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This makes the reader want to balance the feelings of the persona by using the things discussed in the poem. The persona is saying that her heart is 'strictured'; this shows that she has not [...]

This is similar to the other play in which the conqueror falls for Idame and changes from a cruel to an understanding character out of her wits in addition to her husband's.

Grant Farred is of the opinion that "Securing an ideological space for coloureds within the ranks of the disenfranchised and crafting an artistic vocabulary that can engage the problematic of racial ambiguity and ambivalent political [...]

The authors organized the book as a collection of stories in which they depicted the personalities of the black stars with paying attention to their successes and role in the development of the movement.

These comments on the other hand reveal the kind of attitude that the stakeholders depict towards the project and more so disclosing the communication styles of the administration that might be contributing towards the project's [...]

The major features of these types of tests are that they objectively measure the speaking abilities and competency of the examinee, they have a high statistical reliability, speaking tests allow for the standardization of the [...]

From the name of the book, it is clear that the cardinal theme of the book is the American dream. This is contrary to the fact that she was pregnant and in a crack house.

Anne Bradstreet wrote the poem entitled the flesh and the spirit and tried to compare the things of the world and the thing of the spirit.

Second, the Bay Colony of Massachusetts is likened to an island in the midst of wilderness, indicating that the place is undeveloped First, the market place is described.

At the same time, there exists a set of theories and arguments in relation to these subjects as presented through the available literature like Bhabha's, The Other Question, Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism [...]

Despite the stories having differences in terms of setting, the plots and other aspects, the characters of Homer Wells and Ruth Cole are modeled by the author in such a way that they make the [...]

However, despite all the pomp depicted by the King in the play there are numerous occasions in the play that the author uses to point to the aspect of divine right as held by the [...]

The theme of manhood and violence in the play points to a greater ethical and political problem as to whether or not the use of violence to achieve peaceful ends preoccupied Elizabethan writers.

By looking at this poem from this perspective, one can better understand this literary work and the message that the writer wanted to convey.eireann Lorsung wants the readers to be interested both in the subject [...]

He is said to be the first and only Jew to have made to the level of becoming a dean in Athena faculty and to be allowed to join the teaching staff in classic department [...]

Feminism as demonstrated in the works of Susan Glaspell is domination of men over women. They are in authority and the representation of women is low.

She did not care what the outcome for her bad performance could be, hers was to do it for her parents; she was not part of it.

This essay discusses the character of the Townspeople with regard to the development of the themes and plot of the story.

However, Sammy, the protagonist of the story, is among the pioneer who manages to oppose to the constructed system and prove to himself that he is able to express personal views on societal culture.

One more fact from the biography of this woman seems peculiar and deserves attention is the fact that after the death of her husband, Dr.

From the exclusivity of class experienced in Britain at the time, Karim realized that he was among the disadvantaged people in the society and British natives often had very low expectation of him in this [...]

California Cooper manages to convey the importance of the family ties and emphasizes that in the hardest times when slavery came to reign in the country and people, could be sold and bought, family relationships [...]

Though the story provides negative consequences of bullying and teasing, the role of a teacher is to make students understand how to behave and communicate in the classroom setting and outside it.

In his writing, "The Achievement of Desire" Rodriguez gives a narration of his life while recounting the reasons and the ways in which he educated himself.

The use of the term Native American, whether in the open or in private mirrors the ancient and modern systems of ethnic classification in the American society.

This is preceded by another voice that the narrator hears in her bedroom, but this time the voice is that of a man.

The writings of Anne Frank in her book dedicated to the Holocaust and called The Diary of a Young Girl should be considered as the greatest masterpiece of that period.

Nietzsche argues that the soul of the last man is damned because he is unable to attain the set of the moral ideals set by the law.

It is based on the book Guns, Germs and Steel: The fate of human societies by Jared Diamond, professor of Geography and Physiology at the University of California Los Angeles.

The second part of the book looks at the Al Qaeda's activities in the rest of the world. The book covers some of the problems faced in the fight against terrorism, especially the lack of [...]

