Love is an emotion that is expressed in many different ways throughout the play. One way that love is expressed is through Sam’s love for dancing. He has been dancing since Hally was a young child and now he teaches all his dances to Willie. Another kind of love that is expressed in this play is the love for another human being. Hally expresses his love for his father when he says, “I love him, Sam”(58). Also, Sam’s love for Hally is unbelievable: he loves Hally like a son, because Sam helps him with his schoolwork, plays checkers with him, and also made a kite for him. In this play love is an emotion that is amazing and the characters show the benefits in their reaction to it.

Happiness can be beneficial as well. The characters in this play do not display much happiness during the play. However, the characters have memories that do bring some happiness back in their lives. Sam finds happiness when he is dancing around the tearoom, teaching Willie. Also Sam says, “It’s a harmless pleasure, Hally. It doesn’t hurt anybody”(39). Other than Sam’s joy for dancing, Hally, Willie, and Sam shows great joy and happiness thinking and speaking about the days they spent together when Hally was younger. For example, Sam tells how Hally would hide in their room from his mother, and Hally says, “You chaps would give the game away by telling her I was in there with you”(25).

They all have a good laugh about this one. Another example their memories of bringing happiness occurs when Hally is speaking about how he remembers all the smells and paths that he would take to arrive at Willie’s and Sam’s room to play checkers with them. One time Hally barged in and caught Sam and Cynthia making love. This scene is funny to the characters now, but Hally admits he was embarrassed when the event took place. Lastly, Hally tells the story of how Sam was making a kite, Hally says, “I was praying quietly that there wouldn’t be any other kids around to laugh at us”(29).

When the kite starts to fly, Hally was very happy and says, “I had a stiff neck the next day from looking up so much”(31). Although there was not much happiness present in the play, the play shows that happiness can come from memories. It shows how happiness can bring joy as a reaction.

Finally, anger is an emotion that people should not want to express. In this play, however, anger is present. Willie is an angry person at the beginning of the play because nothing seems to go his way. At First, Willie is angry with Hilda, his dance partner, because she never shows up for dance practice. In addition, Willie claims, “She was scandalizin’ my name / She took my money”(4). Willie becomes angry with Hilda when she turns him in to the Child Welfare, because he is not paying for their baby. However, Willie claims to be paying for the milk. Then Willie says, “And how do I know is my baby?”(6). Hally also displays anger when Willie throws a rag at Sam, but hits Hally instead. Hally yells, “For Christ’s sake, Willie! What the hell do you think you’re doing!”(13). Hally is also furious with his father because he wants to come home. When his mother tells him to bring a bottle of brandy home, he takes the bottle and smashes it on the counter. Furthermore, Sam tells Hally to stop speaking badly about his father. Hally replies with, “Mind your own fucking business and shut up!”(53). Anger is one emotion brings unhappiness, but human beings have to deal with it. During this play, the reactions for the characters are brought about by the emotions.

Pangloss, a “professor of metaphysico-theologico-cosmolo-nigology” (l.1), is a strong believe in the optimistic philosophy. He and his philosophy are as absurd as his title throughout the novel. He believes that things cannot be otherwise and that all is for the best. Upon his arrival in Lisbon, he and Candide witness an earthquake in which the city is left in ruins. To explain the phenomenon, Pangloss says that “it is impossible that things should be other than they are; for everything is right” (p.11). This gives the reader the feeling that Pangloss in foolish because the deaths of thousands of people cannot be for the greater good. The philosopher is hung at a auto da fe but does not die. A surgeon purchases his seemingly and wakes him up during an operation. After he reaches Constantinople, he enters a mosque and, because he is Christian, is arrested and forced to work in the galleys. Despite all of the things that happened to him, Pangloss still maintains that this is the “best of all possible worlds” (p.87).

Candide is madly in love with Cunegonde, the daughter of the Baron of Thuder-ten-Tronckh. In Candide, romance is what is the main cause of the characters’ hardships; in short, love is painful. In Chapter I, Candide and Cunegonde kiss and are caught by the Baron who chases Candide from the castle with “great kicks on the backside” (p.2), while Cunegonde is boxed on the ears by the Baroness. It is this great love which causes Candide to kill the Jew and the Inquisitor in Lisbon and to attempt to kill Cunegonde’s brother in South America. When Candide finally reunites with his love in Turkey, he is, ironically, no longer in love with her and is “seized with horror” (p.82) by her ugliness. Furthermore, he no longer considers her to be a woman, but rather an “object” (p.82). This shows that love is but a childhood fantasy and not long lasting. French romance is also satirized in Candide. The French are inconsistent as far as love goes and quickly forget past romances. The Marchioness of Parolignac is shocked when Candide does not fall in love with her for “a Frenchman would have said, ‘It is true that I have loved Miss Cunegonde, but seeing [the Marchioness], I think I no longer love her’” (p.61).

The country of El Dorado and the customs of its people bring about a religious debate that dates back to the time of Luther, Calvin and Zwingli. In El Dorado, the people “do not pray to [God for] He has given them all they need” (p.44). Furthermore, all of the county’s inhabitants are priests and there are no monks who “dispute, govern, cabal, and who burn people that are not of their opinion” (p.44). The Inquisition is also a subject of satire in Candide. In Lisbon, the Inquisition captures various people in order to preform an auto da fe. The reasons include marrying one’s grandmother, rejecting bacon which larded a chicken, speaking one’s mind, and listening with an air of approbation to a philosophy the Inquisition rejected. In Constantinople, Pangloss enters a mosque and picks up a bouquet of flowers that a woman dropped, is identified as a Christian, and is ordered “a hundred lashes on the soles of the feet and sent to the galleys” (p.81). Therefore, the Roman Catholic Church, the Inquisition, and Islam are satirized in Candide.

Diction, exaggeration and symbolism transport the reader into Voltaire’s eighteenth century world. The reader is made to reject the philosophy of optimism, think badly of love at first sight and romance, and to look at the Church and Inquisition from the author’s perspective. Voltaire is very successful in bringing his point across to the reader and his work was one of the major influences on the Enlightenment and its followers. The works of Voltaire and his colleagues were a driving force in the formation of modern society.

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The relevance of Dante’s hell to contemporary society in the western world could be said to be visible from the very first Canto. Here Dante is lost and unable to find his way back to the right road. “Midway this way of life we’re bound upon, I wake to find myself in a dark wood”. This could be said to be a representation of the psychological torment of many people who become depressed or unsure of their place in life. Many people are forced to go on a journey within themselves in order face and overcome the fears and dark thoughts that are affecting their lives. To many it is a journey of self-discovery, not always a pleasant one. Often it is difficult for someone to leave the dark underworld within themselves and they can be pushed back again and again “Back to that place wherein the sun is mute”. Dante was forced to go through the circles of hell and face all the horrors so that he could safely leave the dark wood. Dante was fortunate in that he had Virgil to guide him on his way. Many do not have the good fortune to have such a guide to help them during their darkest hours. For some the journey through darkness and despair must be faced and endured alone. Dante’s journey is one in which he faced and described what he perceived to be the sins of the world.

It is in the vestibule of hell that Dante met some of the unfortunates who were on the edge of hell. These people who were not actually in hell itself were the ones who were considered too tepid, dull or stupid to have made much of a difference to life, their own or anybody else’s. These people were constantly running futiley in circles unable to make a choice. They were so inept and insignificant that they were not considered good enough even for hell. “ No reputation in the world it has, Mercy and doom hold it alike in scorn” Some would argue that this sort of person can be seen in society today. These people are too weak or inept to make an effort to turn their lives around and become useful citizens of society. If this type of person works they often resent having to do what they are doing but are unable to choose to change their job, they do not have the gumption or willpower to change. These people are incapable of making a decision. They are so inept that even if making a decision would improve their circumstances, they can’t make that decision for fear they might miss another better opportunity. They are fence sitters. It could be said that some of the unemployed people today are of this type. They curse and winge and blame everybody else for their misfortune. These people are common in society today. They create their own hell, living on the fringes of life and “it’s blind life trails on so low and crass that every other life it envieth”.

The first circle of hell “the ‘Limbo where the Unbaptised and the Virtuous Pagans dwell”, may be an area where perhaps some may think there is not much relevance for contemporary society. I beg to differ. It must be remembered that there are still those around who hold the belief that to be saved and go to heaven one must recognise and accept God. Even today Missionaries are still going to places such as India and Africa with the sole purpose of converting the people of those countries to Christianity. World wide it is possible to see cultures and civilizations that have been destroyed by the efforts of missionaries and others to civilise and christianise those that were considered pagans.

