... I come across is swinging with on a hill overlooking a beautiful lake at sunset. has his coffee in his right hand while I am snuggled up close to his left side. I recall using times such as this to have heart-to-heart talks with the sole person who understood my every thought. He talked to me as if everything I had to say was of great importance, regardless of the topic. As I reflect more on this memory I realize my is a lot like the coffee he always had in his hand. The coffee provided him with warmth and comfort. In the same way, was my source of warmth and comfort. He was always there for me in li ...

... middle school I didn’t develop my body as fast as my friends, and the boys would say I looked like a pole. So, from that school year on they called me “Poley�. I hated that nickname, because when I was younger I had a lower self-esteem, and by them calling me “Poley� it got even lower. It wasn’t my fault how I looked, therefore it embarrassed me tremendously. People such as myself are insulted by nicknames. I have a friend who became known as “Brute�, because she was tough and always got into fights with boys and girls. She was extremely insulted by the name, because she was just trying to stick u ...

... later to the woman Tom had been having an affair with, Myrtle Wilson, the gas station attendant’s wife. Nick did not speak to Tom of his infidelity he instead remained tolerant of it. And later when Tom and Nick met her in town, he still kept his thoughts to himself, rather than becoming involved in the conflict. Also, with Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship Nick remained tolerant of the scandal. For example, when he set up the reunion of Daisy and Gatsby within his own home. He was aware of the sin, but he did not actually come forward with his opinion on the matter. Daisy would often go to ...

... homecoming in Ithaca. When Odysseus left the conquered Troy and landed on the island of the Cyclopsians, he utilized the resources near him to escape from the evil Cyclops Polyphemos. Odysseus drugged Polyphemos with a strong wine he had gotten from the plunder of Troy. While Polyphemos was sleeping, Odysseus and his men carved a sharp stake from a wooden pole. They then counted to three and shoved it hot from the fire into the Cyclops’ eye. Then as the blinded Cyclops guarded the door with his sense of touch, Odysseus quickly gathered his men and instructed them to hang on to the belly of the sheep as ...

... of her husband and it was her only way of life. Then when he died, her mirror was broken. This left her not knowing what to do cause she had no personality anymore because it died. After Kukin’s death, Olenka did nothing else but cry and dwell on the fact that she had no one to love. As she mourned, she said, “ my precious, my darling! Why did I ever know you and love you! You poor heart-broken Olenka is all alone without you,”(174). Then Pustovalov came along, the timber merchant, and she once again fell in love. This changed her life from the theater into a new life of business. Her husb ...

... Chris. Just as religiously as I relaxed during the period, Chris would be diligently working. Chris and I did not have much in common, but one thing we did share was our Algebra II class that followed the lunch period. Most days Chris would still be studying while I was on the way out of the cafeteria. One day in particular, the bell that marks the end of the lunch period had just rung, and I was heading out for Ms. Henyon's math class. I saw up ahead of me, Chris frantically flipping through his Algebraic Concepts text book. I approached Chris and asked: "Did we have any homework we were supposed to do?" " ...

... us closer to them. When we know what the character feels and thinks, the story becomes a three-dimensional world. In contrast to the book, the movie seemed plain on this point, because we hear the characters speak, but we do not get to know the real thoughts and feelings of the characters. Goldman really had no way of telling us what the character was all about. The director should have expressed the characters thoughts into words, which is not that difficult to do. Another change that happened when developing the novel into a movie, was that the Zoo of Death was not shown in the movie. In the book, the Zoo of D ...

... understand what Shakespeare thought comedy was in the 1600's and to see if our views on comedy are the same today. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a festive comedy. The play takes place in June and this is a bewitched time. In the spring the custom is to celebrate the return of fertility to the earth. During this time the young people spend the night in the woods to celebrate. Shakespeare uses the greenworld pattern in this play. The play begins in the city, moves out to the country and then back to the city. Being in the country makes things better because there is tranquility, freedom and people can become unciviliz ...

... to deism was occurring. The Puritans of this time were fleeing the Church of England. Their hope was to return to the more primitive ways, to reject the churches hierarchy and ritual. Mary Rowlandson, a puritan in Lancaster, Massachusetts was captured by Indians, along with three of her children in the year 1676. In her narrative she relates the story of her survival in the wilderness for a period of three months. She is taken away from her home and husband, "all was gone (except my life); and I knew not but the next moment that might go too" (127). Benjamin Franklin's The Autobiography is an account of his ...

... happening, Laius and Jocasta pierced Oedipus's foot and ordered a shepherd to abandon him on a mountainside. The shepherd pitied the child and gave him to a herdsman from Corinth. The herdsman then gave the child to Polybus and Merope, the childless king and queen of Corinth. They adopted him and raised him as their own. Oedipus grew up thinking he was the prince of Corinth. He heard rumors that he was not the natural son of Polybus and Merope, so he went to consult the oracle of Delphi to find the truth. The oracle repeated the same prophecy that was told to Laius and Jocasta. Thinking that Polybus and Mero ...