I first studied about "The Canterbury Tales" written by Chaucer in the English history class when I was sophomore. I have studied about classic Japanese such as "Genji-monogatari" and "Makurano-soushi" in high school, but I have not studied about the classic E...
In this term’s lecture I learned new way of thinking from three people, they are Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman. Emerson was a philosopher, Thoreau a writer and Whitman a poet. I think they have same kind of idea but their way of expressing it was different. Th...
Langston Hughes’s poem, “Dream Deferred,” is about people’s hope for racial equality even though Hughes does not indicate it directly. This poem was written in 1959, and during that time period, the Civil Rights Movement took place in different areas of th...
Comparing the novel of “The Beach” and the movie of “The Beach” There are many differences between the movie of “The Beach” and the novel of “The Beach”. I think the message of this story didn’t changed from the book, but there are lots of big ch...
1. Problem: Some earthquake survivors claim that they observed abnormal animal behaviors prior to the earthquakes. Do animals have a special ability to predict earthquake? If they do, how can we use it to develop a new prediction method? 3. Hypothesis 1.Long...
I will discuss about the colour usage in John Keats’s The Eve of St. Agnes by using statistics, and analyzes the meanings and effects of the prominent colour terms, purple. Why colours and why John Keats? Colour studies have been developing throughout the age...
This story is the story of Odysseus’s exciting adventure. He is the hero of Ithaca, and this story take place after the Trojan War. Sparans won this war because of the Odysseus’s intelligent idea. I like this story, because there are many wonderful character...
The poem “Theme for English B,” written by Langston Hughes, expresses the speaker’s feeling of separation from others just because he was an African American. The speaker is considered to be the author himself. He attends college, and he is the only African...
Claudius is a king of Denmark when the play “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” starts, He is an uncle of Hamlet, and Hamlet thinks of Claudius as an evil king who has murdered King Hamlet. I think Claudius is entirely evil and is a bad king because h...