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A Review of Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in The Sun
When Taylor Swift won a grammy, she dedicated it to the person who inspired her song about heartbreak. The internet went crazy, calling her vulgar names and calling her unsavory expletives. When Sam Smith won a grammy, he dedicated to the man who broke his heart and motivated him to write the song. Everybody was calling him brave and such an inspiration. A man makes an accomplishment, he's praised, but when a woman makes the same accomplishment, she's criticized. Sexism…...
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Chasing the American Dream in A Raisin in the Sun
Dream in their own ways. When the play first opened in 1959 in New York, it received great praise from both Blacks and Whites alike. A Raisin in the Sun is arguably one of the first good plays to be written on how African-Americans live in an ideal society, and how they are treated, in a realistic manner. The pursue of the American Dream from the same African-Americans is also pointed out in the play. Considering how great the play…...
A Raisin In The SunCultureLiberty
American Dream in Two Novels
"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error." - Florence King King's words show us that the American Dream is something that drives us to work hard and give our best so that we can achieve and live the dream. Yet many people focus on dreaming about a better future in…...
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Author’s Environment and Their Work
In American Literature concerning written by and about minorities, the environment that the author was in at the time, and grew up in, often affected the subject matter and how the author portrays it. This trend is especially evident in literature written in the 20th century, in works by authors such as Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Anne Sexton, and Claude Mckay. These authors had experienced racism, subjugation, and hate simply for the color of their skin and for their gender,…...
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The Unusual Life of a Serial Killer, Edward Gein
We typically assume serial killers to be menacing and blood hungry creatures of the night, stalking their prey and striking them down for the glory of it. This, peculiarly, is not the case of Eddie Gein. Although Edward Gein inspired popular films such as Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there seems to be a more psychological reason for his killings, of which only amount to two found victims contrary to popular belief. Gein was born August…...
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Cultural Values in Othello and Caged Bird
Throughout literature writers use various ways of showing the reader a new way of life with different values, rituals and customs. These aspects can been seen in the works of William Shakespers Othello, and Maya Angelou s I Know Why The Cage Bird Sings. These books are very good examples of showing the importance of value and different culture to readers. In the Autobiography I Know Why The Cage Bird Sings Maya Angelou tells the story of her life. She…...
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A Sociological Perspective of the Social Problem of Homelessness in Australia
This essay will be bearing in mind homelessness in Australia as a social problem from the sociological perspective of a functionalist. To understand and look at homelessness from a functionalist's perspective some understandings should be met. To begin with, what constitutes a social problem; secondly, how homelessness is interpreted and seen in Australia, thirdly, how the functionalist's perspective is suitable by applying it in explaining homelessness as a social problem. What is a social problem? A social problem is any…...
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Puritan Writing Values
In the early years of American History, literature commonly reflected the colonial culture, the native culture, and the imperialistic ideals of the time period. Imperialistic culture often conflicted with native culture, and by reading the stories of both sides it is easy to understand why an unwillingness to either assimilate or accept other cultures causes conflict. But a more fascinating similarity exists in the human themes in all these stories written around the beginning of the 18th century. Sometimes these…...
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The Life and Literary Works of the English Poet, Anne Bradstreet
Imagine a new world, a place where very little is known. Set out on a voyage to this untouched land, see what life has in store. Death and ailments litter the path ahead, but strive for the hope of a new tomorrow. This is exactly what Anne Bradstreet did, in 1630 her husband, mother and father packed their belongings and set out on the adventure of a life time. Through all the love, sickness, loss and grief Anne experienced, she…...
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The Use of Humor in Mark Twain’s At The Funeral
This selection makes it obvious that Mark Twain is a witty, intelligent man. His use of humor extends to the written speech, as well as his stage performances. This piece, St The Funeral, is a perfect example. Twain uses shocking statements, ironic situations, and a blatant disregard for social norm to compose this humorous satire. His work is masterfully written, and his sentences are arranged in such a way that comedic timing can be observed, even in text. Mark Twain…...
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Huck and Finn’s Freedom
Corrupted families, a flawed society, and conflicting opinions- this is just half of what Huck Finn faces throughout his journey with Jim in Mark Twain's novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The readers follow the unlikely pair, and an imaginative boy, Tom Sawyer, as they face their battles. Through these characters we can infer the real meaning of freedom: to be independent and free of physical, societal, and emotional captivity. Twain depicts the struggles to escape the imprisonment through the use…...
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The Characteristics of a Bad Leader in The Epic of Gilgamesh
Many Arrogant and insensitive leaders have ruled throughout history, and most can be connected through a few core traits. One example, Gilgamesh, the main character of the Epic of Gilgamesh dates all the way back to 2000 BCE. In the epic, we learn about king Gilgamesh's "callous ways"(16) as he rules by fear and scares his people into loyalty by making them do pointless, arduous labor, like working to "[rebuild] Uruk's walls, / And then without an explanation let /…...
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Kenyan Division in A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of Wheat demonstrates, to a greater extent, the division and isolation of Kenyan individuals in Kenya at the time described in the novel, Ngfigi was Thiong’o skilfully exhibits the physical, forced isolation political division and emotional separation of Kenyan individuals during the period leading up to Uhuru. The British are the cause of many Kenyans being physically isolated and separated from their families and homes, “When Mugo was arrested he was taken to Tigoni Police Station and then…...
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A Problem of the Exploitation of Religions’ Power
On religion seems perfect if you are good, just, and pledge your allegiance to a higher power you’ll be rewarded with salvation or reincarnation or better yet a family. Whether you live in an Orthodox Jewish community or you occasionally visit the YMCA there’s a comfort to be found in belonging to a family of like-minded individuals who believe what you believe. However, whether these ties that bind compensate for the war and hatred towards other sects that the institution…...
CultureExploitationJudaismReligion
The Importance of Persistence
It was the last game of our basketball season and our team won the championship. The season consisted of our star players carrying us to win after win as I sat on the bench and watched them play. In this essay, I'm going to be talking about how I learned the true meaning of hard work. and how this experience influenced my lifestyle. Despite the fact that we had just won, I felt aggrieved, after all, I wasn't an important…...
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Planning To Skydive For Advertising
The film I watched was Beach Blanket Bingo that's was directed by William Asher and was released on April 14, 1965. The film begins with Frankie and his group going to the beach when Sugar Kane plans a skydiving publicity stunt for her album. One of the guys falls in love with a mermaid while there is also a biker gang. The film is overall funny while being childish at the same time but is very confusing to follow what's…...
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Social Media’s Impact on Relationships
In a world where everything around us is constantly changing, communication is an essential key to interacting with others and developing our society. Over time, the way people communicate with each other has changed tremendously, creating a more innovative way to keep in touch with those around us social media has been around for as long as we can remember, beginning with newspapers and magazines and leading into emails, text messages, and different sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram…...
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The New Historicism Challenges the Literary Work
Historicism is a literary theory that looks at the life of the author and the time period the text was written in. Specific details matter in this literary theory, such as the type of food they eat, the style of dress and the language used New Historicism challenges the meaning that history places upon a piece of literature. For instance, we might say that people in the Romantic Era were driven by passion or people in the Great Depression Era…...
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Third World Films and Power Imperialism
The film, The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Wind and The Lion exemplify Great Power Imperialism In what is now known as the Third World. These moves depict the images that the imperial powers and local people and elites held of each other. In both films, the imperial powers are portrayed as honorable, civilized, and decent, whereas the local people and elites are viewed to be dishonorable, uncivilized, barbarians. The imperial powers' view of the local people and…...
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The Influence of the Ancient Greeks on the Romans and the Western Civilization
Myriad of the roots of Western Civilization can be drawn back to the Ancient Greeks. They made long lasting contributions and influences in the areas of art, literature, philosophy, politically, math, drama, technological and sciences. During the Golden Age, Classical Greece became a direct democracy government. “Our plan of government favors in the many instead of the few: that's why it is called a democracy" Pericles was describing his type of government. Every citizen had equal opportunities to serve and…...
Western Culture
Greek Contributions to the West
The ancient Greeks made multiple contributions to society that we still recognize today. Their old theories and ideas are still applied in common ways. The philosophers are still studied, hundreds of years later. Greek architecture is very widespread. The United States government is even based on the system of democracy that was used in Greece back then. The ancient Greeks made the most significant contributions to Western Civilization in intellectual, artistic, and social fields. The Greeks made many intellectual advances…...
Western Culture
A Response to Steven Ozments Article on Why We Study Western Civilization
In the article, Why We Study Western Civ, the author, Steven Ozment, talks about how important it is for students to learn about European cultures by focusing on the ways they were in the past. This is known as Western Civilization. Ozment writes, "How skillfully students ultimately swim is not as important as their initial jump into the great pool of the past.” In the quote, the author is saying that getting students to start learning about history is more…...
Western Culture
Western Civilization in Heart of Darkness
In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Mr. Kurtz represents the western civilization. Or, more specifically, he represents western civilizations attempt to spread its influence and civilize Africa. By showing him as a man turned mad, Conrad critiques Western civilization's arrogance and views on their superiority and self-prescribed duty to civilize the African savage. Mr. Kurtz has no doubt been driven mad by his escapades in the jungle. The jungle's darkness has infected him. This fact is repeatedly and explicitly made…...
Western Culture
Pressure changes characters in Miss Rosie and Richard Cory
The poem "mrs. Rosie" and “Richard Cory" both deal with people whose lives changed due to the pressures from the lives around the. Georgia Rose is the main character in "Mrs. Rosie" who was once the most beautiful girl in Georgia and turned into a girl when lived on the streets. She felt great pressure which caused her life to take a major downturn. The speaker talking about Georgia Rose states, “ who used to be the best gal in…...
