.... only reason that Eugene keeps hanging around with Push, is because Eugene is afraid of him. He will do anything that Push says. Another example of Push's evil mind is when he meets with the new boy, John Williams. When he first saw John, he immediately hated him. To Push, John appeared to be perfect. Then, he greeted Push and began to be nice to him. Shortly after this, everyone began to be nice to Push. He absolutely hated this. Only someone of pure evil would hate it when people are nice to them. Because of this, Push tried to make people hate John, thinking that everything would go back to being normal again. This did not work, and every ....

.... and kill the enemy. By institutionalizing the war, it was made easier to kill someone just like you for no reason. But by depersonalizing the soldiers with their enemy, it left devastating effects on the mind and heart. Soldiers emotions were deadened and they became irrational. Throughout the story, Paul Baumer, the narrator does not talk about killing someone but as the story progresses, this changes. An example of Paul acting irrational because of the effect war had on him was when he was in the trenches and all of a sudden, a French soldier comes into the trench and Paul immediately stabs him without thinking about, for Paul is scared and emotionally scarred. After stabb ....

.... Theodore Rothke. Rothke’s beginning poems were written about the different worlds in nature. His earlier poems were not Rothke’s most popular writings. Rothke was amazed while at the same time scared about many things, one of these fears were the natural world. The other two things he was amazed by would be the mysteries of human speech and how a poet writes about their innermost feelings. His love poems in the later part of his life were his most popular. Rothke was regarded as not only a great poet but also known as a great teacher. Theodore Rothke gives so many examples to show his reader this was a positive memory in his life. One was Rothke show t ....

.... becomes a view to a world she may not want to take part in. Through it she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have. But she says near the end, "I don’t like to look out of the windows even - there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast." She knows that she has to hide and lie low; that she would have to creep in order to be accepted in society and she does not want to see all the other women who have to do the same because she realizes they are a reflection of herself. She expresses how women have to move without being seen in society. The window does not represent a gateway for her. She can not enter what she can see ou ....

.... that "His protagonists are tested over and over again to prove their mettle against evil forces and learn about themselves and their strengths in the process...De Lint is making the point that through suffering, people can and will become stronger and better individuals as they discover unforeseen and undiscovered aspects of themselves". Some of the works in which you will find this message are in the novels Someplace to be Flying and Memory and Dreams, as well as in the short story collection titled The Ivory and the Horn. Charles de Lint was born in the Netherlands. He moved with his family to Canada only three months later. He confessed to Clinton Somerton in the artic ....

.... other knights and the attention of the ladies Sir Gawain After his baptism as a child, Gawain was set adrift in a casket, being eventually rescued by a poor fisherman. In youth, he made his way to Rome where he obtained his education. Having been knighted by Pope Sulpicius, he returned to Britain and the court of the High-King, Arthur, where he was re-united with his parents Sir Galahad Sir Galahad was called a Grail knight because he went in search for the Holy Grail. His father was named Sir Lancelot and his mother was given to the name Elaine. His family lived in a big castle called Camelot. They ate what was grown by the gardeners. The food was usally ....

.... Ginnungagap, and where this heat met up with the rime came drippings that took the form of the giant, Ymir. From Ymir’s sweat under his arm came a male and female, a son came from one of his legs, and the rest of the giants descended from these people. The cow, Audhumla, came about from melting rime and as it licked the salty rime-stones, Buri was "born." Buri begat a son named Bor; with the giantess Bestla as his wife, Bor had three sons: Odin Vili, and Ve. From here, things started taking a different direction. These three sons went off and killed Ymir, and from Ymir’s blood, death came to all but one of the giants. They took Ymir’s body to Ginnungagap, and fr ....

.... an artifact by many because "it is the oldest of the English long poems and may have been composed more than twelve hundred years ago."(Beowulf 19) It deals with events of the early 6th century and is believed to have been composed between 700 and 750. "No one knows who composed Beowulf , or why. A single manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A XV) managed to survive Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, and the destruction of their great libraries; since his name is written on one of the folios, Lawrence Nowell, the sixteenth-century scholar, may have been responsible for Beowulf's preservation."(Raffel ix) An interesting fact that is unique about the poem is tha ....