Biographies Essays and Term Papers

Lanier Williams, born in Columbus, Mississippi to Edwina Dakin and Cornelius Coffin Williams, became one of the nations greatest playwrights. He was born on March 26, 1911 in his grandfather, Reverend Walter E. Dakin's, Episcopal Church. William's…

educated in England at the United Services College. Then in 1882 he returned to Bombay where he started to work for the Anglo-Indian newspapers. His literary career started with Departmental Ditties, which was published in 1886. He was a prolific writer…

about growing up. Since everyone's growing up is different, there probably are very few stories that everyone can relate to. "Onion John" is a story about one set of problems a boy encounters as he is growing up. Children want to have someone…

in Northern Ireland. He grew up in the country, on a farm. He attended the local school and in 1951 went as a border to St Columb's College. In 1956 he went on a scholarship to Queen's University, Belfast and graduated with a first class degree in…

greatly to English literature. He adapted blank verse to the stage. His short life was violent and he had a rather violent temperment. However, he wrote some of the most delicate pieces of literature. His writing expresses the representation…

Burning". The works of William Faulkner are drenched with the ambiance of the South. Faulkner, a master when it comes to southern dialect, is highly revered as a "Southern writer". His works include, but are not limited to: "All the Dead Pilots",…

28, 2003 Nature and Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson, nineteenth century poet and writer, expresses a philosophy of life, based on our inner self and the presence of the soul. Emerson regarded and learned from the great minds of the past. In his…

Edgar Allan Poe's short story entitled The Mask of the Red Death is an artistic example of vivid symbolism. Throughout the sinister tale Poe writes in a style that appeals to all five senses and captivates the reader's curiosity until the story's…

adult - and probably masculine - presence, has a significant role to play..." This is what Millicent Bell thinks about the role of the narrator in What Maisie Knew by Henry James. In this paper, I will try to show the importance of the way the…

the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs." Sir William Osler might not realize at the time when he first spoke those words, but he became the man who created original ideas and the man who had the ability to convince the world of their…