In this research paper, the purpose of this study will be to identify the differences and similarities between Oliver Goldsmith's and Jonathan Swift's satire. This paper will also compare and contrast the social criticism of Oliver Goldsmith and Jonathan Swift to today’s varying issues. Both Oliver Goldsmith and Jonathan Swift had many things in common about their writing styles that...
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In this essay, I will analyze two poems. I will aim to discuss the main themes that are evident throughout the poems, as well as how the writers show these themes through the structures of the poems. The two poems which I will analyze are The Soldier and In Flanders Fields. The first poem which I will look at is...
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¨Loyalty is such a force for destruction because it readily clashes with genuine virtues such as honesty and fairness - all while seeing itself as superior to those virtues.”(Asghar, paragraph 4). Blind loyalty is a trait that is often bad. In both the article, Loyalty Isn't A Virtue, It´s the Enemy of Workplace Ethics by Rob Asghar, and the play...
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Kate Chopin was an American author and her stories are based on nineteenth-century culture and society. She is known for her duplicity of effect, the limited perspective of nineteenth-century society, on women. The stories, “The Story of an Hour” and “The Storm” are based on marriage and adultery. In these stories, Chopin indicates that all marriages even the kindest ones...
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Ralph Ellison was a great inspirational author during his times during the 50's. He was born on March 1, 1914, till April 16, 1994, and he was an American novelist who was a very inspirational person who accomplished many feats. He won a National Book Award in 1953 and he wrote many books and essays that breached the topics and...
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Merchant of Venice: Friendship Thesis Statement: Shakespeare portrays many forms of love in Merchant of Venice such as the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, which grows and becomes stronger as the play continues. Since Bassanio is such good friends with Antonio, he feels comfortable asking him for money, and he needs it for a couple of reasons. The first reason...
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The story enacts the theme of bondage and freedom at its best. Physical bondage is represented through Philip's club foot, economic bondage through his dependence on his uncle, and religious bondage is presented through religious restrictions and compulsions at the vicarage and in the church at Blackstable. Philip's love affair with Mildred represents the bondage of sexual passion. Philip has...
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The Female Quixote is a work written by Charlotte Lennox in the mid-18th century. In it, the author makes an imitation of Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It belongs to a period in which satire, romance and the novel, were not well differentiated. Thus, in this novel, the former romantic genre and traditional forms are challenged....
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'Death of a Salesman,' starring Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman and directed by Vholker Schlondröff, is a superb drama written by Arthur Miller and starring Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman. At the 38th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, the film 'Death of a Salesman' earned 10 Emmy nominations and four Golden Globe nominations, earning three and one, respectively. The plot of...
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Beowulf is a fiction story by an anonymous poet whom scholars refer to as “Beowulf poet.” The fiction is set in Scandinavia and details a hero of the Geats (Beowulf) who comes to the help of the king of the Danes, Hrothgar. Notably, Beowulf uses his bravery and strength to slay Grendel and later becomes the king, and rules for...
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Beowulf, the classic medieval tale of monsters and dragons. The 3182 lines of Beowulf indulge in a grand story that tells the tale of a great Pagan warrior. However, the author includes many Christian elements. Notably, in lines, 181–183, the author says, 'deep in their hearts they remembered hell. The Almighty Judge of good deeds and bad, the Lord God,...
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Epic poems, long and narrative, include adventures and brave heroes. Epic poems can trace their roots back to almost 2500 BCE. Beowulf defines a strong and well-developed epic. Beowulf includes plot characteristics, values, and archetypes throughout the poem. In epics, they show what really mattered at the time and what people cared about in a fictional way. The plot in...
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Beowulf is an epic poem, which is a literary piece where there is a hero achieving an incredible feat, that was made in the Anglo-Saxon era. There is no certainty in the time of the development of the poem but it is agreed that it was made roughly in the 6th to 11th century. The anonymity of the creator of...
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Enclosed as one of the earliest and most effective treatments towards the theme of crucifixion in the English language, the equilibrium of both Christian and Germanic characteristics extends The Dream of the Rood not only great wisdom but further complexity. Together, the theme, form, the many parallels that give to both heroic and Christian treasure, the techniques, meter, and alliteration...
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The start of Beowulf does not offer much on the topic of whether it embellishes Beowulf's “code of honor”. What it does show are the events that lead up to believing in his code and why he goes by it, Beowulf's character in the book is a really relevant character he goes by a “code of honor” he is a...
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The fetish woman, who 'too sang out in grief', provides a rather omenistic foreshadowing into a post-beowulf society, epitomising the fears of an unstable nation following the loss of their 'good king'. Although a drunken statement, Unferth's remark that 'no one has ever outlasted an entire night against Grendel' reminds the reader of Beowulf's unmatched nature, the character depicted as...
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Marxist philosophy believes that society views the world by way of a purely financial lens. Marxism dictates that society is separated into two classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie makes use of ideology to suppress the proletariat in the major with the useful resource of manipulating their perceptions of their free agency. One ideology that the greater type...
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J.D. Vance was born in Jackson, KY, the county seat of Breathitt County. His family had to make the choice of whether to stay in the hills and try to make a living or to move north to find work. Vance’s mother, Bev, was in and out of many relationships, and marriages which all crumbled due to her personal instability....
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In the United States, there are many unjust laws that lead to social inequality. In today's world, wage inequality has grown over the past 30 years, which creates many problems for people. Currently, minimum wage workers don’t make enough money to sustain a comfortable life. In the article ‘Serving in Florida’, the author Barbara Ehrenreich decided to do a research...
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Roderick Frazier Nash's essay ‘Island Civilization: A Vision for Human Occupancy of Earth in the Fourth Millennium’ explains an argument that in order to correctly executed an island civilization, the populace needs to minimize to a quarter of today’s population, which would result to around 1.5 billion people, meaning there will be fewer of them. Personally, I do agree with...
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Stephen Kinzer, the author of ‘Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq’, is an American author whose literature focuses on the United States taking over governments that appear to be a threat. The approach of this book is through the point of view of the United States beginning in 1893 with intentions to tie it with the...
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“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts” – Winston Churchill. Not many people today know the case of the sinking of USS Indianapolis during World War II, the worst sea disaster in United States naval history. After joining the Navy, I have heard so many horror stories about USS Indianapolis from...
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For my poetry analysis, I will be looking at the poem ‘The Self-Unseeing’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘I Am’ by John Clare. Both share quite a depressing theme, which I will be focusing on through different literary techniques. Hardy writes about missing his childhood, while Clare talks about looking forward to his death so he can return to a peaceful...
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In his sonnet, William Shakespeare discusses a man, possessing characteristics associated with nature, and how said nature and its seasons of summer/spring are perennial, as well as elaborating on the splendor of art and flora. The theme is the timelessness of love and admiration. How change is an inevitable prospect, yet, it does not hinder the poet’s veneration for their...
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Have you ever thought about what your smartphone has done to you? Smartphones are addictive, and a popular technology commonly used by most of the population. In the article ‘Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation’, Jean Twenge discusses how smartphones are causing troubling issues among the new generation. Twenge, in fact, gives insight to the readers of her article by giving...
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The dissimilar reader's perception of Curt Lemon’s death and the soldiers hearing voices in the forest have had Tim and other soldiers falter in translating what had happened during the events when they had just happened versus when he narrates them. Throughout the book, you see the soldiers question their sanity, but never confront the question directly. They always answer...
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In their lifetime, people can expect to make several choices and decisions. Some decisions may be small, simple, and to a degree, minor. However, there comes a time in one's life in which a decision must be made, significantly impacting their life. Often individuals will turn to a source of motivation that is personal, regarding their individual beliefs, perspectives, and...
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The attributes of gender roles formed by society have always held a strong influence over everyone. Based on these standards, it is expected for women to stay at home and handle all of the house chores, as well as be emotionally, physically, and financially dependent on their husbands. This expectation is heavily followed by the world at large and is...
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‘How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy’ by Alice Walker represents the life of the viewpoint character. She allows herself to become grounded within an elaborate affair pervaded by sexual objectification as a result of aspects of her life, such as her relationship with her mother, as well as...
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What are human experiences? Well, people have different definitions of what a human experience is. In my opinion, a human experience is when someone does something that could be good as it could be bad, and by doing something they can learn if they should do it again or if it was a bad idea and not to repeat it...
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