In 1855, twelve of his works were published in a collection entitled "Leaves of Grass", which stands today as one of America's most popular literary works. ... "Leaves of Grass" had a wide range of subject material, and therefore it incorporated many different themes. ... A firm devotion to democracy had much to do with the poems in "Leaves of Grass", because Whitman, especially after the Civil War, was becoming more and more disappointed and aggravated with the rapid civil decay taking place in an increasingly industrializing society. ... "Leaves of Grass" over went several revisions a...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." This famous quote reflects the tension felt between the individual and society for some of the later Romantic writers and is apparent in their work. Transcendentalists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, firmly believed that the individual should separate from society's norms and institutions. Margaret Fuller, who was also a transcendentalist, had radical beliefs about the roles of women and desired for there to be drastic c...

• Word Count: 1963
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Essential Oils: Essentials for Life The simple sniff of a rose or the redolence of freshly cut grass evokes images, sensations, memories, and emotions so common in our lives that we sometimes fail to embrace them. ... Essential oils are extracted from seeds, flowers, fruit, grasses, leaves, roots, wood, bark or stems. ... For example: Geranium: from the leaves and stalk; Myrrh, Frankincense, Benzoin: from the tree resin; citrus oils: from the fruit peel; pine: from the needles; Lavender: from its flowering tops (Tisserand, 2002, p 209). ...

• Word Count: 1423
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The passage reveals the stunning reality of the hunchback, as this "woman figure" is his nighttime companion (whether figurative or literal, Thomas leaves open to interpretation) and his only friend. Even though the reader does take solace in the fact the hunchback at least "has his nights," Thomas's closing lines, " the birds the grass the trees the lake and the wild boys innocent as strawberries had followed the hunchback to his kennel in the dark" (lines 39-43) leave the reader steeped in thoughts of violence and chaos, a highly representative literary effect of the modern era. ... H...

• Word Count: 1641
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He presents her with gifts such as a snake without teeth with its sting removed and, "leaves of oak dipped in honeydew.... He is using nature for his own purposes by cutting down the grass to spite Juliana, which is different to simply cutting down the grass to help it grow as seen in the beginning of the collection. ...

• Word Count: 1808
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the end, I suppose, what the artist chooses to emphasize is purely a matter of taste or style, and I can see how deluding contrast in this area to blend with the other black colors can lead your eye to the abundant subjects in the background, but in doing so I feel there leaves a lack of motion in an active environment. ... One painting I did find myself enjoying, however, was Edouard Manet's Luncheon on the Grass, depicted on page 386 of the 7th edition text, plate number 556. ...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the cell level, animal bodies (which include human bodies and dogs and cats) must follow the nutrient and essential fatty acid profiles of green leaves in order to have optimal body function. Grain, the seed of an annual grass plant, does not offer that nutrient profile. ...

• Word Count: 1788
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cattails, sea grasses, golden bush, and turtleweed are all common plants being planted in coastal wetlands that are naturally found in all aspects of salt marshes. ... This leaves a large amount of the production of salmon onto hatcheries. ...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The 1930's were a decade of hardships and regret for people all around the world. This decade was huge in contrast to the success that the world held in the 1920's. The most significant event in the 1930's was the Great Depression. It was the worst economic disaster that the modern world had ever ex...

• Word Count: 1848
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The grass-roots perpetrators became "professional killers.""... While Browning tries to develop an explanation of the actions of Police Battalion 101 using the two famous psychological experiments, he leaves himself open to criticism by claiming that these men were simply "ordinary men." ...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Marijuana is a substance that comes from cut and dried leaves from a plant called "cannabis sativa". Marijuana is also commonly referred to by most people as "grass", "pot", "Mary Jane", "herb", "weed", as well as many other nicknames. ...

• Word Count: 1664
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fine Clothes to the Jew may remain in relationship to African American poetry in a manner similar to Walt Whitman's 1855 release of Leaves of Grass stands in relationship to white American verse, or to the verse of the country all in all. ...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Misner and Florian (2014), the Associate Nutrition Specialist at Arizona State University, organic foods are the type of foods that are produced without the use of artificial composts, grasses, and fungal pests that damage the crops. ...

• Word Count: 2389
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If the red grass were full of rattlers, I was equal to them all." ... On the farm, he rarely leaves the kitchen; he inhabits women's space: "When grandmother and I went to the Shimerdas' house, we found the women-folk alone. ...

• Word Count: 2062
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wastewater is known to have high concentrations of silica, heavy metals, and hydrocarbons, which, if processed by a reverse osmosis system alone, leaves large concentrations of brine (salt and other chemicals). ... If the lawn is cut at a longer length, the individual blades of grass are able to retain more water and will dry out less quickly. ...

• Word Count: 2430
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This "knowledge argument"" is used by Jackson to prove that materialism is false by showing that even if one has all the physical information we can possibly have about bodily sensations and mental states, the materialist (physicalist) always leaves out qualia. ... Mary is a specialist in neurophysiology of vision and, we assume, that this enables her to obtain all of the physical information there is to obtain about what goes on when we see things in our everyday life, what seeing an apple feels like or what looking at the grass feels like. ...

• Word Count: 2123
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate