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Just a Pot of Basil At the age of eight one of my favorite things to do was dream about living in a time where gigantic beasts loomed over the earth. Form the gigantasaurus to the brontosaurus I enjoyed anything from the Precambrian period. I grew to appreciate the monstrous creatures even more after I took my first trip to the Carnegie Mu...
Philosophy - Socrates View of Love A Different View of Love We have heard definitions of love through our lives that have been passed on for decades. Some of us have felt love, and some of us have been in love. But no one ever seems to question what love is, as if it is something that just plainly is. People tend to just go wit...
Response to the "Killer Angels" is a historical novel written by Michael Shaara. It is one of the best novels I ever read. It describes four days at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863 in what many consider to be the turning point of the American Civil War. When I was reading this novel I had a feeling that I saw all events by my own ey...
Franz Kafka, one of the most influential writers of this century, was virtually unknown during his lifetime. His works, which were published by his friend Max Brod, after his death, have since been recognized as symbolizing modern man?s anxiety-ridden and grotesque alienation in an unintelligible, hostile, or indifferent world. Kaf...
To Kill a Injustice is a problem in which everyone faces, unfortunately this cruelty cannot be ignored. In this novel, titled ? To Kill A ?, there are three characters who suffer the most injustice. They are Atticus, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. Atticus, is a man of great wisdom, he suffers from the fact that he had commit...
Socrates believes that the spoken words can be brought forth with great knowledge from the credibility of the speaker. The speaker would be able to dictate using his genuine knowledge to pass on his own beliefs. Socrates thinks that speaking is a more noble than writing because, the speaker can defend his own words. As for written words, they can o...
Nick Farinas 30 August 2000 West Side Story Welcome to 1960?s New York. Where petty thugs and hoodlums are no comparison to modern day gangs. But nonetheless considered savages for their time. Yet, amongst themselves there is love and friendship. West Side Story is a story about love, intolerance, and friendship. It uses many of th...
In L?Etranger, Camus uses Mersaults? experiences such as his mothers? death, killing the Arab, the trial, and his interactions with other characters throughout the novel to convey his philosophy, which satisfies all principals of existentialism. To convey his existentialist philosophy, Camus uses the death of Mersaults? mother in the beginn...
Vigorously wiping off the dead grass and dandelion petals from the rock, the girl's hand brushed a jagged edge roughly. As she quickly drew her hand away for examination, she saw what her hand had lain upon. The right upper corner of the baby's headstone was broken off. She took a moment to contemplate her blood expanding into the crevi...
In the King Lear play, Shakespeare creates many conditions in which humans live in the world. The main characters in the play are used to portray Shakespeare's ideas. One of these ideas which Shakespeare is trying to portray is evil between the characters and in the world which are emphasized throughout the play. The evil, created...
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque?s All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque?s protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic ve...
Oliver Twist When poverty and class was an issue in the Old World, injustice and society shunned all that was not good. Oliver Twist was a novel that hit all the aspects of that time. The story of Oliver Twist had many underlying to the plot. However, the themes that may be the most apparent within the story are underlined throughout i...
Realization of one?s imminent death can drastically change an individual. Knowing that death is imminent can change the way we look at things, and cause us to confess our sins. In Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad and Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the main characters experience this trauma. The instant that Jim jumps from the Patna, his life becom...
Hamlet - Soliloquies Hamlet In Shakespeare\'s Hamlet, the tragic hero reveals his inner conflicts and introspective attitude in each of the lengthy soliloquies in the play. Hamlet is a static character whose thoughts never dramatically change. Each soliloquy delves further into Hamlet\'s motivations, or lack thereof, and psyche. Each soliloquy,...
