In life some things come and go, whether it be people or even emotions, not everything is permanent. In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, the main character Santiago, who is portrayed as a courageous boy sets out from his home country to the Egyptian deserts with the goal of finding his treasure. However, along the way he encounters several bumps in the road, but with an optimistic attitude he looks at it with nothing but positivity and takes them in...
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Fun Home: a Family tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel, deals with the difficulties that a father and daughter face with sexuality/ being gay. Alison Bechdel realizes that Bruce and her are on opposite side of the Kinsey scale regarding their gender preferences. The story pursuit an understanding of how Bruce and Alison differently perceive their sexual preferences. We can wonder, how does she represent their differences in the graphic memoir ? Fun Home begins with Alison describing her father’s personality, by...
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Charles Darnay was accused in court of England for being a French spy he was defended by a gregarious lawyer named Stryver, but it is Sydney Carton, Stryver's junior partner, who wins Charles Darnay's case by pointing out that this could be a case of mistaken identity, making the point that even Darnay and Carton look very much alike. Darnay is acquitted. The justice system in England is complete with magic mirrors and smoke-and-dagger tricks,the English can’t brag about their...
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Documentary photography is a style of photography that is about capturing the decisive moment, some people treat it as a synonym for photojournalism. It gives us a clear and precise portrayal of individuals, events, and items, and is regularly utilised in real life reportage „Documentary relies on the construction of an image in the representation of reality” - David Bate. There is often a story behind the documentary photography which is to affect social change. This type of photography shows...
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Realizing betrayal can be one of the hardest things for a person to do. People are sensitive and often attempt to hide things from themselves and avoid uncovering the truth about those situations in order to evade the pain that comes with that recognition. In John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace an inherent flaw of human nature causes Gene to subconsciously jounce the limb of a tree on which Finny stands. This event spirals into a never-ending trauma for Finny,...
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‘’Where are you going, where have you been?'' Is set to be in suburban of America in the 1960’s, a global change the sex revolution, women lacked important control over their lives. In Joyce Carol Oates one can see how she views particularly effective on the American life as a situation of invasion, abduction, rape and murder in the modern society. However, there are many themes found throughout the story, these themes is mainly focus on the antagonist which is...
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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 inventions and those inventions changed the world forever introducing new ways to do things in the areas of entertainment, aviation,...
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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 Whitman, and “Ulysses” by Lord Tennyson-Alfred explored the theme of loss through character analysis and the use of different poetic...
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In 1516, Thomas More, a English writer, lawyer, and philosopher, wrote Utopia. The word Utopia is a combination of two Greek words and is defined as no-place. It is a play on the words Eutopia, a perfect place, which More used to imply that although utopian lifestyle is desired it is impossible to attain. Utopia is divided into two books. Book one criticized Europe’s political system and book two described a utopian island. Utopia was written during the Renaissance movement....
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“Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan and “Museum” by Naomi Shihab Nye written by two authors experiences in their teenage years. Both stories tell about teenage feelings of embarrassment. The main characters in both stories experience different circumstances but indeed similar feelings. The two stories are similar in the way both authors experienced embarrassing emotions, and both authors learned a great lesson in life. The two stories are different but have similar lessons that are learned in life. Both stories are...
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From the perspectives of many people living anywhere else in the world, growing up in the United States may seem like the ultimate dream. The United States is known as a place of freedom -- place in which people can do what they want, say what they want, and act how they want (within limits, of course) without being judged or looked upon strangely. In other words, the United States is a global symbol of safety or refuge. As a...
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War strangles all the hope you have and breaks all the shells of survival to sink in a sea of loss. The book “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier” (2007) published by Sarah Crichton Books and written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. It revolves around Ishmael Beah’s life in Sierra Leone during the war, who struggles to survive in this brutal war. Ishmael Beah, a young village boy who suffers greatly from the war...
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Friendship, freedom, and adventure—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about the journey of a boy named Huck through the Mississippi River as he frees himself from his abusive father by faking his own death and as he helps free his new-found friend Jim who is a slave escaping from his master. Together, the mischievous Huck and the kind-hearted yet enslaved Jim set sail towards the freedom and adventure they both aspire as they discover a long-lasting friendship with one another....
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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 continues to exert an enormous influence on the way writers think about the possibilities of poetic craft and vocation. Little...
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Ralph Ellison’s novel titled Invisible Man is abundant in themes and symbols about the twentieth-century African American experience. It highlights the narrator’s downfall from his embrace of racism during his time in college to his dissatisfaction with the way he is being treated, but he comes to an understanding of his purpose as a so-called “invisible man.” Ellison’s novel describes the accounts of the narrator, who is an African American male, through his journey to his understanding of himself, alongside...
