Literature Essays

Untruth American History Therefore, the students grow up into citizens who are not well informed about their heritage. This might prove detrimental to the entire country especially because mistakes made in the past might be repeated. This is because people might be unable to detect signs of impending problems at an earlier stage because they are unable to relate past situations to present ones.

The story of Oliver Twist is relatively well-known. It was written by Charles Dickens in 1838 and published as Oliver Twist or The Parish Boy's Progress. The basics of the story follow the tale of a young orphan. When he is nine years old, he is deemed a troublemaker so the workhouse that has been raising him apprentices him out to an undertaker

Before her marriage to John Wright, Minnie Foster was a free and spirited woman. It was after her marriage to John that she became isolated from the things she loved. Her marriage with John was a nightmare darkened by the physical and psychological abuse that strangled her dream of an ideal marriage.

The focus that Watts (2009) takes is that of displacement, economic powerlessness and marginality (860). For instance, Willa Cathers writes about Bohemian, Czech and central European immigrant groups, while other writers, including Sandra Cisneros, write about Hispanic and African-American groups in cities like Chicago

A Trojan soldier is expected to demonstrate their immortality and skills as the protectors of their community’s interest. Aeneas's outstanding character as a courageous soldier with a sense of sympathy is a major development in the book. The Trojan leader prepares his troops for befitting send off ceremony following the deaths of soldiers in a war.

The memoir is divided into five sections where the first three chapters deal with the life stories of a nameless woman, the legendary myth of Fa Mu Lan, and the life’s story of the writer’s mother while the last two chapters are narrated in the first person and depict the story of the author and her interpretation of her aunt’s life Moon Orchid.

Twain has experienced small towns growing into big cities and urban centers with all the communication and travelling facilities which could not be thought of before that, hence his writings have a touch of these feelings. He travelled a lot within and outside the country as a lecturer and a travel writer.

It was written by Henrik Ibsen and forms an important part of the canon of Modern European Drama which has blurred the lines of tragedy and comedy in a significant way. It is thus, a fruitful exercise to look at the ‘tragicomic’ aspect of the play. It also is important that the ending of A Doll’s House is analyzed at great length.

Some of the literary devices that Solzhenitsyn uses also help him conform to the conventions of a particular genre, and to show specify the time in which the novel was set. Among these literary devices, symbolism features chiefly. Shukhov’s spoon which he strives to keep at all cost symbolizes his personality or individuality.

More than fifty years later, it remains to be an apt description as he has remained committed to activism and championing a multitude of causes (Gay, p. 260). Richard Claxton Gregory was born in St. Louis, Minnesota on 12 October 1932 and became a frontliner for Civil Rights during the sixties.

Growing up without a father will affect the life of the children. Thus parents have a very crucial role in molding and shaping the children's personality and future. If only Odysseus was there for Telemachus, he might have been a better person, warrior, and leader. He may become a confident and stronger person.

According to the report, the poem endorses the Biblical belief of enmity between humans and Satan, where the latter appears to be determined to seduce the descendants of Adam and Eve forever and ever in order to take revenge from the prestige the first parents of humanity had been blessed with by Almighty God the Lord.

The play “Proof” and the movie “A Beautiful mind” are very much alike in terms of the plot as in the both creations we can see a crazy mathematician. The film “A Beautiful mind” has a very interesting idea, it shows the struggle of a great mathematician with terrible and incurable illness – schizophrenia His struggle appears to be successful as finally he became a Nobel Prize Winner.

Homer’s work is said to be among the first written works of art in Greek. This poem contains various characters that are looked upon as heroes because of their braveness, mental and physical strength, and martial skills they applied throughout the war. Some of the characters are Ajax, Achilles, Hector, Patroclus, and Agamemnon only to mention but a few.

The poem by Andrew Marvell is one of the most appealing and influential poems of the seventeenth century. Andrew Marvell is a very prominent writer of carpe diem poems and his work is cherished by all to date. His work is usually quite solemn but the poem which we are concerned with today is a very good example of a persuasive poem.

English Literature (Classic and Modern). Exploring historical, political, social, and artistic contexts that gave rise to the creation of this novel, 'Madame Bovary' (1857), we will be focusing on such issues: firstly, how the text was perceived at the time of its publication and how it is perceived now --- as having modernized some aspects in culture, or having reflected a modernization in progress; secondly, what was the writer's intention; thirdly, has critical opinion about the text's importance to the development of modernity changed over time; then, how have literary theorists and historians explained the writer's decision to create the text, to forge a particular style, and to treat up

Things Fall Apart is a novel written in English by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in the context of African tribal culture. It was first published in 1958 to expose the traditional African culture in the whole world, especially, the English-speaking world. In this novel, there are many illuminated elements of history intended to be demonstrated by the author.

