Quindlen, Anna.” Stuff is not salvation”. She argues that people waste their money on unnecessary things, stuff can temporally bring happiness and satisfaction. The author explains to her audience some interesting assertions about the consumer culture. Quindlen explains to the reader why stuff do not bring real happiness. I agree with some of the author’s points to an extent, people...
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Some fairy tale story can affect people physically and emotionally, but once in a while a story can call a person to escape it. The Cinderella is an misogynist story with toughness use of setting and scandalous characters that engages readers and can move them to treat women fairly. Perrault was born in Paris to a wealthy bourgeois family, the...
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As a specific mode of fiction, Drama is different from the two previously introduced literary forms of expression (i.e. Prose Fiction and poetry) in that it is enacted (though there are some types of drama which are meant to be read). Dramatic arts, the rules which govern their performance on stage or even the very construction of dramatic texts, are...
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“A documentary is a large term to depict a non-fiction movie that in some way 'documents' or captures reality.” Documentary practice is the process of preparing documentary projects. It relates to what people do with media devices, content, form, and production techniques so as to deal with the efficient, ethical, and conceptual difficulties and preferences that occur as they make...
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Some people say they have dreams that feet like it are real. Make sure that you don’t have any typos. There is always a gap between reality and illusion. That is exactly what Peyton Farquhar did in the short story, “ An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge”, by Ambrose Bierce. Throughout the story, Bierce uses examples of foreshadowing, preternatural plot...
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In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee focuses on the social inequality in a few different forms during her novel. Most of the social inequality that we see throughout Lee’s story is because of the mindset that the people of Maycomb have and their unwillingness to change their ways. This view that the people of Maycomb have is...
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Let’s be honest, that feeling of being betrayed by someone once thought of as trustworthy is like a punch in the stomach. This awful feeling, called betrayal, is defined as violating a person’s trust or confidence - and this is exactly the main theme of the story. A story in which the husband leaves the wife causing the wife to...
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Jack London’s story, “To Build A Fire” is about a struggle of survival between man and nature, which happens through overconfidence and arrogance as opposed to experience and intelligence. These struggles arise through the man's arrogance and overconfidence by ignoring the signs of nature. The man tries hard to meet his boys at the agreed location and time, but the...
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In the novel book called Maus, a lot of guilt has been described. Vladek expressed most of his guilt to his son [Art], and Art sense the feeling of guilt he receives from his father. Art was born after the Holocaust; he was growing up in a time of the holocaust survivors. As a child, Art experienced a lot of...
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Introduction Leonardo da Vinci, the quintessential Renaissance polymath, left an indelible mark on both art and science through his myriad inventions and insights. His contributions, while diverse, are unified by a profound curiosity about the natural world and a commitment to empirical observation. As an artist, da Vinci revolutionized the techniques of painting, creating works that continue to captivate audiences...
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Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, KS on July 7th, 1897. She had always been into activities for both genders more than the usual, just for girls’ hobbies growing up. After her graduation, she was a nurse’s aid in Toronto during World War I. In 1920 she took her first plane ride with her dad; he was a pilot and...
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Imagine being a young soldier who was forced to go to war and witnessed the death of his fellow soldiers each and every day? Wilfred Owen was an English poet and soldier who discussed the horrors of war through each of his poems in the 20th century. In Wilfred Owen’s poem Futility and Dulce et Decorum Est empathy is encouraged...
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His Black identity comes to the fore when he goes on to say that this story ‘gave form and meaning to confuse defensive feelings that had long been shaping in me’. Hostility towards the whites develops further in Richard. As he writes, “Tension would set in at the mere mention of whites and a vast complex of emotions involving the...
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The exquisitely decorated Ellesmere Chaucer is considered to be one of the most significant and high quality illuminated manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, currently owned by the Huntington Library in California. Chaucer wrote the Tales during the fourteenth century, a time when the social structure was rapidly progressing. He addresses this change of events through “The Prologue of the...
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Have you ever wanted something so hard in life that you chased after it to the ends of the earth? Or did you idly sit by wishing and dreaming? “Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision”. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is a story about people trying to achieve what they...
