You must find out for yourself just who is good for you and who isn't. ... Not only is he a good kid with a good heart, meaning he always is looking out for me and wants the best for me. But he makes me think. ... The friendships I value most are those that make me think and the friends who make me think and talk about things I don't want to touch on. ... My idea's about what it means to be a good friend are evolving everyday as I experience more things and more times with my friends which makes me re-think them. ...

• Word Count: 3031
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

This essay investigates how far "The Importance of Being Earnest" reflects this view on life. ... The humour in the play makes social status, marriage and money as a measure of personal worth look spurious and nonsensical. ... (Act 2 page 46) The play makes it clear that people in the upper class society wear a social mask and pretend to be good whilst being wicked. ... Honesty is supposed to be an important ideal in society which is trivialised in the play as Jack and Algernon were willing to lie to get what they want. ... (Act 2 page 52) Canon Chasuble promises to make "some slight allus...

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

Weshoven blames Priscilla for Hollingsworth's downfall (apparently hoping the reader of her essay has not read the book for himself), and says that she "exudes a veiled happiness' at her man's collapse- (153). ... Is she, on the one extreme, as Carol Weshoven says, a "prostitute, willing to trade what little she is for the safety of a life of parasitism,"" (153) or is she a sweet, innocent victim? ... - and "we may be very sure, for one thing, that the good we aim at will not be attained- (70). Coverdale makes her sad for the moment, but she immediately afterword "sat down u...

• Word Count: 4739
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography

He dabbles with writing a medieval essay, and rejects his grandfathers' offer to make him a war correspondent. ... Fitzgerald creates Anthony to be a dreamer, a man trapped in his illusions of what he hoped life would be like. ... But they are never as "beautiful" as he tries to make them. ...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

If so, doesn't this make it all an illusion? ... And live on what? What can you provide? What have you got, Jamal? ... The song starts off as a meditation on clouds and the positive feel-good illusion they create, much like Jamal and Gatsby's outlook on life. ...

• Word Count: 2763
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Annie Hall In this essay, I am going to discuss a certain way of viewing Annie Hall to you. ... What might be meant by this term? ... Alvy identifies himself as nervous throughout the film, saying that his childhood was dominated by a roller-coaster because he was "a little nervous I think"; he dislikes the countryside because, he tells his second wife Robin while they argue in bed, "it makes me nervous". ... Alvy interprets a comment made by a friend asking him what he ate as anti-Semitic - "what do you eat? ... What does that sentence mean? ...

• Word Count: 3864
• Approx Pages: 15