Describe a Place Essay

Grendel, a man eating demon. The tale is told with remnants and style of old Anglo-Saxon poetry writings. The Anglo-Saxons used a figure of speech known as kenning. A kenning substitutes a noun with two other words that, when compounded together, describe the substituted noun. In Beowulf the three words that are described by using kennings are Beowulf, Grendel, and the sea. The first kenning found in Beowulf is the Son of Ecgtheow, meaning Beowulf. One example is found when Beowulf introduces…

Before Becoming Dante In The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and 1321, he describes his journey through three realms starting in Inferno leading up to Purgatory and finally arriving in Paradise. Inferno is one of the three parts in which Dante uses more description, including allusions from his background and from his religious point of view, including the Bible, old text, and Greek stories; creating a mixture of sources that he used. Not only that, but he also uses the…

ears open for you. Afterall, a dog is a man's best friend even though his is an animal. Many people have all kinds of different animals as pets and consider them as one of their family members. In Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”, he uses animals to describe the characters to allow the readers to get to know what each character is like in an interesting way. Steinbeck writes about two best friends, George and Lennie, who are looking for a job they can keep in the California farms of depression.…

The memoir begins in 1944 in the city of Cluj, which at the time was in Transylvania. This was the year that Olga and her family were brought to Auschwitz. This event happened in May when Olga’s husband was to be deported to Germany. The story describes her life in the concentration camp until the end when she was able to escape. Her escape occurred in January of 1945 when the concentration camp was being evacuated. She was not liberated until February when she escaped to a little village that…

Religion is a very controversial topic today but during early American society where the literatures of Edward’s personal narrative and Rowlandson’s Narrative of captivity take place religion plays a huge factor in the person’s life. In both pieces of work religion helps guide the emotions of the characters, there are hardships that are presented in both stories and both authors could witness events that transpired through the power of God. Edward and Mary both must experience the pain of…

views Native American’s as a population of people that just do things differently and have different rules than the British. The way that Franklin describes the Native American people are as people who do not wish to cause conflict, hard workers with each person having their place, and people who have great respect for one another. Franklin describes the many rules of Native American’s used in order to try to avoid conflict such as not making a decision on the same day in order to show the…

child I wanted to be cool and fit in so I started to use the word as well. Soon after I noticed that some of my classmates were using the word to describe people in my brother’s class and even my brother, so naturally I went home and looked up what retarded really meant and when I found out I was horrified that I had ever used that word in the first place. The r-word otherwise known as retarded according to the Urban Dictionary is, “an offensive term used to refer to someone acting in an…

of a foreign white man on a boat in a strange country. This in itself creates problems for many readers, who see Conrad’s effort to write about Africa and Africans as presumption or even racism in itself. Although some might say Heart of Darkness describes the tragedies of the African people, Heart of Darkness should not be considered a canon because it exploits the native people and encourages colonialism Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad tells the story of sailor named Charles Marlow’s time…

these lands while others wanted to spread the word of the lord. However not everyone was pleased with the intentions of the westerners because of how they invaded their lands and took their riches. Exploration would help shape the world into a new place of enlightenment but with it turmoil would soon follow. Europeans exploration lead some European countries such as the Spanish to the Americas where they tried to convert the natives while at the same time they…

From the Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, we are introduced to a character named Marlow. At an early age, he loves looking at the map one particle place he was fascinated was the Congo River. So he decided to go there. When Marlow arrives in Congo, he will truly see how the natives are treated by the whites. He is horrified by what he sees and describes the natives as being enslaved. They don’t look like humans anymore, they were the living dead, “I could see every rib, the joints of their…