Essays on Rest Of His Life

Henry Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994) was an original poet in that he could write very profound poetry without sounding pompous or condescending. Although best known for his humorous works, he mostly wrote on serious topics like love and death. One of his best poems encompassing both of these issues is “For Jane” which is widely assumed to be a lament about the death of his first love. Bukowski compresses his bewilderment, his fear, his rage and his new-found knowledge in the final stanza of the poem. The stanza begins “what you were” and that’s basically an apt summary ...

English

Benjamin Franklin was born on the 17th of January, 1706. He was also known as The First American” as he was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. In addition to this, he was also a dominant author and printer as well as a postmaster, politician, statesman, diplomat and most importantly, a civic activist. Franklin had made many discoveries and inventions in the field of science as well. The invention of the lightning rod, Franklin stove and bifocals were some of them. As a civic activist, he had founded and facilitated a university and Philadelphia’s fire department. He had ...

The stops in time that Conroy includes in his memoir are important moments that occur only once or during a short period, but they have an effect on the rest of his life. While many some people are lucky enough to have several chances, for most people, there are some decisions that you can only make once, and once you do, you must live with the consequences of the decisions for the rest of your life. This is why Conroy refers to these events and decisions as moments in time, when time is actually stopped, and you live in that ...

Literature

The events of the novel took place at summer time in 1922 when Nick Carraway went to New York where he worked as a bond salesman. This was the time when he came back from the war and graduating from Yale. This was the time when he met Jay Gatsby in West Egg. It was then when he witnessed the rise and fall of Gatsby, as he made a reflection of his life by saying: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 65). Nick met Gatsby during one of the parties he attended ...

In the case of Bart, he has the right to file claims against his employer Bill, Barney and Ruby for damages. In the case of Bill, he is liable under the doctrine of promissory estoppel known as “detrimental reliance” where an individual who has reasonably and substantially relied on the promise of another can acquire some measure of recovery (Miller, 2013, p. 173). The doctrine of promissory estoppel permits a party to recover a promise even if the same was made without any consideration in order to promote the interest of equity and justice by enforcing the contractual obligations. The purpose ...

Introduction

The research paper is about Antigone, the play by Sophocles. The paper provides a complete overview of the play. Antigone’s love for her brother and obeying the commandments of God are reflected in the paper. The stubbornness and inhuman acts of King Creon are also clearly revealed. Moreover, a comparative analysis of the tragedies of Antigone and King Creon are followed by the story, and Creon is proved the real tragic hero of the story.

Background to the myth of Antigone

The circumstantial events that resulted in the tragedy of King Creon begin as Oedipus arrives at Thebes looking for his real parents. To Thebes has ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

Introduction

Juvenile court system is a parallel criminal system provided for juvenile delinquents. Criminal justice system realized that juvenile offenders have special needs as compared to adult criminals in that they are young, and have great future to pursue; therefore, the main objective of the juvenile justice system is to rehabilitate them. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) asserts that, the objective of the juvenile justice system is to “encourage a process of behavioral change by helping the child or young person to feel accountable for his or her actions and understand their impact on others, and foster integration ...

Book review The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince is a unique book which is not easy to categorize, even though it is a non-fiction book. One can try to define it as a historic book, especially for the contemporary reader, but at its time of publication it was more a kind of manual, a manual for leaders whom Machiavelli calls ‘Princes’ (Machiavelli, 2003, p.50), on how to behave when it comes to power. Because of this, the book is still negatively labeled and seen as a “dictator’s handbook” (Dove, 2011) and the author seen as a “synonym for intrigues of unsavory nature” (Goodwin, 2003 p.7). However, the book is intended ...

Introduction and reports intention

In the past, dying was not a big issue. Patients with chronic illnesses decided to live the rest of their lives under the care of friends and family. In other words, the patients would choose to spend the remaining days close to their family and friends. Nowadays, however, ending somebody’s life has become complicated with aid of machines. However, in most cases, the problem is not even ending the life of a patient, but the effect it has on the person who does it. In this article, the focus will be on a case where a patient suffering from a chronic mental illness, ...