In his article ‘The Optimal Time to Dunk an Oreo, According to Science’, Lucas Reilly brings us a roundup of scientific research of just how long our cookie/biscuit should remain in the milk, including an actual physics equation and a university-approved chart. This piece of writing explores Washburn's/Fisher's equation, how the equation works, and how it benefits us as readers....
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The astonishing Mesopotamian poem that was reported to be discovered in the ruins of a library located in Nineveh called The Epic of Gilgamesh has an interesting yet unique theme about love and death transforming a friendship between two strangers. Through storytelling and various translations, this poem has become a classic in English literature. Love is powerful it is no...
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In the short play Fences, August Wilson introduces an African American family whose life is based around a fence. The play takes place from the 1950s through 1965. The Maxson household has many strained relationships needed to grow here. The central character, Troy Maxson, prevents anyone from interfering in his life by surrounding himself around a physical and symbolic fence...
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Do many people wonder what is the meaning of life? What is our purpose? There comes a very important time in our lives when we must sit down and ask whether we are living our lives or if we are just being content with what we have. There are also times in our lives when our instincts will tell us...
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During the Victorian period, the inequalities between genders were tense because the gap distinction was increasing instead of decreasing. Women were tired of the discrimination and the injustice that society was implementing on their shoulders. The frustration of pretending to be the submissive wife and hiding under male pen names to have their works published was pushing women to the...
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The whole poem consists of six stanzas, each stanza is three lines long and there is an alternate long and short sentence to express a rhythmic rocking sound. The rhythm of the poem is related to a lullaby where mothers sing it to their precious baby, which ties into the title of the poem. The poem's first line significantly captures...
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Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is, according to Aristotle, the ideal tragedy. Various reasons influence Aristotle’s position on the matter. One of them is the peripeteia, which refers to a drastic turnaround. In Poetics, Aristotle defines the element of surprise that peripeteia denotes as “a change by which the action veers round to its opposite” (Cain et al. 98). He argues that...
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In the story Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses three stylistic elements. This story contains Imagery, Symbolism, and Allegory. Imagery affects the text by describing contents that have a feel on our 5 senses. For example, “You can hear the crunch of the fallen leaves as you walk through the scary forest.” Symbolism adds more depth to the story through...
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It is in the human nature of every man alive to develop an eager, as well as an exorbitant desire for power and supremacy. From this greed, arises the need of the individual to prioritize his own requirements in order to find the right actions to make, to then be able to obtain what he desperately wants. By working hard...
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The poem The White House written by Claude Mckay focuses on the hardships that black citizens have to face within the American culture. Mckay’s poem presents a poetic voice demonstrating the bitterness and suppressed anger that is being exposed to society. This limits the opportunities that African Americans have against political rights as they are being shunned against their race...
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The book “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe is a fictional story based around the cultural and social life of an African tribe of the lower Niger River region. It depicts the daily life of the tribe and its members. It additionally shows the culture and customs of the tribe. The book focuses on one of the tribe members, Okonkwo....
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Write a political analysis of a popular cultural artefact (TV series, film, book, play, sculpture, meme). In contemporary society, popular culture can be an object of collective social, economic and political expression. Street (1997, p. 7) acknowledges popular culture as a mass-produced artefact and 'made available to a large number of individuals' such as music, art, films and clothing. Popular...
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Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard, “Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot”, New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt and Company, 2012, 336pp. Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard wrote the book, Killing Kennedy in 2012 after the success of Killing Lincoln, their previous novel. They are co-authors of the Killing Series, which include Killing Jesus, Killing Patton, and Killing Reagan. Killing Kennedy was...
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Some think that life is a straight line. Two points, one point when you are born, and the endpoint is drawn when you pass away. Frankly, life is filled with several twists, turns and plunges. You never know what to expect next. Life is more like a rollercoaster. It’s unpredictable, scary at times, and inconsistent. There are times where you...
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Have you ever said something you shouldn’t have? In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the novel tells the story of two young children coming of age, with this being said, the key to maturity is controlling your emotions. Jem showed this throughout the novel as he started to grow up and acted more maturely than when...
