The country is at a stand still and I see some people torn by what needs to be done (social distancing) and tradition. Its common...

The topic my group undertook was gun control. We looked at three points of views on the topic ranging from right wing, middle, and left...

Memes are typically relevnt or relatable to all audiences in one way or another. Attending yearly checkups at the doctor’s office as a...

Everyday metaphors and what they imply: 1. “Kill them with kindness.” Of course, when we say this we don’t actually mean to go out and...

The prompt for this post is to look at Lloyd F. Bitzer’s, The Rhetorical Situation and to apply his definition of rhetorical situation,...

Hanif Kureishi’s, “My Son the Fanatic”, is about the relationship between a father and son. The father, Parvez, is a taxi driver in...

Seamus Heaney’s, “Punishment”, is describing a well preserved corpse from the Iron age discovered in Northern Europe and Ireland in 1951...

Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, is based on Conrad’s personal experience in the Congo in 1890 (Greenblatt p.71). Conrad had a...

James Joyce’s, Ulysses [Penelope], is made up of a run-on sentence and isn’t punctuated until the very end of the excerpt. The excerpt is...

William Butler Yeats poem, The Second Coming, has several references to Christianity. The title of the poem refers to the prediction of...

In Oscar Wilde’s, The Importance of Being Earnest, the two main characters, Jack and Algernon, have two identities they use to escape...

Algernon Charles Swinburne’s, Hymn to Proserpine, talks about the old gods of Greek and Roman culture which defies the Christian faith of...

The Victorian debate on gender engaged both sexes about the role of women and on occasion men. There were many mixed opinions on the...