I have two topics and i can't decide which will be the most successful or easiest to write on. \n\n1.)What central ideas and reoccuring images prevail in Margarett Atwoods works, specifically the handmaids tale, The blind assasin, and Oryx and Crane?\n\n2.) An investigation of Ernesto Che Guevaras Philosophies
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i've only read the handmaid's tale.  that is a futuristic tale where the united states has become controlled by religious fundamentalists.  women become the property of men because if you interpret the bible literally it is a quite sexist document where women are literally the property of men.\n\none idea from that novel might be that men use the bible and religion as a way to subjugate women.  or that the bible was written at a time when women were treated badly and that it is absurd to use that book as a way to guide behavior between men and women today.\n\nche was a socialist of course.  a socialist believes that the state should control all means of production (i.e. all the factories).  whatever wealth is generated by the means of production should be distributed equally among all people.\n\nin the united states we are a capitalist country where private citizens (i.e. bill gates) own factories and whatever they sell they make profits from and they keep all the profits themselves.\n\nso the big philosophy that che had would be:  the state should create all goods and distribute the profits among everyone equally.\n\nhe would also believe that all people are equal and should ahve equal rights and that everyone deserves a good and free education and free medical care.\n\nyou might want to just google: che philosophy for more...
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Dear corky,\n\nhave you read the book yet?  What sort of presentation are you expected to do?\n\nYou could always look at critiquing the work.  The premise of the story is how human (in this case children) would behave when they are faced with various circumstances and pressure of nature and need for survival.\n\nYou could also analyse how the kids "organize" themselves - the formation of "society" on the island.\n\nYou could analyze how the kids built their own "religion" or belief system.\n\nYou could analyze how the author portray human nature.  Would these pointers be enough?
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pick your favorite one and write about how symbolism played a role in the novel, or break down each character in the novel and give each a thorough analysis....ask your teacher for help choosing a topic
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It would not help you to tell you which chapter I identified most with, since you are different than me.  We probably have different tastes about what we like as well.\n\nI would suggest that you read the book for yourself [it's not long at all] and answer these questions yourself.  In this way you can defend your choices when asked, instead of stealing someone else's work.\n\nGood luck!
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Robin_Thor has a good understanding about this literary giant and this is to let him know that we appreciate a good effort. \nWell itsamystery, hopefully you are rested up from your Spring Break because if this is an assignment that needs to be turned in I am afraid that you have some work to do.\nIn gratitude to you for your question I will answer you with 'my start' into this work which if not for your question I would still be outside on the patio.  \n\nHere goes a swell beginning:\n\n.\n\nWhy, Death Be Not Proud\nIn “Death Be Not Proud” the protagonist literary presenters are chosen teenagers for the reasons that the importance of this poem is to have a definite and positive impact on younger students and young adults alike across the world.  For it serves as guide for the confrontatious attitudes necessary in the face of, emotional, physical and spiritual adversity.  To forge a better social function among us that will inevitably present to our younger generations. These are all here and within this poem and which all support the theme of this magnificent writing.  In  “Death Be Not Proud” is found a generational social cohesiveness that is necessary for a functional society’s survival, and which is so well prayed by John Gunther’s 1947 memoirs.  \nIt is a penned offering intellectually and emotionally secured as a memoir to his son whose ultimate youthful death by a brain tumor at the age of seventeen is eminent. Gunther draws from his heart and from John Dunne’s 17th century “The Holy Sonnets: X” in producing this writing.  It is a poem, in which Gunther argues that ‘death should take no pride in what it does, as it is ultimately powerless to prevent the resurrection of all humanity.’ It can be presented at a literary discourse for educational purpose or as a play on a stage.  \n“Death be not proud, though some have called thee / mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,\nFor those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow,\nDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.\nFrom rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,\nMuch pleasure:  then from thee much more must flow,\nAnd soonest our best men with thee do go,\nRest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.\nThou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,\nAnd dost with poison, war and sickness dwell;\nAnd Poppy or charms can make us sleep as well\nAnd better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then? \nOne short sleep past, we wake eternally,\nAnd death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.     John Donne\nIt is a versified oratory free-verse poem with melodic tone, chant, and supple plea/defiant texture composed about young Johnny Gunther.  About his attitudes and strife for living in the face of a natural and inevitable defeat.  It is the presentation of the life of Johnny’s family and their recourse to every medical possibility known at the time, taken from an elegy of a long time past, converted from a poem of love and not a poem of mourning. And even unto an eternal spiritual search for the healing of the body, of the mind, and of the spirit of their son by John Gunther and his wife.  About their tessellated forms draught from their experiential abilities within such frames of human suffrage.  In explicit honesty are laid bare the pains and struggles of a family trying to delay the ultimate inevitable end for a son that is as brilliant as Johnny.  From the radical surgeries to strictly controlled diets in endless effort to save his life by a determined harmonious familial union in the face of adversarial reality as they live on for life’s sake. All while in defiance of any honor attributable by mere mortals to death’s demands. \n\nhttp://www.cs.rice.edu/ ssiyer/minstrels/poems/796.html  \n\n\nJose
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You could use The Merchant of Venice for a project on gender roles.  Many critics agree that the nature of Antonio and Bassanio's relationship is homoerotic, and perhaps one-sidedly so.  The women in the book play a unique role in the fact that they provide the final judgement of Shylock, but their opinions/logic are only considered because they dress as men.  Lorenzo also admires Jessica in an erotic way when she dresses as a boy.  There's also the anti-Semitic facet of the text, if you wanted to go that route, as well as the role of merchants, money-lending, greed.  There is a wide range of criticism on this piece, because a lot of the themes and elements are somewhat ambiguous.
