Even though Taylor Swift is considered to be one of the most powerful celebrities in the America right now, she gets a lot of flak for being a psycho dater with too much hype around her. Even though I think her voice is only average,…

At the very beginning of the novel, Cannie describes the moment she read her boyfriend’s article about her in the news. From pages 3-7, Cannie uses descriptive language to describe her immediate feeling after realizing she had been described as overweight to the general public.…

We began the class by talking about John’s post. In his blog post he discussed whether the main character in Good in Bed is likeable or not. He believes she is likable because she is different to how women are depicted today. She goes against…

“Her crimson dress, exaggerated like all the rest in this strange picture, hung about her in folds that looked like flames, her fair head peeping out of the lurid mass of colour, as if out of a raging furnace. Indeed, the crimson dress, the sunshine…

I compared  the book covers of the Oxford edition and Penguin Classics edition. The two book covers are slightly different, however, neither cover gives us a full sense of the plot of the story. In the Penguin Classics edition, the frontal upper half of Lady…

The first paragraph of Lady Audley’s Secret says a lot about Mary Braddon’s writing style. The first sentence starts off with, “It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures”(7). By her use of diction, it is obvious that the…

A theme that relates specifically to John Green’s “The Fault in Our Stars” and other young adult novels is intimacy between two characters. Alleen Pace Nilsen’s article titled “Books for Young Adults: Love and the Teenage Reader” discusses young love in literature and different books…

Before beginning to read The Fault In Our Stars, I immediately recognized that the book looked appealing to people of all ages. Between the clouds and the scribbled writing, the book looked generally easy going and happy. The bright blue cover and the “#1 New…

  The video for “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion is basically a summary of the short relationship between Jack and Rose and of the movie Titanic. It portrays the song as sad, yet hopeful in that Jack and Rose were once together,…