Essays on Stormy

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote the book “The Sorrows of Young Werther” in 1774. Originally, the book is in German language, and it was initially published in the year 1774. In English language, it was initially published in 1779.

Summary of the Book

The Sorrows of Young Werther has a number of letters by the main character, Werther, who is an artist having a passionate and sensitive temperament, to Wilhelm, one of the friends of Werther. Those letters of Werther help in telling about his life, his finding of love and losing it in a village known as Wahlheim, whose people captivate him ...

Edgar Allen Poe: few names such as this one can strike both fear and adoration in hearts of literature students everywhere. As a writer, Poe was known for his macabre stories that often ended with characters becoming ill, being buried alive, or dying other gruesome, torturous deaths. The tone of his works is fairly consistent, with most of Poe’s work having a dark, moody, and an overall melancholy tone. With his stories being favored as a topic of research for many English students, I began to wonder about his personal life. What struggles was he grappling with that ...

The Stormy Weather starring Bill Robinson and Lena Horne was one of the most successful Broadway musicals ever created especially by a full-African American actors and actresses. The film presents a charming combination of jazz, singing, dancing, and occasional rhythmic rants of the characters from the story. At first, I was quite skeptical whether the film will make me interested until the end; however, the Stormy Weather’s brilliant and happy music creates a lively atmosphere which is impossible to deny. The film was set against the backdrop of the Progressive era, approximately during the 1920s, considering the clothes ...

Segregation in the South during the 1960s And 1970s

Abstract Segregation in the south was mainly by race and resulted to distinctions with regards to income, education, residence, and employment. Segregation in the south brought forth the ancient and even recent societal and organizational segregation. Segregation took many forms including, gender segregation, residential segregation, employment segregation and even educational segregation among other types. Some actions which portrayed the highest degree of these segregation included Africans enslavement in huge plantations, involuntary blacks emigration, forced relocations to reserves, the internment of minorities including the Japanese Americans, setting up of immigrant enclaves and forced displacements among other actions which were inhumane. ...