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You made me work hard for 2 points, ENJOY..!!!!!!\n\nFree Essays Listing\n\nCheck out our papers listed in alphabetic order and feel free to use our writing samples and free essays for your research projects. You will also find chapter by chapter summaries, plot analysis, character information and descriptions, historical context, quotes, study quiz, themes, and author biography.\n\nhttp://www.freeessays.cc/free-essays-listing.shtml\n\nWild Swans Study Guide consists of approx. 32 pages of summaries and analysis on Wild Swans by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Browse the literature study guide below:\n\nhttp://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-wildswans/\n\n\nEmily Dickinson (1830-1886)\n\nhttp://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm\n\nEmily Dickinson   Comprising 597 poems of the Belle of Amherst, whose life of the Imagination formed the transcendental bridge to modern American poetry.\n\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/113/\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/dickinson/\n\nExtra Resources.\n\nhttp://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155\n\nBecause I could not stop for Death (712) by Emily Dickinson\n\nhttp://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15395\n\nAbout Our Emily Dickinson Collection\n\nOn the left you'll find 3 poetry books published by Emily's family after her death. Many in the academic community feel these books were poorly edited and are not true to Emily Dickinson's vision. Regardless, these are the most familiar versions for the public at large, the versions most often taught in school. We've also listed some more popular poems individually as well. In total our Emily Dickinson collection is over 400 poems.\n\nhttp://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/\n\nEmily Dickinson's Death Poems  ( Free Essay )\n\nEmily Dickinson's world was her father's home and garden in a small New England town. She lived most of her life within this private world. Her romantic visions and emotional intensity kept her from making all but a few friends.\n\nhttp://www.freeessays.cc/db/37/pya173.shtml\n\nEmily Dickinson's Views On Mortality\n\nhttp://www.echeat.com/essay.php?t=27223\n\nTerm paper on Emily dickinson's because i could not stop for death\n\nhttp://www.termpapergenie.com/EMILYDICKINSON.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Looks good to me...  Try placing a comma in the sentence, \nIn 1814(,) when she was seventeen, she eloped ...\n\n\nOther than that little bit, and the occasional typo that spell check didn't catch (see, I noticed the difference!), it is well-written and organized.  Good theme, but I have a personal disagreement with you about how well you liked the book (it happens to be one of my top 10 favorites of all time... \n "The Modern Prometheus"  was the alternate title of the novel; you may want to mention that in the beginning of the report somewhere.
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"Because life immitates art, we often find that our lives are reflected in literary works from historical points of view.  One can never mistakenly see himself in a character in a great novel such as King Lear or the Great Gatsby.  If you are the same as one of these characters, you will have no doubt as I had with the character ________________ in the novel ____________. "\n\nthen continue with your essay from there\n\nsusan
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How about talking about:\nSimilarities\nDifferences\nAre the book and movie more similar or different?\n\nOnce you have jotted down some notes in all of these areas, you can go back and start the intro paragraph with something like,\n\n"When comparing the book Flowers for Algernon [underline] and the movie "Charly,"\n\n* there are many similarities and only a few minor differences, making the movie a good adaptation of the book.\nOR\n*the two works differ so significantly that they are truly two different interpretations of the basic story of Charlie Gordon and Algernon.\n\nPick one depending on what you will be defending.
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You're right -- pick something classic and short.  How about Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities" or Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" or Crane's "Red Badge of Courage" or a play like "School for Scandal" or "The Critic" (both by Richard Brindsley Sheridan)?