Goodall reiterates that change involves admitting problems that threaten the existence of life on earth, are real. As creatures capable of problem-solving skills compared to animals, Goodall suggests a shift to environmentally friendly measures to protect nature for future sustainability. This would involve embracing “green” ethics.

The author states that this novel is rich in showing us the actual symbols that are integral components of human life. After all, there is great evidence that the author wanted to showcase the entire story to depict the actual walk of life by combining rich symbolism or imagery in the actual plot.

In comparing and contrasting six poems; tell all the Truth, but tell it slant, Those Winter Sundays, The Chimney Sweeper, the unknown citizen and the last duchess numerous stylistic and creation techniques are visible. The authors based their content of different ideas and content. Additionally, different themes are also displayed in the poems. 

That is to say, seizure of private property based on the labor of the owner in order to separate the population from their means of self-sufficiency. According to Karl Marx private property only existed because the labor environment and the means of labor were controlled by private individuals.

Before we go with a detailed description of the dialogues in Apology it is necessary to put some light on the character of Plato. Plato is a Greek Philosopher and he studied under the guidance of Socrates who is a well-known character in most of his dialogues. His experience of attending the trial of Socrates led him to write Apology.

In sick rose; rose is known as a symbol of beauty and worm as the destroyer of beauty. The rose is sick and unaware of its condition. Similarly, the rose is a symbol of love; love never recognizes the fact that it also dies with time. The decaying of the rose implies that the worm which is the cause of sickness of the rose lies in the plant of the rose itself.

With skillfully coined insight, knowledge, commitment and humor she makes her audience to see that, although, the art of advertisement may seem harmless, they add up to the conditioning of our cultures. These also relate to Erving Goffman who has dedicated his time in studying human behavior and understating their deeper meaning, he also relates advertisements to individual’s self presentation and determination of their identities.

Peter represents the child’s rebellion against adults, rejecting even maternal love and actively fighting adults: he is “so full of wrath against grown-ups” that he pants because of his belief “in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a grown-up dies” (11). The Neverland is a place for children to vent their rebellion against the adult world.

Back in the 1630s T’an-ch’eng many people died because of hunger, diseases, banditry, and in 1640s, the same problems struck troubling the residence again. In addition, farmers were not spared as drought occurred during summer destroying wheat; locust invaded the same fields destroying any crop that had been spared by the drought. 

Following the research made by a professor of hearing and speech science of Ohio State University, Michelle S. Bourgeois, all the individuals affected by Alzheimer’s disease retained their literacy in case they were literate. Patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease can be able to read comfortably on their own during the first stages of Alzheimer’s.

Walker provides validation centered on that individual experience, predominantly in matters of Hurston and her conversation, amid other things, with an example being at similar skin hue. However, Walker hints that in the course of Hurston’s articles, the black populaces have the capability to comprehend the history of their personality. 

Cherry blossoms in full measure of bloom are indeed a lovely view and no witness would attest otherwise. The same is true about the moon and the experience of looking at it in the absence of clouds, however, if certainty were granted for both the cherry blossoms and the moon, would they still receive the same degree of appreciation as they have on the basis of brief existence?

Library and museum studies:   Case Study Name: Course: Professor: Institution: City and State: Date: Executive summary In order for a library to be effective, the information in the library must be organized well. This paper shows how a proper organisation in a library, particularly through implementation of a catalogue system, can be used to increase the effectiveness of conducting a research in a library, in such a manner that it is easy for its users to search and access the information needed.

Leontes’s obsession with establishing his wife’s suspected adultery is dominating his mind, causing him to resort to subterfuge. He is also running all sorts of possibilities in his head, suspecting other people of being privy to his shame. Even when his claims and suspicions are dismissed by other people, he still insists on the truth of his beliefs.

The author states that sometimes people have so much on the go that they themselves are unable to get a grasp on it all. They need a fresh pair of eyes to help make sense of it all. And that’s where a professional can come in handy. Many of them are quite cheap. In the future, he will use the writing center more.

