Many characters in the historical fiction âRansomâ by David Malouf and the 2009 film âInvictusâ directed by Clint Eastwood portray forgiveness and reconciliation through their actions and attitude. âInvictusâ highlights the determination of wanting to unite a ârainbow nationâ whereas, âRansomâ shows how the act of reconciliation unites two long-time enemies. Through these acts of reconciliation both writer and director demonstrate the impact of forgiveness in bringing people closer together. Additionally, both texts illustrate the impact division has on an...
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In a general sense, women are supposed to share the same rights as men; however, throughout the centuries, women have suffered under menâs control. Men have been viewing women as their personal property in varying degrees, using their power to create a pattern that shapes womenââs characters in our society and to create rules for women to follow. Under such a societal structure, there is a dominant power in the male social class that has caused womenâs rights to be...
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âThis is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona.â By using background stories and third-person narratives, it introduces readers to tense relationships and seeks self-identity from the perspective of Native Americans. Alexei showed the audience the personal conflict and broken relationship between loved ones leading to the guidance, understanding, and guidance of the internal struggle. The author encourages others to ask important questions about themselves and others, allowing individuals to gain clarity and insight through self-reflection. In this way, the...
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Traumatic experiences are a terrible thing for anyone experience. But they do happen to people. When these events transpire, it is possible that the victim of the incident will start showing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The DSM-5 lets us know that some of the people who are most likely to be affected by PTSD are the âsurvivors of rape, military combat and captivity, and ethnically or politically motivated internment and genocideâ (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). We hope that...
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Linda Rodriguez McRobbie address in her article âShould We Stop Keeping Pets? Why More and More's Ethicists Say Yesâ, right of animalâs self-determination. Dr. Hal Herzog, cited by McRobbie, claimed we give our pets the characteristics of a family but restrain them with our choices. McRobbie argues that keeping pets is unethical and people are taking away their freedom. Even though she also suggests how dog and cats are euthanized every year and leaving them alone is as good as...
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This article essay reviews âWhen Markers Meet Marketing: Ethnicity, Race, Hybridity, and Kinship in Genetic Genealogy Television Advertisingâ (Scodari, December 2017). This review includes a summary, discussion, and critique about the article mentioned. It includes many topics including DNA analysis and its relationship with ethnicity, race, hybridity, and many more. This review manages to discuss each point and topic in fine detail and connect them all to each together, like pieces of a puzzle. Even though there might be questions...
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This article is about the impact of TV violence on children and adolescents by Barbara Frazier. The first section of this article informs about how TV violence can influence and change childrenâs values, behaviors, attitudes, and ways of thinking. Barbara Frazier wrote about how the regular offering of TV in todayâs media is characterized by a lot of violence. Many of the most popular TV shows show scenes with murders, fights, around the world wars, kidnappings, traffic accidents, wrestling, and...
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âThe Moment Before the Gun Went Offâ is a story written by Nadine Gordimer. It is a narrative of a white farmer named Marais Van der Vyver, whose gun accidentally shoots and kills his young black man farmer, Lucas. The story's plot is strongly influenced by the apartheid policy, the segregation of whites and non-whites and the white supremacy for 50 years in South Africa. The story is about how people perceive the issue regarding the death of a young...
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By simply reading the titles of Mary Oliverâs poems you can see how she connects with nature, not only nature its self but with the characteristics of nature such as animals and seasons. Mary Oliverâs poems are titled after an animal with a characteristic of nature for instance âTurtleâ, âBlack Snakeâ, âThe Snow Cricketâ and so on. Her main focus is nature and everything involved with nature. She portrays natureâs characteristics with personification, metaphors, similes, and symbols to describe the...
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One reasons bird fly is to migrate. They fly away from their natural habitat to escape the grueling cold only to return months later to where they came from. In Song of Solomon, flight is a central theme, especially for the main character, Milkman. Throughout the story, flight becomes a symbol and we see it follows the progression of Milkman from childhood to adulthood, in fact reading âflightâ right after his birth in the beginning of the novel and seen...
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In both Ozymandias and London, the poets William Blake and Percey Shelley critique social structures that award power and authority to the wealthy minority; to the disadvantage of the poor and those who hold a lesser status in society. This is explored in numerous ways in both Ozymandias and London. Shelley and Blake have both manipulated structural techniques in order to portray how those of higher power have the ability to dictate society as they please. In London, this can...
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In Paul Theroux's essay âBeing a Manâ, he argues that there is a hole present between genders is the predominant cause of the social misfits that exist in our society. He moreover mentions that manhood itself has made some guys disown their very own identity. Theroux's asserts that the whole thought of manhood in the United States is pitiful compare to others. The question of what makes a man a man has been referred to and been taught in many...
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Schapiro: âBy style is usually meant the constant form â and sometimes the constant elements, qualities, and expression â in the art of an individual or a groupâ. Barthes: âStyle excuses everything, absolves us from everything, notably any historical reflection; it imprisons the spectator in the servitude of a pure formalismâ. The above two quotations give, firstly, a working definition of the term style as used in art history in the 1950s; and secondly a firm repudiation of its use...
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The short story âCathedralâ has many different themes. These include, but arenât limited to, jealousy, insecurity, isolation, detachment and connection. Raymond Carverâs short story âCathedralâ is about prejudice and the ignorance that comes with it. The narratorâs false assumptions based off stereotypes and lack of knowledge eventually is overcome by treating others with equality and seeing things from their perspective. The main characterâs narrow-mindedness is already apparent in the first few sentences when saying, âI wasnât enthusiastic about his visitâŚ...
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Review of Literature The Himalayas is a massive mountain range extending over 2500 km in length, between 80 and 300 km wide, and rising from low-lying plains over 800 m above sea level. It produces a distinctive climate of its own and influences the climate of much of Asia (Zobel and Singh, 1997). Troup (1921) divided Indian Himalayas into the western and eastern regions. Singh, 2006 states that variations in topographical features create a range of climatic and habitat settings...
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Kwame Nkrumah in his essay âNeo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialismâ unleashes two different dimensions where in theory a neo-colonial state seems independent and sovereign but in reality, that stateâs economic system, political policy, cultural practices are influenced/controlled by external powers. In the documentary âLife and Debtâ, directed by Stephanie Black, the director has carefully presented how external power such as the IMF entered Jamaica to save its economy from the financial crisis, but in reality, it was just exploitation...
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The main character of the short story 'The Sniper' was calm and brave, he stayed really calm when he was hiding on the roof, and he was brave, because when his arm was hit by the bullet, he tried to overcome his pain, and he wrapped the wound himself. He is smart and resourceful, he tricked another sniper which was from the enemy side, and he killed him successfully. He was also petty because the dead sniper he killed was...
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In his article âThe Optimal Time to Dunk an Oreo, According to Scienceââ, Lucas Reilly brings us a roundup of scientific research of just how long our cookie/biscuit should remain in the milk, including an actual physics equation and a university-approved chart. This piece of writing explores Washburn's/Fisher's equation, how the equation works, and how it benefits us as readers. For most readers, they may think the writer's purpose is to entertain us because of the purpose of the equation....
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âRoll of Thunder Hear my Cryâ, is an interesting story written by Mildred D. Taylor. A story of courage, love, and pride, are the three words displayed on the front cover and are also the three words most people would describe in this story. The story is an award-winning best-seller book and is definitely a must-read book. The story displays a range of different aspects to do with Prejudice and how the whites treat the blacks poorly just because they...
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Human experiences can be fraught with danger and trauma, however, can still lead to self-growth and understanding. Human experiences are deeply embedded throughout texts to display and to emphasize how characters interact with each other. In âThe Boy in the Striped Pajamasâ, the director describes the three human experiences shown in the three characters: Bruno, Shmuel and Brunoâs father. The director challenges world views by incorporating the following human experiences in the characters and how characters interact with each other....
