A person’s free will is limited because of gender and traditions. The people of the town are taught from a young age to be a part of the tradition because of society. At the beginning of the story Jackson writes, “The boys run around and gather rocks. The girls talk to one another and the woman greeted one another and...
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Hamlet is a contradicting play about a contradicting character. It’s a revenge story that focuses on the lack of revenge. The primary character, Hamlet, is reluctant to do what seems to be his main purpose in the play: avenging his father. He not only struggles with completing this task, but he also seems to struggle with his character and thoughts....
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Women in the Anglo-Saxon poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, were often seen as lesser than men in a Medieval time setting. In the poem, women like Guinevere were seen as social constructs of what an ideal woman should be in male-dominated society. These social constructs were noted in the beginning of the poem at a Christmas festival in...
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Zora Neal Hurston’s short story “Sweat” can be read as a work of feminist fiction, although not for the reason one thinks. We begin the story by being introduced to Delia, a washerwoman, as she is sorting out clothes after she has returned home from church. She is singing and wondering where her husband could be since he took her...
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The Progressive Movement, dated between 1890 to 1920, was a period of social activism and political reform throughout the United States. The point of the Progressive Movement was to eliminate problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. Did the Progressive Movement have more victories than failures? One of the many groups in the Progressive movement was women. Many...
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In this day of age, everyone is on their phone texting each other. Human interaction is being limited and texting is the new way to have a conversation. But is texting the best way to interact with someone? In the story “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian, Cat Person tells the story of a college student, Margot, and the relationship she...
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Infatuation… Warmth… Happiness… Those are the words people think of when they hear the word love. People seem to feel that love only has positive traits because the negative ones are often overlooked people find themselves exhausting significant amounts of energy on one person, creating unhealthy side effects. Love is a very strong force that can scientifically change the levels...
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'In oak terrace' tells the routine life of an isolated elderly woman whilst bringing sympathy to her situation from the reader and making them reflect. The poem begins with the blunt statement 'Old and alone' which perfectly introduces the protagonist. Clearly, it is evident that this woman is isolated and at the age where death awaits her, and this is...
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In the poem “Let America Be America Again,” Langston Hughes, brings attention to inequality by making the Great Depression the main subject. Hughes begins the poem by using repetition throughout his poem: “Never was America to me” which places emphasis on how America is not the “America” it claims to be. The speaker seems to be pointing out the failure...
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In the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Kathy was a young lady living a secret life. Everything she did seemed to be private but everyone around her seemed to be just like her. Many times in novels the cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings shape a character. Ishiguro uses Kathy ́s journey and realizations to show how one's...
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Reflective Essay What is history? Though history had been there since ancient periods, most people and scholars are confused about what really history means. The definition of history is neither complicated nor easy. The question of what is history sometimes feels meaningless but also superfluous. The book’ What is History?’ by E.H Carr talks about different definitions of history by...
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“What is History?” A question that needs a lot of thinking to be done. Before I read the book I thought the definition that best suits the question is “History is a narrative of what civilized men have thought or done in the past” given by Will Durant. EH Carr’s “What is History?” Not only talks about history being an...
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Introduction In this document, we are going to study the work of EH Carr on history in the book what is history? The document is divided into 5 parts to give the reader a flexible experience in the reading. Some points, paragraphs, and lines are taken from historical sources given by E.H Carr in his book what is history. The...
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Collingwood (1993) argues, if we take the word ‘science’ to mean ‘any organized body of knowledge’, then it is clear that history is a science but a special kind: whose business is to study events inaccessible to our observation, and to study these events inferentially, arguing to them from something else which is accessible to our observation, and which the...
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Introduction In the realm of historical inquiry, E.H. Carr's seminal work "What Is History?" serves as a pivotal text that challenges conventional perceptions of historical narratives. Written in 1961, Carr's exploration into the philosophy of history questions the objectivity of historical facts and emphasizes the interpretative nature of historical knowledge. He posits that history is not merely a collection of...
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First and foremost, what is the definition of History? History originates from the Greek word ‘Historia’ which means information or an inquiry designed to extract the truth. There are many definitions of history; a simple definition of history is the study of past events, particularly in human affairs. History is also a continuous, typically chronological, record of important or public...