These indigenous people lived a good life obeying their own laws and following their own religious practices. Their only ‘sin’ was not to be baptised and to practice what was considered by Christians to be pagan beliefs. “They sinned not; yet their merit lacked its chiefest Fulfilment, lacking baptism”. Although attitudes and values are changing the indigenous people are still suffering from the attitudes and values that were imposed on them not so long ago. Many Indigenous people are lost between two cultures, their own culture has changed beyond recognition and they are expected to accept and fit in to a dominant culture that in many cases does not accept them. Many of these people today live in what they would argue is a living hell.

The sin of incontinence or lust is one, which is difficult upon first glance, to relate to society today and to find relevance to Dante’s inferno. Yet with greater examination it appears that this hell for the lustful exists today. Many people today go through the agony of many romances and breakups. In the Western world it is not considered a sin for people to divorce; in fact it is common. A large part of the community does not consider it immoral to have sexual relationships with one or more partner and yet many people are not finding happiness, they are satisfying lust and perhaps finding that that is not enough. They drift from one relationship to another constantly searching for who knows what. They are “Bond thrall under the yoke of their lust”. Of course there are still those church groups and individuals who do consider lust to be a sin and in fact this view can be seen even in a society that claims to be tolerant of sexual freedom. It is not uncommon for women /girls to be labeled ‘easy’, ‘slut’ and other such names. While the sin of incontinence may be somewhat difficult for some to relate to, the sin of gluttony could be said to be one that is well recognised in the western world.

The gluttonous are graphically described in Dante’s The Divine Comedy. “These all lay grovelling flat upon the sod”. This statement could be taken to mean, ‘they lay wallowing in the mud like pigs’. Just as Dante used the word Ciacco, which means pig, as a nickname for a glutton, so today the word pig is used to describe someone who is considered greedy or fat. It is considered by society to be disgusting if a person is overweight and overweight people are regarded as gluttons. There is no doubt that many of these people live in hell. They are shunned, scorned and mocked by society for the way they look. Not only are they scorned and hated by society but also they scorn and hate themselves. As Cerberus “Clutches and flays and rips and rends the souls”, so they mentally flagellate and hate themselves. They live in a hell, of their own and society’s making and it could be said that their hell is not much different to the one described by Dante.

As recorded in The Divine Comedy suicide was considered to be sin at the time in which Dante lived. This attitude is one, which until recently has continued to be held. People who committed suicide, were considered to have sinned and therefore were buried outside the church grounds and were metaphorically, consigned to hell. Those who attempted suicide and failed were either placed in jail or mental institutions. It is not uncommon for those who have attempted suicide to try again and again. They are perhaps the ones who are not able to find a way out of the underworld in which they find themselves. They find no joy in life and perhaps regard those that prevent them from committing suicide as a source of even more pain. “Why dost thou rend my bones? Breathes there no pity in thy breast at all? Although the repercussions of attempting to commit suicide are not as harsh in today’s society it is still regarded by society as some something shameful when it happens. The recent stories in newspapers reporting on the activities of a doctor who tried to assist the terminally ill to commit suicide highlights the attitudes that are held about suicide. The doctor has been given the appellation ‘doctor death’ and legal action taken against him to prevent him assisting those who wish to end their lives. Those who are in pain or feel they are at the end of their life do not legally have the right to take their own life or to ask assistance to do so. There is still a very strong belief in society that only God is seen to have the right to give life and take it away.

The seventh circle in Dante’s hell is where the sodomites were sent. The issue of homosexuality today is one that can cause great contention. There are those who hold the belief that homosexuality is not a sin and that homosexuals are persecuted and sinned against. There are also those who believe that homosexuality is a very serious sin. This can be seen time and again in newspaper reports and television news shows when carnivals such as the Mardi Gra are held. Church leaders proclaim carnivals like the Mardi Gra as sinful and try to have them banned. There are those who revile homosexuals as sinners against God and nature. Homosexuals have been murdered and tortured because of their sexuality and they constantly have to defend themselves against the attitudes of a society that can at times be condemning. One can perhaps draw a parallel with this when Brunetto states that the sodomites cannot rest “Should one of our lot rest One second, a hundred years he must lie low.” This is perhaps the hell for homosexuals today, the inability to simply be who they are, because of the necessity for constant defence of their sexuality. The development of the AIDS virus has served to increase for many people the fear and loathing of homosexuals. In America there is a church whose members attends funerals of known homosexuals and hold up placards that proclaim such things as “Going to the Pit of Hell”. It could be said that many homosexuals live in hell on earth. They are reviled and hated by many people and many keep their homosexuality a secret because of the fears they hold about repercussions.

