Literature and Sports Essay: “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” (Wayne Gretzky). Sports can be seen as an important aspect of people’s culture in life. This is seen in all the novels that we have looked at throughout the course. Two books that have sports as an important part of culture are The Loneliness of the...
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Golding utilizes the young men's dread of a legendary brute to show their presumption that insidiousness emerges from outside powers as opposed to from themselves. This fearsome monster at first accepts structure in their minds as a snake-type creature that camouflages itself as wilderness vines; later, they think about an animal that ascents from the ocean or the more shapeless...
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, presents a world that is completely superficial and wholly controlled by the World State right from the point of human conception. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, published in 1949, portrays a society whereby the people are also entirely controlled by the government. However, in Orwell’s alternative reality, the government controls the...
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Through the archetypes in the short story Catch the Moon, Judith Ortiz Cofer teaches the reader that love heals all. One archetype in Catch the Moon is The Crossroads, which is a place or time of decision where a real realization is made and change or penance results. The Crossroads is a symbolic archetype for the life-changing decision that Luis...
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Tragedy. A three-syllable word that brings nothing but great suffering, distress, and always the unfortunate unhappy ending. The novel and film, “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, shows a journey powered by a father and a son's love through a post-apocalyptic disaster. A world once full of color is now a grey, cold, barren land that is crawling with few survivors...
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Issues in urban planning according to Jacobs Jane Jacobs, in her book The death and Life of great American Cities, was keen on learning the Planning principles what restoration practices will foster social and economic development in cities, and what policies and values will diminish those qualities. In this context, she was unhappy about issues such as What kinds of...
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Summary In this autobiography, we meet Jade Snow and her Chinese American family, the Wongs. This book starts with Jade in her earliest years as the narrative simply walks us through the Wong family’s whirling world around her. Throughout this book, little Jade grows, and with her grows a more complex and complicated narrative as Jade grows more complex and...
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The other members of Ponyboy’s gang are Dally Winston, Darry Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Two-Bit/Keith Matthews, Steve Randle, and Johnny Cade. Dally Winston is confident, brave, and mean. Darry and Sodapop are Ponyboy’s brothers, Johnny is Ponyboy’s best friend, Steve is Sodapop’s best friend, and Two is the oldest in the group. During Ponyboy’s conversation with Cherry, one of the topics...
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The dystopian book Brave New World interprets the idea of freedom and social control in a society where the government shows freedom to people but when in reality controls their rights without their acknowledgment. Bernard Marx, who is an Alpha male, fails to fit in with his society because of his test-tube mistake which causes him to be short in...
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Many works of literature include a character with unusual origins to provide contrast to societal norms and to introduce complex relationships involving clashing morals and values. In his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicts John the Savage as an outsider because of his unusual upbringing and his headstrong morals in both the Savage Reservation and the World State society....
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In the epic, The Odyssey, the author, Homer, used symbolism in the description of Odysseus’ bed. He had carved the bed from a tree. The tree’s roots went deep which produced a sturdy, healthy, and long-lasting tree. Since the roots were a part of the foundation of the house, there is an implication that a strong family is fundamental to...
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The Holocaust was a extremely tragic event that occurred in history. Many of the tragic stories belonging to the jews throughout history were not told, and lost from generation to generation. Movies like Schindler's List or books such as Maus try to make sure stories like this will never be forgotten, and hopefully they won't. The movie Schindler's List was...
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Life is filled with adversity, lost dreams, and suffering. Thus, making life challenging and onerous. Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” and Langston Hughes’s poems both use the themes of broken dreams, poverty, and determination to show the struggle that African Americans faced during the 1950s. The authors may have similar themes but their works explain them differently. A...
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in country Alabama during the aftermath of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Gender roles and the marginalization of women are a recurring and significant element in the novel. During this time people began to examine their roles in society, one of which is the moral obligation of a...
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Rousseau in his book The Contract Social argues that the individual finds his true being and freedom only in submission to the “general will” of the community. In this desired social contract, everyone will be free because they all forfeit the same number of rights and impose the same duties on all. The fundamental purpose of the rule of law...
