.... nature by shooting the Albatross. This action against nature is rather extreme, for he takes this thought of death lightly. The Albatross, as a representative of nature, means nothing to the Mariner. These thoughts are quickly changed, though, as Nature begins to start the punishment for his crimes commence when there is, "Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink." He is punished harshly for killing the symbol of nature that everyone reveres. He is beaten down by the sun with its rays and is taunted by the endless sight of water that he cannot drink. Nature is the force in this poem that has power to decide what is right or wrong and how to deal with the actions. ....

.... member of the community, Hester, became an outcast for life after making a simple judgement error. I am very grateful that things today are different and knowing that if I mess up in life, I can always pick up the pieces and count on my friends to be there for me. Back then, if you didn’t follow the rules exactly, you had a dark cloud hanging over you for the rest of your life. All of your friends would turn on you and make your life miserable, there weren’t any true loyalties, and you couldn’t really trust anyone. The took place in Boston, Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century. The United States was still greatly influenced by England and under a strict ....

.... matters. I'll admit however that to look at the remorseless process is sometimes amusing.” In the , three evident themes include death, corruption, and despair. During Marlow’s journey into the “,” death, corruption, and despair became the manifest themes of the novel. First of all, Marlow came face to face with death several times throughout his voyage. Marlow finds out about the death of Kurtz, the climax of the novel, when the manager’s boy said to Marlow, “Mistah Kurtz—he dead” (Conrad 64). Another death occurs when the attack on the steamer leaves the helmsmen dead with “the shaft of a spear in the side just below the ribs” (Conrad 64). Marlow decide ....

.... love takes a back seat when it comes to relationships. "Someday, I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them." These are the longing words of Esperanza. While growing up on Mango Street, Esperanza finds herself in a community that she feels she doesn't belong to. With all her heart, she longs for a true friend that she can tell her dreams to and will understand her for it. These wishes seem easy enough to grant, but Esperanza soon finds out that there is more to friendship. "If you give me five dollars, I will be your friend forever." Esperanza discovers that she can not have ....

.... is sent to Mars to try to colonize it. This plan is cut short when a Martian, who has telepathic abilities, senses the men coming. When the men land, they meet a martian with a gun and so ends the first expedition. Next, another group is sent to try to gain land on Mars. These men land and go knocking from one door to the next saying that they were from Earth. Each martian tells them to go to another person. Finally, the men come to a house where a man gives them a key and says they "will be taken care of" in the next room. They enter only to find that they are locked within an insane asylum. They are taken next to the ship and then killed. In the third exped ....

.... fornicating, testosterone-loaded men. Latin America's frightening history has been beautifully delineated be Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In using the tainted image of the Latin American male as their vehicle, this essay will deal with specific ills Marquez was concerned about in his respective country: the tragic results of machismo. Authoritarianism, or perhaps one of its greatest bi-products, machismo, is omnipresent throughout "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Machismo is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as: "exaggeratedly assertive manliness; a show of masculinity." Colonel Aureliano Buendia best exemplifies this definition. Marquez uses the Colonel's amoral, irrational act ....

.... a great threat to society, causing disputes about different opinions, ideas, and thoughts. They believe that order and peace is the best way to keep happiness. Books are burned immediately whenever they are found anywhere. In fact, it is a “crime” to own a book in Montag’s world. Books are often compared to as birds throughout Fahrenheit 451. “A book lit like a white pigeon in his hands. In the dim wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather….The men above were hurling shovelsfull of magazines into the dusty air. They fell like slaughtered birds.” (page 37) In Montag’s view, the burning books were seen as dying, hopeless birds. Somehow, ....

.... Abigail is being considered a witch in the first moments of the story, Rev. Paris is very worried about how this will effect his image, and not of the fate of Abigail. It is this society where Abigail feels the need to break loose and to act the way a teenager should: freely. This is the reason why she goes dancing in the forest. She is expressing her need to act her age and to break out of the restrictions of Puritan law. Her struggle is to do what she wants in a society that believes in ordering her around. It becomes obvious soon after the trials started that many people were going to be falsely accused by their neighbors as a method of revenge, and as an outlet for th ....