The theorized analysis of desire in different works of literature was first witnessed in the sixteenth century. The 16th century literature centered on the theme of desire, and the most written desire was ideal love.

Hobbes managed to overcome all the political and social havocs that affected his life and which were the major things that shaped the way he was thinking.

As far as abuse of young girls and women is considered to be one of the key events the author highlights, one can probably conclude that family upbringing is the burning problem of the society [...]

The issue of revenge being a better option in the Swedish society is evident when, at the end of the novel, Blomkvists makes efforts to bring down the executive who worn the lawsuit mentioned at [...]

He worships the goddess of "hunting and chastity, Artemis and ignores Aphrodite, the goddess of love". Hippolytus is the favorite of this goddess as he prefers hunting and staying chaste and rejects worshipping the goddess [...]

In the case of the red meridian, the gang's agenda was to take complete control of the Mexicans and Native Americans.

The article has a systemic representation of the events that occurred in the field of literature. The author points out that location of Bohemia in Czech was described in literature.

Though this can be explained by the cruel and uncompromising spirit of the ear, it is still hard to believe that the false morals and the environment created by the church influenced people so hard [...]

Revision is given a pivotal emphasis in the influential work of Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back, in which they remark that the " arevisioning' of received tropes and modes...and the rereading of [...]

The box is entrusted in the Mayor's care and a tradition of passing it from one Mayor to the next is established.

As an apologetic for Le Guin's choices concerning the sexual landscape of the novel, Cornell's essay attempts to rout critics on two major problems readers encounter with the book; first, that the world of Winter, [...]

International student prospectuses were the only materials used in the research, and a brief analysis of the procedures followed in the conducting of the study was performed.

The problem of civic participation has been already reviewed by researchers in public affairs field though Robert Putnam in the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community brings the discussion on another [...]

As a young boy, Voltaire received his education at the Jesuit school between the years 1704 and 1711. As a result, Voltaire was arrested severally and imprisoned by the authorities.

Mainly, the book discusses the workers especially the Irish and Chinese, who assisted in the construction of the railroad along the United State.

Through the voice of the main protagonist named Richard Powers, the author raises important problems of body-mind duality, the possibility of investigating consciousness and the links between art and politics.

The behaviors of her father contributed greatly to her resentment of men, this is because her father was greatly opposed to her will of being a nun because he wanted her to grow into a [...]

Candide is a story set from a social perspectives as pointed out by the themes and the plot of the story, which remain hinged on the day-to-day interactions and relationships of people.

In order for one to identify the theme of the story, there is a need to look beyond the plot. Also, frustration of the girl when she is in a dilemma on what to do [...]

It relegates the piece of work to the level of dialogue, where a speaker is allowed to use personal pronouns, as this informality therefore makes a piece of writing lack the necessary academic formality.

In the book, the author details how the political uncertainties and his skewed perspective led to his eventual downfall. In the following sections of the book, the author describes the uncertainties and conflicts in the [...]

For instance, in Texas, the state's folklore society contributed immensely to the growth of modern folklore literature in the mid west.

In this chapter, information helps to realize that only historical fiction makes students learn and analyze the effects of war on people, the impact of past actions on future life, and the ideas of how [...]

In order to present a clear picture of German participation in the war and the reasons, which provoked these people to fight and kill, it is necessary to concentrate on various sources and perspectives and [...]

Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is considered to be a powerful educative novel about the events from the past which teach to become more confident in personal demands and desires; the image of [...]

Active protest of Norman Mailer in The Armies of the Night The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/ Novel as History by Norman Mailer was a form of the active protest of the [...]

Writing for a living is a serious issue: on the one hand, it helps to improve the quality and efficiency of the writing tasks and, consequentially, speed up the economic and social progress.

This simply means that the present existing organisms descended from somewhere and therefore there is a difference between the organisms that existed millions of years ago and those that are in existence as of now.

They differ in that in "What It's like to be a Black Girl", the girl desires to recognize with the society and likeness of her African American predecessor's slave possessors, while in that of the [...]

The Irony of being at war is that Peace and conflict are both inevitable; it is the way we handle either of the two that determines our opinion of life in general both in the [...]

