… since the days of old, public condemnation was an occurrence that the public always enjoyed attending. From the guillotine to the gallows there was always some way to condemn a person for his or her sins. The scaffold, used by Puritans…

… II, King Henry is prodigiously vexed by his inability to sleep. In addressing sleep itself, with the use of an apostrophe, he hopes to persuade it to fall upon him by asking various rhetorical questions. He pleads with sleep for it to abandon its parti…

… war. What makes this book different from other civil war books out there is that this book concerns itself more with following individual people. Most civil war books are purely informational. Gods and Generals focuses on the individual people that…

… By definition, parody is a comic imitation of a piece of writing. The essence of parody is the treatment of a light theme in the style appropriate to a serious work In parody, the theme and the characters are greatly modified or completely changed,…

… is the effect that close-mildness can have on an individual's life. This story is set in the small town of Sand City, Kansas. Most of the people in the town are greedy and materialistic, but above all they are very close-minded. The story centers…

… A lot of people have trouble operating a manual transmission, or stick shift, to be extremely difficult. However, in actuality all it takes is some serious practice and devotion to make driving a stick…

… in 1984 has extirpated the societies freedom and has enforced their way of thinking. Through the conversation Winston encounters in Chapter 5, the reader is able to recognize the control the party has over the society by inflicting fear into the atmosph…

… abusive childhood causes his values to change for the worse. Before Pip's values were affected by this abuse, he strongly believed in intimate relationships. However, his values drastically changed to being primarily concerned with people's impression…

… is primarily concerned with presenting the destructive effects of prejudice on innocent sole, who is trying to be among a society. The novel demonstrates this by displaying the monsters constant rejection from humans, because of his hideous complexion.…

… and dreams. The setting of this story becomes the main idea. This city, in which the narrator grew up in has helped him grow into maturity. The narrator seems to be terribly infatuated with a girl, who happens to be his friend Mangan's older sister,…