The Catalogue of the Universe is an enchanting book that displays many themes that can be related to life. It shows the themes of betrayal, rejection, self-discovery, the struggle of a single parent and most of all love. Despite the title, the book abandons fantasy mode and deals with real issues in...

\"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.\" - Alfred Lord Tennyson Everyone is a philosopher when it comes to love. Definitions are \"a dime a dozen.\" Some says, \"love is a rose, \"fragrant and beautiful, but thorny and painful\". The modern mind thinks of love in vag...

The theatre department at Stony Brook University recently put on John Guare\'s play \"Six Degrees of Separation.\" These talented young actors and actresses did a fabulous job of presenting each of the individual characters and their personalities. Although there were a few minor mistakes along the ...

The Bent Twig in the Family Tree People and relationships change everyday. I have always known I had the loving parents, all the friends in the world, and great sisters. I took for granted the fact that I was always surrounded by loved ones. I felt like I had always returned that feeling, until...

In an old time during the Middle Ages, there is a boy known as lazy Joe for his nickname. He is a scholar. His whole family is peasants do farming for the Lord. He always goes out for fun. He is one of the pleasant in those days and all he thinks about is play. Until in his age of 14, he fell in lov...

In a New York Times review of Thorton Wilder's play, Our Town, reviewer Brooks Atkinson proclaimed that "Mr. Wilder has transmuted the simple events of human life into universal reveries" (Atkinson 119). Our Town can certainly be considered an example of the universality of time, social history, a...

The Look of Love What is love? Love is an expression used to show affection towards something or someone. Steven Mather says it the best in his poem Love Defined. "Although it's better than the rest, this word can never pass the test; it fails in all capacity to describe the things ...

The Nature of Lucy William Wordsworth is a revered romantic poet who believed that the meaning of romanticism is best illustrated when using everyday life events and familiar speech. Wordsworth's explicit love of nature and mastery of the language allowed him to bring such emotion and powe...

Dating-Relationship Factors Encountered by College Students Sociology Dating Relationship 2 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show overall views and many factors that college students encounter while in the dating relationship process. This paper wil...

William Faulkner's Acceptance Speech, given for the literature Nobel Prize in 1949, discusses Faulkner's view of what an author should utilize in their writings in order to become a good writer. This valuable and deep speech about writing influenced many authors. Toni Morrison was one of t...

Service "We are rarely taught to serve in life. We are taught to work. Work, we are taught, is the act of doing what needs to be done in order to acquire the things that we need. Work, we believe, is necessary to our ability to survive in life. Work, as it is done in this society, is the ultimate...

There are critical periods or turning points in everyone's life. Discuss the way Alex's Coloundra vacation affects his life. This is the topic question asked for this essay. This topic is a key theme of the novel After January because it is a time of change or a turning point in Ale...

Emotions have helped humans evolve and survive by changing the way we react to and think about our environment. Positive and negative emotions create patterned responses in both individuals and in whole societies. Emotions can help people understand the world, including other human beings,...

"It is a truth universally acknoledged, that a singlr man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Within this opening line Austen instantly introduces us to the comic irony and surroundings of "Pride and prejudice." The use of the words "universally acknowlrdged" humoursly ...

In The Stone Angel, Margaret Lawrence portrays a woman attempting to understanding herself and her life. Hagar is the narrator of the book. She is ninety, and is trying to avoid an old aged home where her son Marvin, and Marvin's wife Doris want to put her. During this her attempt to move t...

Selfishness, Bad or Good? When someone calls another person selfish, it is usually taken in a negative sense. But why? Is it truly bad to be concerned with yourself before anyone else? If I'm crossing the street with my friend and I see a car coming at us, would I be wrong to save myself...

In the beginning Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World War I, meets a beautiful English nurse named Catherine Barkley near the front between Italy and Austria-Hungary. At first Henry wants to seduce her, but when he is wounded and sent to the American hosp...

A Letter to Felice Examples of amae can also be found in Kafka's letters. Especially relevant in this context is a passage in a letter to his fiance Felice Bauer (The Basic Kafka, pp. 286f) which he regarded as so important that he also noted it in his diary and quoted it in a letter to his fr...

Dreams and Realities in 'Jude the Obscure' and 'A Kind of Loving' 'Dreams and realities' are both part of life in both different and similar ways. Dreams are what you want whereas reality is what you have. Many dreams can become reality. In the case of t...

In The Stone Angel, Margaret Lawrence portrays a woman attempting to understanding herself and her life. Hagar is the narrator of the book. She is ninety, and is trying to avoid an old aged home where her son Marvin, and MarvinÕs wife Doris want to put her. During this her attempt to move to Sh...

Character Analysis Frederic Henry Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver and a lieutenant ("tenente") in the Italian army, is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. The focus of the novel revolves around his love with Catherine Barkley as well as his steady disillusionment with the war. ...

In taking a closer look at my own life and my purpose here on earth. I have pondered the questions of love, self-actualization, and destiny. By studying World Literature and through class discussion I have gained some insight into these universal questions. It is my opinion that this is why these gr...

Love is a many-faceted thing. It can be the best feeling in the world or the bane of your existence. This is one of the central themes in "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner's tale of twisted love. But what kind of love is it that pervades the entire text? Is it the love of man and woman, the lov...

The article I choose to discuss is \"Two Ways to Belong in America\" by Bharati Mukherjee. My personal experiences with different cultures and Bharati\'s relationship with her sister are very similar to mine; however, I have different experiences in the marriage and feelings of belonging. Bharati an...

Maturity falls into two categories, physical maturity and psychological maturity. For most people, physical maturity occurs in any case, whereas only those who quest for self-identity achieve psychological maturity. James Baldwin depicts this kind of maturity in Go Tell It On The Mountain via the pr...