Grandson College Essays Samples For Students

The story of Eudora Welty introduces the exemplar of a truly selfless woman who is ready to sacrifice herself for the sake of the ones she loves. Thus, every time when she goes to town for the remedy for his little grandson, Phoenix Jackson virtually burns herself like the magical bird she was named after, and every time when she gets the remedy she hurries back to her grandson who is waiting for her (Welty, 1991). Furthermore, Phoenix simply cannot let herself die, since she is the only close person to that little boy. With that, until she is ...

Experience 1: This story reveals love as the most impressionable characteristic of Phoenix. She exhibits deep-ingrained habit of love for her grandson. Love becomes the motivation for Phoenix’s trip through pines and oaks (Jae & Julien 2). Love finds its way out of difficulty and remembers the its way in moments of uncertainty. Phoenix exhibits natural and unconscious love and becomes her primary motive in the quest of charity. This characteristic is similar to Antonio in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, who is willing to give out a pound of his flesh to protect his best friend, ...

The journey is something that has been discussed in literature for many years, as it carries a universal resonance for all people who wish to reach a destination or accomplish a goal. Eudora Welty and Robert Frost are two authors who examine the nature of the journey, and attempt to symbolize that nature in their short stories and poems, “A Worn Path” and “The Road Not Taken,” respectively. Both “A Worn Path” and “The Road Not Taken” are about how the journey we take through life defines us and gives us purpose. Phoenix’ journey is to help others and herself; the protagonist ...

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Literature has been used in its various forms, like short fiction, novels, poems, plays, for centuries by writers, who use this medium to express their imaginations, emotions, and ideas. Each genre, in its own way, entices its reader and tries to entertain and enlighten him. Sometimes, a similar literary device, like symbolism, metaphor or imagery, is handled in a different way in different genres. The two literary works discussed in this essay, “The Road Not Taken” and “A Worn Path”, have both employed the symbolism of the journey. Both the authors have portrayed, in their work, a journey, which is ...

A worn path

This is a short story written by Eudora Welty. The first thing to be observed about the short story is the manner in which it has been narrated. The writer has made use of the third person to narrate the story here. With this, the reader automatically gets to think of someone who is observing the object of the story as she moves along the long path. To the observer the fright that the woman feels and the way she gets tired would be more apparent this way.
The person in the story is Phoenix Jackson, an African American ...

A Stroke of Good Fortune is a short story by Flannery O’Connor. It revolves around a woman named Ruby Hill who was unhappy with her life and disappointed when she discovered that she was pregnant. The major theme in the story is denial and discontent. Ruby is discontented with her life and where she lives. She desires to stay in the new subdivisions where she will not have to climb stairs as she goes to her house. Ruby was unhappy because she had to climb the stays each and everyday she goes out in order to reach her house where ...

The Mongols are an ethnic group of people. They lived as minorities in areas of China and Russia. Their origin can be traced to the 8th century. They were equated with ethnic groups such as Magog and Tungusic. Their ancestry was traced back to the nomadic confederation that had occupied Manchuria and Eastern Mongolia. Mongols indeed lived a nomadic lifestyle in search of mostly food and pasture, also for adventure.
Mongolia received 250 cloudless days in a year. Their only way for survival was mobility hence their nomadic lifestyle. It was a demanding lifestyle to avoid the hazardous environments ( ...

In the present paper the personality, appearance and personal characteristics of one of the most popular fictional heroines Lydia Chin will be described. Lydia Chin is, first of all, a creation of a S.J. Rozan’s imagination. S.J. Rozan, being a popular and a gifted writer, has come up with entertaining and short-novel series that have immediately caught on and these series have been focused around Lydia Chin and Bill Smith. They are made in the genre of detective and explore many a problem pertaining to the modern society even despite their fictional background.
Sometimes the two characters – Lydia ...

Fauvism flourished in France during the early part of twentieth century and the Fauve painters were known to break away with Impressionism. The Fauves were known to known for their use vibrant colors and bold brushstrokes and how they sought new picture space with the movement of color planes. The exuberant Fauve artworks style carried highly intense color and has often been compared to German Expressionism because of the spontaneous brushwork with brilliant colors. The short lived phase of the early twentieth-century, Fauvism brought stronger color values over the realistic values of Impressionism. Henri Matisse and André Derain are ...

