Free Research Papers on English
Think twice before using a free research paper found on-line
We are happy to present the most complete and comprehensive collection of free research papers on English on the Internet. There is no need to look any further. The papers are totally free for you to use, however, it is our duty to forewarn you of the possible perils involved in working with free papers. We can assure you that 99% of prewritten English papers won't fit your assignment's instructions. All free as well as paid prewritten papers feature outdated research and incomplete referencing. As a result, tailoring the paper to your specifications will take just as much time as writing a new one from scratch.
Free and prewritten papers will be traced by turnitin (plagiarism detection program)
Free and paid prewritten papers are easily traceable by turnitin.com (plagiarism detection program) even after substantial rewriting. A custom written paper composed by one of our professional writers will never be traced by ANY plagiarism detection software because that paper will be written from scratch and pre-tested for plagiarism.
Get a custom written paper on English or any other subject
The best thing about our writing service is that you can provide a complete description and have it written exactly the way you need it. We won't just give you one of the free papers, it will be masterfully tailored and typed from scratch, authentic all the way. Coupled with our free unlimited revisions guarantee, that becomes one of the most ironclad investmentments ever done.
3
0
A brief analysis of “The Banking Concept of Education” There have always
been numerous theories in relationship to the inadequacy of our education system
here in the United States, as well as elsewhere in the world. The education of
our children does not seem to be working and ahs also become a very complex and
confusing subject, as many immigrants move into the country requiring special
language ... Full-text essay
4
0
“Battle Royal,” by Ralph Ellison was a very difficult piece of literature
for me to understand. As a little background information, Ellison was very much
into music (228). He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on March 1, 1914 (221).
Different themes are presented throughout this short story, which reflect
different views that Ellison had at the time that he wrote this essay. One boy
is invited t... Full-text essay
2
0
The narrator of “Battle Royal,” lived his life under the illusion that
everybody had an equal chance in life. He desperately wanted and tried to please
everyone, thinking that if he did he would eventually rise and become somebody
great. He was a great speaker and his speeches won him great recognition, but he
did not realize that nobody took him seriously. He was trapped in a body of
inferior qua... Full-text essay
1
0
After I read the story "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison, I could not
restrain my thoughts about issues of morality and what it has to do with
reality, from clashing in to one another in my mind. As these two completely
different ideas were pushing me to the brink of madness, my mind began to click.
At this point I came to the realization that a person’s reality, that is that
person’s ment... Full-text essay
1
1
In "The Bean Trees," by Barbara Kingsolver, readers are given the
chance to see how two characters that have completely different lifestyles come
together and deal with everyday problems, family relationships, and motherhood.
Lou Ann chose a lifestyle that would cause her to get married, have a baby and
move away right after high school. On the other hand Taylor did everything in
her pow... Full-text essay
2
1
The Beaux Stratagem is a play that places a pair of presentable yet impoverished
London gentlemen, named Aimwell and Archer, in the English country inn at
Lichfield. Due to the laws of this time Aimwell, as the younger son, has been
denied his opportunity to share in the family fortune. His plan at the inn is to
assume his older brother’s identity and improve his chances of marrying a
wealthy woma... Full-text essay
0
0
Nearing my father-in-law’s house, I was surrounded by a concrete jungle. Tax
services, restaurants and shopping centers were closing in on me. I then turned
the corner onto Cherry Street. This put me on a residential block. A man was
walking his dog and a family with young children was returning home from an
unknown adventure. Little did I know I was about to embark on a journey all my
own. Over ... Full-text essay
0
1
The Bell Jar Esther and Patriarchy “The Bell Jar”, which is written by
Sylvia Plath, indicates that patriarchal society has many effects on women. Men
have power over women in both direct and indirect ways. In this paper, I would
like to concern about Esther and patriarchy. Men use their power directly to
oppress Esther. Also they use power indirectly to set up social values and
sexual stereotypin... Full-text essay
0
0
Integrated into the story of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a "case
history" of a depression patient, from it's subtle beginnings to it's
terrifying consequences to it's shaky resolution. On the subject of this
depression, there is an article written by William Styron which, in the course
of describing his own dealings with the disease, he compares it to cancer. It is
my own firm opinio... Full-text essay
0
0
John Berger's writing "Ways of Seeing" is a look into the world of
art. Throughout his composition, he gives his opinions on various topics about
art. Jane Tompkins essay "Indians: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of
History" is a look into the world of history. Within her essay, Tompkins
discusses her views on the quest of finding truth in history. She uses terms
such as ... Full-text essay
1
0
Language and images are usually a way to express what someone is thinking,
however, language and images can often restrict our thinking in various ways.
