shadow side to himself. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "Young Goodman Brown" displays a protagonist’s archetypal journey to the discovery of evil in mankind. Hawthorne’s use of the threshold motif depicts the archetypal struggle between good and evil and the inevitable loss of innocence. Set in the Puritan age‚ Goodman Brown embarks on a voyage into the dark forest where he uncovers the evil in everyday society. Prophetically‚ Goodman Brown begins his trip at sunset in the streets of Salem‚ Massachusetts
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Alicia Rush Don Godfrey ENGL 1510 “A Dark Brown Dog” Analysis In Stephen Crane’s short story of “A Dark Brown Dog”‚ he writes about a young boy who finds‚ neglects‚ and befriends a ragged puppy‚ with a rope dragging the ground‚ when they meet. The boy takes fun in abusing the puppy‚ but when he tires of this he makes his way home. The puppy‚ even though the boy was not nice‚ starts to follows the boy home. When arriving home the boy defends the puppy to claiming him as his own. The boy’s father
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In Peter A. Brown’s “Restoring Perspective: $1‚000 for the Prom Is Immoral”‚ I believe he is attempting to show the importance of the morality of money and I think in made the prom his main point. My hero is the principal‚ who canceled his school’s senior prom‚ not just to prevent underage drinking and sex at post-event parties‚ but also to make the kids and parents consider how they spend their money. It is the best recent example of an authority figure standing up to both the culture of conspicuous
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Nikky Finney‚ in her book of poetry Rice‚ captures her intention to “camera / What they believed / Could not be caught” (“Daguerre of Negras” 1-3). In other words‚ she records what she and people like her believe as well as what they perceive cannot be captured‚ reached‚ or taken hold of (OED‚ 1). By converting the noun camera into a verb‚ Nikky Finney expands the meaning of camera. She moves from the simple recorded image (i.e.‚ from a still or moving picture) and expands it into the act of recording
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RELATIVISM AND MORALITY Lenn Goodman offers a very good argument about his idea of the things that are wrong. I agree with his argument that four of the things that we should look to in whatever being we worship are “(1) genocide‚ politically induced famine‚ and germ warfare; (2) terrorism‚ hostage taking‚ and child warriors; (3) slavery‚ polygamy‚ and incest; and (4) rape and female genital cutting.” (Goodman‚ Project Muse‚ pg 88) When Goodman talks about genocide‚ famine‚ and germ warfare
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liberated. Unspeakable horrors took place and Americans learned about man’s inhumanity‚ the disturbing crematoriums‚ and trains that arrived right in front of the gas chambers. The terrible history has more recently be compared to current events. Ellen Goodman‚ author of the short essay Becoming Desensitized to Hate Words‚ has long been an opponent of using Hitlerian language and other hate speech in everyday language. Her essay briefly discusses the improper analogies that people in the present are making
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be accomplished-- things that fuel our determination and strengthen our resolve. The two poems‚ “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress Toward” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes are good examples of how poetry‚ too‚ can speak to a reader’s heart and mind and fuel their determination. “Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress
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A.E. Housman wrote “To an Athlete Dying Young” in 1896. Housman was born Valley House in Fockbury‚ a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire‚ in 1859. Housman grew up in an era where sports wasn’t really prevalent. However‚ Housman’s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” pays homage to the memory of an athlete dying young. His interpretation seem to be that it’s a great thing for an athlete to die young. The death of an athlete who’s was in the prime of their career is always saddening
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Ellen Goodman‚ a Pulitzer prize winning columnist‚ author‚ speaker‚ and commentator who refuses to call herself a pundit. Ellen has long been a chronicler of social change in America‚ especially the women’s movement and effects on our public‚ private lives‚ and has spent most of her life chronicling social change and its impact on American life. As a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist she was one of the first women to open up the pages to women’s voices and became‚ according to Media Watch‚ the most
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For Poets by Al Young is an inspiring poem. The narrator speaks to the readers in third person when describing the tone which is hopeful and powerful. The setting is metaphorically relating to being outside and the nature around us. For Poets is based around a metaphor for its literary device. The whole poem is a metaphor that compares the struggles and good times of life to nature. The message of the poem is saying that you should stay happy‚ proud‚ and wise and you can do this by giving it your
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