Essays on Grandson

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 ...

INTRODUCTION

World exploration and explorers are always hailed in history books and classes as significant events and people because they have opened doors to new eras of trade, knowledge and information, technology and cultural consolidation. The names Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama and Ferdinand Magellan are some of the greatest names in exploration. Countries that have often been associated with historical explorations are Spain, Portugal, Great Britain – in other words, Western countries. A closer scrutiny, however, of historical explorations showed that ancient China conducted explorations and voyages even before these Western countries did in the 15th century. The voyages occurred ...

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 ...

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (Cien Añosde Soledad) is a magical realist novel created by Gabriel García Márquez in 1967. This novel is referred to as the Don Quixote of Latin America because of its overwhelming popularity (Jay Corwin, 4). The novel does not have any clear and obvious philosophy that is why the perception of this novel is very individualistic. The tragic and mystique ending pushes to the idea that multiple aspects of life that are described in the novel are heavily criticized by García Márquez (Jay Corwin, 4). And one of these ...

Gender roles have undergone dramatic changes in modern China during the 20th century, particularly since the rise of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. There are three main ancient philosophies that have substantially influenced and deeply rooted in China for a long time. They are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Among three philosophies, I believe Confucianism has influenced China the most and still have a lot of remains when closely looking at every aspect of the Chinese culture. Confucianism is defined as every human relationship has superiority and inferiority and a superior person should take care of an ...

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 ( ...

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 short story under consideration presents the third-person narration, which allows the author for creating a special atmosphere and involving the reader into the actions. Eudora Welty switches from description of the surroundings to the main character’s thoughts and speech. It facilitates conveying the meaning of the story, which is obviously associated with love and sacrifice. Through the story, Eudora Welty demonstrates how love can make people overcome obstacles and even sacrifice something for the sake of the beloved. The story was first published in 1941 which is a relevant piece of information, since the main character of ...

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 hardship and constant struggle of life make the human relationship stronger and more mature. If the person is satisfied from inner, he does not need any kind of material pleasure. Even in meagre earning, and other hardship of the life, the person can be satisfied and mentally stable if he learns to measure the value of love and sacrifice. This is the major ideology on which the two stories “The Gift of The Maggi” by O Henry (William Sidney Porter) and second is “A Worn Path by Welty Eudora can be analysed. Finding our happiness in the happiness ...

“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, By Katherine Anne Porter

The protagonist of the story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, By Katherine Anne Porter, (1930), the Granny, is on her death bed and is under the effect of medicines and in a critical situation. As she had already realized that this time it is going to be the final call for her, she has lots of thoughts running in her mind. She though being in the present and living her ailment, she is travelling through time and is again and again experiencing her past. The effect of her sedatives and her illness is making her mix the present with the ...

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 ...

Peace that people enjoy nowadays uninterrupted is, of course, not a new phenomenon. However, what is interesting is that the humanity has lived only several hundred years without warring for whatever reason could bring large armies face-to-face in a lethal confrontation for questionable reasons. Besides soldiers, the brute force of conflicts, the main tools of war have always been weapons indicating the state of technological advancement of nations, being the litmus paper and the benchmarks of progress. Thousands years ago, there was no such concept as a long-lasting peace, and the weaponry was a lot more different than it currently is, being used ...

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 ...

In Eudora Wetly story “A Worn Path,” the path that the old woman Phoenix Jackson walks on symbolizes the theme of the story—that repetition in life can become similar to the monotony of death. An old woman Phoenix Jackson goes to town to by medicine for her grandson. But, her grandson has died. Her body is frail, and her memory is failing. But like a path that persists in the woods, she still shows courage and resolve in going about her daily duties. She has become so accustomed to her routines that her routines are more vivid than her ...

Felicia sat on the steps of her apartment building, bouncing a small yellow ball. It was dark out, only the dim light from the hallway behind her lighted the street. The sounds of sirens blared in the distance. A car rambled by and the thump of the loud bass vibrated through the cement of the sidewalk to where she sat. The vibration was almost soothing; she watched the car run a red light almost wistfully. It was late at night; it must be nice to somewhere to go. She happily bounced the ball a few more times before some mischievous urge ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’ 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 ...

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1.What phrase/verse/thought stood out the most to you? Explain The idea presented at the very beginning of the speech with the example of the personal experience of the speaker was the most captivating and influential an aspect of the speech. The speaker told the audience about decade old communication with his grandson in which his grandson presented an elaborated theory and practice based opinion against his question about the purpose of the glass cage placed in the vicinity. After ...

Rob Reiner directed ‘The Princess Bride’ is one of successful Americans movies. This movie is adventurous, comedy and romantic movie that is based on William Goldman written novel of the same name. The movie was released in the year 1987 and considered as a cult movie of the American cinema. This paper intends to discuss the movie and other related aspects of the area under discussion. The movie begins with a scene where a book is being read by a grandfather (Peter Falk) to his sick grandson (Fred Savage). The grandfather reads the story of a young woman, Buttercup who is very beautiful. ...

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 ...

While visiting the sweatshop in Accra, which belong to one of his business partners, Ghana President’s nephew saw Imoida as she was minding her business sewing buttons for masculine jackets. As he glanced the beautiful sewing girl, the President’s nephew, Oroonoko, was blurred. He starred at her as if he was asking himself “how did the Queen of the Night end up working in a sweatshop?” He asked his friend who owned the sweatshop for a personal favor, requiring choosing a girl from his employees, pretending that he needed a new maid for his Accra residence, where he lived with his ...

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 ...

