Beyond Creative Writings Samples For Students

Tennyson's poem “Ulysses” combines the Dante’s and Homer’s story of the king Ulysses or Odysseus story to create a long monologue that Ulysses gives detailing his boredom at being in Ithaca, and his desire to return to the adventurous life he lived before. Many critics declare that Tennyson's poem reflects his personal desire to overcome the death of his best friend, Hallam. In fact, Tennyson wanted to keep on living his life with all the negative and positive changes that mirrored the life of Ulysses. Ideally, “Ulysses” is a dramatic monologue that includes the persona’s critical situation that ...

Answer to Two Essay Questions

1) Whats all this emphasis on sense data by empiricists? Explain this elusive idea and its place in modern epistemology?
Sextus Empiricus and his skepticism did not deny human knowledge or even the possibility of knowledge. In fact, it seems his philosophy appears to be a starting point that attempts to actively seek knowledge acquisition. It was just that he never believed one could get beyond the starting point. Or rather, he withheld his assent as to whether one could move beyond skepticism. He cautioned that one must be very careful before affirming as knowledge anything that went beyond ...

“Therefore, since each of these characteristics belongs to the good man in relation to himself, and he is related to his friend as to himself (for his friend is another self), friendship too is thought to be one of these attributes, and those who have these attributes to be friends. Whether there is or is not friendship between a man and himself is a question we may dismiss for the present; there would seem to be friendship in so far as he is two or more, to judge from the afore-mentioned attributes of friendship, and from the fact that the extreme ...

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Being a Researcher

I believe that research is a process. It is a step-by-step procedure of capturing, analyzing, documenting and validating requirements to develop a research paper. The research process provides a researcher the necessary skills and groundwork in discovering information to complete an effective research. The main entities, while conducting research, include your subject matter, its environment and, more importantly, yourself.
In the next couple of months, I intend to conduct research on the difficulties of international students in speaking and learning the English language. I have determined that I will conduct qualitative research through my ...

The world of literature has changed tremendously over the past ten years. Long gone are the days when our Australian literary artists delved on the traditional stereotypes that encompassed gender stereotypes. Gone are those days that the artist’s concern was the role of man as a dominating factor in the Australian home: And the woman being thought of as the weaker sex: who could not work in the factories and take prestigious posts when they were allowed to work. As the short story writers, we should go beyond traditions into the writing for developmental purposes.
Nowadays I watch a ...

Introduction

If any organisation were to succeed in achieving its objectives and targets, it is at the mercy of the strategies that it develops for itself. A lack of strategy will tell on the manner the organisation works. Hence, the team employed to this effect should be efficient and have the required knowledge for the same. Plans should match what the company envisions for itself in the light of its finances and operations. Such plans work in the long run. The more changes occur in them, the more difficult it is for them to move ahead. Realistic yardsticks can be ...

In the book of Ecclesiastes, the author, often called “the Teacher” discusses the results of his life’s pursuit of both worldly success and wisdom. Through his discussion, he expresses the need to temper one’s life with the goal of the afterlife in mind. In this sense, the Teacher is attempting to express his understanding of how a good life can be achieved. By doing so, he is able to communicate the expectancy that he believes people should have of their worldly and otherworldly pursuits.
In the outset of the first verse, the Teacher discusses the idea of ...

A Reflective Essay

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Life beyond college is just as confusing and indecisive as that essay I am desperately trying to formulate. Your college education is supposed to prepare for that, they say. But the truth that I realized recently is that it is not the college that should prepare me but my own consciousness. With the waves of lectures and homework and party invites that always seem to end up with everyone passed out, it would be so easy to drown in the present. I did drown once. But then, what? Contrary ...

The trial of Priscilla Van Acker

Introduction (Abstract)
As the prosecuting attorney in this case, it is imperative to reiterate the fact that my brief essentially entails ensuring that the ends of justice are met. In that breadth, I wish to submit that it is not justice if the interests of the complainant and indeed in this case the prosecution are served without due consideration of the accused’s interests. Ideally, balancing the two contrasting and conflicting interests would be the most essential in this case. That notwithstanding I wish to deliver my side of the bargain. It is my contention that indeed the ...

It started with the bullfighting. I had never been a fan of the sport itself; indeed, I had never really considered it; but there I was, in Valencia, watching the matadors wave their flags at the heads of the bulls. I had never seen anything like it before, and it was an image that will be seared into my brain as demonstrative of my time in Spain for the rest of my life.
There is so much to say about bullfighting. There is a rich history of bullfighting in Spain and Portugal, but everyone seems to have an opinion about ...

Angel meets the girl and falls in love with her. The angel goes against what he is supposed to do and takes a different part. At times, we have missions that we commit ourselves to fulfill in life. However, along the way one changes their mind and takes a different path. The angel’s sole responsibility was to guard the girl’s spirit to eternal life. However, he is carried away by manly desires and decides to hook the girl up.
Angel was supposed to purport a supernatural being. In the story however, angel seems to have changed his identity to a ...

Classic English Literature

Introduction
Getting nominated for the “Hall of Fame” is a great recognition and honor for any American. The origin of its conception has great relevance in the context of equality, justice, freedom, and respect for human values. It is in the 1890s, that the Rev. Henry MacCracken, president of New York State University, took it upon himself to build a Hall of Fame. It was the brainchild of this visionary who had concerns for prostitution, democracy and the Roman Empire that culminated in a "Parnassus" - a centre of importance.

Background Information on the Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame, Mac Cracken reasoned, was intended to attract prospective ...

Directing

For my directing concept, I chose Martin McDonough's The Pillowman - the tale of Katurian, a horror story author who finds himself being arrested by a totalitarian police state for murders that closely follow his horrific short stories. Being put in a cell with his brother Michal, he starts to recount his stories to both him and the detectives interrogating him, figuring out exactly what happened to him in his childhood and the murders that mirror his stories. My concept would revolve around a black box-style presentation, proscenium-style, with Katurian's scenes with Michal downstage, the cramped interrogation room upstage left with the detectives, ...

Evaluating Contracts

What are the benefits and drawbacks of fixed-price contracts from the perspective of a contractor?

A fixed price contract is one that the government pays a fixed amount without any adjustments. It does not consider the actual costs that the contractor will incur in completing the contract. This contract is appropriate when reasonable market prices are easily determinable in advance. This type of contract is also applicable when supplying standard issue goods such as military contingencies. The prices of such items are determinable and fixed at the beginning to the end of the contact.
The contract has the following characteristics, ...

WALTER RODNEY (1975), LIMITATIONS of the African petty bourgeoisie, Toronto: Afro-carrib publishers

For a long time now since the so called independence which was attained from the imperial powers, the African, Asian and Latin America working and the majority masses have continually experienced deprivation and untold suffering. This is rather ironical considering that it is the same masses under the ‘guidance’ of some indigenous political leaders who struggled to attain this independence. It was expected that the working classes who form the majority of the population would after gaining independence enjoy both political, social and economic freedom. That every person ...