Susan Douglas, in her essay ,"Narcissism As Liberation", writes about
"the great myth…that superficial appearances can be equated with a
person's deepest character strengths and weaknesses"(128). The image of
what a "beaut... Full-text essay
1
0
The snow mounted up over the jade branches of the fir trees that surrounded the
log cabin. Ben and Jon, two brothers from Gothenburg, were almost identical, but
Jon had a much stronger accent and lighter hair. They were having a break from
their jobs in their uncle's log cabin. They both worked in the local saw mill,
which is more factory than traditional lumber-jacking. They hadn't seen him for
y... Full-text essay
1
0
The BFG Beginning: My book is about a Big Friendly Giant (BFG) who goes around
every night in different towns and blows dreams, that he captures, into little
boy’s and girl’s rooms. No one has ever seen the BFG, except one night when
he went to England where a young girl, named Sophie, lived. On that night she
couldn’t get to sleep. It was about midnight, (in the story they call it the
witching ho... Full-text essay
1
0
Hi, I am Eleanor Fagan Gough, or most of you know me as Lady Day or Billie
Holiday. I am known, as one of America's most memorable and influential singers
of all time. I was born in Baltimore, in a run down apartment, in 1915. My
mother had a very unsteady, low paying job, and my father ran out on us when I
was very young. I had no choice but to try and find a way to make money for my
mother and I... Full-text essay
1
0
Ask someone either at home or at work, "How are you doing today?"
Several replies will be forthcoming. Some respond "Ok",
"Fine" or "Surviving". As long as Sallie Potter's Louisville
Ebony Aces were playing ball in the Negro League circuit, times and surviving
were good. A steady salary, Potter's bus, driven by Potter, with reclining
seats, which carried the... Full-text essay
0
1
A word is just characters (letters) put together to make a meaning, statement,
or idea. In the South, whites wanted power over the blacks, and the only form it
came in was a word. By the first amendment the whites had power to use words, as
did the journalist against the southern whites. Richard grows up learning about
the south and how it demolishes others, and how it stabs him in the back by
wor... Full-text essay
0
0
Bless me, Ultima Essay What is faith? Does everyone have faith? Is faith
believing in something you haven’t seen but you think is true? All of these
questions have an answer and in Bless me, Ultima by Rodolfo Anaya these
questions are important. In fact, many people question their faith because they
are confused about what they see or hear. In Bless me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
shows that on this wor... Full-text essay
0
8
Bloom’s Taxonomy is the higher order of thinking. Imagine a pyramid; to get to
the top, you must first finish what is on the bottom. Bloom’s Taxonomy is
divided into 6 different sections, each one specifying what skills are being
demonstrated. The first and easiest block is knowledge. In knowledge you observe
and recall of information, knowledge of dates, events, places, major ideas, and
of subjec... Full-text essay
0
0
I have lived my entire life here in New Hampshire and upon my thinking about it,
I am amazed that I live so close to history. I am but two hours away from a
controversy that occurred four hundred years ago. And it is from this beginning
that the "great" United States of America grew. I laugh out loud; is
this not true. Our founding fathers were nothing more than a few ambitious
sinners w... Full-text essay
0
0
It is hard to sympathize with someone when you have no idea where they are
coming from or what they are going through. It is similar experiences that allow
us to extend our sincere appreciation and understanding for another human
being’s situations and trials of life. Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to
Her Book” expresses the emotions that Bradstreet felt when her most intimate
thoughts were publish... Full-text essay
0
0
As a female in a highly patriarchal society, Anne Bradstreet uses the reverse
psychology technique to prove the point of her belief of unfair and unequal
treatment of women in her community. Women who wrote stepped outside their
appropriate sphere, and those who actually published their work frequently faced
social censure. Compounding this social pressure, many women faced crushing
workloads and ... Full-text essay
0
0
For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and
challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors
offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at
some future time. One such author, Ray Bradbury, utilized this concept in his
work, Fahrenheit 451, a futuristic look at a man and his role in society.
Bradbury utilizes... Full-text essay
0
1
Huxley’s Brave New World is definitely new and is something that is difficult
for a person living in a 90’s world to imagine for it is so very diverse
compared to our society and customs today. The odd world and lifestyle that was
prophesied by Aldous Huxley in the first half of the 20th century has much of
the same basis of customs but they are just performed different ritually in
these people’s ... Full-text essay
0
1
The peak of a writer’s career should exhibit their most profound works of
literature. In the case of Aldous Huxley, Brave New World is by far his most
renowned novel. Aldous Huxley is a European-born writer who, in the midst of his
career, moved to the United States and settled in California. While in
California, he began to have visions aided by his usage of hallucinatory drugs.
