Waldo Peirce Essays

Homer's The Odyssey talks about the journey of the mighty Odysseus and how he reunites with his family. However, the story is not based only on Odysseus. Other major characters play a huge role. Telemachus, even though he is not the main character, has an interesting development and background story. In the beginning of The Odyssey, in the Telemachy, Telemachus is weak, and naive. The suitors bullied him around and he was too scared to do anything about it. However, it is at the end of the book

Alix Clarke Dance 171 6 April 2017 Twyla Tharp Twyla Tharp is a famous American dancer and choreographer that is currently seventy-five years old and is residing in New York City. “Twyla has choreographed one hundred twenty-nine dances, twelve television specials, six Hollywood movies, four full-length ballets, four Broadway shows and two figure skating routines. In 1965 she founded her own dance company Twyla Tharp Dance. Her dances are known for her creativity, wit and technical precision. She

Jonathan Ho Case ERWC 16 January 2018 Inspiring Life of Chris McCandless In the biography, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer published in 1996, the protagonist, Chris McCandless paves his own way of happiness through nature. Told in third-person, Krakauer addresses the theme by describing the settings of Chris McCandless’s adventure along the west coast of North America, establishing the main conflict of finding happiness, and incorporating the literary device of characterization. Krakauer’s

philosophical movement in a America that was looking for an identity. The main ideas of transcendentalism are that the individual should be independent and that man is inherently good.They also thought that individuals should find God through nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were the leaders of transcendentalism. Both Emerson and Thoreau wrote about these ideas and expanded them to nature and god. The leader of transcendentalism were looked down upon but their ideas are still relevant today

William Shakespeare once said, "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." Dating back to Elizabethan Literature, self-identity has always been deemed as essential. Fast forward to modern times, the authors of more contemporary works have taken the same concept of identity but have revealed the way actions taken can influence an individual 's understanding of themselves. For example, in John Howard Griffin 's memoir, Black Like Me

Cleaning Up the Mess: Repetition, Free Verse, and Verbage in Carl Sandburg’s “Grass” When we think of nature, we often associate it with feelings of growth, strength, and beauty. Nature symbolizes re-birth, and our expectation of nature to soldier on in any situation represents perseverance. After natural disaster, human tragedy, war, etc., nature has the ability to cover up horrifying images in history. In his poem, “Grass,” Carl Sandburg uses repetition, verbs, and free verse to represent the

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, together with the numerous significant American poets, considered realism to be a faithful representation of what they viewed as a truthful portrayal of the reality in the era in which they lived in. With directly approaching the truth, they created the literary movement which was a genuine reflection of reality. The middle of the nineteenth century was the ideal period for the establishment of the realism. As opposed to Romanticism which stresses the importance of one 's

“If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us” Adlai E. Stevenson. The politician explains his perception of creativity in this quote along with its connection to ambition by relating determination and faith to the discovery of knowledge. He believes that nothing can restrict our drive to seek information when one entirely devotes himself to the pursuit. Similarly, in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, Robert Walton, and the creature

“Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman is an unconventional poem that promotes and celebrates democracy through its groundbreaking style of writing. Throughout his 52 sections, he embraces diversity and invites his readers to join him and revel in the beauty of common people, to partake in their aspirations and adversities. One of the major aspects of American Ideology during the early nineteenth century was Democracy. It is the “political system that follows from the concept of the free individual (and)

“Benjamin Franklin lived his life in the spirit of a renaissance man: he was deeply interested in the world around him, and he excelled in several widely differing fields of human endeavor.” (“Home”). Franklin was born in Boston of 1706 where he was raised in a poor family and was unable to have an education for more than two years. At age 12, he was apprenticed by his older brother who worked in a printing business. Benjamin later became successful in the printing business and soon became successful

NATUIRALISM IN THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING ABSTRACT Rudyard was a man who was a man who was very special and was also having a god gift because he was born just one day before New Year that is on 30 Dec. He was a man who was a very good writer of naturalism and his all the short stories are in some or the other way related to nature and naturalism means in which a writer follows a particular set of style and also there is theory of representation

This research has aimed to establish and then explore the causes of not beard and to encourage the fact of keeping beard. A man should wear a beard; a man’s face should be in its natural state, not using razors or expensive creams. A well-kept facial beard is what every man should have. Trend of clean smooth shaved faces is so much in trend that the wearers of beard are outnumbered by smooth faced men. Today’s men is brainwashed with intensive pressure to keep his cheeks smooth. Men get influenced

Walt Whitman is generally known as a poet of American Democracy, of the Civil War in the country, of Modern Man, of love and sex, of Nature and Science, of Religion and Mysticism. Walt Whitman had both English and Dutch blood in his veins, his mother being the daughter of Major Cornelius Van Velsor, a Dutch, and his father being an Englishman. His father was farmer, house builder and free thinker with radical and democratic beliefs. His mother came of a Quaker family. The Quakers believed in ‘inner

As it is stated in the quotation, everything on earth has its own story which may be heard by real listeners. In order to be an enthusiastic listener, one should give enough attention to the silence. What is called modern today is erasing the link between people and the nature day by day. People have exploited nature continuously thinking that it is a mere entity in order to serve them. In this respect, I will explain Linda Hogan’s book, People of the Whale, in the light of Christopher Manes’ article

Emerson on Nature In The Prairies, William Cullen Bryant writes about the prairies in Illinois which to him seem peaceful and serene. Bryant 's view of the prairies goes hand in hand with Emerson 's statement of "The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through

This excerpt highlights the second influence on the mind, learning from the past, and more importantly the influence of books. He says that books contain ideals and memories of the past, and these books change the basis of truth. The truth is biased and tainted by society, and this represents one of the basic tenets of Transcendentalism, that man and nature are inherently good while society corrupts the purity of an individual. The purity being individualized truths. Emerson’s respect for individual

Walt Whitman´s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” uses the theme of time to communicate a sense of Transcendentalist unity. Whitman 's Transcendentalist speaker enters the "appearances" and "usual costumes" of the universe of wonders keeping in mind the end goal to find the truth that ties each and all together in one The speaker, as The title already indicates taking a ferry in New York, does not waste any time before presenting the idea that all humans are united in their common experience. The

EE Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894 to two Unitarian-Worshipping parents. Cummings was particularly close to his father, who worked as a Unitarian Minister, and this had a large effect on his outlook on life and in his work (Riviere et al, The Poetry Archive). Cummings was profoundly affected by Ezra Pounds poem The Return. He admired the way it was written and its misuse of grammar, syntax and irregular structure served as inspiration for what would later be known as a Cummings

Is suspending a child really the best thing to do when they get in trouble? How can they really be educated from not being able to go to school for a few days? Will suspending kids better their choices in the near future? When schools suspend children, what good is it really doing? You would think it’s helping with their situation, that it’s changing their perspective while helping them find ways it could have been solved, but some kids don’t think of the solution in the blink of an eye. When kids

In Charles Taylor’s Ethics of Authenticity, he talks all about the true meaning of being authentic and the flaws. In summary, his ethics of authenticity is to take on the project of creating yourself and to just generally have an open mind. If you don’t have an open mind you don't realize all the good things in the world you are missing out on. For example, if you receive education you would have an open mind towards learning about new things around the world. Lastly, the idea of self definition