Essays on Muddy

One Sentence Lesson for Muddy Road

Harboring negative thoughts are more dangerous than positive actions, regardless of whether the action rendered supposedly counter an explicitly defined rule. Although it was a rule for monks not to go near females, it was evident that the act of carrying the girl was noble and without any malice. He could have done the same thing whether the girl was lovely or not.

Reflections about Parables

Parables are learned to be short and simple stories which provide readers with a lesson or moral. From the parable of the muddy road, it could be deduced that the lesson is about harboring negative thoughts ...

It was on a cold January night when the local police were informed of a suspicious activity reported by the neighbors in a locality. An old woman possibly living all by herself had not been seen or heard of since several days, whereas the locals had reported her of being very active and outdoorsy. Yet since two days, she had not been seen outside her home, and when a neighbor visited her, he returned back without an answer even though he waited for several minutes. They tried her number, but she would not answer as well. The police were ...

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

4. Describe at least two episodes, in detail, that indicate Sledge's attitude towards the enemy. As a personal account, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa recounts harrowing and vivid events experienced by Eugene B. Sledge and his United States (U.S.) Marine comrades during World War II as members of the First Marine Division. As an ordinary soldier, the author elaborates on the military campaigns fought by his division, K Company’s Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment (K 3/5) at the Japanese islands of Peleliu and Okinawa. The memoir provides readers with the numerous and graphic horrors suffered ...

Blues is a genre of music that is influenced by country music and the American folk culture. Moreover, the music draws from work hollers and songs, folk ballads, European hymns, traditional songs, and a rich mix of African-American spirituals. The first recorded blues was published as sheet music in the 1910s when the music had taken the form of AAB lyrical structure, 12 bars, and an unprecedented scale with the seventh and third notes flatted (Jackson 14). Blues is also an evolution of West African music that was brought to the United States by slaves who used it to ...

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Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder Nationality: EnglishDate: 1563 Title: Tower of Babel Genre: Religious Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 114 x 155 cm (Tower of Babel, 2016). Pieter Bruegel Pieter Bruegel I, referred to as Pieter Bruegel the Elder is a notable artist from the southern Netherlandish family of artists that were active during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Bruegel, the astoundingly inventive painter, ushered in a humanizing spirit with his works. He was born between 1525 and 1530 in or near Breda. His compositions were sophisticated and brilliantly organized . There is very little known bout Bruegel as the ...

Shakespeare, Hughes, and Blake to

Evoke Strong Feelings in Their Readers

Good poetry should tantalize the senses; the reader should be able to feel, see, and taste as the poet does. In their poems, the following poets, Shakespeare, Hughes, and Blake write tributes to someone dear and use figurative language to bring their poems to life and hold their readers in the same realm as they when they penned their poems.

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,?” is how Shakespeare begins sonnet eighteen, with a simile. Clearly Shakespeare is addressing someone special, someone he really cares about and admire. Shakespeare uses a question ...