It could be said that the Barrators in the eighth circle of hell are particularly relevant to contemporary society. These are the “Fellows who’d swear black’s white for half a crown”. These are the people who are meant to serve the community. Our society has many levels of government and there are frequent news stories about the inappropriate use of funds. An example of this could be said to be the extravagant superannuation packages that MP’s are entitled to after three years in parliament. Changes to legislation that will advantage the politicians are passed through parliament in the middle of the night in the hopes of it going unnoticed by the public. Another example is the current furore over Peter Reith’s phone card. The public feels that their trust has been betrayed when those that are meant to be serving the needs of the community are found to be lying so that they can line their pockets. The fury of the public is conveyed in the newspaper and in television programs. Once a person who was supposed to be working for the best interests of the community is exposed as corrupt, the public fury has no bounds. These people are pilloried by the media and are often forced to resign. This seems to be somewhat parallel with the circle of hell that the Barrators were in. They were pursued by demons that cheerfully dealt out justice. “On high-hunched shoulder he was carrying A wretched sinner, hoist by haunch and hip, clutching each ankle by the sinew string”.

In conclusion, it can be said that, although only a small number of the sins described by Dante in The Divine Comedy have been discussed in this essay, it has been shown that Dante’s Inferno/Hell does hold some relevance for the contemporary reader. Today, many people are still facing an underworld of their own and finding it a journey that can be long and difficult. Much of what was considered sinful in Dante’s time is still considered sinful in many parts of contemporary society. It could be said that it has been shown that man makes his own hell and that Dante’s version of hell is in some cases similar to the hell that man makes for himself. There may not be a hell such as that described in the bible but in can be said that there is for some people there is a hell on earth.

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In the vicinity of the New England and Chesapeake region, the first differentiating quality that they had was in economics. Economically, New England had agriculture in a more diverse kind. Although agriculture continued to dominate in the New England area, it was less favorable there than in the south. The combination of hard and rocky soil along with cold weather conditions made it complicated for farming to become a main source commercial farming system, as seen in the south. To compensate, New Englanders engaged in home industries. Intermittently, these home industries provided surplus goods that one may sell or trade. Colonists worked at home as cobblers, blacksmiths, silversmiths, cabinetmakers, and printers. Some people harnessed the power of water to run small mills for grinding grain, making clothes, or processing lumber. Shipbuilding operations and ironworks also began to blossom in New England during this period. In the Chesapeake region, economics were primarily focused on farming cash crops. Fertile soil and clement weather supported the production of farming. Planters cultivated Indigo and Rice but the main source was all in thanks to Tobacco. Tobacco played a major role as it was the foundation of the southern economies success. Strong European demand for Tobacco made many farmers wealthy and several prospered. In Georgia and South Carolina, rice production under the radiating sun in knee deep mud motivated the white laborers to quit. As a result, planters took advantage of African slaves for labor and found it to be more economical and effective to get the job done.

Religious influences and objectives also differed amid these two regions. New England was a safe haven for religious tolerance; people living their religious beliefs openly. People who immigrated to the Chesapeake region had no religious motives. As a result, New England shaped a much more religious culture than the Chesapeake region. John Winthrop affirmed in 1630 that their goal was to create “a city upon a hill,” which symbolized a “pure” community, where Christianity would be practiced in the most correct manner. Equally, the Pilgrims and the Puritans were very religious people. In both cases, the local government was controlled by the same people who controlled the church, and the bible was the center for all laws and regulations. In the Chesapeake region, almost everything was exactly opposite of New England. The immigrants were not idealists, but materialists, most of whom for the most part wanted money.

