mercy of social forces: Beggar's Opera sadly reminds us! Why has the Beggar's Opera remained popular with theatergoers for so long? Fair enough question for something that's been around for the past 275 years. A considerable life for any play that Continue Reading...
Slavophilia and National Identity in Russia Slavophilia is the love of "Mother Russia" that every true Russian feels for his native country. This love is not founded in any absurd or materialistic attachment to the country, but rather to the spiritu Continue Reading...
Character and Personality Traits of Agamemnon Agamemnon's virtue of tolerance and liberalism turns out to be his weakness as a king. Aeschylus' play Agamemnon is actually not the first performance of the story. The tale of Agamemnon's return from Continue Reading...
Daisy Miller and American Culture What is a literary work? This is an articulation of what the author thinks, it is where he or she pours his emotions, expressions, and imagination. Since every person is usually a member of a certain society, there Continue Reading...
18). Assessing the economic impact of the arts on these communities allowed the researchers to then produce a national impact estimate, the results of which were stated above. Ultimately, the researchers found that when communities "support the art Continue Reading...
Classical and Contemporary Dancing -- Dancing of stylization, dancing of tradition, dancing of innovation, dancing of continuity Chapter 5 of Gerald Jonas's Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement illustrates that classical dance, or tradi Continue Reading...
Rape is an anti-social phenomenon that needs to be dealt with extreme care since it not only has drastic effects on the victim but also on the colleagues, peers, family members and community people in their proximity. This is a book reaction paper on Continue Reading...
Things Fall Apart and the Issue of Culture From a cultural analysis perspective, the two main cultures represented in Achebe's Things Fall Apart, stem from opposing religious/social positions and both react to and against one another in different wa Continue Reading...
Abandonment in Shelley's Frankenstein and Bronte's Jane Eyre: a Comparison Abandonment is a substantial theme in literature written by women. It appears in the poems of Emily Dickinson, in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and in the novels o Continue Reading...
Kill a Mockingbird is a coming of age tale told from the perspective of a young girl in the Deep South. The perspective of the novel provides the reader with a fresh, innocent view of a world that is eventually stripped away of its gloss: the innocen Continue Reading...
Exoticism in 19th & 20th Century Opera The Exoticism of Madame Butterfly, Carmen, & Aida This paper will use three examples of 19th and 20th century opera to examine and interpret the term "exoticism." The paper will take time to clarify th Continue Reading...
Beggar's Opera, written by John Gay is the first ballad opera in the English language. It is interesting to note that it was also the most popular work of English theater during the eighteenth century. This is interesting because Gay used his opera t Continue Reading...
Roger Williams Writing Style and Analysis Roger Williams was one of the first European settlers on Rhode Island. Born in a wealthy English family, Roger Williams went to school at Cambridge and later became a Christian preacher. In the year 1630, Wi Continue Reading...
Hawthorne: The Tension Between Individual and Community The 19th century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous literary work is The Scarlet Letter, which dramatically illustrates the tensions between the individual's desire for love whic Continue Reading...
Friar and the Pardoner in Chaucer's "General Prologue" The Friar and the Pardoner represent in Chaucer's "General Prologue" two ironic figures: they are meant to be examples of faith and virtue to secular society (the friar is a monk without a mona Continue Reading...
epic narratives like Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and Lord of the Rings contain some of the same elements and archetypes as those found in the Biblical narratives. Sacrifice, bondage, exodus, and survival in the wilderness are themes in each of these Continue Reading...
Value of Sacrifice in O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" The short story by O. Henry entitled "The Gift of the Magi" is about Della and Jim, a very young couple who want to buy a Christmas gift for one another -- but neither has the money to afford Continue Reading...
Yellow Wall-Paper The context of the work for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wall-paper" was placed in a time that witnessed dramatic changes. During that period of change -- the early to the mid-nineteenth century, American women wer Continue Reading...
Good vs. Bad The idea of a "good guy" versus a "bad guy" (or either type of girl in many stories" is an idea that is firmly defined and used in many stories. Beyond that, there are some fairly common themes about who tends to be good and who tends t Continue Reading...
Chillingworth from the Scarlet Letter with Claggart from Billy Budd Herman Mellville admired Nathaniel Hawthorne and presented him as the lucky strike of faith for the American literary world. According to Melville, the genius of Shakespeare had fo Continue Reading...
Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels is a historical novel set during the Civil War, focusing on the Battle of Gettysburg. This decisive and historic battle has since determined the course of events in American history, leading to the eventual abolitio Continue Reading...
Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm Book Overview The Journalist and the Murderer was produced by Janet Malcolm and is focused on the transition in the ethics of journalism. This book was published and became popular in the early 1990s. H Continue Reading...
COMPREHENSION- "TELEPHONE CONVERSATION" AND "ON THE SUBWAY" "Telephone Conversation" by Wole Soyinka and "On the Subway" by Sharon Olds Geoffrey Akpablie These poems analyze racism and racist perspectives between whites and blacks during the last Continue Reading...
The fact that a novel in the sentimental and seduction genre attained such heights of popularity is, in the first instance, evidence its impact and effect on the psyche and minds of the female readers of the novel. As one critic cogently notes: Why Continue Reading...
In the end, he is unable to break the bondage of his immorality, and dies permanently as a result. Death is therefore viewed in terms of the Christian duality of redemption and eternal damnation. The symbol of blood is prominently connected to this Continue Reading...
Spiritual Transformation The topic of spiritual transformation will be grounded upon the ethics presented within the Holy Bible and the teachings of the Apostle Paul. There must be a solid foundation to build ethical principles on for a true transfo Continue Reading...
Tom Stoppard's play Jumpers has been described thus: "The Radical Liberal Party has made the ex-Minister of Agriculture Archbishop of Canterbury, British astronauts are scrapping with each other on the moon, and spritely academics steal about London Continue Reading...
Why Ethical Egoism is a Problematic Framework for Intelligence CI Literature Review Introduction The aim of this examination of the literature is to fill the wide gap that remains in counterintelligence research regarding an appropriate ethical stand Continue Reading...
Revolution in Egypt_ Modern citizens hardly make decisions in a social vacuum. This underscore the role social media plays in determining decisions that people make. Social media influences what modern citizens know and how they feel about it. It t Continue Reading...
Oscar Wilde "a man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." James Joyce Genius is based on many elements, human and circumstantial. Nothing enables genius to evolve from some internal inchoate spark Continue Reading...
co-written by Rushworth M. Kidder and Martha Bracy for the Institute for Global Ethics. This article describes and explores the concept of moral courage which is described by the authors as the ability of a person to speak out or do the right thing Continue Reading...
According to research, "Each man deserves respect because only he has had those exact life experiences and understands his emotions, motivations, and body in such an intimate matter," (Rainbow 2010). Thus, Broadway was respecting the individual deci Continue Reading...
Even when has the opportunity to make things better, he does not act. He refuses Charley's job offer because it seems easier to ask for money than it is to do something other than sell. He would rather see the family suffer than try to work at somet Continue Reading...
The working class standards of morals work as a substitute to how success is defined in terms of economics (Sachin, 2012). These people value morals more than the money and believe that morals outweigh money in having a successful life. They love to Continue Reading...
