 20th Century would indeed have to be Langston Hughes. His works over the years have been astonishing and yet even today admirers of his writings still read every piece of work like it was the first time it was ever written. In his po...

Examine three aspects/conditions/manipulators of our society that impact you or your peers... Next, answer the following question – How is the process of conditioning in the BNW similar to contemporary American society? Are we victims of this conditioning? How are we being manipulated? Who is ...

Why They Kill .The dust cleared, the heroin once again emerged victorious. Steel, with little help from his faithful sidekicks brought two known felons to justice. It was just for those who believe in the saying an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The case looked to be wrapped up, or was i...