... run and can never be as glamorous as it would be if you had luck. Money can appear through gambling if you have luck, even the happiness of meeting "the one" is luck. Luck can only change people's destinies for the better--or can it be fatal? In "The Rocking-Horse Winner," striving for luck controls an entire family"s schema, some convinced of being born without it, and another ... it. D.H. Lawrence's protagonist, Paul, is a little boy who can prove his mother wrong and establish that he really does have luck. Through a series of related incidents in the plot, Lawrence illustrates his t...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of her husband's death releases not only a sense of relief, but a feeling of true happiness. Yet in the end, it is the death of her happiness and joy that kills her in the end, not grief. Mrs. Mallard is told in "veiled hints that revealed in half conceiling" by her sister, Josephine, and her husbands firend, Richards, that her husband was "killed" in a ... powerful will bending her in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature." The thought of having her life to herself brought Mrs. Mallard extreme joy. She...

• Word Count: 380
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... the time period of setting in the story and the readers find Louise as victim of stereotyped feminist. The construction of Louise's characteristic contribute to the irony in the story of an hour when Louise dies at the end of the story with a heart attack when she saw Mr. Mallard alive. "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--- of joy ... that kills." (pg.398). This quote has multiple meanings. To the characters in the ... all that sweet dreams being crushed when her husband appealed gave her heart attack. This is ironic to the readers because the readers expected...

• Word Count: 660
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... the latchkey. It was Brently who came through that door just a little travel-stained. He wasn't even aware that there had been an accident. Unfortunately, Louise's heart couldn't take another surprising shock. As Brently walked through that door, Louise had died of her heart disease. The doctor's last stated, "of joy that kills." This was a great story. The little the dialogue and action in the story, the ... better the story was. The Story of an Hour kept me wanting to read more. It kept me guessing and leaving me with such uncertainty to ... let my mind wonder. How good was their rel...

• Word Count: 704
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... gathers more and more rowdy men, ready to let their anger out. The Fight Club becomes a social therapy lesson for the average working male, and soon replaces Jack's need to go to the support groups. It becomes an outlet for the anger and rage working men felt in their everyday lives and a brief escape from the demands of society. In order to really discover yourself, you need ... to know the darkest side of your personality. Fight Club was a therapy for the lost soul. As days went by, Fight Club grew dramatically as more men realized ... what relief it could give them. Fight Club progr...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... a marvelous spectacle to people now sparks curiosity and exploration by creatures of the sea. Hardy shows that the ship has not gone to waste. The ocean rather than the people now enjoy the ship's beauty. "The Convergence of the Twain" portrays the sinking of the Titanic an unavoidable fate for the Titanic rather than a tragedy. In the end, the powerful forces of nature trumps man's creation. But in this defeat ... " is a piece of poetry that best summarizes Hardy's use of fate to deliver a meaningful message to the reader. It is easy to see how the entire poem could be mistaken for pess...

• Word Count: 1015
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... by its own destructive nature. A Kingdom of Sorrowing change, in an otherwise constant environment is Harwood's motive for writing this poem. "The gull's flight aches in my shoulders. It will suffer no change, cannot offer itself to be changed, cannot suffer:" It is by ... twilight, and wishes inner peace for the rest of her days. Even as far back as the opening stanza of "Alter Ego" that quotes: "who stands beside me still- is a Rhetorical question that also conveys a sense of the urgency or longing on the part of the poet to unravel her identity, ... thus this poem is clearly a self ...

• Word Count: 904
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... search for happiness. Happiness is something someone can feel. Happiness is an emotion that is unique to an individual because it is described differently from one person to the next. What may make one person happy, may not be the same for another. People will search a whole life time looking for what they think might make them happy. Does making money create happiness ... or contribute to an affiliation needing money for their cause, I feel happy because I am doing something good for my community and the people who need it. A person's pursuit in one's happiness is the ultimate goal in ...

• Word Count: 1180
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... . Because of her strength and dedication to our small family, she is my main motivation as I pursue my college career. Watching me thrive academically and flourish with the notion of college has brought her joy - finally seeing her little, hopeful seed bud into a fully harvested plant. Everything that I've accomplished is dedicated to her, and everything I hope to pursue - my dreams - are ... a reflection of her. I plan to major in criminology as a way to give back to the communities that have helped my mother support me. Without a safe community my mother would not have been able to hel...

• Word Count: 562
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... once said that our character is not defined by how we act in times of joy, but by how we act in times of struggle. For the schoolboys in Lord of the Flies, each and every one of them was molded and shaped into a new person because of the hardships they had to endure while abandoned. Being 10 years old with no supervision seems ... sort, however primitive, based not only on experience, but instinct as well. Therefore, because of human nature, the outcome was inevitable. The boys" previous life could in no way prepare them for the experiences on the island, but they did contribute a littl...

• Word Count: 543
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... . They probably have no clue as to what their purpose is, or why it is such an important purpose. The city's happiness and joy are all at the expense of the child. Every good thing in Omelas is compared to the horrible life that the child in the basement lives. If anyone shows any sort of sympathy for it, even a kind word, all of Omelas's glory will ... to develop. Their lives are based on a fake representation of how their lives could be perfect. Therefore, I would walk away. I would walk away from the suffering of the child, and try to make the world a better place outside of the walls...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... a young adult and had my first son, my drug and alcohol use diminished. It didn't take long for me to miss the feeling that I got from my use. I started using drugs and alcohol very heavy, it was like I never even stopped. My use caused me to have run ins with ... the police. I still lied to myself even after being arrested. I told everyone around me that I didn't have a problem, I just had horrible luck. I believed this myself, ... so that made it easy to convince others. I even went to a few doctors and had them convinced. Eventually my friends and family started avoiding me. I though...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... hearted. Paid a dime and only farted." Spirituality is very important to all native women, it brings them luck if everything is done correctly and if not they believe they will be punished. Bingo is a place where mostly women went to have a night out away from the troubles and worries in their lives and to have a chance to win enough money to change their ... lives for the better and give them hope. The bingo was held in the city of Toronto which ironically is where two of the seven wanted or needed to go. Each woman was looking for a way ... of our lives we hear about things that coul...

