The memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and A Bite of a Mango by Mariatu Kamara is set in the tragic Sierra Leone war of the early 1990s. Ishmael and Mariatu, respectively, share a tragic experience of terror that is still with them, and we're thankful to seek and meet others to rely on throughout the war. Beah's...
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Kate Chopin published her short story “The Story of an Hour”, on December 6, 1894 (Koloski 2019). The story revolves around the character, Louise Mallard, who feels repressed by her marriage to Brently Mallard. She learns that her husband has died because of the railroad disaster, and she feels as if freedom from her marriage was within her grasp, only...
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Zender, Karl F. “Character and Symbol in ‘Barn Burning.’” College Literature, vol. 16, no. 1, 1989, pp. 48–59. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25111801. Karl Zender explains there is an obvious realism in Faulkner’s story but the modernist twist throughout is the symbolism of the irony which causes the reader to depart from realism to some deeper meaning. Thus, leaving the reader to decide...
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Over the course of our class we have read and discussed two one-act plays: “Trifles” and “Everyman”. After analyzing each we can tell that there is a significant difference in the complexity of character development and theme in comparison to the longer plays we analyzed. Throughout this paper, I will explain key aspects of both “Trifles” and “Everyman” as one-act...
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Authors use many devices when they want to express what they mean. Literary or rhetorical devices give the purpose of conveying the meaning of the text, to persuade, or evoke emotion and help tie back to the central message of the text. Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, AJD’s “Marriage - How Has it Changed Over Time,” and Marie...
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There always comes a time where a change in life needs to happen. Change is not always negative; it sometimes can be positive depending on the situation you are dealing with. You will never know how it can affect you if you never try to attempt it. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, there were people...
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Have you ever had the feeling or thought that your mother acted and raised you differently than other mothers? There are many mothers with different perspectives and opinions on how a woman should be or behave in front of other people. In Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”, a mother teaches a girl about certain beliefs coming from society and culture at the...
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The novel Beloved is based on the tragic story of Margret Garner, a runaway slave, and her kids, whom she attempted to kill to seek a “fate worse than death” than allowing them to be taken away from her by slave catchers. She, however, is only successful with one--two year-old Beloved--before she is caught. This traumatic event leads to the...
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in 3 January 1892 was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories,...
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Central claim- “Outliers are those who have been given opportunities - and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them” (Gladwell 267). Strategy 1-- Malcolm Gladwell uses many rhetorical strategies to expand his point and add some zest such as using narration to make a descriptive and detailed picture of his point and uses parallelism to...
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Although the tourism industry in developing countries seems to be a viable source for economic development, they are adversely affecting the livelihood of the locals residing there by glorifying and worsening their impoverished conditions further which Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘A Small Place’ and Jessa Crispin’s ‘The Unsettled’ emphasize on by introducing other concepts such as gentrification and corruption. While both passages...
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The point which is to be adressed in the beginning is what is an epic poem and an epic film? An epic poem, epic, epoc, or epopee is a long narrative poem, usually involving a period beyond living memory in which the extraordinary acts of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealing with gods or other divine powers, formed...
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Question 1 We can see many situations where the local gaze was in contrast with the tourist gaze in stories like Interpreter of Maladies by Lahiri. Right off the first scene we could see the communication barrier form between local, Mr. Kapasi who mistook the Das family as locals instead of diasporic travelers. Mr. Kapasi first encounters the Das family...
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David and Goliath are a novel by Malcolm Gladwell, this novel discusses the sociology of underdogs, misfits and the art of battling the giants. David and Goliath indicate two main points, they are lopsided battles that sometimes ended with an underdog of victories as it may seem. In other words, the true capabilities of our opponents are assessing them on...
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Title: The Fault In Our Stars Author: John Green Publisher: Penguin Books UK Number of pages: 313 Why did I choose this book: I chose this book because I already saw the movie and I found it very impressive, so I was curious about the book. a: Realistic, love story b: The story is told from Hazel’s perspective. c: I...
