I am currently in a British Literature class and I was given an assignment to read a play and I wasn’t too thrilled that I got a play written by Shakespeare because I can’t understand what he is saying but the play that I got was Hamlet and it’s about a young adult named Hamlet whose father was murdered and he’s trying to figure out who killed his father. Then a Ghost of his father showed up and told Hamlet who killed him. So throughout the story Hamlet was investigating the person who killed his father and to see what the ghost said was true.
While I was reading the book I saw a lot of hostile revenge so that’s the topic I choose to write about the thought of revenge. In the play when Hamlet was talking to the ghost and the ghost talks to him about his father’s killer and Hamlet...
Lifestyle
So you know those essays and papers you always had to write in school and how sometimes you might just be a bit behind or finally getting to it after a nice long weekend and your just like I have made a mistake. This time it wasn’t an essay but an open letter that is due in a few days. So you know when the best time to write an open letter is? 2 am in the morning when you can’t sleep for some reason. I don’t know what I did but I just kept waking up last night and just thought that if I’m going to be stuck up might as well be productive. Anyway I’m going to put on some music, open a window and enjoy the breeze while I write this so let’s go.
So where do I begin with something like this, all I know is what I’ve been told about how to write, and this was not in my set of skills but...
5,383
By Max Miller Feb 3
All of us are subject to leadership in some way, shape, or form, and every single day a leader of our country does something whether it is for better, or for worse, but if we voice out our opinion and it is for the greater good then we are far more likely to have a better outcome, because if you put a good idea into someone’s head and make them realize it’s prodigious why would they dump it? As people under a leadership we need to incite change, we must know that our single opinion does count, a lot of people think that since it’s just one opinion that it won’t amount to anything, or even be heard. If we all envisage this way a leader wouldn’t know what we desire, and we would end up getting what he or she craves, which may or may not be what the majority needs....
3,137
I read this book called ‘The Time Machine’ – and follows this guy called ‘The Time Traveler’ into his first look to the future. In the book, he meets a race of people; he’s named the ‘Eloi’. He describes this race as beautiful, yet child-like in intelligence, frail, and weak. Our guy stays with these people for the majority of the book, while frantically searching for his time machine that was stolen by the second race of human decedents – called the Morlocks. This race looks less than human, but are more intelligent than the Eloi, using them as a source of food while also keeping the race alive. The Time Traveler fears this race, and even attacks them with matches, and carrying around a mace. Eventually the Time Traveler escapes back into his own time, only to return to either the past...
2,577
Dear people who don’t think they could be a hero,
My name is Camila Koch, I am a foreign exchange student from Germany and within a project in my British Literature class I had to write an open letter about “the Hobbit” from J. R. R. Tolkien. For this project I was supposed to talk about an issue that I can relate to so I chose being an unlikely hero.
For everyone who did not read the Hobbit, here is a little summary of the plot:
The Hobbit is about a little Hobbit and 13 dwarves who are on an adventure to a mountain to fight the dragon who stole all of their belongings a long time ago. On their way the company gets help from multiple people, animals and creatures, but they also have to flee from a bunch of evil creatures. In the end they are able to kill the dragon with a lot of...
2,513
To; The women it may concern
I read the book Pride and Prejudice for my English lit class. Truthfully I didn’t find the book interesting at all, but, it’s about this girl named Elizabeth who doesn’t really fit in her time period. She’s really independent and some would even say sassy and for women back then it was bizarre.
We were told to pick one issue from the book we were reading and connect it to today’s societal problems or just problems we still face today. There were multiple issues that I could have chosen but right off the bat, the first sentence in the book caught my eye. The quote is “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (pg. 1)”. It is a pretty famous quote I had heard it before even reading...
3,034
This past month I had to read The Scarlet Letter for my English class, against my will of course. At first I dreaded every day I had to read the 8-11 pages in order to read the book by the deadline. But me, being the good student I am, did it anyways. At first I really didn’t like the book, it had all these old words that aren’t fun to read and it was boring. Turns out that the book ended up being decent, and I related to it. A LOT.
You see, The Scarlet Letter is about a women named Hester Prynne who had a child from an affair, Pearl, and took all the blame for it. She was shunned, put in jail, looked down on and forced to wear an A on all her clothes without ever throwing the father of the child under the bus. Don’t know why because I would have made that mad suffer just as much as me...
3,684
Have you ever felt like you’ve made a terrible decision?
The reasoning as to, why I am writing this is because it was an assignment for me to do in my English class. I had to read King henry the V and write how it affects me and other’s in today’s world. the book I read was about a war between King Henry the V and France, Henry decides to invade France, but little does he know it is affecting the people who he rules and has control over, just before his fleet sets sail Henry learns of a conspiracy against his life.
The major event that led me to this was when he started to realize how it affected his men, not just physically but mentally. Another thing that led me to my issue was when Henry realized he had people out to kill him because of what he was doing. One of the major things...
5,730
I read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The book is about a community built around science. This community has scientist that make babies, basically cloning people. There are no families, but there is a lot of sex. All of the babies are made with science. I personally hate the idea of people being made by science. There are actually scientists in our world today that can genetically modify babies when they are in the mother’s womb. They can change what the baby looks like and acts like. They can change anything and everything. Sound familiar? Yeah, it sounds kind of like what happens in Brave New World.
The first few paragraphs basically outline the whole of the community. In the first paragraph, it starts as a tour where they describe a few of the main things involved with the...
2,458
To anyone who has ever had power or been powerless,
In my English class, I was assigned to read a book called Gulliver’s Travel and if we are going to be honest I did not enjoy it but I still felt there was a strong message in the writing. If you do not know what the book is about, this man named Lemuel goes on multiple adventures and on each one, he ends up on an island with a different culture. The first island is full of extremely small people and he is depicted as a giant. The second island is full of giants and he was depicted as a miniature person. The third island is full of horses and people just like Lemuel. He eventually wanted to stay on the last island because he felt equal.
As I read, I had no idea what I wanted to write about. But I noticed in the first part,...
2,911