His visions were ... Full-text essay
0
0
In Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” the setting is set many years into
the future. This future describes a world where science and technology have been
allowed to progress unchecked. There are no moral or spiritual obligations and
the good of society is placed above individuality and freedom. Lenina Crown is a
perfect example of this society and all that it represents. Lenina Crown is a
model exa... Full-text essay
0
0
Language has been the topic of many debates throughout history. It is an issue,
which can cause upheaval and even bloodshed. A modern day example of this can be
found right here in Canada. A great amount of time, and emotional input, among
other things, has been invested into Quebec's sovereignty debate. There has been
no long-term solution to the problem. This may be due to the lack of
understand... Full-text essay
6
0
“Does Greene raise his characters from mere functions in a ‘detective’
novel to characters whose motivations are believable?” Use two characters to
illustrate your argument. Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene, is a book based in
1930’s underworld Brighton. The novel is based on the tale of Pinky, a teenage
gangster, and his conflict against an amateur detective, Ida, who is intent on
bringing Pinky t... Full-text essay
0
0
Selecting a good leader for a country is like setting up a set of dominoes. If
the leader does his job correctly the country will be strong, but if he does not
become a good leader, the country will topple and go fall. A good leader must be
able to make his own decisions because if he cannot make decisions on his own,
then he would be considered as a weak leader. The leader of the country has to
b... Full-text essay
2
0
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, in his satirical masterwork Candide,
critiques both society and humanity wit little mercy. The author obviously seeks
to expose all of the human race's self-deceptions and weaknesses, but he does so
with great humor. Voltaire gives delight with his humor while planting the
deeper message about the fallibility and corruption of humanity. This
contradiction holds t... Full-text essay
0
0
In Voltaire’s Candide, Voltaire presents a story with a distinctive outlook on
life. He tells of a world that has gone mad and is laced with evil. Voltaire
questions optimism, philosophy, and absolutes. Through his story he exploits
absolutes such as: justice, happiness, true love, humanity, brotherhood, and
many others. He leaves the reader feeling that the world really is a cruel place
and that ... Full-text essay
0
0
Candide on the surface is a witty, gelastic story. However when inspected deeper
it is a philippic writing against people of an uneducated status. Candid is an
archetype of these idiocracies, for he lacks reason and has optimism that is
truely irking, believing that this is the best of all possible worlds. Thus
Voltaire uses a witty, bantering tale on the surface, but in depth a cruel
bombast agai... Full-text essay
2
0
In the novel, Candide, Voltaire uses many literary writing tools to prove the
points in which he believes. Some of these many literary tools are irony,
satire, and symbolism. Through these tools, Voltaire proves that greed is a
universal vice, and usually ends in ones own destruction. Voltaire strongly
emphasizes his pessimistic view throughout the story. During Chapter 10, he uses
his philosophie... Full-text essay
0
0
Voltaire's Candide is a novel which contains conceptual ideas and at the same
time is also exaggerated. Voltaire offers sad themes disguised by jokes and
witticism, and the story itself presents a distinctive outlook on life. The
crucial contrast in the story deals with irrational ideas as taught to Candide
about being optimistic, versus reality as viewed by the rest of the world. The
main theme w... Full-text essay
0
0
As a child of an immigrant couple, Carl Sandburg was barely American himself,
yet the life, which he had lived, has defined key aspects of our great country,
and touched the hearts and minds of her people. Sandburg grew up in the American
Midwest, yet spent the majority of his life traveling throughout the states. The
country, which would define his style of poetry and his views of society,
govern... Full-text essay
0
0
Plato’s “Myth of the Cave” and Carver’s Cathedral provide insight into
parallel words. The protagonists in each story are trapped in a world of
ignorance because each is comfortable in the dark, and fearful of what knowledge
a light might bring. They are reluctant to venture into unfamiliar territory.
