Caroline Quentin

A Journal Analyzing the Byronic Hero, Those who Closely Resemble the Hero, Byron’s Writing Styles and Literary Criticism (Journal entry 1, Defining the Byronic Hero) The Byronic Hero is a term derived from the poetic narrative, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, by Lord Byron. Though the idea of the Byronic Hero originated with the creation of Byron’s characters, Byron himself possessed the physical features associated with the Byronic Hero. These features include dark brooding eyes

Introduction Arcadia is an ancient play by Tom Stoppard regarding a distinct relationship between order and disorder, past and present, certainty and uncertainty. This play has in the past been praised by critics as the finest play with significant contemporary playwrights with regards to English language. Tom Stoppard has also been recognized as the greatest living playwright in English language theater with timely jumping masterpieces. His elegance allows his forging towards a unique comedy of

“…we are not asked to condemn this being with the mad heart, this being with whom there is something constitutionally wrong. On the contrary, we are invited to understand and sympathize. But there is a limit to sympathy. For though he lives among us, he not one of us” (Coetzee, 2000: 33). The afore stated quote from the novel Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, is used when discussing a poem by Lord Byron- Lara- in the novel. Yet it is directly applicable to the protagonist, David Lurie. Coetzee appeals to

For the Third Quarter SSR Project I chose the book Both Sides Of Time by Caroline B. Cooney. I settled on this fiction book not only because I’ve read all three books in Cooney’s series Time Travelers Quartet, but it just so happens to be my favorite out of all of them. This book is gripping to me because of the events happening in the book. A hopeless romantic going back in time, involved in two love triangles in two different centuries, then forced to leave one that she loves either way. I relish

In Waiting for Godot, Beckett often focused on the idea of "the suffering of being." Most of the play deals with the fact that Estragon and Vladimir are waiting for something to relieve them from their boredom. Godot can be understood as one of the many things in life that people wait for. Waiting for Godot is part of the ‘Theater of the Absurd’. This implies that it is meant to be irrational and meaningless. Absurd theater does not have the concepts of drama, chronological plot, logical language

Production History of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot        Samuel Beckett was forty-two years old and living in post-war Paris when he wrote Waiting for Godot as an exercise to help rid himself of the writer's block which was hindering his work in fiction. Once he started, he became increasingly absorbed in the play, and scribbled it almost without hesitation into a soft-cover notebook in a creative burst that lasted from October 9, 1948, until he completed the typed manuscript on

interview with Collette Carroll. Collette is part of a team of the California Reentry Institute (CRI) which is a pre and post releases program those offenders within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation which is located in San Quentin State Prison. The California reentry program was developed in 2008; the Department of Correction realized offenders being released from prison should have the opportunity to attend a pre and post release program. The reentry program is a volunteer

On December 24, 2002, Scott Peterson became known as the most hated man in a America, as he was convicted of murdering his eight and a half month pregnant wife. This tragedy has a lot of questions begging to be answered like who was involved, how it happened and where they are now. Laci Rocha Grew up as the youngest child I Modesto California I 1975. Shortly after she was born her parents separated and Laci would visit her father's dairy farm in Escalon California. She was a cheerleader through junior

The question “Why is there so much poverty in the United States?” has such a broad spectrum of issues. There is no simple cure or single cause of poverty. According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, “the 2011 Poverty Guidelines are $10,890 for a single member household and $22,350 for a family of four” (par 13). In addition, “families’ incomes that fall below the threshold given, means that every individual in the household are considered to be in poverty” (par 13)

Richard Ramirez was born on February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas. Richard was a mexican/american serial killer waiting for his death at San Quentin state prison. Richard was known for “Richie” or “The Night Stalker”. In his early life Ramirez was influenced into becoming a killer by his cousin Mike, his cousin Mike was a Vietnam war veteran who boasted of killing and torturing all of his Vietnamese enemies. Mike showed Ramirez polaroid pictures of his victims. Another big influence may have been