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TS Eliot's Societal Criticism in The Waste Land

5 Pages 2055 Words
T.S. Eliot, in his notes on The Waste Land, mentions that ā€œTiresias…is yet the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the restā€ (Eliot 70). Essentialy, all the characters in his poem, all the sexes, merge into the figure of Tiresias; he is the ā€œsubstance of the poemā€ (70). Eliot uses two apparent methods of connecting characters to Tiresias...

Publius Ovidius Naso and His Metamorphoses: Critical Analysis

2 Pages 1126 Words
Ovid Growing up Ovid, full name Publius Ovidius Naso, was a poet born on March 20th in 43 BC; the year after the assassination of Julius Caesar. He was born in a small town called Sulmo, located East of Rome. He was born to a rather wealthy and established family and as a young man moved to Rome for his...

Ovid's Life and Metamorphoses: A Descriptive Essay

2 Pages 991 Words
The Life of Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso, Ovid, was a Roman writer who held and still holds a very large influence on many aspects of Roman literature. Ovid was born on March 20, 43 BCE in Sulma, a city that is about 90 miles outside of Rome. As a writer, Ovid worked on and wrote so many influential pieces of...

Lovers’ Vows in Mansfield Park: Analytical Essay

3 Pages 1395 Words
By writing Mansfield park to be a real-life foil to Elizabeth Inchbald’s interpretation of August Von Kotzebue’s Lovers’ Vows, Jane Austen re-inverts Kotzebue’s subversive moral standard and creates a work positing equal moral conscience. Austen’s resulting text is a novel that, although separate in its stories and characters, also upholds distinct parallels to ā€œLover’s Vowsā€ in the structure and situations...

Discursive Essay on Studying of T.S Eliot’s Poetry

2 Pages 1117 Words
Up until about year ago, I really felt like I needed some sort of permission to read poetry and its bizarre because I never felt the same way when it came to reading books. Books just felt like a ā€˜free-range forest’ that I could wonder in at any time… camp out… have some fun… go home… keep camping whatever! However,...

Survival in Auschwitz: Horrible Nazi Camp Experience

3 Pages 1158 Words
The Nazi’s rule is taken into account to be the foremost oppressive and discriminative rule in present time. During this rule, which lasted until the period of the Second war, the Nazi engaged in widespread discrimination against European Jews. One of the Most known cam was Auschwitz concentration camp, where millions of Jewish prisoners were killed. Before being killed, the...

Primo Levi's Survival: Analyzing Life in Auschwitz

2 Pages 1111 Words
Introduction Primo Levi, an Italian Jewish chemist and writer, stands as one of the most poignant voices recounting the atrocities of the Holocaust. His memoir, "Survival in Auschwitz," offers a harrowing account of his experiences in the Nazi concentration camp, providing a narrative that is as much a testament to human resilience as it is an indictment of human cruelty....

Scientific Management and McDonaldization in Quality Care

3 Pages 1562 Words
Executive Summary This report focuses on the innovative approaches adopted by one of the largest eye care services in the world which ultimately defeated barriers of distance, poverty and ignorance to create a self-sustaining system. In order to achieve this, the report outlines its effective use of scientific management and McDonaldization in providing high quality care available to masses at...

Analyzing "Second Attempt Crossing", "I Hear America Singing", "Harlem"

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ā€œSecond attempt crossingā€, ā€œI Hear America singingā€, ā€œHarlemā€ A reader might come across many similarities when they read two or more poems at a time. So is the case in the analysis of the three poems ā€œSecond attemt crossingā€, ā€œI hear America singingā€ and ā€œHarlemā€. While all the three poems differ from each other the only similarity is that the...

Critical Analysis of Aeneid: The Legendary Story of a Man Named Aeneas

3 Pages 1243 Words
Virgil writes the Aeneid between the years 29-19 BCE. The Aeneid tells the legendary story of a man named Aeneas and how he found the city of Rome. Consisted of twelve books, the Aeneid is an epic poem. The Aeneid is considered one of the historically relevant works of Latin literature because it tells the story of the founding of...

Synthesis Essay on Dubliners: Analysis of Araby

4 Pages 1781 Words
ā€œArabyā€, a short story apart of Joyce’s, Dubliners, is rich with culture and symbolism, dripped in a veiled jab at the drab culture of Ireland. The interaction of light and dark are mostly addressed in Araby to support the setting and narrator alike, helping to set the tone and give a realistic aspect to the story. The use of imagery...

Discovering Personal Legend in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

3 Pages 1199 Words
Originally published in 1988, The Alchemist was written by the world renown and best-selling author Paulo Coelho. Being an allegorical novel, the author writes a story about a young shepherd from Andalusia who is on a journey to the pyramids in Egypt. His goal is to acquire the treasure that he keeps having recurring dreams about. Throughout his journey, he...

Portrayal of Women's Difficulties in a Day

2 Pages 684 Words
A Woman’s Place Women have experienced hardships since the beginning of time. Society has always placed certain standards upon women which, despite many attempts to remove them, will never go away. Many artists have found inspiration in such hardships and utilized them as their muse within their works. Writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen, often touched on the...

Reader's Classic Novels

4 Pages 1990 Words
Emma: Jane Austen One of the novels that I have read and enjoyed in this module is Jane Austen’s, Emma. I found this novel quite confusing at first, as I was trying to discover if it was romance novel or not, which I am still unsure of. I found this to be a secular novel, through the author being concerned...

