81st Academy Awards

The Use of Language in A Fable for Tomorrow by Rachel Carson The extracts give the impression of stark contrast, even contradictions, from the very beginning. The author chooses to use the word fable in the title, which, traditionally, is something fictional and also usually refers to the past and yet this is coupled with ‘tomorrow’. This indicates that the author is looking to show the reader that, although the situation she refers to in the second extract may not be factual in its entirety

The Hidden Truth Under The Lifted Veil Many stories involving the supernatural or the paranormal give way to the question of the reliability of the narrator. This question is brought forth in The Lifted Veil by the narrator himself. Being told in the first person, the debate is ever present, but this particular narrator highlights it even more than most. He tells a tale of precognizance, which heightens to madness, and the horror of his omniscience. Whether it is looked at from the standpoint

Reflective Academic Paper Writing a decent essay can be as nerve wrecking, time consuming, and accompanied by many trail and errors as an art project. First you have to generate an idea, which can be the biggest challenge. Then you have to decide on what detail to incorporate and then correct placement for it. You start throwing colors and shapes together in hope that it will transform into a pleasing design. This all takes times, so being challenged to create art work, whether it be an essay or

The short stories, “A Sunrise on the Veld” and “At the Pitt Rivers”, have nothing in common if you analyze them on a shallow literature level. “A Sunrise on the Veld” by Doris Lessing, highlights some of the reasons why life is so valuable. Lessing hints her readers that this short story is set somewhere in the desert by, “ … the flesh of his soles contracted on the chilled earth, and his legs began to ache with cold… He slung the shoes over his shoulder… they would be necessary when the ground became

The Beauty Queen of Leenane, a deep, twisted play by Martin McDonagh, is a symbolic work of art. The symbols within this play, powerful as they may be, do not jump out at the reader. They are instead embedded into the simplest objects and the relationship of the main characters. Martin McDonagh portrays his symbols with such an ironic eloquence; the dark, powerful symbols are inextricably linked in such a beautiful way, that once the reader makes the connections, the entire aura of the play changes

Frequently referred to as an age of doubt, the Modernist period of literature was characterized by authors who sought to challenge the notion of a literary text containing a single truth or meaning. Modernist writers went against societal and cultural customs by questioning literature and focusing on the individual experience of a text. As a result, much of modern literature destabilizes meaning through the use of ambiguity and suspense. Accordingly, ambiguity plays a central role in James Joyce’s

Destroying Avalon is a novel written by Kate McCaffery and is intended for teenagers and young adults. The main focus of the novel are the issues surrounding cyber-bullying in high schools. Whilst there are numerous themes embedded in this novel bullying is by far the most important to the story. This is demonstrated through the cyber-bullying campaign, the physical attacks and the verbal harassment endured by both victims. A cyber-bullying campaign was started against Avalon (the protagonist) within

Phoenix ran into a number of obstacles on her journey.  She could have given up in the very beginning when she recognized that her old age might prevent her from continuing the journey.  She realized that the route was a long one and normally a person of her age would have turned around,not attempting to complete the journey,        With the presence of wild animals, Phoenix could have discontinued her mission.  Most of us would have turned back at this point on the journey, but Phoenix decided

The first theme that will be compared between Trash and Millions is the theme of friendship. In the text Trash Gardo and Raphael have a very strong friendship, so strong in fact that Raphael sees Gardo as a brother but in fact both of the boys are just best friends. Near the end of the text of Trash, Rat convinces the boys to throw the money over Bahala for the poor people who live there just like Millions at the end of the movie, it shows poor people in Africa having clean water coming from the

The nineteenth century mystery novel The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins excites the reader with detailed descriptions and a suspenseful plot. The testimony of multiple characters reveals the story of Laura Fairlie’s arranged marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Percival’s friend, Count Fosco, is at his side, and Marian Halcombe, Laura’s half-sister, is at her side. Walter Hartright, a watercolor artist, finds himself residing with Laura temporarily as he is hired to teach her his art. The two soon