However, in the growing uncertainty of his fate, Luke finds uneasiness in the lifestyle that he has to pursue with his Uncle and Aunt, with a new school to go to and new people to get accustomed with

Novels are deemed to be an inspiration from or a depiction of society and authors generally base the plots of their stories on certain aspects of the social order. The substance of this prose assesses the depiction of the English society in the novels Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding and Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone by J.K. Rowling.

According to the researcher, the intricate issue of domestic violence is exhibited when one person in a relationship behaves in a way that exhibits a form of control towards the other person. Emily is guilty of manifesting behavior that led to her criminal action of killing Homer Baron, to prevent him from leaving her.

It is a heartbreaking love affair fuelled by passionate love and bitter hate. However, it is evident that the dichotomy of love and hate is not the only contrasting image that Shakespeare provides the readers with, his collision of opposites goes much deeper, and touches upon the contrasting of life and death, youth and age, light and dark.

This is so considering that the deities do the work of creation and recreation. The humans always have to worship or ask the deities for help and in some cases to overcome bad divinations. The difference that exists in each myth with respect to the manner in which creation took place is the level of order or disorder.

Each individual living soul present on Mother Earth wants to find out this hidden reality, which has been woven and embedded within the lives of different beings so intelligently by the creator of Universe.

The themes that are included in “Kafka’s Monkey,” written by Franz Kaka and adapted by Colin Teevan, are able to show a different form of production for those interested in the play. This particular play offers a way of reflecting contemporary society and the values which are given in the caring of monkeys that are trapped in a cage. The designs, expectations and the cast are able to contribute to the main ideology of the play while creating a strong impact and statement about the ideals of being “Kafka’s Monkey.” The show for “Kafka’s Monkey” was held at the Young Vic by the company from the Academy.

The author of the paper states that in this play, the author has used themes and symbols to bring out the escape mechanism employed by all characters in order to evade the reality of their lives. Though the play brings out weighty themes/subjects like failures of the family structure and failures of fathers, escapism remains a major theme in the play.

Winston Churchill: The writer. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was an English statesman, orator, soldier, and historian who served as Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom He secured a central position both in the World War and its description.

The country achieved independence in the year 1947 from the rule of the British as the Indian subcontinent was a colony of the British Empire. The independence resulted due to a revolt by the Muslims of India for the creation of a separate homeland. Ninety seven percent of the people living in the country follow the religion of Islam whereas the other three percent are mainly the followers of Christianity and Hinduism.

Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ is lauded as one of the first treatises on modern political philosophy by many but also hated by many as a Bible of evil for politicians and tyrants. On first reading, this literary work might seem practical, to the bone, even at the cost of ethics and morality, as far as the exercise of political power is concerned.

To begin with, fashion is always criticized in the contemporary world. In fact, it is a philosophic trend which once had taken shape in the imaginary world of a designer and was promulgated through a design collection. It makes the whole discussion on fashion and its philosophic trends limitless.

A number of issues occupied the center stage of their election campaign and were covered extensively by the media. One of the top issues that formed the core of the media and public’s attention was the long and costly war in Iraq and Afghanistan that had drained the nation of considerable public wealth and public sympathy besides costing the lives of thousands of soldiers (Schantz, 2010).

The process of counseling plays a very important role in the life of a college student. Life in college brings about a gamut of changes for the students and is one where good guidance becomes imperative. As this is a phase of new experiments as well as new experiences, there are many situations where students feel the requirement of counseling.

Traditionally, absenteeism constitutes a breach of a contract that was implicitly formed between employer and employee. It is considered a management problem that also reflects poor individual performance. As Armstrong (2000, pp.14-17) points out, researchers opine that frequent absence from duty or obligation is a direct indication of poor workplace morale.

The article is meant to provide a valuable insight to businesses that in constant anticipation what consumer demands would be in the future. The fact is that “the more efficiently and ably the firms anticipate and serve consumer demand, the greater their profits; the less able, the less their profits and the more they suffer losses”.

The war left a lasting impression on English literature which reflected in the works of the later prose writers and poets. Some form of political writing was also in vogue at that time. They tried to give objective accounts of the contemporary political happenings through pamphlets called newsbooks.

I was born in this great country of the United States, though you would not know it by looking at me. My name is Joseph Jakido, known as Old Joe to my friends, and I am eighty years old, one of 763,325 Japanese-Americans currently living in this great country as of the census of 2010. Like some, most, in fact, I live on the West Coast, but my grandparents originated from Japan.