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Relationships are not easy by any means. There are three pieces of literature in this unit that express this truth very well. “The Storm” and “The Story of an Hour” are both works by Kate Joplin, and Andrew Marvell continues the expression of this feeling in his poem “To His Coy Mistress.” Each of these poems allows the reader to...
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During the early 20th Century, both Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde write about their experiences as strong African-American young women facing extensive racial discrimination, recounting similar but very different stories in their essays. These accounts are diverse in the management of their plight but typical for the voice of the generation and an unfortunate but accurate reflection of historical...
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From poetry to playwright, Langston Hughes played an important role in American literature. Langston Hughes was undoubtedly one of the most important figures in twentieth-century black American writing (Morley). He had an artistic ability to use literature as a social platform. Langston Hughes’ work plays a vital role in literature all the same. Hughes greatly contributed to the Harlem Renaissance,...
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Introduction This study is about representation of women in the African American Literature as written in Native son and The Colour purple. African-American literature has undergone a revolutionary change from Phillies Wheatley, the first African-American poet to publish her works, to Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Walter Mosley, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall, the contemporary top Black writers. Phillies...
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I recently read the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. In the book, the author discusses how success is more about collaboration and hard work than intelligence. As a result, professional achievement and advancement are available to those who work hard and pursue each opportunity they find. This book has informed me of how I can make changes in my own...
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Have you ever wondered what is ALS and how it affects the human brain. ALS is a terminal disease that means the person who has ALS will die. Many famous people have suffered and died from ALS, but Morrie Schwartz may have been the most influential surfers of all. ALS is a progressive neurological disease that causes the neurons that...
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The story 'A Worn Path begins in December with an ancient black woman strolls through a pine forest. Her name is Phoenix Jackson. She is wearing a red cloth tied around her head, her shoes are unlaced, and her face has “numberless branching wrinkles.” Phoenix’s age and poverty are highlighted through these descriptions The cane both aids her physically and...
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The civil rights movement was a historical time stamp in the fight for equality for all African Americans. “Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples and “Juxtaposing The Black Boy & The Bullet” by Danez Smith work together to bring a coherent image to the reader through the use of irony, personification, and juxtaposition to show that although many...
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Back in the days the female population in France wasn’t treated equally as the male population and there were a lot of inequalities which disadvantaged women in front the mans. In the book Candide, wrote by Voltaire, during the whole story women are getting treated like objects and have no rights. The book shows Voltaire’s point of view towards the...
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The experiences that people go through in life can shape how they look at life and other people in society. Many people change their perspectives about life based on the lessons that they learn along the way. Change is important in the life of an individual. No one can categorize change as positive or negative before they see the outcomes....
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In the novel “Great Expectation” by Charles Dickens, the main character Pip grows and develops into a young gentleman, who learns many valuable life lessons about himself. Along his path of development, Pip’s knowledge and growth are influenced by his friends and family who act as his guardians. Throughout the novel Great Expectations, Pip receives both spiritual and moral aid...
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Within the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford, the main protagonist, takes herself through a journey to establish her identity and find herself. The journey that Janie is on is moreso a means for her to find herself, which expertly articulates feminism in a period that does not listen to the voices of women....
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It is easy to fall victim to the idea of how limited, in the sense that we constantly feel restricted by society’s standards. Yet, we are reminded of our existence and expectation that God has for us. Religion – easily summarized as the study of life and faith further solidifies our existence. It focuses on how God brought the world...
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Over the last few weeks, we have discussed and analyzed the important elements within poetry. A good poem is a symptom of the poet’s effort to make sense of the world. Often, a poet will use many different tools such as personification, symbols, and metaphors, etc. to ensure that the reader truly understands the underlying point and main idea of...
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The film industry saw dynamic changes after the Second World War, which made Hollywood change its content and style. The Hollywood film industry experienced booming years between 1939 and 1946 with the industry significantly. As a result, their attendance and box receipts declined to almost half of the 1946 levels within seven years. The changes were triggered by many factors,...
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