Biography of Babe Ruth Babe Ruth is one of the most influential sports athletes in history. He overcame many obstacles in his life, like a bad childhood, people not believing in him, and his parents and grandparents dying, to get to where he is now. Not only did his childhood deprive him o...

The poem "Serpentine" is about the paths of both a black snake and a man, the poet. The man is experiencing the snake's final moment, and in this "dilated second" he reflects on how this moment came to pass. The poems speaks of the inevitability and predestination of death...

"A Sunrise on the Veld" and Lessing's LifeThe story, "A Sunrise on the Veld," written by Doris Lessing, takes place in Africa, as do many other novels and short stories written by Lessing. Most of Lessings works are autobiographical and reflect the background of her very own childhood. Much of he...

Biography of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was raised in a traditional New England home in the mid 1800's. Her father along with the rest of the family had become Christians and she alone decided to rebel against that and reject the Church. She like many of her contemporaries had re...

Like all epics, Gilgamesh contains both historical and mythic elements in all its versions, and is meant to be interpreted on several levels. In addition to its very human themes of friendship, courage, the problem of death, and the meaning of life, it is also an initiatory tale about the quest for ...

Birth is a natural process of creating a new life. Birth symbolizes life, giving future hope to people. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the main character, Victor Frankenstein, creates a being with his own hands; he has created something magnificent and terrible at the same time. Upon the moment of...