Firelight In "The Night in Question" by Tobias Wolff, "firelight" is that unreal state of mind that comes just before you awake in the morning. You are not quite sure you are awake, but you are not quite asleep either. This is a dreamlike state and Continue Reading...
Research Topic Proposal: Effectiveness of Online LearningOnline education has gained significant traction in recent years due in large part to the exigencies created by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, but its effectiveness compared to traditional clas Continue Reading...
Rise and Fall of Peoples Temple From a Group Dynamics Perspective The paper will cover the concept of group dynamics by analyzing power, status, role, and authority with an aim to establish what was actually happening to the individuals who joined Continue Reading...
Windows -- Bernice Morgan One would think that waiting for death in the bitter cold of late winter is about as grim as a life can be. But when you are depressed and dirt poor, living in a ramshackle old house that leaks cold air, with a daughter-in- Continue Reading...
Like the Devil, the mysterious stranger does not appear to be evil initially. Similarly, at the destination of the walk through the trail, Goodman encounters a flaming alter that is also reminiscent of biblical stories. In his dream, the flaming alt Continue Reading...
Bates to come home, there is a battle between light and dark, heat and cold. These are powerfully suggestive symbols of good and bad. Entering the scene, "the kitchen was small and full of firelight; red coals piled glowing up the chimney mouth. All Continue Reading...
At last! My darling is recovered, and she seems almost back to her old, dear self, with an increased passion for her religion, I notice. Tuesday - My darling, I cannot believe you have left me. Devastated and alone, I fear that your creditors will Continue Reading...
When she is not utilizing dialogue, she uses vivid descriptions to make even minor characters jump from the page. Later she writes, "Great, tall, raw-boned Kentuckians, attired in hunting-shirts, and trailing their loose joints over a vast extent of Continue Reading...
Incredibly, it was "The Wind and the Lion" that started me realizing this. There is a scene in this film in which President Theodore Roosevelt (played by Brian Keith) is at a shooting range with his children and the Secretary of State. Between fir Continue Reading...
Yet rather than understand this revelation as something which is freeing, Sartre experienced it as something fearful. He speaks of this freedom as being a form of damnation: Man is condemned to be free... condemned because he has not created himsel Continue Reading...
Life with a Hare The painting entitled "Still Life with a Hare," painted by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin in 1730, is typical for its time in that hunting scenes were quite popular in Europe during this time period, especially in France, but the pie Continue Reading...
George Eliot Kristeva's philosophy can be applied to nearly every narrative especially in association with the body as a universal source of human language. In every narrative there are traces of description that help the reader understand the unive Continue Reading...
