To the south was Muspell, a region of heat and brightness guarded by Surt, a giant who carried a flaming sword. ... Sol drives the chariot that carries the sun across the skies, and she drives so fast across the skies of the northland because she is chased by a giant wolf each day. ... This story is from the Kojiki, the Japanese "Record of Ancient Things". ... They pulled out the spear, and the brine that dripped of it formed an island to which they descended. ... They procreated and gave birth to a leech-child, which they put in a basket and let float away. ...

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

" Broken ghosts with glow worms in their heads The things of light File through flesh, where no flesh decks the bones." ... Glow-worms are described as "The things of light" as if they are the bearer and bringer of light. ... The birds are portrayed as being very ornate animals and even though they are stone they somehow possess feathers. ... me the catalyst that brings the life, "with glow worms The things of light File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones". The poet carries on with this theme of life evolving from something that is meant to be dead. ...

• Word Count: 2553
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Religion in his mind also is nothing more than our way of dealing with the feelings of helplessness, which carry on from childhood into adulthood. ... The possibility of such cultural regulations depends on the leaders, not to mention the great amount of coercion that is inevitable in carrying this plan out. ... While there are many people who would turn away from murder, they do not deny themselves the satisfaction it would bring, and if they could get away without being punished for it, they would most likely take that offer. ... To people life would be intolerable if they did not attach ...

• Word Count: 3198
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Questions were raised as to why things happen on Earth the way they do. ... They are black daisies and white daisies. This this world they used the rising heat of earth for the variable in the experiment. ... The black ones were better off, because they could absorb the heat from the sun and keep warm. ... The white daisies had the advantage, because they could reflect off the heat of the sun. ...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Chandler is fond of poetry not because they are an artistic emblem of truth, or beauty. They are the creations of respected, and worthy men, holding an order of importance in life that Chandler will never have. ... His nickname, Little Chandler, is not misplaced on this man who has probably carried the weight of insecurity and the need to be accepted from childhood into his constructed adult life. ... Chandler does many things through the story that act as symbolic insights into his character, techniques that Joyce as a writer employs to give a detailed description of him without making a psyc...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate