The history of African-Americans begins with slavery. African people were first brought to British North America as indentured servants in 1619, where they were not recognized as citizens, rather, as a commodity. The laws enacted at the time ensured the continuation of the restrictive social order, which was based on a racial hierarchy which dictated that black people were born...

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Thesis Things Fall Apart focuses and analyses Igbo society as shown in the novel, before and after arrival of missionaries to Umuofia, which led to clash of cultures. It also incorporates critical theory to analyze the novel. It is based on post-colonial criticism, as it is relevant to Achebe’s writings in Things Fall Apart. For example, post-colonial criticism chiefly deals...

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Sin was apart of puritan’s everyday lives. In Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”, both have similarities and address the same concepts. In Edwards’s sermon, he uses many scare tactics, while Hawthorne left people to ponder his main purpose. While some would characterize Jonathan Edwards as dark and deep,...

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The text Oliver Twist by Charles Dickson and the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding deal with child characters that are forced to assume adult roles because they've been excluded from society in some way. The authors want to make their purpose clear that men in positions of power are often not the best role models. The authors...

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In spite of the fact that it is hard to be against the general public's convictions, writer Kate Chopin beats that to bring perusers a quality intriguing writing. Using traditions of story stories like character improvement, plot control, and incongruity further bolstering her good fortune, she draws the peruser into the universe of feelings that the general public would laugh...

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Marriage - the act of uniting two beings under vows that uphold morals to honor, love, and cherish for as long as both partners shall live - is undoubtedly one of the oldest traditions known to human existence. There may not be an era as exceptionally pro-marriage as the Victorian period, as it was the societal norm to dictate marriage...

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is engaging and authentic to the reader as it shows how Liesel was able to escape from her awful reality after she began to steal books and learn to read for herself. Reading books allowed her to retreat away from all the horrible things happening in her life. Leisel learns how words can bring...

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It would be fallacious to suggest that the latter half of the twentieth century was anything less than revolutionary as the American literary sphere was marked by various social uprisings that sought to weave nationwide equality into the fabric of mainstream society. Aside from being the cornerstone for a profound cultural shift among the general populace, American literature during the...

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Dr. Temple Grandin once said that; “the most interesting people you’ll find are ones that don’t fit into your average cardboard box. They’ll make what they need, they’ll make their own boxes.” Mark Haddon’s, Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime explores prevalent topics among today’s teen society. A fictional story in essence, narrated by the protagonist; a fifteen-year-old...

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Introduction to the Dystopian World of 'Harrison Bergeron' One would expect that having their son taken away and being wanted by the government would leave an impact on them, but not in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s world of Harrison Bergeron. In Harrison Bergeron, society functions by full equality, meaning in every aspect, everyone is equal and no one is better than...

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Is Anna Entirely To Blame For Her Death? It may be easy to point the finger at Anna for the cause of her own death. Yes, she did make the choice to commit adultery. She had the choice to not be in an affair with Vronsky. But, she is not one hundred percent to blame for her death. If we...

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Imagine waking up, alone, in a world that completely changed overnight. This is exactly the position that Snowman, the main character in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, is in. In Atwood’s novel, the topic of biotechnology and the costly effects of it are explored in great detail. Biotechnology is “the exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other purposes, especially...

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'Hard Times' by Charles Dickens is a novel written in 1854 during the Industrialization upset. The story delineates Thomas Gradgrind's thoughts on learning and how he actualizes it onto his kids, prompting unfavorable impacts. Gradgrind accepted that the main method for learning was to take in hard realities and not let emotions or inventiveness, the 'extravagant', disrupt everything. Dickens depicts...

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“The Big Trip Up Yonder” by Kurt Vonnegut and The Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley are two different literary works that are similar but as well have differences. Although the two jobs are different in the form where one is a story, and the other is a poem, the authors have Applied different literacy skills, which make the two similar....

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The context of a novel means the circumstances in which it was written - the social, historical, intellectual and literary factors that influenced what the author wrote. All literature is influenced by the life experiences that the author has gone through and these are shaped by the world in which the author lived in. Therefore, in order to truly understand...

