Courage It was just last year around this time when I, along with the rest of the ninth grade had to give a ten-minute biography speech on a person who had done something great, infront of the entire ninth grade. I chose Jackie Robinson, someone who had demonstrated plenty of courage by breaking tha...

The House of Usher The new criticism has nothing to do with the biography of the author but what the literature means to the reader. In the story "House of Usher" Roderic and his sister Madeline are suffering from an intermarriage of the family. The usher family was endanger of there extinction o...

LIFE Life is described as an interval between birth and death or a biography. There are billions of people living on this planet but no two alike have a same story about their lives. Life we live is like a story we write, we write it the way we want it to be and as in all stories life has a be...

Night is an excellent book. It is a very vivid and detailed account of the concentration camps during World War II. It is told through the eyes of a young man, Elie Wiesel. This book is extremely thought-provoking. In the book, Elie describes his fear and terror of being brought to a ghetto with hi...

"The Long, Bitter Trail" deals mostly with the policies of removal in relocation of the Indians living in the American south east during the 1800's. The first thing that I noticed right on the cover of the book is the subtitle, "Andrew Jackson and the Indians". From this I expected t...

Analysis of "The Story of an Hour" When I finished reading for the first time "The Story of an Hour," I felt a bit confused. It takes a couple of twists and turns that makes the ending ironic and unobvious. I have read the story a few times, but I still think there's more to ...

My reading habits have changed over the years. As a child I had more time to read than I have been able to as an adult. I had different tastes in books when I was younger as well. Even though my habits and reading preferences have changed over the years, I still enjoy it as much as I did as a youngs...

SALVE DEUS REX JUDAEORUM In Aemilia Lanyer's piece entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Layner describes feminism by using the Bible as her base point. She describes how women should be more demanding towards a man and not except that everything is to blame because of their sex even thou...

A Presidential Candidate is a man which everyone believes to be honest and trustworthy. He displays himself as being the ideal person but usually the press usually can dig up junk on him. In "A Presidential Candidate," Twain evokes a sarcastic tone in order to mock Presidential Candidates by using d...