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The Travel of Sir John Mandeville

Despite the fact that the narration does not contain any information about the author, it still manages to convey the world reminding of the remarkable journeys of Christopher Columbus, Jonathan Swift, and Sir Thomas More. [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

The Literary Renaissance: The Many Faces of Modernism

London nails down the major problems of the post-war U.S.society: "This tower [.] represented [.] the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual nature in the wind, and nature in the vision of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 609

Learning Styles and Education Environment

However, it is emerging that differences in student characteristics may be a significant contributor to the perceived inadequacy of online learning.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 549

Folklore: “The Fallen Angel Cake”

Before the woman could notify the buyer about the blemish in the cake, the buyer acknowledged before a crowd that she had baked the beautiful cake.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

Götz and Meyer, written by David Albahari

Through the humor and empathy implemented in the novel, the characters that embody two Nazi soldiers are given human faces instead of the sole image of a murderer.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1686

A Rose for Emily and The Guest

After such an examination, a comparison will be done with the character of the Arab with the climax of the examination of the character culminating in the scene involving the 1,000 francs and the decision [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1367

The Comparison of Gilgamesh and Odysseus

This paper is aimed at discussing the journeys undertaken by the main characters; in particular one should focus on their motives of the protagonists and the way in which both Gilgamesh and Odysseus were transformed [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Why is it an Enjoyable Story?

It is also important that a story create a picture in the mind of the reader. One reading this story would have a clear picture of the environment.
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

The Problem of People’s ‘Dangerous Evolutionary Baggage’

If the notion of 'evolutionary baggage' can be explained with references to the concepts of the development of the world and progress of a man in it, in order to understand its wouldangerous' character, it [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

Comparison of Antigone With Griselda

Additionally their roles in the society including the chores assumed in this context depicted various similarities in the entire contexts. Nonetheless, the depiction of women is still ideal in this context.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1896

Literary Analysis of “Sean”

In "Sean," the author uses an urban setting to show how race is "constructed" by people and places that surround the characters. Here, the author uses the circumstances surrounding Sean and the narrator to show [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Language Policy and Cantonese Speaker

Since, over the last few decades, the impact of the Cantonese language in China has increased, sinking the significance of the traditional Chinese, or Putonghua, the Chinese government decided to reestablish the Putonghua language as [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 876

Homer’s “The Iliad” History and Content

The review will take the form of an in depth analysis of part one of the whole poem before that, most imperatively, presents the plot of the poem including shading light into the flow.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1892

“The Fir-Tree” Urban Legend

He hoped that she had found shelter, inside the ruins of the old hut, in the clearing, on the top of the hill, but nobody was there. These legends have a common element in that [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1635

‘From Within and Without’ a World of Utopia

In this regard, the almost Marxist twist which I employed in the narrative depicts the dystopian world in line with the Marxist critical assessment of capitalism that points out the ever decreasing "unlimited faith in [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1242

Treatment of Women by Shakespeare and Sophocles

Othello disregards the explanation that Desdemona has in regard to the accusation of being unfaithful and kills her.'She's, like a liar, gone to burning hell, Shakespeare 28.' After Othello killed Desdemona, he believed more in [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1895

A Review of “Lyrics Abbey” by Leila Aboulela

The author focuses on the life of a well-to-do Sudanese family and the way in which these people are affected by the political transformation of the society.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1105

Reflective Entry: “Push” by Sapphire

Precious examines the situation of her family, and she says that her family is invisible to the world. Precious believes that the sketch is that of her and her family, and she is much troubled.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 588

Japanese Poetry

The appreciation for nature among the Japanese features in the poems through the constant mention of the four seasons that carry along with them the beauty of nature.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1900

Review on Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

To discuss the peculiarities of describing the concept of childhood in the novel, it is necessary to focus on the actual substance of childhood as it is and on the impacts of childhood on the [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1099

