people many times throughout their lives is: “How will we be remembered when we die and what will be our legacy?” This essay will investigate Thomas Hardy’s poem “Afterwards” to explore how Hardy uncovered death and dying as part of a natural course of events and as celebratory and intriguing in nature rather than melancholy and depressing. In that context, the main theme of this essay concerns the reflection on ones own mortality and the contemplation of what kind of legacy one leaves behind. These
Essay 21: “The Dog, The Family: A Household Tale” By: August Kleinzahler Classification: Descriptive Proof 1: “Grand was a boxer, purebred, but one of his ears was wrong; it didn’t set up properly. And his right eye dripped. He also had a skin condition, something like mange but untreatable” (Kleinzahler 162). Proof 2: “Father worked and read the paper. Children and child rearing, in his view, belonged to the realm of the female, and in my case the dog” (Kleinzahler 166). Explanation: Kleinzahler
willows and oak trees. The scent of slightly burnt wood and manure tickled my nose, and fat white clouds leisurely traveled along the horizon. The air was warm, but not enough to walk about without a thick sweater. It was the kind of weather that invited people to come out of their apartments and admire the beauty of the city during the winter before trees begin to shed their first leaves. I was seated on a creaky, old wooden bench in Tompkins Square Park, the pink and black leash of my dog’s collar
economy and high culture. Thus making Second Life a valid and clear characteristic of Postmodernism. A descriptive essay is drawn on the point that second life is a clear distinction in Postmodernism. The essay discusses modernization, post modernization, and the core characteristics of Post modernization such as Reflexive Post modernization, Implosion, Aestheticism and a few more. This essay aims to not only argue its point but to prove it in the theory gathered and summarized on. 2. What is second
Masculinity, love, and pornography; these words are descriptive of some of the themes that the movie Don Jon explores starring Joseph Gorden-Levitt. Levitt plays Jon, a self-proclaimed “Don” who navigates life by focusing on what is important to him, including his family, women, and pornography. Jon frequents going to nightclubs with his friends, and there his displays his routine of judging girls on their looks, charming the ones that he deems to be the best looking, and taking them back to his
Essay Question: Literary works are representative of their genre and period, to adapt them will always be detrimental to the original. Discuss to what extent you agree with this statement using reference to texts you have studied in class. Literature have existed for millions of year and have undergone countless transformations through the ages. Each genre of literature is unique in their own way and bears their own form and style. A play would not be the same as a poem, even less so a novel. There
spirituality with theology. Augustine articulates truth about God by talking to God: the reader is eavesdropping on his theology. The modern distinction between theology and spirituality is rendered meaningless in Augustin’s language of prayer. In the opening paradox of the Confessions, he asked whether we first pray (in order to know God) or first know God (in order to pray). How could we call on a God whom we don’t already know something about? But how could we know anything