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The characters in Things Fall Apart each have their character traits as well as gender roles that they are expected to follow. In Things Fall Apart symbols are used to describe the behaviors and traits of the characters in the book as well as their fears. Three major symbols are used throughout the book, such fire to show the sullen...
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The last words by Aldous Huxley were about William Shakespeare, not being surprising that he alluded to the playwright in almost all of his novels and essays. Huxley uses Shakespeare to analyze society, through art, passion, and progress. The pattern used in his novels is not just technical or structural, but one from a creative artist like Shakespeare. The title...
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In the introduction, here we can see ample movements in American literature because of Edgar Allan Poe's works. First of all, I want to mention what is symbolism. Symbolism is a literary method that uses symbols, whether it is words, characters, marks, places, or abstract ideas, to express things beyond the literal meaning. It first originated in France. However,- American...
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What if someone told you that the love of your life is to blame for your death? Would you believe them? In The Great Gatsby Daisy Gatsby’s one true love, Wilson whose wife Myrtle is having an affair with Tom Buchanan, decides on Gatsby’s life. They all play a part in Gatsby’s death one of them being Daisy. Multiple things...
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“What Goes Around” By Justin Timberlake This song represents the overall theme of The Great Gatsby. This is because Justin talks about a girl he used to be with that is now with someone else. This coordinates directly with Daisy. The song also mentions how what goes around will come back around. Not only does this work with Gatsby and...
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A crucible is a container used for melting and purifying materials inside of it. Salem, where Arthur Miller’s play took place, was ruled by a theocratic society with no tolerance for evil. It had served as a crucible that put many through a server test. This play is about a series of witch hunt trials that were started by a...
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Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus has become engrained in the cultural consciousness since its publication in 1980. This is not only due to the content—the harrowing story of a man’s survival during World War 2 and subsequent life—but also the style in which it is presented. Spiegelman puts on a masterclass with his artwork, his utilization of speech and negative...
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To Langston Hughes, Harlem was much more than just a geographical location, for the author the city was an entity in itself. During the rebirth of Harlem, there was electricity, a resonance that was clear to those residing there. Harlem was the center of black life in New York City. It was alive with jazz and importantly the mood was...
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Langston Hughes’s poem Merry-Go-Round was published in 1942. During that time in the United States, many things were going on, to name a few, there was the race riot, the first published issue of the Negro Digest, the first African American to go to space, the United State Marine Corps allowing African American men for the first time (but in...
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Poetry has no true meaning. This means it is one of a kind to anyone. However, we can distinguish the difference between poetry and different literature. To me, poetry lets a person categorize their emotions and use literary devices to further explain their point of view to the reader. Poetry uses many different forms of multidimensional languages to connect to...
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Poetry conveys various universal human issues such as the journey of life, struggles, and making choices. Two poems that convey universal human issues include the poem mother to Son by Langston Hughes and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. The poem mother to Son by Langston Hughes is an uplifting, poem on never giving up. It is about a...
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'The conventions of modern poetry can also lend themselves to the voice of protest for the subversive minorities '. This statement is pointful because the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes's poem, ' I, Too ' portrays a perfect example of how the conventions of modern poetry can also lend themselves to the voice of protest for subversive minorities like African...
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One may reject their culture or societal beliefs to form their identity and develop a unique character. In the short story “Names Nombres” by Julia Alvarez, she describes the struggles of being an immigrant in New York City. People mispronounced her name, the Alvarez family held different social etiquette than accepted in the United States, and she was treated like...
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Maus I and 11 is a publication by Art Spiegelman that illustrates how his elderly father Vladek Spiegelman survived the holocaust via a comical representation of the holocaust. This comic has been crafted as a masterly art that is filled with truth and is emotionally captivating. It has essentially, portrayed the actual families that were lucky enough to survive the...
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Our society as a whole is composed of various, and even contradicting ideologies, within our source we explore whether leading a life alongside personal freedoms and choices as being the path to happiness or if having security, control over you, and fewer freedoms for the greater good of the group as being more beneficial. The film Brave New World (1998)...
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