The White Noise by Don DeLillo

In this case, the visit to the supermarket reveals Jack's true nature as an American who is proud of his way of life, and the satisfaction he feels after buying goods from the supermarket.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 1527

King’s ‘The letter From Birmingham Jail’

He claims that since the clergy is not willing to listen to them and give them their rights, they have to show the importance of the matter by holding non-violent demonstrations.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1143

“The End of the Free Market” by Ian Bremmer

It also enables governments to protect the economic activities that take place in their countries as well as the choice of the consumers from the adverse effects of the international market.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2171

Night by Ellie Wiesel

The paper summarizes the reasoning of the writer and goes a notch higher to analyze some of the themes in order to establish the relevance of the book to the modern political environment.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1417

Comparing Silverstein and Greenfield

There is a fear of the unknown that is prevalent in children as portrayed by some of the poems by the two poets.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 624

Interpretive Statement on “At That Moment”

His shooting was meet with disbelief as 'pounding thunder' describes how the whole place was quite as Malcolm's journey to the dead began to the extent that the poet uses exaggeration to explain that even [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 673

Different Approaches to the Theme of Death

Facts and Reality In the first place, it is necessary to focus on the major similarities within poets' approach to the theme, i.e.the three major peculiarities of the Asian poetry. The reader understands that the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 845

Achilles Armour

Achilles's armor is considered as one of the best and the most powerful, that is why it is not a surprise that Ajax and Odysseus wanted to have it after Achilles's death.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

Marriage in Early Modern Europe

In the story called Women on the Margins, the recognized author Davis explores the three lives of seventeenth century women. Overall, all the women to a less or more extent were under the influence of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

Is the literary expression of trauma gendered?

Drawing facts from the novel, Human Toll, the Western society presents men as the beneficiaries of the gender bias since the male folks engage the females in endless conflicts, and the women are the ones [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 828

Memoirs Of A Sleep-Walker

One such use of the word is found in the line "...my condition, the savage rushed from his covert in order to complete his work" is used in the sense that depicts the enemy who [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1788

“Beauty and politics” Arthur Danto

Danto examines the work of Georg Hegel and concludes that beauty is actually appropriate especially when celebrating the loss of life for it reminds the bereaved of that pain as part of human experience.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 666

Triumph at Kapyong: Canada’s pivotal battle in Korea

It briefly sets the stage of the story or event by indicating that the event centered on the battle of Kapyong and goes to great lengths in describing the details of the events that led [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1350

The Main Actor Creon in “Antigone“ by Sophocles

Throughout the play, there are hints that Creon who defends his actions as doing them in line with the interests of the people and the gods that he is doing the exact opposed and in [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 597

Conflict of the Sexes in Play “Medea” by Euripides

The man cannot understand that things mean nothing to a woman if her family is being destroyed. Thus, Jason's biggest mistake is that he thinks Medea simply wants to remain his only wife.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Baoyu and the Green Delight

Despite the main aim of sending a boy to inspect the garden as a way to recollect himself after the loss of his best friend, sending Baoyu to the garden was also a means to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1489

Aspect of Human Experience

Faulkner presents death in the story through death-haunted life of Emily. Emily also refuses to acknowledge the death of Homer, though she was responsible for his death.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 854

Introduction for a new edition of Patti Smith’s Just Kids

The validity of this suggestion can be illustrated in regards to a new edition of Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids, in which she provides readers with an insight onto different aspects of her early biography, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

“Diet for a Warmer Planet” Julia Whitty

In the article "Diet for a Warmer Planet" Julia Whitty presents two specific ideas: that it is necessary to reduce the global carbon footprint made by humanity in order to prevent adverse climate change and [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 714

Birth by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

The reader is tempted to sympathize with Martin because of the tribulations he faces. The writer uses place to bring out the theme of contrast.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 856

Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory

Over 60000 British men were killed during the war and the author depicts vividly in a grotesque picture the emotional and physical effects of the war on the soldiers leading to disillusionment in the war.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1097

