Essay Topic Examples
1. Exploring the Postcolonial Perspective: The Contributions of Benita Parry:
This essay topic invites an in-depth analysis of Benita Parry's contributions to postcolonial studies. Focusing on her c Continue Reading...
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Some parts of the book were quite interesting
At The Beginning
At the beginning of 'Lord of the Flies', a plane crashes into an isolated Pacific Ocean island. It was carrying some British boys aged 6-12. It is Continue Reading...
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Hello, my name is Fadi Awwad. Apologies for the late submission -- for some reason the due date was not showing on my Blackboard! The most recent book I read that really subverted the concept of Freytag's Triangle was probably The Cryi Continue Reading...
classic films, and what makes them classic. Specifically, it will contain a discussion of what makes a film "classic" and use a specific film that I believe is classic, with good quality reasons for the answer.
CLASSIC FILMS
The term "classic film Continue Reading...
Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot was first published in Poems: 1909-1925 and contains many overlapping themes that were also seen in many of his other works. Moreover, "The Hollow Men" is reflective of the overarching themes that were seen in World War I po Continue Reading...
I especially appreciate the opportunity to place musical compositions and composers within a historical context. Placing music within a historical context illuminates some of the variables that characterize a piece like "Rite of Spring." Understandi Continue Reading...
Other imperialist powers continued to exploit immensely naturally rich country and still made use of Force Publique, the army of mercenaries that Leopold had employed for his sinister objectives. They also used the tactics employed by Leopold to ext Continue Reading...
We see the stone images raised again to indicate soulless worshipping. It is used to highlight the impurity and insincerity of worshippers:
At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.
The Continue Reading...
GOTHIC NOVEL & JANE EYRE
According to E.F. Bleiler, "Before Horace Walpole, the word 'gothic' was almost always a synonym for rudeness, barbarousness, crudity, coarseness and lack of taste. After Walpole, the word assumed two new major meanings Continue Reading...
Postcolonialism: History And an Overview
Postcolonialism is both a political orientation as well as a theory of literary criticism and a philosophy. Broadly defined, it is "a study of the effects of colonialism on cultures and societies. It is conce Continue Reading...
Imperialism was always seen as positive for Westerners, but as destructive by the peoples of Africa and Asia." To what extent does this statement appear to be true?
Rudyard Kipling's "The White man's burden" seems to be an ironic condemnation of im Continue Reading...
Language
The question that is not answered in this essay seems to be, what if one does not accept the belief that "our dominant white culture is racist" (p. 9). If one does not accept that premise in the first place then the entire essay is out of t Continue Reading...
Anil's ghost," can be read as a war story or it can also be seen as a tale of young woman coming back to her native land to find that she can no longer relate to the land or its culture. However from both perspectives, the book lacks depth and purpos Continue Reading...
King Leopold's Ghost Book Review
There are a couple of different reasons as to why the genocidal tendencies stemming from Belgium's King Leopold "and its immediate aftermath" (Hochschild 233) -- which were responsible for the mass deaths in Africa a Continue Reading...
The world would now be required to accept socialism, Leninism, and eventually Stalinism, as part of the European landscape.
With the defeat of Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire; the shift in the balance of power moved toward the only Continue Reading...
Good Man is Hard to Find
For the purposes of this essay, I chose Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." "A Good Man is Had to Find" is an apt topic for research such as this, because the ambiguity of the story's position rega Continue Reading...
murkiness of love tenderness can lead?" "How many times we will kill for love." "The rare thing herself felt in her breast a warmth that might be called love. She loved that sallow explorer. If she could have talked and had told him that she loved h Continue Reading...