Fortunately the narrator in the Cathedral is forced by circumstances to take a
risk. This risk le... Full-text essay
0
1
"For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know
in part; but then I shall know even as I am known" (1 Corinthians 13). The
narrator of Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" is a man living a life of
monotony, continuously feeding the cold and bigoted mind that we witness for the
first part of the story. The process of guiding Robert through the drawing of
the c... Full-text essay
1
0
When I was eleven years old, my best friend Michelle Baker and I thought that we
would look more grown up if we started smoking. My parents smoked, so we devised
a plan for me to steal their cigarettes, and then Michelle and I would meet
behind K. J. Clark Middle School to smoke. We thought smoking would make us more
popular with the older kids who hung out there. The next morning I sneaked into
m... Full-text essay
2
0
Courtesy throughout the generations has deteriorated among everyone. Possible
causes for the decline of courtesy in society are lower standards of morals, the
courtesy we receive ourselves, and the want for materialistic things. With the
demeanor of morals, self-confidence, and values being little to none; courtesy
among ourselves and strangers has diminished. In a whole, society has turned
into g... Full-text essay
1
2
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Everyone has
heard of this famous expression by Newton, plenty of times. It means if you do
something wrong, someone will pay the price. An everyday occurrence of this
expression happens when you speed. If you speed, and get caught, usually the
consequences are receiving a ticket. Because the law was broken, now it is going
to cost. The ... Full-text essay
1
0
Every person, everywhere, with no exceptions has experienced fear. Fear, to be
afraid, has hit us all, whether it was fear of failing, or fear for your own
personal safety. Fear is what keeps us on our alert edge. It kept you from
jumping off the high dive when you were a child for fear you would get injured,
and it kept you up late studying for fear of failing. It is the realization of
consequenc... Full-text essay
1
0
It has been may years since I; Phillip Enright was stranded on the tiny island,
Devil's Mouth with my beloved friend Timothy, and our one comfort, Stew Cat. Its
been 50 years to be exact and in all 61 years of my life, nothing has impacted
me more than that time spent on the cay. As I sit hear in the comfort of my
beautiful home, relaxing in my easy chair feeling the warmth of the glowing fire
I a... Full-text essay
1
0
Ceremony is a novel written by Leslie Marmon Silko. It deals with the gender
roles of three women are significant to the development of a character namedd
Tayo who is half-white and half-Indian. These three women are Tayo's birth
mother, Auntie, and Old Grandma. His mother left him when he was four years old
and that began his sense of emptiness and abandonment. She could not bear to
raise a child... Full-text essay
0
0
Joyce and John Cheever were two influential writers of the late 1800's and early
1900's. James Joyce was an Irish author that wrote various short stories,
novels, and poems. In Dubliners, he is noted for his epiphanies and objective
correlatives. John Cheever, is an American short-story writer and novelist whose
work is known for his portrayals of the average middle-class American. His works
inclu... Full-text essay
1
1
"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." This quote
by Anais Nin expresses an essential point of view for this discussion about the
symbolic meaning of inanimate objects, since it is our personality and our
memories, which determine our character and meaning. Our feelings towards
certain objects are individual, as everyone associates different things in a
different manne... Full-text essay
1
0
The copyright of the book is 1974. 2. In the exposition of The Chocolate War,
Jerry Renault, the freshman quarterback, was receiving constant blows from
opposing players. Jerry was trying to get the ball to his receiver, the Goober,
but not having any luck. In The Chocolate War, the rising action was the
majority of the story. At Trinity High School, the school that Jerry attends,
there is a group... Full-text essay
1
1
" Do I dare disturb the universe"(172). With these words Robert
Cormier clearly shows his purpose for writing The Chocolate War. He writes it to
give insight into the consequences of standing up for what you believe in.
Through his portrayal of characters, and plot, Robert Cormier achieves his
purpose. Cormier shows what happens to Jerry Renault and his protagonist Archie
Costello. Throu... Full-text essay
0
0
Malter's Development in The Chosen One of the most emotional scenes from Chaim
Potok's The Chosen is when Reuven goes with Danny Saunders to talk to his
father. Danny has a great mind and wants to use it to study psychology, not
become a Hasidic tzaddik. The two go into Reb Saunders' study to explain to him
what is going to happen, and before Danny can bring it up, his father does. Reb
Saunders ex... Full-text essay
0
0
It is curious that as children, humans have the ability to observe and remember
details of specific situations and instances yet lack the ability to describe
them. Truman Capote, as a grown man, took advantage of his vivid memories and
composed the short work, “A Christmas Memory.” The story begins in late
November, a month symbolic of all the years gone by that Capote could remember
beginning pre... Full-text essay
1
0
Thesis statement: There really is no true or perfect human image nor can it be
proven right by using religious theories which are hypocritical. Their theories
developed from the experiences of Man, particularly from his tribulation. The
Waknuk people are insecure about themselves; therefore, they use God as an
excuse for their persecution of the deviates. In John Wyndham's, The Chrysalids,
we have... Full-text essay
0
0
A good writer has many tools at hand that help them develop good story lines.
There are literary techniques such as voice, point of view, character, theme,
and symbolism. One very interesting technique is that of symbolism. With
symbolism the author is able to write a story in which many of the actions
around the main character seem to enhance the way the character develops. The
use of symbolism t... Full-text essay
Property of MEDIATECH LIMITED