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Brief Summary of the Book “Freakonomics”

The authors of the book, Levitt and Dubner propose that economics is basically the study of incentives. However, the author of the book is not interested in the conventional views of economics.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 633

Creation of the World in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as Art

The first three chapters must be devoted to the Earth creation, people's and Gods' changes, as well as the changes of world understanding; the reader is allowed to see the beauty of metamorphoses of the [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 569

Behavior for Zeus in Lucian’s “Zeus Cross-Examined”

Zeus' opponent, Cyniscus, succeeds in setting traps for the god and becomes the unquestionable winner of the argument due to his eloquence and because of Zeus' wrong conduct and the disadvantageous position he adopts in [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 641

“Superiority” by Arthur Clarke

The reading of Arthur Clarke's short story "Superiority" had brought me to the following set of conclusions, in regards to how story's motifs relate to particulars of my professional affiliation: The implementation of groundbreaking technologies [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1349

The African American Literature

African American literature during this turbulent period in the lives of African Americans was heavily influenced by the rise in radicalism, enlightenment and the advent of industrialization.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

The Literature From Slavery to Freedom

Its main theme is slavery but it also exhibits other themes like the fight by Afro-Americans for freedom, the search for the identity of black Americans and the appreciation of the uniqueness of African American [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 558

“Rebecca’s Revival” by F. Sensbach

The story is in the context of one personality constructing her life, and unknown to, reconstructs many other people's lives in the multifaceted world that defines the Atlantic region.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1976

“Riding the Bus with My Sister” by Rachel Simon

Rachel's quest to learn more about her sister's disability is one of the most compelling parts in the book. It was a brilliant idea for Rachel to accompany her sister on the buses because it [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 950

Comparson of Two Versions of the Story of Lucretia

Both authors present a different interpretation of the legend and the personality of Lucretia by the purposes of their writings: the primary aim of the historian, Livy, is to give the account of a historic [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 663

“The Goophered Grapevine” by Charles Chesnutt

To him, it sounded like the culture was just a way of enriching oneself, like in the case of Mars Dugal, and this could not deter him from exploiting the potential the land had.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 611

“Living Like Weasels” by Annie Dillard

However, there is no denying that human beings are not completely divine beings; there are animal instincts in us, like using the five senses to judge our environment and react to it; the desire to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

Greek Attitude Towards Death and Afterlife

The thoughts about death and the beyond can send shivers down the spine of a contemporary person and the attitude of ancient Greeks to death was practically the same.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 876

Frost’s and Wright’s Stories Comparison

Then, the poet expresses the friendly stature of the ponies towards the poet and his companion. In spite of the above-mentioned similarities, both "A Blessing" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" share differences [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 873

Journey in “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy

The father and his son expect the arrival of God and they see a final destination on God's side. The old man stands near the road for a long time and he is the only [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 582

Why I Live at the P.O. and Hills Like White Elephants

She went to the extent of accusing that Shirley-T had no manners as she was sticking out the tongue at her in a horrible way. The Eudora also left her family to go and stay [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 909

“The Story of an Hour” and “The Sorrowful Woman”

This essay seeks to explain that in order to have a successful marriage, the husband and wife should work together as a single unit in which the husband and wife play their respective roles without [...]
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 550

Struggle of Women in Male Dominated Society

The men in the story have never accepted Minnie Wright's oppression as being the driving force of her killing the husband and how it led to a desperate act.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 649

Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability by Greg Horn

The aim of the literature review is to evaluate current literature on the topic of social ties, neighboring and community in the city, and give a detailed analysis of each source.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1802

Failed Leadership Can Only Be Whipped by Satire

In what is a parallel to Marx's philosophy and attack on the exploitation of the workers by the capitalists; and therefore a call for a revolution, the farm animals are inspired by the counsel of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2609

Elements of Fiction in Colette’s “The Hand”

The author further takes the point of view of a third person character in narrating the story; as he tells the story from an invisible point of view where he is not one of the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 669

The Short Story “Quan Loi” by Larry Burke

The main message of the author is that the emotional problems are caused by a silence which is crucial for understanding one facet of the soldiers' role conflict.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

“A Bear Named Trouble” by Bauer

The evidence from the plot of the book that supports the position taken on understanding the underlying factors of behavior is the realization that the bear had killed the goose due to the feelings of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 799