Living conditions also varied in the contrasting regions of New England and Chesapeake. In Virginia and Maryland, scorching hot and humid summers assisted the spread of diseases. Water carried typhoid, cholera, and dysentery. Mosquitoes spread malaria. In addition, water from the James River was detrimental to ones health as drinking water because its high salinity damaged metabolism and occasionally killed settlers. By the mid-seventeenth century, approximately 40 percent of indentured servants in Virginia and Maryland had died prior to earning their freedom. At age 20, an inhabitant of the Chesapeake could expect to live only 20 more years. On the contrary, New England’s winters killed many pathogens, sparing New Englanders from the vigorous diseases that plagued the residents of the Chesapeake.

Additionally, the modest labor requirements of agriculture in New England secured farmers from the devastating fatigue that plagued indentured servants and slaves in the Chesapeake. Consequently, at age 20, a New Englander may possibly live 40 more years.

As a result of these differences, two totally different types of people formed in New England and in the Chesapeake region during the seventeenth century. New Englanders were faithful followers of church teaching, had a diversified economy, and lived a healthier life. The southerners of Chesapeake became independent citizens, with the capability to organize and the will to fight to get what they wanted.

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Topics in English essays can vary; however English essay structures will include the introduction, body, and conclusion. In addition, your topic will have a topic sentence that defines the point you will present in your topic and the goals of the topic. Your introduction will most often provide a short informative section that will explain what the English essay will contain, and close with the topic sentence. The body in the English essay structure explains the background, the point, and the evidence of your topic sentence. Finally, the conclusion will restate the primary points of your topic and conclude the essay.

English essay structure is dependent on the type of essay you will develop. If your essay is a five-paragraph essay, you will create each paragraph to explain a specific point of the topic. If you are developing a persuasive essay, you may use the English essay structure as a point-by-point structure that states a particular point and the two sides of the argument. Additionally, the structure you choice to use in your English essay must be followed throughout the entire essay. You would not use one type of English essay structure and change formats in the middle of the essay. The best way to maintain a successful English essay structure is to write your outline to fit the structure you have chose – such as the point-by-point method or the simplified body, introduction, and conclusion methods.

Chapter 10 unlocks a whole new passage in Oliver’s life where he’ll encounter new experiences. Dickens also commented on it as being a ‘very important chapter, in this history’ in the short summary at the start of each chapter. Chapter 10 is significant as it is the introduction to a character named Mr Brownlow who is brought back into the book in a latter stage. Mr. Brownlow is presented as the only gentleman who is sincere in the deceitful society; he vouches for Oliver’s story proving him to only have told the truth. With the sole help of this new revelation, Oliver is released. Not only does Mr.Brownlow save Oliver from sentencing he then kind heartedly takes Oliver to his home where Oliver is cared for and learns and receives the love and care he has always desired. Chapter 10 is one of the more innovative scenes as it is the most cinematic, created by describing the scene, the characters, the emotions and tension in it effectively. Dickens style of writing adds to this effect of this by changing the pace of the passages a example would be when Oliver is being chased the pace of the paragraph quickens, Dickens does this by use of punctuation, he substitutes full stops by semi-colons this adds to the rapidity of the scene.

The theme of the novel is presented constantly throughout the book, the novel itself is about the life of Oliver who finds himself down on his luck travelling from diverse situations, surroundings and traits of associates of his this the reader finds themselves on a journey of mixtures of complex emotions, the poignancy of the pain Oliver feels through the demise of his mother, being left to live in a workhouse where love, care and food is in shortage, Oliver now discovers the apparently good natured man (Fagin) who took him under his wing is enforcing the boys to steal for him, which has some disastrous consequences.

Dickens was renowned for being a social critic. In ‘Oliver Twist’ he is exploiting the underground, guilty and seedy Victorian era. The reader has a perception of Oliver as a down beaten orphan who is sweet, innocent, and loveable but naive boy he is easy to be sympathetic towards. In the moment that Dodger reaches into the gentleman’s pocket ‘the whole mystery of handkerchiefs, watches, jewels and the Jew’ instantly unravels. He now learns the truth of the pretences he is under by Fagin. This short description of the events shows how nave Oliver is, as the word ‘alarm’ suggests Oliver being shocked and surprised and how blind Oliver was not to see the reality of Fagin’s workers. Dickens is stating how even an innocent, sweet natured child can be trapped in the net of delinquency. Fagin’s den also exemplifies how many children are used for money seizing men and how easy it is for so-called gentlemen to get away with it. Dickens is criticising on how damaged the society is. He does this in several phases for example, a man who managed to injure Oliver was proud of that fact he ‘touched his hat with a grin, expecting something for his pains’ this shows how obsessed people were with money because they would hurt a child. Out of the crowd of people chasing Oliver only the victim of the crime showed Oliver any sign of moral respect he tells the police officer ‘Don’t hurt him’. Dickens in addition makes some ironic views on the police (who is generally the last people to arrive) this is an ironic aside as its Dickens authorial voice.