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While at face value S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders appears to be nothing more than a common teen angst book pushed upon the teens across the nation, it is actually a great book that defines overarching emotions that accompany adolescents through the years that bridge their youth and adulthood. Set in 1960’s Tulsa, Oklahoma, The Outsiders is essentially a diary by...
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We often liked to say that family is one of the world’s greatest mystery. The fusion of time and energy of two separate human beings formed together to create a unified entity in which joy and happiness mixed with pain and sadness, efforts, and will powers incarnating an enigmatic ritual. Regardless of these conflicting factors that could easily distort our...
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J. D. Salinger’s novel, Catcher in the Rye, captures the attention of several readers by featuring Holden Caulfield, a young protagonist struggling through his transition from childhood to adulthood. The demise of his younger brother, Allie, challenges Holden to maintain his innocence by allowing him a path to adulthood. Allie’s death causes Holden to perceive society differently than those around...
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In the novel, “Brave New World,” written by Aldous Leonard Huxley, the author attempts to explain the character Bernard Marx and explain why he has incited such controversial emotions in readers and literary critics, and the way he's being observed within the novel as a full. He shows the importance of morality, or a rise in wisdom within the character...
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Psychologist Emma Kenny once said 'The world is a scary place, knowing how to confront fear is a good thing. Risk and fear are something we need in our childhood.' While fear can be a scary thing, reading things that may enforce feelings of fear can be essential to a middle schooler. I believe that horror stories such as “The...
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In the allegorical explanation, all myths contain hidden which the narrative deliberately conceals or encodes. Writers and speakers typically use allegories to convey hidden or complex meaning through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey. One of the famous stories in literature that uses allegory is the...
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As life begins to shift or change, people tend to hold on to things or traditions because they are not ready for a change that happens around them. In the story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, the main character Miss Emily shows many signs of her not moving on with modern life and the shift of things around...
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Social Hierarchy has existed for decades. The societal construct based hierarchy places people into categories defined by their financial standing across a scale, ranging from upper class down to the poverty level. The upper and lower class are often segregated, living in different parts of town and having different experiences due to the opposite lifestyles that they live. In Nicholas...
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As many know it is a hard transition to go from being an innocent child to a teenager who is realizing what this world consists of. Like Holden from the Catcher in the Rye who is questioning humanity, difficulty being emotionally stable and acting rebellious. Holden demonstrates actions of a normal teenager and doesn’t have any psychological behavior. Every action...
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Journalist, Jeremy Rifkin in his newspaper article “A Change of Heart about Animals,” published in Los Angeles Times (2003) addresses the topic of animal science and argues that animals are similar to humans in multiple aspects as in emotional, somewhat mental, and behavioral. Jeremy Rifkin supports his claim by presenting multiple animal studies conducted at different research institutions. Questioning old...
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Imagine a situation where you were subjected to unpleasant terms or conditions that you never agreed to in the first place. Nonetheless, you must go through the said situations since an individual claiming to be a representative of yours accented to it, thereby making it a binding agreement. Now, imagine not giving up the power to be represented to the...
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Europe’s Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century Romantic, Victorian, and Modern eras was marked by a poverty-stricken society. Rapid industrialization gave rise to Britain, but it has brought many social and economic problems. Ireland had no universal provisions, and the poor wandered the streets begging for jobs and money. The ruling class was unsympathetic towards the suffering working class, leaving them with...
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Monsters, as explain by Richard Kearney, are, “…something in us, made manifest in our response to certain experiences of ‘chaos, disorder and desolation’ in nature’” (Kearney, 39). In this sense, our responses to situational conflict can provide the building blocks for monsters; our anxieties from tragedy, horror, and terror will transform reality into fictional and horrific monsters. Poole further solidifies...
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When in war different variables lead a soldier to remain in a mentality that is unmistakably filled with uneasiness and fear. Whether it be the fear of death or being seen as prey by the opposing side, the final subject on one’s mind is the gear they carry with them. Within the novel “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien,...
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Although O’Brien is unclear about whether or not he actually threw a grenade and killed a man outside My Khe, his memory of the man’s corpse is strong and recurring, symbolizing humanity’s guilt over war’s horrible acts. In “The Man I Killed,” O’Brien distances himself from the memory by speaking in the third person and constructing fantasies as to what...
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