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Introduction The main topic to be discussed in this synthesis paper will be the Historical, Social, Economic and Political Implications of Art. Through the various given readings, specifically 5 readings related to the topic, the determining of main arguments in each reading by carefully deconstructing the readings and gathering salient information on it. The order of each reading to be discussed will be as follows: Art History and the Global Challenge: A Critical Perspective, Infrastructure of Colonial Modernity, Itinerant Figures,...
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The influences for my own manifesto begin with manifestos by; Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marcâs âPreface to Der Blaue Reiter Almanacâ (1912), Vincente Huidobro âWe Must Createâ (1922), Barnett Newman âthe sublime is nowâ (1948) and Claes Oldenburgâs âI am for an artâ (1961). The fundamentals of these manifestoâs wish for exploration of endless possibilities, a desire to be the movement that urges change in the art scene. I want my manifesto to express that art is no way easy,...
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âWe accept the love we think we deserveâ Dear friend, being a wallflower does help gain the trust of other people but, does being a wallflower allow those to participate in life completely? âWe accept the love we think we deserveâ but how do we know if we deserve any better. Steven Chbosky explores the themes of acceptance, tolerance and the effects of being inclusive of others and he also explores the importance of participating in life and not isolating...
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Individuality, as found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is defined as total character peculiar to and distinguishing an individual from others (âIndividualityâ), or simply put, someoneâs personality that sets them apart from everyone else. This trend of individuality seems to be the forefront of Lois Lowryâs novel The Giver. In The Giver, the young protagonist, Jonas (and everyone else) live in what turns from a utopian community in the beginning, into a dystopian community full of sameness and lack of self-control...
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Not every reader finds a series of books that are pleasurable to read by the same author. For S.E Hinton, her books are extremely eye capturing for many readers of all ages. Have you ever read a book that is extremely hard to put down? Well with Hinton's books, that is the feeling you will get when reading her books. Hinton has an extraordinary story on how she started her journey of writing. She has impacted many lives, and even...
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Brought forth for one reason and one reason just, to secure both home and mother, regardless of whether it implies your life is lost all the while. This is a honey bee's world; serious, organized, and perhaps a bit of discouraging. Honey bees are utilized all through Sue Monk Kidd's tale 'The Secret Life of Bees' as imagery for how Lily associates with society, her family/companions, and herself. As Lily, the storyteller/hero develops and develops into a lady, there are...
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Imagine living in a perfect world, where no tragedies exist and everyone gets along. Such as no war, violence, and poverty. Which The Giver community makes sure of. A perfect place with a perfect government who takes care of its people and maintains order. This is a utopian society. In the giver, there are various chapters that make us believe it is a utopian society. As finishing the novel, The Giver seems as a more dystopian society rather then utopian....
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In âThe Jungle,â Upton Sinclair had two compatible goals in mind: to create outrage with practice of selling diseased meat to the public and show a ympathy for laborers who were forced to work in such unsanitary conditions. However, in âThe Jungleâ Sinclair places psychologically shallow, unrealistic characters in an extremely detailed, realistic environment. Thus causing readers to be more affected by the horrific conditions of Packingtown. Versus the psychological damage on its residents. The novel destroys Sinclairâs second intention...
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Howes describes the self as âa construct of the mind, an hypothesis of being, socially formed even as it can be quickly turned against the very social formations that have brought it into birthâ. By exploring literary narrative thinking, which emphasises the structure of events in terms of a humanâs feelings and thoughts, a dual landscape is created by allowing for the contrast of the selfâs stream of consciousness against societyâs grouping and categorizing of the individual. In Selvonâs novel...
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The catacombs that Fortunato is led through are damp and dark, giving an eerie presence. The ancient catacombs are covered in nitre, the âwhite web-work which gleams from [the] cavern wallsâ (1), while the floor is scattered with bones, the air even having a particularly putrid smell. Such a mood creates both apprehension and suspense for the readers in the story. âThe Cask of Amontilladoâ is told by the narrator in the first person. This serves to make the âbone-chillingâ...
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