The Determination of One's Destiny in Aeneid by Virgil

5 Pages 2430 Words
The topic about death, fate, and destiny troubles the human heart and mind, and every human tend to ignore this discussion. While many people believe in life after death, most people choose to keep away from the talking about it because of fear of the mysterious afterlife. However, when people decided to discuss what they think about the fact that...

Women in Romantic Period: Analysis of Vindication of Women's Rights

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Romanticism emerged in Europe towards the late 18th century, and is referred to as an ā€œartistic, literary and intellectual movementā€, that opposed many societal aspects such as family, government, and monarchical that were apparent during the Enlightenment period. This era created an atmosphere booming with ideas surrounding freedom, liberty and equality. However, these ideas appeared to be futile for women...

Analysis of Acemoglu and Why Nations Fail to Evaluate Necessity to Donate

2 Pages 734 Words
Peter Singer in his paper Famine, Affluence and Mortality believe that people of higher wealth should be morally obligated to donate more to humanitarian causes than what is considered normal in western cultures. It’s Singers premice that if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance we ought to...

Analysis of Children's Interaction with Winnie the Pooh

3 Pages 1498 Words
Characters as friends and guardians This section aims to discuss the use of characters introduced to children through book illustrations and how these can become much more than just a scribble on a page. An illustrated character has the capability to become a friend to a child just as much as any other human, as young children have an imaginative...

Comparing "The Great Lawsuit" and "The American Scholar"

2 Pages 947 Words
Time and space are two valuable aspects of life. Depending on the person and their feelings one can perceive time differently. ā€œSitting through Economics 101 on Friday afternoon while the professor drones on over various charts and graphs can feel like weeks, whereas spring break spent frolicking in the dun on Miami Beach seems over before you’ve finished your first...

Aeneid Versus The Iliad and The Odyssey: Comparative Analysis

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In my opinion, Virgil didn’t imitate Homer with Aeneid, however Virgil simply expanded on Homer’s ideas and wrote in his own words through his poem. Instead of rewriting Iliad or Odyssey, Virgil continues the story after the fall of Troy using Aeneas. Virgil uses a lot of Homer’s images patterns like the symbol of fire, the shield, gates, and the...

Analytical Essay on Dubliners: Portrayal of Oppressive Nature in Araby

5 Pages 2479 Words
Araby is one of fifteen stories from Dubliners which is written by James Joyce. Each story in the collection involves some failure and illusion, which results in realization and disappointment. Araby is one of those stories that follow a theme of uncertainty between the real and the ideal in life. The young boy’s journey from his first love to despair...

Analyzing Societal Double Standards in Women's Rights

5 Pages 2229 Words
Log One: Societies' double standards Taylor Swift has grown to be a global superstar and household name. Swift wrote and released her first, self-titled album ā€˜Taylor Swift’ when she was just sixteen years old and has amassed an empire since then. In 2019, Swift realised her much anticipated seventh studio album, ā€˜Lover’. This brings us to the theme of Log...

Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Dorian Gray

3 Pages 1595 Words
Introduction to Narcissism in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' The Picture of Dorian Gray follows the protagonist, Dorian Gray, as he lives his life youthfully. Throughout the novel, Dorian leads an obsessive and reckless life in an effort to maintain his youth and beauty. As a result, a painting done by Basil Hallward takes on Dorian Gray’s aging. Dorian becomes...

Causes of the Civil War Essay

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What Cause the Civil War? The American Civil War was a result of differences between the north and south to maintain their way of life, as most historians have argued. I plan to show how abolishing slavery, and economic differences between the regions played equal roles in the cause of the American Civil War. Introduction The American Civil War was...

The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis Essay

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Introduction: Symbolism and Female Oppression in "The Yellow Wallpaper" This paper aims to identify and analyze those symbolisms prominent in ā€œThe Yellow Wallpaperā€ which represent the struggles of the oppression of females in the 19th century. ā€œThe Yellow Wallpaperā€ manages to represent the patriarchal society, specifically that of the 19th century in America, and is thus often read as feminist...

Representation of Social Groups: Elite vs Miss Havisham

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Text: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Prescribed Question: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? My critical response will: Show how different social classes are portrayed in the Victorian Era. Show how Pip’s character is heavily influenced by the world and people around him. Show the turning point at which Pip’s character becomes static. Show...
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Of Mice and Men Theme Essay

4 Pages 1612 Words
During the Great migration times, moving men had almost no open doors in their lives. These men made a trip from spot to spot with no family, no companions, and no home. Achieving the American Dream was the main thing that kept these men persuaded in existence with would like to one day accomplish them. In John Steinbeck's novel, Of...

Dehumanization in Night Essay

3 Pages 1163 Words
In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, the values and identities of the Jews have stripped away as dehumanization played a momentous element in their lives during their time spent as prisoners. This is shown through the unfortunate events of prohibition and forceful assimilation the Jews endured in Sighet and Auschwitz-Birkenau, public humiliation including trauma and physical abuse encountered in Buna, and...

The Impact of Miss Havisham on Pip's Development

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Introduction Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" is a profound exploration of human relationships and personal growth, set against the backdrop of Victorian England. One of the pivotal characters that influence the protagonist, Pip, is Miss Havisham, an eccentric and reclusive woman who has a significant impact on his development. Miss Havisham's influence extends beyond her immediate interactions with Pip, as she...
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