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The theme in the story “A Farewell to Arms” is based on love and war. Ernest Hemingway offered a different account of war that is unromanticized and more practical. Frederic Henry is the main character of the story. Throughout the novel, his character progresses quite a lot. Hemingway uses the war as an instrument to temporarily separate the two and...
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Introduction Kurt Vonnegut's short story "2 B R 0 2 B" presents a dystopian vision of a future where population control has reached authoritarian extremes. The narrative unfolds in a world where death has been nearly eradicated, and the equilibrium of birth and death is maintained by a macabre system: for a new life to be born, another must die....
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In chapter one of Malcolm Gladwell’s book David & Goliath, Gladwell makes an argument of how there are advantages of disadvantages and also disadvantages of advantages. He continues in the chapter with some examples proving his statement by using Vivek Ranadive coaching his daughter’s basketball team, as well as political scientist Ivan Arreguin-Toft’s example of why wars are usually won...
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The introduction to Malcolm Gladwell’s book is aptly titled “Goliath”. That is to say, the author retells the famous legend in his own way here, mixing the biblical facts with nuggets of historically accurate (as Gladwell claims) facts to show that the moral of the story is not as it appears to be at the first glance. The “extended” version...
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To fully understand and analyze a text it is difficult not to look at the author, in this case Edgar Allen Poe. Although Poe once claimed that his short stories are in no way about his personal life or about him, it is hard to imagine an author writing about something that they know nothing about or haven’t experienced at...
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is known for being one of the most banned or controversial books over the years. The book shows that a society can have sex with anyone and do drugs, whilst being able to openly talk about it, and have the ability to handle the issues casually and publically, with there being zero consequences as...
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, is about a girl and her family living in oppressed African American neighborhood when a family friend Khalil gets killed by racially motivated police brutality in the presence of the girl (Starr). Starr goes into grief and has to testify for the case against the police officer. When it is decided that the...
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Analysis of Europe after the Rain II and Travelling Woman At the turn of the twentieth century, artists began experimenting with different mediums of art attempting to represent the world they lived in through abstract presentations. This was exemplified in many different social and political movements which spanned across the world. Many of the movements were centered in Europe. Two...
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The realization behind knowing one must die has a great importance. It shouldn’t be a depressing or negative thing. Emily Dickinson often wrote poetry about death including her own. The poetry that Emily Dickinson leaves behind widens the eyes of the reader. These poems allow a better understand that death is inevitable and should not be feared. One must die...
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If there were a thousand and one pages to write on Sappho, it still would not be enough. So I choose to only write five. Throughout this research assignment there were many ways found to express the meaning of Sappho, Poem 16. I have decided to focus my essay on the differences between meanings of love and desire. The differentiation...
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1000 Words Essay about Heroism Each and every person needs to succeed at something. Regardless of whether it be sports, school, their activity, or even the general idea of life. Sacrifice some idea of opportunity so as to succeed. Sacrifice is a more important than success since one can not make without sacrificing something first. Nothing will occur if the...
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Another Fine Mess is a short story written by Ray Bradbury. In this story two old females, Bella and Zelda are seeking for love. These women were confronted by a couple of ghosts during the middle of the nights. To whom they showed love and affection which they were deprived of. This is basically the story. However, on a closer...
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The play “Othello” by William Shakespeare, demonstrates how jealousy brings irreparable consequences, revealing the importance of one’s need for ‘independent thinking’. Shakespeare wrote the play with the central idea of emphasize humanity, worship of humanity, fully express humanity and human desires. Firstly, the impulse is the beginning of the destruction of a person. In the play, Othello is the victim...
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Abstract The human mind has historically been the subject of research on cognitive ability and ways to measure intelligence. In the early 1900s and throughout the twentieth century, an increased interest in this field would lead to the development of theories by prominent psychologists such as Jean Piaget, Alfred Binet, Charles Spearman, and William Stern who coined the term “intelligence...
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Abstract Crime and Punishment have existed since biblical times. Since the beginning essentially no laws were in existence, and the whirlwind of what society deemed as necessary has provided some significant historical impacts throughout the centuries. Crime has in essence, been the same although it has had some changes due to our technological advances, however punishment, nevertheless, has gone through...
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