Esperanza is very ashamed of things, depressed, but yet she is a very intelligent and caring young girl. ... People make fun of her name, and she thinks it sounds like something from a Mexican song that her father plays while he shaves (10). ... Esperanza was depressed during her earlier years of going to school. ... Esperanza also had many troubles in her life that made her depressed. ... She is too depressed and ashamed of so many things all of the time. ...

• Word Count: 905
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." ... The second poem I shall explore is called "Song". ... The pleading tone of the speaker is complemented by her use of alliteration in line 2: "Sing no sad songs for me". She lists all the traditional acts executed after a death: " sad songs roses cypress- and then goes on to implore her lover to refute them all. ...

• Word Count: 2526
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Always the life of the party, he broke in with his usual snapping his fingers and dancing to the background music-of course this was some cheesy top 40 song at the time-that made even the most depressed person smile. After a while, he sat down beside me and asked, "What's that Enrique Iglesias song?" ...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I. This Norse story of the origin of the earth, sky, and humanity is paraphrased from Snorri Sturluson's Edda, as translated by Anthony Faulkes. Sturluson lived in Iceland from 1179 to 1241, and he apparently composed the Edda as a compilation of traditional stories and verse. Many of verses he included appear to date from the times when Norse sagas were conveyed only in spoken form by Viking bards.       Odin and Ymir In the beginning of time, there was nothing: neither sand, nor sea, nor cool waves. ...

• Word Count: 3045
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School