Personal Essays

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Saint Padre Pio

There are many saints whose lives have been a subject of considerable interest. The fascination over the lives of saints does not come as a surprise; these extraordinary inpiduals stand out because they have dedicated themselves to God and lived their lives for a higher purpose. One of those saints is Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. He was well-known for having received the stigmata. However, even before the wounds appeared, Padre Pio already lived a God-centered life. Saint Padre Pio is a remarkable man whose life was extremely devoted to God...

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Oneill and Williams

The plays Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene Oneill and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams both depict characters that are torn apart by memories from which they try to alienate themselves. The ghosts of the past shadow the present and obscure the future, as the Mary Tyrone and Blanche Dubois are driven into conflict with their families and toward mental distress because of their inability to handle their situations. Mary and Blanche both demonstrate the influence that actions of the past have over the present, and the...

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The Poetry of Sylvia Plath

Confessional poetry experiences popularity in mid-twentieth century America. Included in the list of poets is the tragic talent, Sylvia Plath. Plath's brand of confessional poetry is pushing the genre to the extreme as she relates her innermost pain. Though some critics, like Langdon Hammer of the American journal “Representations", think that Plath's poems are not “autobiographical in the usual way"(Hammer, Summer 2001, p. 68), her life itself shows that leading to her suicide, her final poems depict the increased appeal of death, and demonstrate more of her “psychic pain"(Sylvia Plath...

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Orwell

Panopticism is the word to use to describe the events that occur in Orwell's 1984. In this expression is found the harrowing acts of violence that pervade the novel, and that allow the government to define the parameters of human existence: That is to say, the autocratic control of the government with regards to the populace is omniscient. It is within the US government that the comparisons between 1984 and that other democratic state are diabolically similar.There is no clear dichotomy between Orwell's fictitious imaginings of a super power and...

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The Leopard

Introduction:Risorgimento or also known as the “Revival" or the “Italian Unification," is the nineteenth century revolutionary movement, which joined different region of Italy into one peninsula. This period is assumed to have begun with the arrival f Napoleon and the end of Franco Prussian War in 1815. It was basically a socio political movement which formulated today's Kingdom of Italy.This time span was filled with artistic and literally forms of nationalism which spread the spirit of unification through out the peninsula like fire, who promoted the idea of free, independent...

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The Personality of Jennifer Lopez

This essay about Jennifer Lopez, she was born in a middle-class neighborhood in Bronx, New York (“Jennifer Lopez"). From the age of five, she was provided by her parents with singing and dancing lessons. As a matter of fact, the young girl embarked on her first dance tour when she was seven years old. Her professional career began during her teens when she assumed roles in various musicals, and also made an appearance in My Little Girl (1986), which happened to be her first film. After Jennifer had graduated from...

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William Shakespeare

IntroductionWidely regarded as the greatest writer of all time, William Shakespeare occupies a position unique in world literature. Other poets such as Homer and Dante, and novelists, such as Leo Tolstoy and Charles Dickens, have transcended national barriers; but no writer's living reputation can seriously compare with that of Shakespeare, also known as The Bard of Avon". His plays, written in the late 16th and early 17th centuries fro a small repertory theater, are now performed and read more often and in more countries than ever before (L H Craig....

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Jim and Frederick Douglass

IntroductionMark Twain's Jim one of the principal characters in his famed novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", and the real life personality of Frederick Douglass the great abolitionist had much in common. They represented the rise of the black American community in Southern America in the 19th Century. A study of the biography of Frederick Douglass and his initial rise from a slave to an abolitionist very vividly portrays the trials and tribulations that a black American had to undergo in those times. (Douglass, 2004). Douglass also had the courage...

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John Cage

John Milton Cage is among the most mysterious figures, who managed to reach the Bohemian Olympus, moreover, to maintain their status, as his professional development occurred throughout his whole life span. Cage seems to have exceeded his own time, that's why he is often declared as a scandalous figure as well: Zen Buddhist, vanguard philosopher, writer and composer, who interpreted his own music as “purposeless play", which, however, is “an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but...

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Johnny Carson, the King of Late Night

Before the limelightJohn William Carson was born in Corning, Iowa on October 23, 1925, but he grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska. At the age of 14, he started performing magic tricks and used the moniker “The Great Carsoni." He graduated in 1949 at the University of Nebraska. A year after, Carson worked as a radio announcer and at a television station in Omaha. He also landed a job at The Squirrel's Nest, an early-morning television program. In 1950, he worked for KNXT, a station based in Los Angeles, owned by...

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Joseph Hayyim Brenner

Although pre-modern Judaism idealized the “Land of Israel" and Jewish messianism promised restoration of the ancient homeland, over the centuries the trickle of Jews who actually immigrated to Palestine had no notion of a state-building project. Modern Jewish nationalism, in the form of Zionism (from the Hebrew Tziyon, a synonym for Jerusalem), emerged only in the last third of the nineteenth century, mainly among the Jewish masses of eastern Europe, for whom it was one of several responses to socioeconomic crisis and virulent anti-Semitism. The actual term ‘Zionism' was coined...

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Davies and Shakespeare

Robertson Davies and William Shakespeare: A Comparison of Style IntroductionRobertson Davies's style has much in common with William Shakespeare's “Macbeth". It is also mystical, theatrical and sometimes ironical. Naturally, it is difficult to compare great William Shakespeare with Robertson Davies, but it seems, both of them create works of great talent. Although William Shakespeare and Robertson Davies belong to different epochs, they have much in common in some options of style like ideas, themes, information, issues and language. The present paper compares the elements of style of William Shakespeare and...

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With Apologies to J. D. Salinger

Once upon a time, great novels – literature – would reach down and capture the very souls of generations of young readers, novels such as Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), Catch-22 (Heller), Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut). For those who came of age in the fifties, Catcher in the Rye (Catcher), the topic of this paper, the humor, despair, and contempt for the values of Holden Caulfield's time were immediate from the first sentence. But the magic may take a little longer to get started, but it's there waiting for those of us...

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Hill Burton

The Hill-Burton ActThere are a few events in the 20th century that can compare to its ability to conjure fear and foreboding in the minds of American citizens than the “Great Depression" of the 1930s. Its effect could not be fully described and its consequences too could not be quantified. Suffice it to say that many learned their lessons. The event, the principles learned and the causes leading to it became some sort of a reference point for the government and businesses from which they will measure current trends and...

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Hawthorne and Poe

The works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe are among the most recognizable in American literature because of their haunting mood and the disturbing, sad, sometimes dreadful feelings they evoke. But whereas Hawthorne was deeply concerned with the dark secrets of the human soul, his characters constantly finding themselves in the swirl of ethical debate, Poe made no such pretensions. While Hawthorne was a moralist who wrestled with sin and evil, Poe was a skillful craftsman who gave life to the phantasms that dwelt in the realm of his...

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