A collection of witty essays covering a diverse range of topics, such as taking a cruise, the film maker David Lynch, and tennis. The title essay, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, finds the author becoming disillusioned with the hospitality industry after spending a week on a cruise ship and feeling compelled to be behave like a brat and have a fun time. Some of the essays are autobiographical and reveal the author's experiences as a tennis player or at a state fair.
Emerson's Essays is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 18th-century Transcendentalist. In "Self-Reliance," Emerson discusses one of his central and recurring themes of individuality, moral independence and the harmful effects of conformist society on the individual. "The Over-Soul" deals with the nature of the infinite human soul, its superiority to the ego and its relation to other souls and the divine. Other essays, such as "Politics," argue against big government and that one day humans will be virtuous enough to not require any government whatsoever.
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a monograph by Sigmund Freud which codified one of his personal theories. The three essays deal with aberrant sexual desire, sexual desire in childhood and its shaping of adult sexual life, and the maturation of sexuality into a genital-focused force in adolescence. The three essays comprise a comprehensive approach to mapping and tracking the blooming of human sexuality in Freud's outdated clinical model.
Everyone in society is linked John Boynton Priestley was born in Yorkshire in 1894 He knew early on that he wanted to become a writer but decided against going to university as he thought he would get a better feel for the world around him away from academia Instead he became a junior clerk with a local wool firm at the age of 16 When the First World War broke out Priestley joined the infantry and only just escaped death on a number of occasions After the war he gained a degree from Cambridge U
Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience is the act of knowingly breaking a law that an individual feels is morally unjust We all have a moral compass and a perception of what is right from wrong Many individuals see injustices in our democratic system yet few actually make a stand for what they believe is right The United States was founded under an idea that All men are created equal However that motto was not entirely true When we look back in time and examine our past one can see a plethora of
Critical Essays Analysis of The Prelude The Prelude is the greatest long poem in our language after Paradise Lost says one critic Its comparison with the great seventeenth century epic is in some respects a happy one since Milton was after Coleridge Wordsworths greatest idol The Prelude may be classed somewhat loosely as an epic it does not satisfy all the traditional qualifications of that genre The epic is customarily defined as a long narrative poem which recounts heroic actions commonly leg
One of the best American essays of the century is The Solace of Open Spaces written and told by Gretel Ehrlich Ehrlich wrote this short essay about her time she spent in Wyoming She also tells about some events that has happened while being there The short essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1981 and then collected in The Solace of Open Spaces in 1985 Being a short essay the story was written within ten pages Those ten pages are divided into sections for short pauses of Ehrlich
David Sedariss Me Talk Pretty One Day revisits his oh so comical childhood years in a household of six children including himself with the combination of a sometimes loudmouthed mother and a father who loves his jazz and his vodka Me Talk Pretty One Day opens to a story line as if it came straight of a movie an agent knocking a classroom door to pick up a suspected criminal But after learning that the agent was actually a speech therapist trying to cure young Davids lisp that fear was gone Alon