It is obvious that the attraction between the narrators and the girls is orchestrated by love. It is a love that does not dwell on trivial shortcomings of the five girls.

Furthermore, it confirms that friends are very important in life and help students to commit to their friendships. Characters are also important in this book, for instance, Charlotte is found to be kind and selfless.

The authors argue that as much as most of the professional writing is learned on the job, it is the prerogative of the trainers to ensure that the graduates they produce are worth the professional [...]

This female sex only society resulted in a culture of peace among the inhabitants, the women had a good social order and they followed the laws set to the latter.

Analysis of the key features of each, finding the elements of the authors' signature styles and deducing the influence of modernism in the given works The shift of the emphasis from the depiction of events [...]

He is a mysterious person, and no one exactly knows his origins and the ways he used to acquire his fortune.

One of the most striking examples, the tale of the Wizard of Oz, offers a peculiar study of the XX century, suggesting that the main character should portray the essence of the adult world, with [...]

The Hunger Games series 1 is a science-fiction drama that delineates the situation of enslavement among the citizens of Panem to the governing class that reside in a city called Capitol.

Urbano Gomez's was caught playing "...husband and wife with his cousin Hiccups behind the school lavatories". Although we sympathize him for his fate, the cause of his expulsion from the school is a comical matter.

The two characters' attitude towards their background is also different as Ramon is proud of being Hispanic and he speaks Spanish with his wife when he pleads her to stay, "Si te vas me mato.

Although the death of his father signifies his own downfall, nonetheless, one could argue that Oedipus acted in self-defense, in that he was attacked unexpectedly while travelling alone and out of fear of losing his [...]

On the other hand, in The Blind Owl, the storyteller, a pen-case decorator, falls in love with a naive woman who is virtuous and demonic at the same time. In The Blind Owl, it is [...]

The author is trying to discourage laziness in the society, and the two are used to demonstrate the effect of idleness among active members of the society.

The reading of Jerzy Kosinski's novel The Painted Bird, of Isaac Babel's story The Death of Dolgushov, and the watching of 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire do confirm the soundness of Linsey's idea.

One of the reasons why the story The Cask of Amontillado and the poem My Last Duchess are being commonly referred to, as such that represent a particularly high value, is that the narrative perspective [...]

Also rendering the issue of the fallen world and the supernatural elements within the realm of the ordinary, the plot of a Gothic novel is traditionally composed of mystery, elements of fear or terror and [...]

In his view, legitimate authority should be derived from the people since the powers of the monarchs are always destructive because they are used in a way that is inconsistent with the demands of the [...]

In the beginning of the play he openly complains to his friend Philinte about the level of corruption in the French society.

Thus, the study of swearing ought to be understood in terms of the origin and historical development or adoption of the words and the expressions.

One of the details that attract the attention of the readers is that the writer does not following a specific musical pattern while writing this poem.

In its turn, this explains why, as opposed to what it happened to be the case with her mother, the Laura's sense of existential alienation has strongly defined tragic undertones to it.

The modern day and age offers rights and freedoms that people have not experienced some time before and the majority of official rulings have acknowledged that people have a right to marry whomever they want, [...]

Providing the description of the volunteering experience in the Little Princes Children's Home, Grennan refers to a lot of examples which are associated with the individuals of children in order to personalize the global problem [...]

An effort is also made to track the changes of the roles of women in the social fabric in the Victorian era by considering The Odd Women by George Gissing written in 1893.

This is one of the aspects that can be distinguished. This is one of the points that can be made.

The two poems are written in the same style as both Robinson and Bishop are American poets who have consequently embraced the American style of free verse poetry.

There is even more to it the deployment of stream-of-consciousness technique in The Dead, was also meant to encourage readers to consider the possibility that, contrary to the philosophical conventions of the 19th century, the [...]

For example, Sarty feels that he cannot keep hiding from the law and the wrath of his neighbors in the rest of his life.

In the first sonnet of the sequence, Sydney poses and answers the rhetorical question of the importance of art as an inspiration to good writing.