Many people believe that we now live in a world where we can make decisions – women are allowed to choose if and when they want to get pregnant so they take pills to ensure they have their choice. However just like with birth control, there is a lot of debate on euthanasia. Many people are of the opinion that euthanasia should not be allowed. Euthanasia is the process of allowing someone dies willingly and has being mercy killing by many. Unfortunately it is the killing that gets many people riled up as they are of the opinion that lives should not ...

Thesis

Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ and Eudora Welty’s ‘A Worn Path’ are contrastingly different yet similar in some ways. While one is a poem, the other is a short story; however, they both seem to reveal a similar sentiment and expression of the protagonists. In ‘The Road Not Taken,’ the narrator, while waking on a road reaches a point where the road splits in two different directions. He stops to ponder which road to take and opts for the road less travelled. He was far from the madding crowd and close to nature. In ‘A Worn Path,’ the story revolves around ...

Presentation and Analysis of two literary works – Reflections on the way both literary works ‘The Road not Taken’ and ‘A Worn Path’ representing different writing kinds, a poem and a short story respectively, approach the same thematic core, the one of a Journey’s Symbolism – Comparison and contrast of both works in terms of their context, writing style, underlying meaning [The author’s name]

Abstract

This paper will present you with a comparison and contrast of two literary works. Both the literary works which have been chosen, belong to the same theme, the one of a journey’s symbolism. The first work which will ...

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 historical context of the trial and eventual execution of Mary, queen of Scots is of quite significant for those who take interest in English history and particularly for them who want to know about what happened in the discourse of history when the Holy Roman Catholic Church split into two divergent branches i.e., Catholic and Protestant. At that time, i.e. in 1543, Henry VIII of England decided to set up the Anglican Church and to break the religious ties with the Catholic Church. Rather than to call the English Church as both Catholic and Protestant, it was defined ...

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 ...

Part 1: The Human Environment

Written Assignment 1-Description of five people - Roles - Age relation to age - Analysis applying role theory

Written Assignment 11- On Golden Pond

- Description of Norman’s environment - Selection of Theory - Application of theory to Norman’s Human Environment interaction - Reasons for selecting theory - Credibility of theory

Part 11: Age related changes – Anticipatory Socialization

Introduction - Assessment of present adulthood career paterns

Assessment of financial needs

Description of leisure Selection of retirement environment Conclusion - Anticipatory socialization plan

Abstract

This document embraces two areas of study. They are human environment and age related changes. First, assessment of five persons in ...

Introduction

Crusade is a term that originates from the Christian world which relates for a violent aggression of a people towards a certain system. In the early years prior to the birth of the religion, there were crusades that were done for many causes. These were both religious and secular events. However, the term crusade came to have its roots in the ninth through to the sixteenth century when the western community used various crusades to help the Christians in the land of Jerusalem to regain some of their privileges that they had been denied by the Muslim who conquered the land (Ali, 78). ...

The play, Wit, by Margaret Edson, tells the story of Professor Vivian Bearing. The play opens with a monologue by Vivian in which she shares with the audience that she has been diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer, and that she will be dead by the end of the play. The following scenes explore Vivian’s past as well as her present. She offers commentary throughout the play, as she becomes the narrator of her own life, and ultimately, her own death. Through this commentary, we as an audience are allowed to witness Vivian’s personality. We learn what she ...

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 ...

It was a time of transformation; it was the early 13th century and add this very moment the two tectonic plates of religion and global trade were shifting and capturing new geographies. Genghis Khan proved to be a revolution in the Mongolian history and he conquered without fail with an idea of creating universal harmony through subjugation of all other races. His methods included a lot of slaughter to gain access to other empires and by the time he died is Empire got extended to Russia and China and was also touching the areas that led to Christian Europe. Man (2006) ...

The two pieces of work, ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost, and ‘A worn Path’ by Eudora Welty both describe two separate journeys by two characters. The two journeys, though in separate worlds, are loaded with symbolism in the characters, elements of the journey and the emerging themes. The poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ brings out the choices made in terms of what course to take in life while the short story ‘A Worn Path’, shows the undying determination of a traveler to finish the course of her journey.

Symbolism of the journey

Though appearing simple and subtle, the story ‘A Worn Down ...

Introduction:

The French and Indian war was a crucial one for the development of the United States as it forged a nation which was still in its early infancy. The crux of the matter lies in the fact that in Sheppard’s book she is out to prove that all wars in this period were due to empire building and the capacity to challenge Britain as a nation of empires. Empires Collide tells the tale of several Chippewa Indian families and the white families whom they marry or interact with. Because of the difference in cultures, religions and the way of life ...

Compare and Contrast Robert Frost’s

Robert Frost and Eudora Welty both writers, lived thirty years apart; whereas Frost writes poetry and Welty writes novel and short story, a comparison and contrast of these two works will show that the setting of their writings is nature.

The two works, “The Road not Taken”, and “A Worn Path,“ begin with a description of nature, and they are set apart by one season. Frost’s poem begins: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” suggesting that it is fall. There are several yellow flowers that bloom in spring, however, it could not have been spring, since the poet distinctly says “ ...

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. ...

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 ...

The naming of the main character ‘Phoenix’ in Welty’s short story “A Worn Path” provides many different implications and meanings for the character, providing subtext that would otherwise be missing from such a self-contained tale. The Phoenix is a mythical bird that lives for hundreds of years before burning itself into ashes, a new phoenix rising from those ashes, reborn. In myth and legend, the Phoenix is a symbol of strength, integrity, rebirth and dedication. It is also known to be quite benevolent, giving of others and adoring of the sunlight. It has a very strong connection to the colors red and crimson, which ...