I believe that William Blake was a religious seeker and a fantastic artist whom was known for not only his literary work, but also his artistic skills. This can be best seen in his poems like “the Lamb” and “the Tyger” that are riddled with religious connotations. In Blake’s poem the Lamb the speaker answers his own question: “I know...
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When reading Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place, the reader is placed within the shoes of a tourist visiting the island of Antigua. This tourist, in the eyes of Kincaid, is trying to escape their life for a moment from that of the Western world. In her mind, this tourist is a white, Western person who is unknowingly, or knowingly, condescending...
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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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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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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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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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In the seventeenth century, The Scientific Revolution brought light to people challenging previous ideas and thinking freely on the ideas of science. This was a new concept, as previously, the world ran on tradition, and authority was never to be questioned. However, this new idea of thinking freely inspired men everywhere to think for themselves and share new ideas. Soon,...
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Maya Angelou was a writer and a well-known civil rights activist. She is known for her memoir, The Caged Bird Sings. Maya changed the world by fighting for what she believed in. She never gave up and was very positive. She cared for women rights, she was a teacher, she was an amazing poet, dancer, a director, a screenwriter, and...
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The world changed forever by the booming entertainment in the 1920s. The radio was invented, large, Art Deco motion-picture houses were constructed, and women in aviation played a very big part in the freedom women have today ('Science and Technology in the 1920s). It broke the barrier in women's freedom and shaped today's women. In the 1920s there were many...
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Poets, during the 19th century, emphasized passion and emotion in their poetry based on experiences that they had faced during their lifetime. The three poems in this essay will show or represent an experience that each poet had experienced. A mixture of jealousy; confliction; and regret, the poems “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, “O Captain! My Captain” by Walt...
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In this paper, it will compare and contrast Edgar Allen Poe’s poetry and Emily Dickinson’s poetry. It will analyze their styles, their take death, embodiment of death, and America. It will also give a short back ground of the poets and their lives. Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) “is recognized as one of the greatest American poets, a poet who...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s interpretations of religion throughout his book talks about his way of what the right practice of religion might be, as expressed in “Cat’s Cradle,” the primary source of religion is bokononism. The novel takes place in a fictitious island called San Lorenzo, the inhabitants there foresee the faith if bokononism as their only way of practicing religion. Vonnegut...
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Robert Frost interprets bad habits such as greed and stubbornness through his comparisons. This is clearly shown in his two poems ‘The Cow in apple time’ which is about a cow, binging on apples and ‘mending wall’ which is about the experience of two neighbors mending a seemingly useless wall. In both of these poems, Robert Frost portrays the gluttony...
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Feminism is mostly considered as a Movement. It helps to recover women’s rights in the society. In the eighteenth century, women had a lot of rules in society. According to the black people, men are always one step ahead of women and believe that they have various privileges. The main theme of feminism is based on women's equality. Mainly, the...
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What does symbolism add to the literature? Symbolism is a literary device used to express something in an indirect way. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is an example of literature that uses symbolism frequently. Lord of the Flies narrates the story of a group of boys that are stranded on an island, and what happens to them during the...
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So begins Franz Kafka's masterpiece, 'The Metamorphosis,' written in 1912 and is a magnificent masterpiece of three things. Physiology, sociology, and existential anxiety that has attracted the reader's attention. This work can be viewed as an exploration of the outcast in European society. Kafka's fiction is set in an alternate reality that is threatening, one always has the sense of...
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Introduction Frame narratives can simply be understood through an illustration of an onion: a literary device that features a story within a story, at times within yet another story. Peeling the onion, one might say. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this structure in literature reaches out to the hearts of each individual character and their specific frame of the novel, echoing...
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While there are many differences between Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and “Paradise Lost” by John Milton, there are plenty of things to compare. Both the authors write about the major struggle between good and evil. The characters in both Frankenstein and “Paradise Lost”, have similarities such as God and Victor to the devil and the monster. God and Victor are...
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The Great Gatsby, composed by F. Scott Fitzgerald, investigates a few topics that are viewed as applicable till the present date. The Great Gatsby portrays the narrative of Jay Gatsby, a poor ranch kid who figures out how to pick up riches, just to be slaughtered after an endeavor to prevail upon his old love Daisy Buchanan. All through the...
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Introduction Celie is at the center of The Color Purple, an African American woman born and raised in the southern United States in the early 1900s, and the novel she narrates covers the first half of her life. The Color Purple takes us through a series of episodes in Celie’s life, tracing her lifelong quest for love and a sense...
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Due to the universal human experience, all human beings are subject to the inherited ambiguity associated with the continuous cycle of life and death, and ultimately the search for the truth regarding their own mortality. The role of texts in our society is to allow for the examination of our own consciousness and the evaluation and awareness of our human...
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Frankenstein, a science fiction novel, written by Mary Shelley. According to London in 1993, in this novel, Frankenstein has ambitiously created an ugly giant named Daemon; but Daemon did not obey the wishes of Frankenstein. Instead, Daemon killed the relatives of Frankenstein, and the body and mind of Frankenstein, who had been bathed in happiness, were severely wounded and finally...
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Composers are often able to convey the difficult experiences of growth and maturation through their exploration of complex parental-filial relationships. Sofie Laguna’s The Eye of the Sheep (2014) and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John (1985), are domestic fiction novels of the bildungsroman form, in which both composers successfully capture an authentic narrative voice through their use of distinct, idiosyncratic perspectives, enabling...
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Race, gender and class are socially constructed ideologies that shape the experience of individuals. The first social hierarchy is racial oppression which focuses on a specific race with cruel restraints. This social form of oppression includes mistreatment or exploitation which is socially supported. The second social oppression is class oppression which involves the discrimination based on social class; the socio-economic...
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The novel “The Metamorphosis,” by Franz Kafka illustrates a young man named Gregor Samsa who transforms into a beetle. At the beginning of the story, Gregor’s life consists of his job as a salesman and helping his family to pay off their debt. Gregor wakes up in the morning, confused about his transformation into a bug. Due to his Metamorphosis,...
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The definition of charismatic leadership is the method of encouraging behaviors in others by communication, persuasion and force of personality. The disappearance of the motivating and successful aviation leader Amelia Earhart shook the lives of everyone living in the 1930’s. As the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and bestselling author, she was loved by everyone. She...
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The Historical Fiction novel “Of Mice and Men”, by John Steinbeck is about the journey of two friends George Milton and Lennie Small. The book takes place a few miles south of Soledad at the Salinas River. George and Lennie go to work on a ranch during the Great Depression. Throughout the book, one is able to tell that George...
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For many years, Native Americans have encompassed a negative pool of stereotypes; one of these negative stereotypes is the attachment to the term “alcoholics”. In today’s society, the propaganda, that “all Native Americans” are being insensitively addicted to alcohol, is extremely offensive; this is because it stigmatizes an unfortunate disease some members, within their culture, face. Members of this discourse...
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