“The Military Family” by James Martin

The book chronicles the military's efforts to deal with the social challenges and how the operational dynamics have forced the military to outsource and privatize many of the family support functions to civilian service providers [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2041

“On the Art of Life and Vice Versa” by Michael Kimmelman

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa is a powerful little book about arts. It is intentional of Kimmelman to make the reader trace the art to less promising circumstances a [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1598

“The Serpent and the Grail” by A.A. Attanasio

The author tells the epics of the adventure of Merlin when Lailoken, the descendants of the Demon Lucifer and other demons meets out forming out mankind who live previously of time. The book tells of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 645

“The Boxers as Event, Experience and Myth” by Paul Cohen

The first part is mainly concentrated on the thorough chronological recollection of the events that preceded and followed the rebellion, the rise of Boxers and the role of Taipings in the life of China at [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1196

Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” and “Cross”

Both poems are written about the relationships between children and parents; however, Mother to Son poem is written from mother's perspective while Cross is written in form of a monologue of a son. The first [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1229

Phil Cousineau’s “The Art of Pilgrimage”

Moreover, as we go on and discover the meaning and objectives of pilgrimage, we will realize we are dealing with a different kind of art: the art of seeing what is sacred."What legendary travelers have [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 4744

The Concept of Myths in Cultures

A myth can be described as a story which explains something, an event or a certain situation in the world people live in, with people believing in it.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 474

American Literature: Setting and Sexuality

In the story of the motion of light in water, Delany marries a girl after making her pregnant, although the two try to stay together; the relationship ends up in a split after Delany realizes [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1692

“The Wasteland” by Thomas Eliot

In the society stage, a critic looks at the significance/meaning of the poem in relation to the community for which the poem was written.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 20
  • Words: 5204

“The Divine Comedy” by Dante

Capaneus reminisced the battle of Phlegra in Thessaly, wherein the Titans tried to storm Olympus, and Jupiter drove them away with the help of the thunderbolts which Vulcan forged for him in Mongibello, Mt.Etna.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 685

Style of Writing Mary Flannery O’Connor

Like her Southern contemporaries, the South is the setting for O'Connor's text, the issue of race looms in the background, and her characters are typically morally flawed and/or grotesque."...anything that comes out of the South" [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1964

The Life of Langston Hughes

The development of the Harlem Renaissance has led to the recognition of a considerable influence of the Negro culture on American culture.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1127

Gothic Romanticism of Edgar Allen Poe

When the thought of today, the nineteenth-century writer Edgar Allan Poe is remembered as the master of the short story and the psychological thriller.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1717

Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The conquest of Montezuma and his Aztecs by the Spaniards was a momentous event in history because it brought about the end of one of the richest and well-governed civilizations of the world.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1183

“I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King: What Has Changed

The constitution was drafted by the framers in such a manner that only White men who owned acres of land and property would be given the right to voice their opinion and decide the functioning [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 818

Love in Modern and Postmodern American Literature

The story depicts lives of African American people at the beginning of the twentieth century and the author resorts to slang language to make the atmosphere as close as possible to the original: "Woman am [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1126

“Unpardonable Sin” by Hawthorne

The Novel, Unpardonable Sin written by Hawthorne is a detailed criticism of the way of life of the Puritan. The various examples of Jesus in His dealing with those who commit sin is relevant as [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 616

Frederick Douglas: Learning to Read and Write

Learning to read and write was Douglas' ticket out of slavery but this is not the main point of the story, it was the process of learning that opened his eyes to slavery in America [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 954

“Contemporary Literary Criticism” by Lowell

His collection of poems "The Mills of the Kavanaughs" was written under the influence of Robert Frost and Robert Browning. The poem is mixed with images of death and a young boy's love for his [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1507

Willy Loman and the American Dream

As a result of his boasting, a great deal of what his family knows about Willy is based upon the image he feels he must portray of himself in order to bring himself in line [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1737

“Out of This Furnace” by Thomas Bell

The second part of the novel is the story of Michael Dobrejcak, who marries one of Kracha's daughters Mary. After beginning to read novel's second part, we realize that the issue of alcoholism would most [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1237

King Henry in the Play “Henry V” by W. Shakespeare

From the play's very beginning, Shakespeare establishes Henry V as responsible ruler of his subjects, who does not only impose law on others but also lives up to the requirements of the same law.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1593