This chapter is the core of the theme that the whole novel revolves around. The theme is how a corrupt, crooked and dishonest world can be so severe to a defenceless child therefore this chapter is one of the more important chapters as it fits so well into the overall scheme of the novel. This chapter is important as it gives us examples of Dickens thoughts on the society in which he lives as most authors write about experiences they have encountered and therefore Dickens perceptions of people come through throughout the novel.

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As you begin to write your essay, consider things that make you unique, accomplishments that you have done differently from other students or problems you have overcome. Your essay should include information that shows your unique personality and ability to overcome challenges. Avoid stories that may not seem applicable to your current endeavors. An important tip to remember is that many advanced programs are designed to give opportunities for students with a strong will and interest in being successful. Some ideas you may consider include volunteer services or even special interest groups you may have been involved in where you were able to explore new opportunities.

Write your idea and complete the story with the beginning, middle, and end. Once this is done you should begin the editing process. Start with reviewing the spelling and the sentence structure. Your essay should demonstrate writing level above your current grade level; however, the reading must still be smooth and clear. Your essay should also have paragraph structures that include the topic sentence and paragraph structures that include all the primary parts. While writing your AP English essay remember all the writing rules must be followed to demonstrate your excellent knowledge.

It is important to note that the goal of a research paper includes the following objectives – you must be able to apply learning, successfully develop strong research objectives, and develop topic sentences. Most first research papers are designed to review how successful you can gather the research. You must be able to evaluate how good your sources are as well as how relevant they are to your research topic idea. If you were writing a paper about bicycles, you would not want research on tomatoes; however, it is far more complicated than that. Your research must be able to work with your topic sentence, but also provide information that can be implemented to the solutions you are selecting.

When you select the best English research paper ideas, you should start with a subject that you personally like, and preferably something that you already have some ideas about. Possibly, you will want to select an idea that you have already developed research on before – this will give you a head start on your work. Additionally, you English research paper should be directly related to the information you have been working with in your class, as this will demonstrate learning. Finally, as you work on your research paper be sure you are looking for opportunities to improve upon you idea – or topic sentence – so that your paper can be both unique and the best paper possible.

Consider that you may be writing an English essay about poetry, if you are writing a descriptive essay you may select to talk about Emerson or Thoreau; however, if you want to write a persuasive essay you may wish to refer to the differences between Edgar Allen Poe and another “dark” poet or even Emily Dickenson. Good English essay ideas start with knowing which type of essay you will be writing. Comparative essays can develop argumentative essays or through compare and contrast methods.

Consider ideas that directly relate to current study, such as world literature and an essay regarding cultural differences between story plot lines – US and French or even Canada and Australia. If your current course is reading Shakespeare, develop an essay explaining the controversy over whom Shakespeare was, and what part he played in the development of his plays. Other ideas may include writing on current hot topics in the news and literature. As an example, you can argue the changes in communication have caused a reduction in the sale of books and written material in hard copy. Many writers are concerned that authors will be forced to find other fields to work in due to the continuing decline in book purchases – because of media entertainment as well as the internet. We hope we have provided you with good English essay ideas for writing your essays in school, college and university.

Developing a successful English thesis will require that you examine a number of different articles and journal entries. Each one that you select must represent your topic and fully explore other research in the study. Additionally, it is essential to examine work that does not agree with your topic statement, in this way you are able to create an English thesis that supports that topic sentence successfully while defending against possible disagreements.

Your English thesis paper is a very large project, take it slow, read your research, and write short summaries that note where you may wish to use the work – what purpose it will serve to your paper. You can accomplish this easily if you work a little every day. Gather a few sources, read them, summarize them, and set them aside. If you do a few every day, you will have more than enough sources to use within just a week or even less. Remember, academic journals are your best sources of information; however, you should have at least a few databases such as census reports or educational references – textbooks.