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Araby," by James Joyce, "The Aeneid," by Virgil, and "Candide," by Voltaire. Specifically, it will look at love as a common theme in literature, but more often than not, it does not live up to the romantic ideal of love. Various authors employ this Continue Reading...
Graphic OrganizerOriginal Text The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayType of Change Divergence: Changing the ending so that the fish reaches the shore alive and the old man passes away in his sleep.Setting Place: The Cuban coast and the old man' Continue Reading...
Gone Too FarBola Agbaje\\\'s play \\\"Gone Too Far!\\\" is a title that encapsulates the essence of the narrative while subtly hinting at the underlying themes of racial and ethnic tension. The title can be interpreted as a reflection of the point at Continue Reading...
1. What was so revolutionary about Common-Sense when it was first written in 1775?When Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, he dared the colonists to rise against one of the worlds greatest empires and encouraged them to build their new nation as a democ Continue Reading...
The Jazz Age and Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is the great novel of the Lawless Decade—the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age, as it was otherwise known. It was a time of easy credit and flowing cash. It was a time of Prohi Continue Reading...
Black Lives Matter: The Paradox of Injustice—“If We Must Die…”
In the poem “If We Must Die,” by Claude McKay, the African American poet writes that “If we must die, let it not be like hogs / Hunted and penne Continue Reading...
1. Who do you think is the most horrible person in the story and who do you think is the least horrible? Why? You may want to rank order the characters from “1” being most horrible to “5” being least horrible.
The following ar Continue Reading...
Raisin in the Sun: Travis and Important Themes
In Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun, the themes of identity, materialism, pride, heritage, family, upward mobility, equality and even life and death all play a part in the story’s devel Continue Reading...
Linear, Logistic or Multiple Correlation/Regression Proposal
Objective of this paper is to use the statistical test to investigate whether the middle income earners in developing countries are capable of becoming home owners. The paper uses Nigeria Continue Reading...
Pilot Study of Uncontrolled Diabetics
In the treatment of diabetic cases, the HgA1C test is administered to determine the patient's glucose level. The test is used to assess the glucose level in the patient's blood after ingesting glucose or after Continue Reading...
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The coming-of-age struggles of to Kill a Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet
Although written in radically different styles (one is written from the perspective of an Elizabethan playwright, one is written in the voice of the Continue Reading...
Heart of Darkness
Conrad's themes embrace navigation, humanity and inspection
Descriptiveness, irony and imagery are also on board
The novel brings to light the "reverence and affection" (6)
Of an exalted character linked to the sea, but not a ki Continue Reading...
Kate Chopin, author of "The Story of an Hour"
Kate Chopin was born Kate O'Flaherty in 1850, in St. Louis, Missouri (Clarke 1). Chopin's mother was of French extraction and the young Kate grew up in a bilingual household. Chopin's household was also Continue Reading...
Pirates Celia Rees for project, I writing a magazine-style book review .The review include ... 1.Include a summary, include: genre importance setting, characters, plot.
When it comes to books that present themselves autobiographical, the question i Continue Reading...
After World War Two, Carson realized the extent to which the government was permitting the use of toxic chemicals and wrote a book to expose the practice. That book was called Silent Spring, and it "challenged the practices of agricultural scientist Continue Reading...
Little is said about the relationship Julius has with his grandmother until mid-way through the book. The details of Julius' life are only sketchily filled out and are mainly illustrated through the stream-of-consciousness thoughts which transpire w Continue Reading...
None of the stories directly intersect -- it would be clumsy to create connections between such disparate locations and people. Given the variance in tone, were it not for the use of the cabs as the settings in all of the various cities, the viewer Continue Reading...
He had sent all the servants for a leave with an excuse that it was carnival time, though his intention was to conceal his action (Rawls 54). He managed to convince Fortunato to put on a cloak so that nobody would recognize him on the way and this w Continue Reading...
Walt Whitman
One major theme in Whitman is what he frankly refers to as "the love of comrades…the manly love of comrades." (Whitman, "A Song"). Although Walt Whitman is frequently but inaccurately claimed as a "gay" poet -- even though Leaves Continue Reading...
Lucille Clifton
How does her gender in part define her perspective and sensibility?
It is interesting to read her poems knowing she is an African-American female, and along with that legacy she has a lot to say to readers. Her emotions (sensibiliti Continue Reading...
Berlin and New York City
Artists of all media are inspired by the culture in which they live and work. This is a universally accepted idea; it is impossible to extricate the artist from the culture in which he or she created his or her pieces of art Continue Reading...
Hughes and Orwell
When looking for similarities between authors, it is not immediately brought to mind to look at Langston Hughes and George Orwell. The former was a major writer during the Harlem Renaissance. Most of his work focused on exploration Continue Reading...
The book goes on to say that normalization "would lead to closing institutions and mainstreaming in every aspect of life."
Linton
The first question relative to the Linton book asks how cultural and environmental contributions have influenced how Continue Reading...
Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God"- write about your response to Edward's sermon as a member of his congregation.
(http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/sermons.sinners.html)
Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is fascin Continue Reading...
Edward P. Jones - "A New Man" (from Lost in the City [1992])
In Edward Jones' short story, "A New Man," which was initially published in 1992 as part of a collection of short stories known as Lost in the City, its protagonist, Woodrow L. Cunningham, Continue Reading...
Conflict and adversity is an inevitable part of all of our lives. Yet, many people have different reactions to the conflict they face in their own individual scenarios. For a lucky few, conflict can serve as a point of resistance where the individual Continue Reading...
Toni Morrison's Beloved
Through the exquisitely penned prose and evocative storytelling weaved within her novel Beloved, author Toni Morrison manages to depict the spiritual damage inflicted on African-Americans throughout the darkest period in our Continue Reading...
Kill a Mockingbird
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by author Harper Lee tells the story of a southern American family living in a rural community during the Great Depression. Atticus Finch is the single, widowed father of Jeremy, nicknamed Jem, and Continue Reading...
" (Line 19) Her art creates joy but she still has to exist in the mundane world of everyday strife and problems.
We also find this concern with the strife and woes of the world in the second poem "The Weary Blues." In this poem the art form is music Continue Reading...
Dead Body in War Poetry
Analysis of Poets
War Poetry
War is a brutal reality on the face of history. Thousands of lives have been wasted in the name of battles and millions of people were affected by it. Poet is a rather sensitive part of our soc Continue Reading...
Native Son
Shards of a Man
Bigger Thomas was born from the recesses of the experience of Richard Wright, all throughout the varying stages of his life. The author encountered a number of individuals, beginning with his childhood in Mississippi, wh Continue Reading...
He does not hesitate to host Ikemefuna when his tribe provides him with this task and he even takes part in murdering the child when the tribe's elders decide that he should die. Even with that, it appears that Okonkwo's fate is sealed and that he h Continue Reading...
Okonkwo's journey is one of self-imposed exile. So, too, is the journey of the Kurtz character in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Thus, Kurtz takes the place of the protagonist as being the symbolic character catalyst in He Continue Reading...
Okonkwo and Gilgamesh
Comparison of Okonkwo and Gilgamesh
According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, a hero is defined as a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability. Keeping this definition i Continue Reading...
Fiction has the unique attribute of being able to be relatable to a person regardless of its implications to real life. No matter how bizarre a plot or character might be, it is the meaning behind everything that is obvious that makes the interpretat Continue Reading...