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if you have a word processor, it can do more help for you than any one of us can do on here. i will give my best shot:\nHumans search for their own unique identities. Some eventually settle into a niche while others never discover (try who they truly are)their true selves. The poems "I'm Nobody" by Emily Dickinson and "Dusting" by Julia Alvarez, the authors adopt the first person (what is this called...the point of view? i cant remember-either way, insert that here.) to convey characters' stories and its theme but differ of how they approach its imagery and tone. Throughout "American Gothic" and "Epitaph On A Tyrant" the theme of the poem and imagery are diverse whereas the tone and the identity of the characters are resembling.\ncommas are only used within or before quotes when speaking is done. good luck! i fixed what i found. :)
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You could get all sorts of suggestions from people on this question.  I could list a dozen right off the top of my head, but you probably wouldn't be interested in "the history of ship building".  \n\nYou should pick a book that you'd like to read.  Once you get a good story and characters filling your imagination, the art will come easier.  If you have an area of interest, you should re-post the question, asking about that area.  \n\ne.g. "I like sci-fi books,  I've read..., I have a library book competition, any suggestions for my next book?"
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I just checked out the Gospel of Judas the other day @ the local B&N. Wow. It felt like a part of history jumping into my hands.\n\nKnowing what Judas was to become; reading what depictions he'd written of Jesus; the pieces of text felt so raw with emotion. They felt so real. Knowing the ending of the story of course, did make some of the pre-betrayal friendliness tough to swallow.\n\nThis brought me to the realization that these newer books need to be included, don't they? I haven't asked my priest at church, but a newer version has to be in the works.\n\nForget about red tape, just order the entries and publish the thing.\n\nWith the Da Vinci Code getting more publicity than the Dead Sea Scrolls, now'd be a pretty good time to release a newer, fuller edition of The Bible.\n\nThanks for answering my last question,\n\n-Justin
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First: Read, read, read.  Since you don't have access to AP courses, gaining a background in classic texts in history, literature, and science will be up to you.  And you are obviously sufficiently aware and motivated enough to do it, and do it well.\n\nOne way to go about finding the books you should be reading is by consulting some "great books" websites.  I've provided two websites below.  The first provides lists of Western, Eastern, and Modern classic texts.  The second provides electronically accessible editions of many important works. But also, remember to read texts that you simply enjoy and find interesting.  Let your tastes guide you!\n\nWhile you are reading, keep in mind that every author has an agenda or perspective.  To develop your critical thinking skills, keep asking yourself these questions as you read non-fiction:\n- what is the author's thesis?\n- what is the author's argument?\n- what are the author's assumptions?\n- what are the consequences or implications of the author's argument?\n\nHere are some questions for fiction:\n- what are the important themes of this story?\n- what is the author trying to convey in this text?\n- how does the author use language in order to convey these things?\n- what other texts is the author drawing upon (either thematically, or stylistically??\n\nSecond: Write.  Keep a journal.  Write about the books you've read.  Try creative writing, perhaps by imitating the styles of some of your favorite authors.  Just write consistently and thoughtfully.\n\nThird:\nYour question shows me that you are a young person with great potential, and I have every confidence that you will indeed succeed in your endeavors.  Remain aware of your potential, and cultivate it in every way you can.  People are physical, mental, emotional and spiritual beings.  Cultivate every part of you.\n\nI promise you that if you keep reading, writing, and thinking critically, you will not only gain acceptance to highly-regarded academic institutions, but you will excel in your studies wherever you choose to go.\n\n(And do remember that prestigious universities with large endowments seek diversity; this includes geographic diversity.  So when it is time to apply to college, aim high. And in your application essays, do not be afraid to mention the challenges you have faced and overcome while growing up in your environment.)\n\nBest wishes!
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I just asked a question about the Montauk Project myself.I read the books.They seem to be very technically correct about a lot of the  things they talk about.So who-ever wrote them wasn't an idiot or a nut making up a story. I believe that the things spoken of in the stories are more than likely possible.Whether or not they actually happened as it is written,or if we really do possess this secret technoIogy, I don't know.In a way though,I kind of hope it isn't completely true,because the story of these projects are filled with abuse and inhuman treatment of human beings in the name of scientific developement and whatever else.
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I agree- are you talking fiction or non-fiction?\n\nFor non-fiction, it's difficult, but I really love "Pomosexuals" by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel- just for showing all the awesome varieties of sexual and gender expression, and the intersections of each.\n\nFor fiction, I doubt there's been anything quite so to the point and wonderful as Leslie Feinberg's "Stone Butch Blues".  It was both an immensely touching story, a social and political message, and remains one of the very few explanations of butch lesbian/stone butches/TG butches.  Perfect.