Race Relations Between the U.S.A. and Brazil

The literature is comprehensive, exploring the past and current status of racial relations in both U.S.A.and Brazil, the development of the "conventional wisdom", the factors that led to this knowledge, and aspects that should be [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1233

Discrimination in “Conscience of Place” by Klinkenborg

The main point of the essay is racial discrimination against Indian people who themselves tried to stop racial slaughters taking place in their settlements at the end of the 19th century; the part of the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Art of Being Human: Analysis of Two Novels

The protagonist of the story, Jack Hawthorne, is considered to be the example of the person seeking consolation in horn music because of the brother's death; the death is showed as the way to something [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1369

Analysis of “Araby” by James Joyce

The reference to the fact that the priest who lived in the house before them had left the furniture of the house to his sister, suggests that the family could have used the furniture had [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Music Theme in “The Weary Blues”

The poem The Weary Blues was written by Langston Hughes; the author devoted his work to the description of the music theme highlighting the role of blues and the uniqueness of this genre.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 624

Courtly Romance in Literature

Accordingly, following the traditions of the old masterpieces of courtly romance, the authors of the 17th and 18th centuries created their works reflecting the same very important topics love and death, the struggle between men [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 843

Views on Society in Chosen Novels

The present paper argues that whereas "Greasy Lake" and "Lord of the Flies" imply that a group of people turns into a cruel and blood-thirsty tribe in the absence of authority, "Lottery" and "On the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1052

Instances of Awakening in Chopin’s Novel

Although she does not yet fully understand her thoughts, she is deeply aware of a change coming over her, causing her to openly and defiantly resist her husband's calls to her to come in from [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1128

Love and Alienation in Modern and Postmodern America

The general mood for this era at least for the creative minds that produce novels, poems, and other works of art can be summarized using the words of one commentator who pointed to the numbing [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2691

Adaptation of Prisoner of Azkaban From Book to Film

Under the direction of Alfonso Cuaron, the end product was that of a movie that, although immensely different in storytelling style than the book, produced the same storyline and effect upon the fans of the [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 983

“China’s New Nationalism” by Peter Hays Gries

Gries argues that the two countries that matter the most to China are the US and Japan and that the evolving Chinese nationalism is in response to its interaction with these two nations.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1460

“Iceman Cometh” by O’Neill

O'Neill depicts that one of the many sins these women committed is to have built up the image of prostitutes as romantic and sensational, instead of showing these women as they really are, unfortunate and [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1407

Yasser Al Salman: Life and HR Activity

Yasser Al Salman is a member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK, American Society for Training and Development, USA, Society of Human Resources Management, USA, and Bahrain Society of Training & Development, Bahrain.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

“Even the Saints Cry” by Oscar Lewis

Even though Cruz is finding it difficult to cope with life here, the more she stays here the more she get as adapted to this environment.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1193

“Annabel Lee” the Work by Edgar Allen Poe

The narrative description of the elegy expresses the narrator's undying love for 'Annabel Lee' detailing a love which had originated many a year ago in the unidentified 'kingdom by the sea'.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 971

“Obasan” by Joy Kogawa

These events form a background to demonstrate the process of identity development of the later generations of the group through the protagonist Naomi and her brother Stephen.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1781

John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet X”

The poet confirms that death is "Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so". Donne refers to a world of privacy and solitude when it comes to the existence of the death.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1142

The Mythical Villains: Gilgamesh, Ravana and Oedipus

Thus, the myth is one of the literary genre which helped ancient people to understand and explain the structure and natural phenomena of the world, environment, people and other creatures around, the origins of everything [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2012

Aleatory Writing: Making Works More Expressive

Some poets use different stylistic devices to make their works more expressive and keep to a definite type of writing to stand out, whereas the others neglect all the rules of writing verses and rely [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 829

Augustine, Abelard and Heloise

Augustine, the film shows the perversion of free will and the fall to the inferior level of God's creation, Abelard would note that the true justice is executed in the film, whereas Heloise would focus [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1178

Industrial Detroit: A View From a Literature

The author of this book made specific research on the city structure and on the relationships between the social and economic position of people and the crime level from the point of view of safety [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1133

Modern British Literature Since 1798

The depiction of life of an individual and the common man was the main theme in works. His works form a link between Romanticism and the literature of the 20th century.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 889

Relationship Between Men and Women in the Literature

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the relationship is not based on equality; men are not only considered superior to women, but the men, supported by patriarchal society, indulged in various forms of discrimination against women; on [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2693