Essays on Stench

I gasped for fresh air as I was unloaded with the rest of my fellow captives. Months of putrid stench made the fresh air seem almost unbreathable in its goodness. My joints ached and standing seemed a chore. This was no the young body I had left Africa with; then again, I was not the same woman who had left Africa. Months on a slave boat witnessing unspeakable horrors had changed me. I still was unsure what was to come, but it had to be an improvement upon the past couple months of my life. I hadn’t a ...

Wright, Caroll. “The Factory System as an Element in Civilization.” Journal of Social Science, No. 16, December 1882. Sinclair, Upton. “The Meat-Packers of Chicago.” The Jungle, New York, 1906, pp. 39–47, 112– 117, 160–162. My motivation for choosing these two primary documents is informed by the fact that there are a lot of unfair labor practices and exploitation at present and very little has been done to address this menace. Laborers at factories work extremely hard and in the end other people unjustifiably feast on the proceeds of their sweat. Both papers are connected by the theme ...

INTRODUCTION

- Imagine how life is in a desert, picture living in a desert or even near a dumpsite. The thirst, the hunger, the heat, the dust and the stench you would have to endure. Life would be a whole lot of torment. What is that one thing that one would want to preserve most? - The environment is apparently one of our greatest treasures. It is that one thing that we all have to make our best friend. All we have now is a reward from the ‘Mother Nature’. - Go Green is a very common term throughout the world. It is a ...

Pawel Kuczynski is a polish born artist who, between the years of 2004 and 2010 became renowned for his satirical paintings, many of which centered around the art, or horror, of modern warfare. One such work, Under Protective Wing, was published, first in 2009, and has come to fame for its powerful message, and body use of color. This painting demonstrates that while War brings tragedy, there are ultimately other issues that affect decision making, and which promote the continuation of war. At the denotative level, the image, Under Protective Wing, is relatively simplistic. It shows four vultures sitting ...

A Rose for Emily is a story by William Faulkner. Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on 25 September 1897. He was the first of four sons to Murry Cuthbert and Maud Faulkner, and was named after his great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner. He never completed high school, but was able to enroll in University for a special catering program, to serve the war veterans. He stands out to be the most unsurpassed American writers of the twentieth century. Faulkner has written novels, poems, screenplays and short stories. Faulkner wrote his first novel, Soldier’s Play, in 1925. In addition, his ...

The Greasy Lake is a story that dwells upon the details of some young children bad and delinquent in their activities and lifestyle. They presume that the “badness” syndrome is a fashionable trend they keep and develop within them. The plot of the story is interesting and poses a variety of questions quite relevant to the reader response viewpoint of analysis. A journey through the mind of the writer from a psychoanalytic outlook may represent an illusionary destination of choices unique to the reader as the author may wish to reveal. The protagonist may be the dominant factor in this phenomenon where the ...

The venue I have chosen for this assignment is a local Starbucks Coffee shop.

Peace and calmness at Starbucks Peace and calmness characterizes the entire establishment. There is absolutely no kind of disruptive noise. The laughter and chatter sounds of the store’s enthusiastic customers blend in with the blue’s background music that hovers around the shop’s atmosphere. The level of the music volume is moderated to be convenient for everybody. As I walk in, I feel a cold chilling wind blows in from the door closing behind me. I walk across the shop searching for a booth and I notice the exposed brick walls and the custom mural that creates a very ...

According to Ellis' "Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I" there were something like millions of men that were living in the trenches throughout the time of World War I. It was a very dangerous spot and considered to be an area where a lot of the action went down that had nothing to do with the enemy but survival. It was apparent that beyond six million soldiers lost their lives in those trenches. In the book Eye-Deep in Hell, the author does a good job with exploring this distinctive and frightening world—the ceremonies of battle, the customs of ...

It was Halloween, the day when everything can happen, irrespective of whether you believe in it or not. Being a skeptical person I have never believed into all these scary tales and gossips about ghosts, witches and other spiritual creatures. However, that was the very day when I decided to see everything with my own eyes… There is a haunted house on the edge of the city near the lake, which has been uninhabited for several decades. Rumor has it that a happy family used to live there but, one day, without any evident reason they disappeared, having left all their ...