College Example Essays

“A Sort of Preface” is a short piece of prose written by Toni Cade Bambara, extracted from “Gorilla, My love”, which was published in 1984. It can be classified as narrative prose and is written in the first person. It consists of 3 paragraphs of varying length. The subject of …

A. The characters have no names in A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin because naming them would identify them.  She purposefully does not identify them except by calling them the man, the woman, the boy, and the girl.  By doing this, these characters could be any man, woman, boy, or girl.This …

“The Saints and the Roughnecks” is an interesting study of sociological processes and differences in two groups of young people from different economic backgrounds. Because of their economic backgrounds, the way that the kids were treated by society was very different—the “saints” were looked upon with approval while the “roughnecks” …

In Letter of Rejection Samuel Johnson is asked by a women to acquire the archbishop so that her son can go to the university. Johnson later replies with many different factors on why he cannot grant her request. He successfully shows his reluctance to complete the lady’s request by utilizing …

There is a clear difference between a movie review and a movie analysis, but students find it hard to understand this. A review is basically an honest opinion about a film, while a movie analysis is a deeper exploration of the themes and styles and messages that a movie is …

A Fine Balance was a novel, I had read in my middle schooling years. I thought it was a terrific and moving novel with all the aspects well linked and throughout to intrigue and question the reader. This novel had given me hope when in doubt and expanded my knowledge …

How would you feel if you, your sister or your mother’s rights were taken away? Abortion challenges this, with many wrongly believing that it is a negative action, or a taboo subject. This leads to people believing that abortion should be banned, despite the fact that this is a completely …

Imagine that you are a theatrical director and that you are preparing for a professional performance of a play. One of the actors is concerned that he will not be able to create a credible character in this difficult to set play. Advise the actor as to how you want …

The new Will Smith movie, The Pursuit of Happyness is wrong and not just in how it spells “happyness”. Movies that have hidden and misleading messages bother me — and I don’t like the underlying messages in this movie. The movie presents an important concept and then stomps all over …

Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (released in the mid-1960) altered the way in which people view Horror films – ‘expecting the unexpected’. As it is now possible to distinguish the difference between the present and the past of the Horror genre, it has without a doubt gradually evolved into something gorier, disturbing, …