Literary Critic, Josh West, addresses how the themes in children’s literature are still significant in contemporary society, however they have altered with regard to their underlying intent and meaning. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1882, Treasure Island is one of the most well-known pieces of classic children’s literature to exist in our society, with it being read in many...
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In today’s society, there is justice in the world, but the injustice for the black race has had a negative impact on the lives of African American people. Injustice in the form of racial discrimination has affected African Americans through misrepresentation only because their skin colour is not white, being socially segregated separating them from the privileges of white people....
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In 1949, American Professor of Literature, Joseph Campbell, came up with The Hero's Journey, a supposed sequence of characteristics, in some form or another, present in all heroic stories. So, does this theory hold up? Or is it just another idea that your English teacher told you was important, but you're never really going to use it? You might be...
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Through the role of storytelling, an enduring text invites the audiences to challenge the previously held assumptions and beliefs of ourselves and the world at large whilst igniting new ideas on the true nature of the individual and collective human experiences. Anthony Doerr’s 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See reveals the individual’s resilience in the face of collective...
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If I were to ask you what the goal of a hero is, what would you say? Is it to save humanity, or is it to slay monsters? Is it to discover bountiful treasure, or assist those in need? Chances are, you would describe physical actions that require profound bravery, great feats of strength or unparalleled skill. I mean, who...
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We as a society have come a long way from the discovery of the first light bulb to stepping on the moon. The world has developed, people are more educated, technology has made day-to-day life easier, but what has remained the same is the social stratification people had to and still have to deal with. This social stratification is not...
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Why do we need narratives? Why do we keep telling stories? Since the dawn of time, people have told stories about their lives, their loves and their losses. We tell stories to help us with our quest for freedom. When the ability to express our past is lost, we lose a sense of who we are. Throughout the human era,...
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A Red, Red Rose (p. 16) 1. Why is this a ballad? The poem is a ballad because it tells a story, and there are music and rhyme to sing. It has four stanzas and each stanza has four lines which mean quatrains. The first and third lines of each stanza are iambic (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed...
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A dystopia is an imagined world or society in which people live wretched, dehumanized or fearful lives often filled with great suffering or injustice. Ender’s game and Gattaca are both set in dystopian realities based on events which occurred during the time they were created. Both texts are based around the lives of people who live in great suffering or...
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To be considered classic literature, a text must be of outstanding quality in the time it was written and be first of its class, of lasting worth or have timeless qualities. Although writing style is forever evolving, a classic can always be appreciated for its construction and artistic qualities. The very best of classics form the literary canon, a group...
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Introduction The intersection of medical science and ethical considerations often presents a complex landscape that challenges societal morals and individual values. Jodi Picoult’s novel, "My Sister’s Keeper," navigates this intricate terrain by exploring the moral dilemmas posed by genetic engineering and medical autonomy. Through the lens of the Fitzgerald family, the narrative presents a profound exploration of bioethics, particularly focusing...
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The onlookers go rigid when the train goes past. Franz Kafka writes this in his diary in 1910. He is twenty-seven years old and more than half his life is over. He doesn’t know this, of course, but he has intimations: glimpses forward into the abyss. Suffering as he has his whole life with debilitating migraines, insomnia and crippling self-doubt,...
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What is it about some novels that captivate and capture our attention? Why do they continue to enthrall and beguile us despite it being decades after their publication date? There are original stories that are fundamental to our society. Some have acquired the attention of readers for decades, centuries, and even millenniums; they might be religious texts, national epics, or...
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Did Sara go to far in this ethically questionable movie? By Isabella TokichPicture here To go with review Idea: Doctors all over anna stabbing out her kidney and kate is in back, black, watching her suffer, Sarah is next to her smiling shows Kate is dark on the inside anna forced to do something she doesn't want to do, sarah...
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Published in 1847, Jane Eyre shocked Victorian England. Written in a form of a Bildungsroman, usually reserved for the male voice, the story follows Jane’s journey of maturation as she develops her own identity. We see her grow from a child with unfortunate circumstances into an assertive woman who is able to marry a man, Edward Rochester as his equal....
