Writers Essays and Research Papers Page 2

Not every great writer can be correct in what he or she is saying. This is the idea that Gaunilo had in mind when he wrote his criticism to St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument which states that if something greater than anything else that could be thought of is conceived in the understanding then it must…

Ernest Hemingway lived his life to the fullest he experienced more than any other Man since not Many people traveled as much with women. According to his first wife, Hadley Hemingway, Ernest is described as “having an instinctive habit of putting his own needs ahead of hers” (Kert 152). “[Hemingway] wanted the women in his…

In this essay I will be discussing Montesquieu, Dewey, Wright, and Lippmann. These authors have been writing about todays government for many years. These governments have many things in common as well as different. Montesquieu says that virtue is the most important principle of democracy in American government. That all members of society must put…

They shrink from powders and from paints. So far, I have had no complaints. Interview deals mainly with the subject of relationships. In Interview, Dorothy Parker ponders why certain ladies seem attractive to men despite qualities that Parker sees as redundant and thoughtless. Ladies who Parker says Would shudder at a wicked word, and, not…

Amy Tan, a Chinese American novelist, portrays in her short essay “Mother Tongue” that in the world today, there are many multicultural and bilingual people. For many of these people, they struggle with what social or cultural community they belong to. These include the choices they have to make about what kind of language they…

“William Sydney Porter- later known as O.Henry was born in North Carolina.” O. Henry wrote many colorful and dramatic short stories. The inspiration for the many stories that he wrote came from his experiences through life. Some of these include working in a “drugstore, sheep ranching, bronco busting, living as a fugitive in Honduras” (Zwerger…

The writer I have chosen to speak about is the romanticist John Keats. I chose this particular poet as I believe his ideas are the best expressed of the composers we have studied. I have looked at “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode on Melancholy” and “Ode to Autumn” and I think some important comparisons…

As a poet Sylvia Plath has been renowned for her style of writing and the power she evokes from her ideas in her poems. The themes of her poems tend to be of a negative nature with war, death and the problem of patriarchal societies as such topics. One of Plath’s most famous pieces of…

The essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” by T. S. Eliot incorporates many ideas sympathetic to those found in Pound’s poetry, thus allowing Pound to be comprehended more completely by one who has first read Eliot’s essay. If one were to read Eliot’s essay, he could in turn pick up ideas central to understanding Pound’s…

For my report I have chosen six poems, three by Wilfred Owen and three by Australian poets. Anthem for Doomed Youth, The Send Off and Insensibility  were written by Owen during the first world war to express his anti-war attitude. Beach Burial by Kenneth Slessor, Homecoming by Bruce Dawe and Letter XV by Bruce Beaver…