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At first, I thought it would be about some definition or information about the subject history but after reading E.H Carr’s book, I realized there’s more to us than meets the eye. I now found that history isn’t just a mere subject of the past; it’s more than that. I got the image of history, not just being a record...
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The importance of the theme of acceptance is illuminated in Boaz Yakin’s film “Remember the Titans” (2000) through the interactions of the various characters. Set in the 1970s, the racial barriers present in society at the time are projected onto the characters who belong to a football team called “The TCW Titans”, causing conflict between the coaches and as a...
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In Greek Mythology, people describe Odysseus as a godlike person. He struggles with adversity during his sailing, showing his bravery, intelligence, and perseverance. However, the basis of Odysseus is still a man. Therefore he has normal human characteristics. In the battle with the Cyclops Polyphemus, both his godlike and human-like characteristics are shown. The wisdom of Odysseus is in his...
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In A Christmas Carol, Dickens presents the hope of redemption in the novel as a whole through the contrast and by using Scrooge from stave 1 to stave 5. At the start of the novella, we see how Scrooge has disconnected himself from society. He doesn't allow Bob to heat the office by burning coal, he believes Christmas is a...
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Love makes you do crazy things, even flip your life around. Jay Gatsby is one of the more well-known characters in this story. In the book “The Great Gatsby”, Jay Gatsby focuses on trying to manipulate the entirety of his life. He shows a lot of different characters throughout the book but they all point back to how he feels...
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For what reason do a few students leave school prepared for success while others, maybe tied with the obligation of their debt and an un-useful degree? This leaves students asking why they wasted time with school, to begin with. Since the money-related emergency that hit twenty to thirty-year-olds particularly hard began, much consideration has been attracted to whether the school...
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” is a quote by Sean Covey. It intends for people to listen not for the sake of it but for the reason to understand the other person. In the book 7 Habits of highly effective teens, Sean Covey intends to give modern-day teens...
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Through an exploration of gender thinkers considering femininity as a lived experience of endemic repression in the first-wave concerns of Woolf to the struggle for objective representation without repercussion as delineated by Gilbert and Gubar, this essay will analyze the effects of a historically patriarchal literary landscape in reproducing a damaging hegemonic subjectivity. Adopting an Althusserian lens which recognizes ideal...
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At the end of World War II, William Faulkner gave a speech after accepting a Nobel prize, his bold use of language portrays that a writer’s duty is to admonish the delusions that hinder our ability to perceive the world honestly. Two books that give an account of nostalgia, An American Childhood by Annie Dillard and The Road from Coorain...
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Perseus and his heroic deeds A long, long time ago there were two brothers Acrisius and Proetus. When their father died, the brothers fought for the throne before Acrisius defeated Proetus and assumed his father's position. Acrisius was happy. Although he had no son or heir, Acrisius and his wife were blessed with a beautiful daughter Danaë. With no heir...
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The play is called Antigone not because Antigone suffers the most, but because she suffers at all. The tragedy is befallen by both Antigone and Creon, yet the circumstances upon which they arrive there is where their similarities end. Antigone’s character is built on such a morally strong basis of fraternal love and reverence to the gods that she ends...
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Comedy vs. Tragedy: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream vs. Romeo and Juliet According to Horace Walpole, “Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel” (Wolterbeek). Over the course of many years, comedy and tragedy have been studied by various scholars, from Aristotle to Friedrich Nietzsche. In both of Shakespeare’s works, A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
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Long before daytime soap operas, Sophocles regaled the masses with the tragic tale of Oedipus the Tyrant. It is the first of its kind to enmesh the reader in a complicated web of incest, patricide, and regicide whilst featuring a protagonist who evokes rage and pity in the same breath. Centuries after its first performance, the tragedy remains a focus...
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Hamlet: An Existential Crisis in the Making Through the dawn of mankind, one thing has remained constant for humanity, and that is our crippling mortality. The tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare is about the self-doubt of the tragic hero Hamlet and his journey towards revenge in order to honor his father. Shakespeare uses the popular ideology of the time,...
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