Usually, we think of heroes and great people as those who have fought solid battles. However, there are those heroes who have fought no battles on solid ground but through their speeches. One such great person is Mary Fisher, a Republican who gave a speech on the battlefield of the Republican National Convention in 1992 (Fisher, 1992). She is battling AIDS. In her speech “A Whisper of AIDS,” Mary, who

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is a powerful novel that uses several literary devices to explore race, identity, social invisibility, power, and self-discovery. The novel follows an unnamed African American narrator who struggles to understand who he is in a society that refuses to see him as a complete human being. Ellison does not use a simple realistic style only; instead, he combines symbolism, imagery, allegory, irony, first-person narration, setting, tone,

My Papa’s Waltz is not a complicated poem concerning diction or form; it can stimulate interest and debate. The poem maintains the waltz’s rhythm and ambiguity throughout. It makes the audience to be able to empathize with the boy, who is handled roughly by the alcoholic father, which is a pointer to something sinister. The boy’s father cannot control himself due to drunkenness and thus a threat to the home