As I Lay Dying

and also the idea humanity still can exist. As the boy and the father travel through this death-stricken world the boy is still able to see each human as an individual; the boy expresses concrete human emotion by wanting to help the man who was dying on the side of the road: “He's been struck by lightning. Cant we help him? Papa? No. We cant help him. There's nothing to be done for him” (82).The boy’s desire to help someone in a world which is utterly full with despair and hurt illustrates the…

Oppressive Marxism is a political and economic theories that separate someone from their group or class. The short story “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, shows a great example of Oppressive Marxism. Miss Emily is oppressed after the incident of her rich father's death. Her father never wanted Miss Emily to have a husband so when he passed away, she found a man she was drawn to. His murder, being the result of her being drawn to him. When the story kicks off, it starts off as being in…

since December and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rejected the permit to lay the final piece of pipeline under Lake Oahe, which is the sacred water source to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The pipeline is very close to being completed and now the issue is that if the pipe is not fully finished it can break and really contaminate water sources. Kaufman and Miller state that, “The fossil fuel industry is a dead and dying economy. Green energy is the new great America. Trump and his Cabinet are…

place and i must say i somewhat agree, only a fool would plan an attack up such a steep incline with the enemy towering above us, and the british empire is no fool. as the order was given the men launched themselves off the boat sinking like stones under the weight of the artillery they carried. as a young boy, the times spent swimming in the lagoon were some of the best of my life and i held onto this memory as i plunged into the icy depths and waded towards the…

I am Charles. I am a man, who was dying a little bit with every upcoming day. I am a man, whose miserable life is going to end in few hours. There will be no more Charles and no one will notice it, no one will care about it. Maybe only the head of the family I am working for. He will need to get another indentured servant, another poor human being, who will soon notice, that the contract he or she signed isn’t so good as it seems to be. But maybe I should start from the beginning. I was born in…

my hand. “Course not. Staying right here” I say. I move in closer to her,pulling her head onto my lap. I gently brush the dark,thick hair back behind her ear.“Sing,” she says, but I barely catch the word”. Rue does not want Katniss to leave. She wants Katniss to sing a song but she doesn't know any song. In chapter eighteen page two hundred-thirty three it says “I can’t stop looking at Rue, smaller than ever, a baby animal curled up in a nest of netting. I can’t bring myself to leave her like…

different animals in a way that would show he has some form of intelligence linked to an emotional basis. “A baby bird falls feet-up in my path, squeaking. With a crabby laugh, I let him lie, kind heavens merciful bounty to some sick fox” (Gardner 8). Although it’s a somewhat cruel thing to do, Grendel decides to let the bird lay there instead of eating it; for he finds it amusing that it will suffer at the paws of a fox. Now from the story “Beowulf” we can infer that Grendel has no thoughts,…

This signifies the lack of humility that the SS officiers possessed. During th eliquidiation of Birkaneu-Aishwitz, Wisiel contemplated suicide for the second time. “Death enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. I felt I could touch it. The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of…

of contemporary texts. So why do canonical texts have a bigger value on contemporary texts? Well I can tell you that, canonical texts have the unbelievable aesthetic…

I choose to explore William Faulkner’s tale, “A Rose for Emily”. The two principal themes I am writing about is the “Old South” vs. the “New South” and the portrait of human loneliness and desperation. Emily’s house is very much like herself. Her house is a symbol of the dying world of the old south, as the rest of the developing town represents the new south. The house’s architecture and style is from the 1870s and much has changed by the time the story took place. The town describes her house…