Essays on Better Days

Not many years ago, being vegetarian was almost cultic; however as society becomes more educated about the meat it consumes, more and more people are embracing the vegetarian life-style. The main reason for this conversion is the quest for longer, healthier life. When my siblings and I were growing up our parents did not have much money, therefore we did not always have meat; sometime three or five times per month. Despite the fact that our mother was a good cook and knew how to make vegetables taste good. we thought we were depraved going without meat. The one ...

"Next, Please" by Philip Larkin

Expectation and hope are some of our most basic human traits; we always hope for a glad future, in which all of our problems will be solved and better days await us. In Philip Larkin's poem "Next, Please," however, that concept is argued to distract us from the ever-fleeting present, as the author notes how much time we spend (or waste) on promises and expectations instead of living in the now. While the poem starts out light, it quickly descends into dark implications for those whom Larkin is chastising (Reibetanz, 1982). In the first verse, Larkin seems to tease ...

Over the past two decades, there has been a dire need for critical analysis of written literature as a means to relate them to the contemporary world and allow for relation of roles, advice, and themes to the everyday life. The intention of this critique is to significantly analyze the novel, "The Enchanted Bluff", and "Life in the Iron-Mills" written by William Cather and Rebecca Harding Davis respectively. The paper also seek to compare and contrast the two novels on the basis of relationship of the protagonist and antagonist, the setting time and place, relationship of biological and mythological allusion, themes, ...