Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is mastery of the use of lighting, setting, and sound to add to emotion and meaning to a play. Throughout the play, he uses different appearances to convey characters and enhance the importance of actions and dialogue. Williams constantly changes what ...

To know Chicago is an experience in first principles: despair and a great hope. A despair, not so much because Chicago is cruel and crude as because "culture" has been struck upon its surface as a businessman's expedient or thoughtlessly bought by the rich as a luxury. Bought in bl...

Rand's "Anthem" Anthem, a science fiction novel, deals with a future primitive society in which the forbidden word "I", which is punishable, has been replaced by "We". Anthem's theme seems to be about the meaning and glory of man's ego. In this novel, Rand shows that the indi...

Journaling and Stress Management 1 Journaling and Stress Management: A way of coping with stress Now a days it is inevitable that life is full of some type of stressful event. In making everyday observations of people, one would notice that some people handle stress much better and others cannot ...

I finally went back to high school today, summer vacation having ended. It was just one week long this year, but it felt like an eternity to be away from the classroom that long. I don't know what to do with myself outside the school; I actually convinced my mom to set up a little table ...

A good husband is a friend; a person to depend upon whenever help or guidance is needed. He is the backbone of his family by providing them with nurturing care, love and bringing them happiness. A man who appreciates the virtue of service, contribution, and sacrifice for others. By contrast, a man w...

Love vs. Hate Emotions are the strongest feelings that come to life through our highest highs and our lowest lows. The two most extreme emotions known to man are love and hate. As experience has taught me, "Love conquers all." With love, you can do anything. The power of love is str...

The San Jose Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum has to be one of the most enjoyable historical exhibits that I have been privy to. Since the sixth grade, Egyptian culture and way of life have been the intrigue behind my interest in Egyptian history. This is the third time that I have been to this museum,...

The science of practical and industrial arts is defined by the term technology. Harlan Ellison illustrates this in "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" that an anti-technology viewpoint of machines can be used as the controlling force of the future. "The Machine Stops" by Edward...

Truth is defined as Honesty: the real state of things: FACT. But how do we know if there is any truth in the world at all today? What if we mistake the actual truth with illusion? I do believe that illusion is necessary in human existence. I believe that without illusion in the world we would ...

The Masks We Wear The masks we wear come in many different forms, from good to evil, and happy to sad. We all wear them at one time or another, some more than others do. We wear the masks to cover up the true us, and what we are really feeling. Inside we want to tell people what is going on ...

"The Awakening" In the story "The Awakening", Chopin uses metaphors to relate her character towards the end of the novel. She uses built emotion to express the feeling and entrapment that eventually lead to a fatal conclusion. Describing the character begins in a downward ...

I have to admit, when I first started reading this book, I had a problem with trying to stay awake: I found the writing dry. Then slowly as characters were introduced, a mystery started to unfold, and tension between neighbors rose, I could not put the novel down. Whether it was the vivid descri...

Kate Chopin's "Awakening", depicts the life of a woman, Edna, in the early 1900's who revolts against the social status quo and leads the life of an independent female regardless of all the risks. It is a story that unfolds the two parts of her life, only to see them both fall apart. Thus we see ...

Everyone comes to a point in their life where they realize they do not want to be alone. This is the situation in the poem "To His Own Beloved Self..." by Vladimir Mayakovsky. The author is alone, and by the use of figurative language, mood, and random sound, he conveys at the moment that he wants...

"The Awakening" In the story "The Awakening", Chopin uses metaphors to relate her character towards the end of the novel. She uses built emotion to express the feeling and entrapment that eventually lead to a fatal conclusion. Describing the character begins in a downwar...

Willa Cather's masterpiece, "My Antonia," is a story of nostalgic wistful relationships, mainly between Antonia Shimerda and Jim Burden. With Jim being the narrator, Willa writes through him with sympathy and an evocative, reminiscent tone. Much can be said about Jim Burden and the st...

In the two readings "Faith" by Tim O'Brien and "The Company Man" by Ellen Goodman, both writers use memory and language to depict issues of loss and betrayal. In Tim O'Brien's short story both betrayal and loss are evident themes throughout the story. The father an...

Revenge What emerged expunged the Common Man forever. The Stars My Destination pg 22 Gully Foyle. Uneducated. A short description given by the author Alfred Bester of his main character as the stereotypical Common Man of humanity. Within the few pages of just the first chapter, Bester had pulled m...

The Mark of Cain is a collaboration of published papers written by several recognized psychoanalysts. The goal of editor, J. Reid Meloy, was to publish an "anthology of psychoanalysts' approaches to various facets of the psychopath, a book informed and balanced by what is currently known a...

Celia behind me (A Canadian short story published in 1984.) Section B: Celia and Elizabeth are not friends even though they share the fact that both of them are not very popular in the group of so-called friends. Elizabeth starts to tease Celia so that the focus is moved from herself to Celia...

The Reverend Mr. Dimsdale and Mrs. Edna Pontellier suffer a quintessentially laggard, and equally afflictive demise; which is comprised of the struggle for social and emotional bliss. However, their deaths signified a sign of victory rather than a sign of submission to their str...

Peculiar as it was for centuries that men are cast as tough, powerful and endurant while women are to be protected and be sympathized. Men were thought as if they could work like a machine that would never be suffered emotionally. A man would be thought of powerless and timid if he yearned for emot...

The main character in this play is Shelby a woman who usually falls for the wrong type, romantically linked to Tyrel, a promiscuous man. Also supporting characters are Debra, friend to Shelby, married to Leonard, friend to Tyrel. The play was written in 1999 as a subsequent to the successful novel...

Have you ever thought of the technological advancements taking place all over the world? Have you ever thought how civilized life would be without technological advancements? Every day we hear of a new innovation somewhere in the world. Every day our life is becoming more and more dependent ...