• Word Count: 694
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... people, and good things happen to bad people. Things just happen. There is no reason, no rhyme nor scheme. For example, one day a small radioactively charged atom is zipping through the atmosphere from a far off space anomaly. It strikes into my cellular structure, reacting with a cell and turning it malignant. I develop cancer. It is a sad story, but unfortunately, I cannot blame it on ... whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck al...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... day begins with a beautiful mindset. Every day you wake up, think about what a privilege it is to simply be alive and healthy. Stop focusing on the negatives and everything that could go wrong and start thinking about what could go right. Better yet, think of everything that already is right. Be thankful for ... fortune to attend to a ostentatious university like Stanford. In his speech he says, "You have to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make a difference," if someone follows their heart, instinct and interest, everything will eventually fa...

• Word Count: 805
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... his friend to do the same. In his letter McCandless states, "The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an ... endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun" (57). McCandless felt that by living with no ties to any one place, person or thing he could find the joy ... to continue on his long journey. He was also very grateful for the ... . It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in t...

• Word Count: 915
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... there is no crime, disease, or famine. Life without meaning is not worth the absence of conflict and pain. In The Giver, Jonas realizes that the community sacrificed joy, emotion, individuality, color and many other things, all for the pursuit of a life without war or pain. Although the community has gotten rid of all the bad things in life, to do it, they had to sacrifice all ... to know about "stirrings". If Jonas hadn't told his parents about his dream with Fiona, then his parents wouldn't have known about the "stirrings". Furthermore, they couldn't have given him a pill to take each...

• Word Count: 1115
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... I was surely thinking that death was on its way to her as well. I came to realize that the feeling she felt was freedom. The line, "She had died of heart disease-of joy that kills," was clear because of what she cries out and what she was said to have been feeling. par Her husband possessed her. She was no longer a possession and ... . Just yesterday she was dreading living another day and now she was relieved she would. She obviously, was filled with joy from the burden that had been lifted from her shoulders. Some people don't want to live anymore days because even though they are aliv...

• Word Count: 319
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... at first expresses grief when she hears the news, but soon, unknown to her friends, finds joy in it. Later in the story, the husband appears and Mrs. Mallard dies. Another irony at the end of the story is the diagnosis of the doctors. The doctors say she died of "heart disease "of the joy that kills."" Any reader, including myself comes to the conclusion that she wasn't happy in her ... marriage. This can also be said about Gabriel towards the end of the story, which ... alive. Gabriel, will also begin to live after the separation of him and his wife, which can almost be predicted to o...

• Word Count: 997
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... love than that of a parent's for their child. Created by their own flesh and blood is their young, which whom the parents cares for from the time of the child's birth to the parents last dying days. So when a parent loses a child, pain and sorrow sweeps over the parent like a giant ocean wave as they passionately grieve. This passionate love for one's child is displayed in ... has ever received. Earlier in his live poetry and his son both bought him joy and happiness. Now he compares his son to the only thing that could measure in importance in his live, his poetry. The reader is able t...

• Word Count: 955
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... especially mothers. A mother plays an extremely important role in the growth and development of her children. A person cannot become successful in life without the proper values, beliefs and actions. The people that influence a child's beliefs the most are parents, especially mothers. Joy Moore (from the book The Other Wes Moore) taught her son Wes Moore the values of not using violence and also to treat all ... girls with the proper respect while never bringing harm to a woman. Joy Moore enforced this important value by ... punishing her son after he hit his sisters. Although Joy Moore...

• Word Count: 1233
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... happen. Macbeth knew that he was going to become king, so he decided to speed up the process. He did this by killing King Duncan, and since he was next in line, he received the title of king. The last person that influenced Macbeth was his wife, Lady Macbeth. She weakened Macbeth challenging his masculinity. ... . Macbeth and Lady Macbeth show the long-term effects of greed and ambition. By the end of the play they have no value of life. This is proven when Macbeth says, "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded ti...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... that he somehow ties into a Christian faith. His ability to see and be seen by everything around him converts Emerson into a "transparent eyeball."" "The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me,"" he says. "I am part or particle of God."" In this way, nature essentially acts as a medium by ... . "I am monarch of all I survey, my right there is none to dispute,"" quotes Thoreau in defense of the idea. But even though all mankind is entitled to the land, both authors are distraught by the fact that most people divest themselves of it. Both Emerson and Thoreau have an image .....

• Word Count: 646
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... that her husband has died in a train accident." (Katherine 3) Mrs. Louise Mallard's emotional state goes from one end of the spectrum to the other in only an hour. She is upset when she first heard the news but by the time she comes out of her room she has already moved on to acceptance. Even though Louise was ... when she sees Brently's "kind, tender hands folded in death," but she also realizes that for the first time in years she actually wants to live" (Miner 1). She begins to feel a certain amount of joy at the thought of freedom. She will no longer have to live for her husband or ...

• Word Count: 815
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Quotes My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the nest moment. Oprah Winfrey I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. Whoopi Goldberg You know, your career is just your career ... is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. Georgia O"Keefee Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. Marva Collins No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken wit...

• Word Count: 1901
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School