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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 explores the lies and truths of real hope offered to man, and his whereabouts are to express bokononism the way...
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Heritage is one of the most important factors that represents who you are and where you came from. In “Everyday Use “by Alice walker the meaning behind this story is to show that your heritage may not be exactly how the textbooks will tell you they are and that everyone has a different idea or perspective of what their heritage is and there is not right or wrong way to perceive it so you can't tell someone that the way...
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John Milton was born on the date 9 December 1608 and died on 8 November 1674. He was a known and successful English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He great works include at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best work of all time is his epic poem Paradise Lost written by him on the year 1667, written in blank verse. Milton’s poetry and...
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Film and writing techniques play a significant role in how to scene or event is being perceived by the audience. Likewise, in the film, Capote (2005) by Bennett Miller, and the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, literary and directory techniques used are vital to the composition and understanding of the story’s tone and flow. Both depict the same story of the gruesome murders of the Clutter family and its criminals. Although the movie and the book are by...
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Introduction to Revenge and Mortality Edgar Allan Poe is most known for his short stories containing the same gothic themes. In most of Poe’s stories all the characters sound alike but in The Cask of Amontillado Montresor is different and has his own voice (Morsberger 336). In the act of committing a crime, it is for certain the criminal will do anything to justify what they have done whether they are right or wrong. The Cask of Amontillado is the...
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At birth one is assigned one of two genders, other than a few medical or scientific anomalies, one is either a boy or a girl at birth. As defined in wikipedia.com, “Gender roles are also known as sex roles” and it comprises our unacceptable conceptions of Femininity and Masculinity. These can entail conceptions due to gender expectations. Even in countries where women tend to play a greater role in development, governance and politics, they are still treated and judged disparately...
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Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which foster the theme of alienation and dislocation of the earlier civilization in the background of globalization by resources of the view and domination of west culture. The beginning of the story poses the independence subject of the immigrant by orator such as, should the immigrant tries to integrate and be more approximating the people in his adopted country to keep at maintaining his cultures and tradition in a threat of...
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Has anyone in your life ever made an impact on you? Have you ever looked up to someone? Possibly a hero? A hero could be many things, whether that be a fictional hero, a serviceman, or maybe even a teacher. Throughout history, the idea of a hero has transformed, relatively built upon the cultural values of each distinct time period. This concept essentially can delineate why a quintessential hero in Beowulf’s time (700 AD) would differentiate from a modern hero...
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Virginia Woolf is one of the most famous writers of the modernist era, she was not merely a writer, at the same time she was a biographer, an essayist and also a feminist. Critics tend to agree that Woolf’s finest novel is To the Lighthouse (1927), which is certainly one of the central works of the modern imagination. To the Lighthouse is Woolf’s most autobiographical novel, she uses the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse as...
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At your current age, how would you describe the sum of your life? Would you include your relationships with friends or family? Humans were created as inherently social beings who are constantly striving to connect, interact, and become familiar with each other. Despite our instinctual desire for harmonious relationships, time has encouraged us to place focus and efforts into other things, rather than the creation of relationships. This leads to miscommunication and additional conflict which is represented within Ramsey’s “The...
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Written by two male authors, Daisy Miller and Where Angels Fear to Tread emphasize the lives of women and men who are sexualized differently due to European stereotypes. Daisy Miller, the main character in the novel Daisy Miller, is a woman seen as an “American flirt” who shows the morality and sexual challenges faced by foreign women abroad in Europe. Gino Cerella is the male protagonist in Where Angels Fear to Tread who shows the image of the stereotypical Italian...
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In this essay, I will be discussing and researching the history of documentary and the theories that I will include the like Bruzzi, Bill Nichols, Patricia White and so forth as they referred to Gaea Girls and Grey Gardens which are the two documentaries that I will emphasize my argument which is there are relationships between the real events and it’s representation shown in documentaries. Documentary’ is a film or television or radio programme that gives facts and information about...
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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 of a cow and the wall building as vices through extended metaphors. The ‘the cow in apple time’, is not...
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There were many differences made in the book like the length of the film. In this novel, the directors of the movie Speak made it shorter because of time issues. The author states “Anderson’s idea for the protagonist in Speak came to her in a bad dream. Her nightmare, which she wrote down upon waking, became the story of Melinda Sordino, who alienates everyone in her high school by calling the police during a drinking party the summer before her...
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Praised as a multi-talented superstar, Maya Angelou is often depicted in his pictures as a strong-willed individualist who in most cases is referred to as a feminist writer. She is a woman who has been described by innumerable adjectives since her job description supersedes the usual feminist writers. Maya Angelou is an American from the African descent; who was also a spirited historian, a knowledgeable lecturer, inquisitive journalist, a skilled filmmaker, a creative poet, a creative actress, and a narrator....
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