In most ancient societies, children were the property of the parents, and those children who the parents deemed unfit were killed or sold into slavery.

One of the most difficult questions is, of course, what it is to be a human. These works contain the answer to one of the most important questions for the humanity.

Because of a large variety of factors, starting with the complexity of the leadership model adopted by the head of the state, up to the structure of the society in question and the traditions of [...]

To enable the children understand the issue of death, various aspects are used by the author so as to generate the feeling surrounding the concept of death and to ensure the young people understand the [...]

Most scholars are skeptical about the magnanimity of Sarmiento's contribution to literature but it is often agreed that his works are an accurate reflection of the social and political situations in the 1800s' Argentina.

The poem relates to the history and heritage of African Americans as Hughes compares them to some of the greatest rivers of the world.

The linguistic skills and the position on the board of the characters speak lucidly of their characters in the play. In the second Act, the burglary occurs, and the repercussion is chaos in the office.

Bearing's thoughts on the problem, but the controversial character of the play influences the viewer's vision of the theme and idea significantly, affecting the interpretation of the ending.

One of the major characters to the plot, Lydgate is a mixture between a positive and a negative character, who, on the one hand, fights stereotypes and, on the other hand, reinforces them, which, combined [...]

How the authors understand the ways in which racism has influence the levels of poverty of the books' characters Based on the two books content, it is apparent that the authors understand the manner in [...]

The author is a trained psychologist and she employs her vocation in her analysis of the relationship between the inanimate computers and human beings.

In the two books, Steinbeck and Babb wrote about the plight of migrants in Oklahoma and California. On the other hand, Steinbeck argued that the system forced the migrants to live in miserable conditions.

At a personal level in the life of a Christian, engaging in war or acts of violence in order to resolve emerging conflicts is not part of the biblical doctrine.

In the comedy, there is an emphasis on adjustment of the play to match cultural beliefs of the target audience so that the comedy becomes relevant to the society.

Apart from the heavy use of epistolary genre, Davys creates the male character and assigns the quality of a modern gentleman to him for the purpose of promoting the theological perspective of the novel, as [...]

It is needless to mention of course, that the earlier mentioned issue fits rather well within the methodological framework of the Massey Lectures, as such that are supposed to serve the purpose of enlightening listeners [...]

Subversive comedy reveals the different fissures under the smooth surface of official ideology in society and the play ends in a ritual celebration such as a marriage.

This is one of the details that attract attention of the readers, and one can say that it is important for understanding the passage and the short story, in general.

In literature, writing back is a style where authors use their experiences and historical time lines to bring into light some of the cross cutting social issues within the context of the society of the [...]

The article "Gender, Race, and the Regulation of Native Identity in Canada and the United States: An Overview" by Bonita Lawrence talks about the Native people, the way the laws and relationships between the modern [...]

However, the growth of the telecommunications industry around the telephone presents the importance of the country in development and improvement of the telephone as a product.

This play is a comedy that seeks to show the author's opposition to susceptibility of women in the Restoration society. On the other hand, Florinda the elder sister wants to marry the man she loves [...]

The means of narration within the story is one where the author attempts to convey to the reader the feelings of grief and despair felt by the unnamed narrator through a depiction of the events [...]

The short story was also the subject of debate when it was first written because it failed to fit in any particular genre at the time."The Yellow Wallpaper" was mostly considered a horror story when [...]

When it comes down to a physical fight, Odysseus has all might to win but his wisdom and graces serve as a conscious and willing determination to be morally correct and he acts as a [...]

Both Homeric Hymn to Demeter and Hymn to Aphrodite expose the outlook of ancient Greek on religious and psychological world of women, as well as on their attitude to marriage.

Most of the themes are developed using symbolism; for instance, the Chinese restaurants menus' represent different times and experiences of the Chinese in the Diaspora.

He innovatively concentrated on the best techniques of governance and holding up to the noble principalities in the first eleven chapters of the book.

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. [...]

It is rather peculiar that, instead of simply providing Cinderella with the dress, the crystal slippers and the carriage to get to the palace in, the fairy godmother turns the process of helping Cinderella into [...]

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 [...]