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How do the authors of The Girl on the Train and Purple Hibiscus explore domestic violence within their novels? The Girl on the Train and Purple Hibiscus are two novels which explore the theme of domestic violence. The Girl on the Train was written by Paula Hawkins. The story follows three women; Rachel, Anna and Megan and their struggles with...
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Introduce your argument with a brief outline of the aspects of Freire’s writing that you found most useful and inspiring. This need only be a short paragraph. (200-300 words) The pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo freire Freire makes a variety of education, discourse, socioeconomic mindfulness, and liberation. Paulo Freire holds the concept that in order for an individual to...
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Conflicts occur in each day activities. Individual differences can be held responsible for the misunderstanding which occur among people. Conflicts may occur between individuals, countries, and friends and also between cultures. Conflicts are bad and should be highly discouraged to occur by all means. In any case such kind of occurrence occur, peacekeeping agencies should always intervene on time before...
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Still I Rise This famous poem still I rise was created by Maya Angleou in 1978, the poem still I rise is supposed to be on the theme of racism and gender, as in the text you can easily hear how hurtful and hateful these words are that were used against Maya, all throughout the poem Maya writes down everything...
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The novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie and the film The Colour Purple directed by Steven Spielberg explores how the voices of female are oppressed and expressed in patriarchies. By exploring the denial of the female voice through the characters of Beatrice in Purple Hibiscus and Celie in The Colour Purple, the stories criticise gender inequality and are a reminder...
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Let me start by asking you all some questions, who are you, what is your purpose, what do you aspire to be? Now I’m sure some of you have your whole future seemingly planed out but, for the large majority of us we’re still unsure. In psychology, the concept of identity is described as “the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or...
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Introduction to Symbolism in 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' Imagine receiving a scholarship from one of the best university’s in the world, Princeton University with visa, complete financial aid and live your rest of your life in America with a dream job? Well, Changez, the main character from The Reluctant Fundamentalist attends Princeton with a full scholarship, visa and complete financial aid...
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Growing up is an experience where we develop throughout life. It requires us to encounter many obstacles along the way which then shapes us to become a better person. In the novel to kill a mockingbird, Scout and jem engages with challenging life lessons, which are explored in an allegorical way and throughout the novel as a whole. The novel...
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Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word. “Brian Tracy”. Flannery O’ Connor story presents us with a strange morality one where hypocrisy and integrity; also, religion has to do with the story. We can relate this story into today’s society because, sometimes people just thing for themselves and what they want. Just as...
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Henry David Thoreau lived on Walden Pond for two years and two months during the 1840s (Buell). During this time, he wrote Walden, which was a self recorded account of his time spent living on Walden pond. Thoreau’s writing of Walden was greatly influenced by transcendentalism, which was a philosophical movement concerned with taking a step back from societal norms,...
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As humans, we might prefer to find others for comfort to feel like we belong, and over anything we want love. We would wish to be loved and to like another through our trials of life. This can be one of the many themes of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The character Janie includes a desire for love...
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Abstract:- The Africa is faced so many conflict like social, political and ethnic. For the main causes are weak government, state collapse, inter-ethnic clashes, economic decline, and unequal distribution of resources. African writer portrait the conflict of Africa through their fiction like Chinua Achebe, Adichie Etc. Adichie describes this history with fictionalized in her novels. This paper tried to analyze...
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Imagery is paramount to Stevenson establishing the sense of adventure and awe typically found in adventure novels. Stevenson describes the setting in such detail to incite certain images in the reader’s mind such as the island has such a unique shape with harbors and hills with lush jungle among them and the characters, most prominently the pirates, as drunk, bumbling,...
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John Proctor is one of the most significant and vital characters of The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller in 1952 and released in 1953. John Proctor is a farmer in his middle thirties, the sort of important man with a bad temper. Miller does not use the name of the character by chance: his name is a telling-name because he...
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The purpose of Ender's Game is to inspire the reader to be more compassionate. Throughout the book, there are many instances where Ender had to have compassion. He had to be able to know the motives of the enemy while also being able to inspire loyalty within others around him. Without compassion he wouldn’t be as good of a leader...
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