Comments for Invisible Man

The fact that the author never expressly mentions the real name of the narrator, who is the main character in the story, can actually be perceived as a way in which the author portrays the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 582

Homeric Heroes: Ulysses and Gilgamesh

Then they would talk about their encounters with gods, Ulysses would tell how he met the god of the sea and how he was able to interact with him.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 860

The Impact of Friendship in the Epic of Gilgamesh

The elusive coalition between Enkidu and Gilgamesh, their fateful destinies and eventual epiphanies broaden the societal apprehension of the elements/value of friendship as expounded in the next discussion.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1131

Dante’s Inferno: The Levels of Hell

The gluttony level will be harsher than the previous two levels and this means that the level of torture subjected to the culprits will also be higher.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1143

“How I Learned to Drive” by Paula Vogel

In a family it is expected that the older generation should take care of the young one but in the case of Lil' Bit her uncle preys on her sexually and even proposes to marry [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 644

The Structure of a Literary Work Shapes Its Meaning

Henry James in his work "The Art of Fiction" and Joseph Conrad in his "The Task of the Artist" touched upon the problem of measuring the aesthetic value of a work of fiction by certain [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1360

Reading between the Lines: In Search for Fallacies

A good example of a typical fallacy in the text is the metaphor that links the homeless people to the homeless animals, in the given case, the squirrels in the park.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 548

Compare Dante’s “Inferno” with Specific Poetry

One of the deadly sins, according to Dante, is gluttony and in the Third Circle of "Inferno" "Gluttons are punished". In conclusion, it is possible to state that Dante, just as the majority of poets [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1095

The Realm of reality: Smoking

In a nutshell, it can be argued that the definition of a man or a woman is different and not the same as in earlier days.
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1216

The Lottery and The Ambitious Guest

In this paper, I will aim to explore the legitimacy of an earlier suggestion in regards to how the deployment of a literary irony had helped Shirley Jackson and Nathaniel Hawthorne to emphasize the philosophic [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1393

The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer

History as a Novel/ The Novel as History is a subtitle of the book which proves that Mailer intentionally mixed the two genres for enriching the content of his work and experimenting with the manner [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 825

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The fight ends Lama's quest as he finds the river of the Arrow and Kim hands the secret documents to authorities.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1854

The Novel, KIM by Rudyard Kipling

This piece of work will give a review of the novel in regard to what the story is about and the various perspectives that can be derived from the author's arguments.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1621

Voltaire, Letters on England

The first letter starts by setting pace for the interest Voltaire had on religion and he writes, "I was of opinion that the doctrine and history of so extraordinary a people were worthy the attention [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 922

To scream or be subtle

Some of them included: the role of the church and the state, the importance of human rights and the role of a representative government.
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1525

Graham Green: The Quiet American

Some of the features in the novel attributed to the line and the American exceptional and democratic ideology at home and abroad are tackled in this paper with an aim of unearthing the reason of [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 878

WIT by Margaret Edson

An interpretation of the ending of the play is given with the impact that is felt as a result of the play is brought light.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1083

Chinese Calligraphy

Unlike other types of calligraphy, the Chinese calligraphy is more of painting where characters are used as a tool of communication and to express what the artists' spiritual world is like.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1385

Feminism Builds up in Romanticism, Realism, Modernism

Exploring the significance of the theme as well as the motifs of this piece, it becomes essential to understand that the era of modernism injected individualism in the literary works.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1597

Literary Festivals. Boy in Motion.

The Hong Kong International Literary Festival sessions for children's books are therefore an appropriate avenue for the introduction of the inspirational story of Rick Hansen depicted in the book, Boy in Motion, to the Asian [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1769

Review of Slow Death by Rubber Duck

The book is a collection of first hand evidence that reveal the environmental and health dangers that some common items can expose users to.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1074

The Battle against Chaos and Challenging Inequities

The battle against chaos as the main function of the societal regulation as it is outlined in the social order model and challenging inequities as the driving force for the social transformation as it is [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 601