At 5 hours 30 minutes AM on July 16, 1945 the United States tested an atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo in New Mexico. The test was a triumphant success. The explosion was stronger than expected - it was an explosion equivalent to about 20 kilotons of trinitrotoluol (Rhodes, 1986).
The US President Harry S. Truman was to decide what US policy should be carried out toward nuclear bomb (Bernstein, 1975). Truman knew nothing about the bomb until he became the president, and he was informed about it by Henry L. Stimson, the US Secretary of Defense, and ...

The treatise "Sun Tzu", the authorship of which, according to general belief, belongs to the famous military commander Sun Wu, has long been revered in China as the chief military canon. The title of "canonical" means, among other things, that the book is intended for not easy and superficial reading, but slow and in-depth, for memorization, almost soaking it in oneself to the last word. For "canon" in China - as in every cultural tradition - it is ultimately nothing else than a literary image of the infinite diversity of the creative abundance of life itself. It does not contain ...

During Italian Renaissance the promotion of cultural and artistic patronage responded directly to specific needs of the Court as a new institution. Small regional states emerged from the fragmentation of the communal and feudal regime as a new political subject directly delegated by a higher authority such as the imperator or that the pope. Because of this structural nature of their power, the Italian princes were constantly looking for support, justification and recognition, both inside and especially outside of the boundaries of the territory ruled.
In fact, the political activity of a prince would not existed without a specific focus on artistic and ...

Abstract

The study investigates different aspects of the Mirphak star. The Introductory section explains that the star occurs in the Perseus constellation and is the brightest star in the night sky above the Northern horizon. The paper has a section that describes the various names and myths linked to the star. Moreover, the paper traces a Greek’s mythical story that gave the constellation its name. Under the section on properties and position of the star, the study examines the changing coordinates of Mirphak. As a result, it outlines the star’s coordinates in J2000 and J1900. Other features examined include Mirphak’s ...

Iranian civilization history

For the first time in history in the 13th century a phenomenon arose in central Asia of a virtual world war due to the fury of the Mongolians. The existence of new tormentors amidst them was something the Euro/Asiatic land masses did not expect as the Mongol tribe unleashed their fury on them.
The few works of art that have lived to give an impression of how the invaders looked like being just two objects that show similar images but different cultures of the Mongol conquerors: The furthest point to the west that the Mongols reached which in recent times ...

The world of the Shang kings was a world dominated by nature powers like the Sun, the Mountain, the River, and the High God referred to as Di and even the Former Lords. The word di has different meanings. Some say I mean ancestors while others say it has generosity meanings.
“The jurisdiction of this High God was exclusive”. Nature Powers and the ancestors had their roles to play. Di had the power to bring rain, thunder and even control the wind. This High God was common to the Chinese. This contributed to the origin of the religious practices ...

Do you think Martin Luther King Went too far in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail” do you think he did not go far enough?
No, I do not believe that Martin Luther King went ‘too far’ at all in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, since the injustice and oppression blacks faced were very real, and the white clergy he was writing to had never done anything for civil right and just wished he would go away. Martin Luther King could have been a lot more violent and angry than he was in this letter, given that in Birmingham, Alabama ...

Eudora Welty uses extensive symbolism in her short story, A Worn Path, as she chronicles the life of a fictional character by the name of Phoenix Jackson; Phoenix is described as a small and old woman of African-American descent (Welty 222). To begin with, the name Welty chooses to assign the story’s protagonist is in itself a very compelling symbol since it takes its purchase from a mythical tale (Jones 19; Donlan 549). The name Phoenix refers to a mythical bird that was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. This bird is fabled to have had the peculiar character trait of renewing itself ...

The House of Spirits by Isabella Allende

1. Introduction.
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende is the first novel that she published. The book became highly popular and the style of “magical realism” was used to describe the novel. Rogers (2002) explains that “magical realist writers write the ordinary as miraculous and the miraculous as ordinary. The miraculous, on the other hand, is described with a precision that fits it into the ordinariness of daily life.” That is exactly what this novel does until gradually it cycles through about seventy five years of one family and ends in a place that is more real than magical.
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