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The short story Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys follows the journey of mentally disabled, thirty seven year old factory janitor Charlie Gordon and his quest for intelligence through his diary entries. When Charlie’s adult night school teacher recommends him for a scientific study designed to triple human intelligence, Charlie is finally given the chance to become the person he’s...

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To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 at the height of the Civil Rights movement in the US. Set in the depression, circa 1930, it was an instant success and focussed on common humanity through the eyes of an innocent, uncorrupted girl, Scout Finch. Set in the South, Scout’s young female voice navigates the reader through the complexities of...

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The Cantebury Tales, composed by Geoffrey Chaucer during the fourteenth century, investigates the stories told by different characters for a prize of one night at the Canterbury Inn. One character specifically, the Wife of Bath, recounts to a story which article against the present norms of the fourteenth century. While the Wife of Bath difficulties the social standards of the...

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Janie Crawford is a captivating character in African-American literature and is studied as a symbol of strength, weakness, liberty, and restraint. Janie, the main character of Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Hurston, is a young African-American woman, desirous for more control of her life during a time when women had little to no say. Some literary critics deem...

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The plot of Beauty and the Beast is about a young country girl who lives in a small town with her father called Maurice. Gaston is a handsome man who wants to marry Belle because of her looks, however, she is not interested in him. Near the town, in a castle, lives the Beast. He used to be a Prince...

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J.D. Salinger introduced Holden Caulfield as an emotional teenager that had been kicked off his boarding school. Holden faced difficulty when he left and felt alone in the world. His parents were not there for him and his sister, so he had to take up a responsibility that he was not ready for. He was not ready to protect his...

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Regularly of our lives, we spend endless hours under the grasp of innovation. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, innovation and media are clearly coordinated into the lives of the characters in the novel. In this anecdotal, advanced world, firefighters light fires to copy books as opposed to stop fires. In this general public, books are viewed as awful in light...

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Brother opens the story about how he always wished he had a younger sibling so he could run and play and do everything he enjoyed doing with someone else. Then, when his mother gave birth to a crippled boy, the Brother’s wish seemed like it was not going to become a reality. Three months passed and his parents decided to...

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Macbeth, once an honorable character, loyal to his kings and friends. Always praised by everyone around him because of his positive demeanour. However, as the play continues, Macbeth soon falls victim to the witches’ prediction and suffers from his fatal flaw which is the desire for power and position. Macbeth murders his King who sees Macbeth as a loyal soldier...

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In this vignette “Sally” in the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros illustrates the role of women in a Hispanic culture and many difficulties they’re facing just because they’re “women on the mango street”. This passage is significant as it highlights the difficulties of being a women in the Hispanic culture. As the passage begins, Cisneros jumps...

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The Book Thief is about a girl named Liesel, who grew up in Molching, Germany during World War ll. After Liesel’s brother dies, her mum sends her to live with foster parents, Hans and Rosa. Amidst the novel, Liesel steals numerous books but does not know how to read. Hans observes Liesel’s theft and teaches her how to read and...

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The warriors that fought in the Vietnam War were forced to bear numerous extraordinarily shocking encounters. It was these occasions that prompted incredible human feelings, those sentiments that were the things they carried inside. All that they carried impacted them whether it was physical or mental. Everything they carried could in one way or another be the reason for them...

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Money and success are what the American Dream is all about and what people seek to find when coming to the United States. So what does it mean to be part of the upper class or the so-called one percent”. According to the 2018 Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse Research Institute, one needs a net worth of $871,320 U.S....

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Comparing the themes in A Long Way Gone and Five Chimneys Situations that have happened in your lifetime do not define who you are or what your future is like. It doesn't matter how challenging the circumstances were for both of them, Ishmael Beah and Olga Lengyel still carried on with both of their lives. These two stories deal with...

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In “The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair had two compatible goals in mind: to simulate outrage at the practice of selling diseased meat to the public and the sympathy for laborers who worked in the unsanitary conditions of warehouses. However, in “The Jungle” Sinclair places psychologically shallow, unrealistic characters in an extremely detailed, realistic environment. Thus causing readers to be more affected...

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