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Archetypes of a Hero in Star Wars by George Lucas and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell explores the underlying similarities between heroes of a wide range of literary works. He explains the fundamental characteristics of a hero, which remain in play across mythology and literature. As the title suggests, the face of an archetypal hero may vary the presence of a protagonist is central to the plots of most movies and books, but all heroes, are united by certain criteria that make them heroes. Like the four…...
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The Use of Symbols in Siddhartha, a Novel by Herman Hesse
A symbol is a noun that has a deeper meaning or intentionally represents another noun or concept. ”Things are going downhill for me!” laughing the while; and, as he said this, his glance fell on the river, and he saw the river going downward, too, moving constantly downstream, but singing merrily as it went." Siddhartha, pg 51 In Siddhartha, the reoccurring river arguably represents many overall concepts, but the river especially serves to represent the path of Siddhartha’s enlightenment and…...
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The Symbolism of a House in There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradburry
In Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains," the personification of the house, the uses of medical and psychoanalytic discourses, and ritualistic constructions in the text, revolving around religious discourse frame the house and nature as opposing forces. Through the language of the text, the house is diagnosed as a machine with two sides: the caring, domestic, automated home and the whirring, incinerating, cold-eyed machine. Nature spites the house for continuing its empty and pointless rituals without humans inhabiting the…...
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Parental Support in Not Bad Dad & Those Winter Sundays
The vital and crucial suppon given by parents and family members is often overlooked in many situations the poems "Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad” by Jan Heller Levi and "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden signify the importance of realizing the diligent work that parents give to their children. The child narrator in “Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad" describes the enduring problems between the child and father through the metaphor of swimming, where the narrator comes to realize the hard…...
ChildCultureLiteratureThose Winter Sundays
An Analysis of a Halloween Prank by Students of St. Jeffreys Primary School
A blood curdling scream filled the room as a body fell through the doorway. Josh looked up, glad that he had made such an impression on the girls. He began laughing, while the girls looked at him and berated him for playing such an awful joke. Halloween was coming up and all the kids were getting exited, making their costumes. Josh, Corey, and Melvin were all in the 7th grade at St Jeffrey's Primary School. At school they were planning…...
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An Introduction to the Showing of the Human Evolution in a Museum
Nowadays, people in growing number are coming to realize that they have the desire of seeing what their ancestors like. So as a museum curator, it goes without saying that I would love to set up a section in the museum for them in order to give people a better understanding of how things work back then, which in this case, I cannot think of anything that is better than the Lascaux Cava to illustrate the clues to the lives,…...
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Childhood Reflections and Father in Those Winter Sundays
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden is an emotional poem of an adult looking back at their childhood, and relationship with their father I instantly was attracted to and connected to this poem. There are times in our lives where we look back on certain experiences in regret views change and people grow. The speaker in “Those Winter Sundays” reflects on past experiences of indifference toward their father when he she was young. As the poem progress, and the speaker…...
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Remembering the Father in Those Winter Sundays and My Papa’s Waltz
Both speakers are adults reflecting on how they saw their fathers when they were children, each poem focuses on only an occurrence or event that makes a statement about how their father as a whole. In the case of “Those Winter Sundays,” the speaker chooses to only focus on his winter sundays with his father; the speaker of “My Papa’s Waltz” only describes the ‘waltzes‘ he dances with his father. Although both poems essentially have the same topic, they approach…...
ChildCultureLiteratureThose Winter Sundays
Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and Islamic Party of Azerbaijan
Ideas, Networks, Islamist Movements (2007) by Cathleen Collins is informative and insightful because the author studies Islamist movements that are not exclusive to the Arab world, as is often assumed. The article focuses on the successes and failures of these movements in mobilizing and growing, regardless of the political and religious conditions of the region. The author compares and analyzes three Islamist organizations in Central Asia and South Caucasus regions of the former Soviet Union. The article has two research…...
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In the Netherlands, van Eyck created the Ghent Altarpiece
The Arnolfini Portrait is a painting that has many interpretations, is it artwork of woman with child or a celebration of marriage, to commemorate a wife who died in childbirth, to highlight the figures status or a fashion statement? Completed in 1434 in Bruges, Belgium and admired for its profound dexterity and examined for its peculiar imagery, Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait has remained a mystery since the 19th century. The Arnolfini Portrait’s earliest known history is remarkable, it’s rare…...
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Netherlands Clothing Fashions in 16th-17th Centuries
In the painting made by Pieter van der Werff, a young boy sits, playing with a toy three-master, which is a three-masted ship, hence the name. The boy holds a bright red string that is attached to the toy boat, indicating that wheels are attached to the bottom of the ship. On the highest mast, the ship flies a Netherlands flag, indicating that this is where the boy is located. The boy has shoulder-length blond hair and is wearing a…...
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Deprived American Dream in American Beauty
The American Dream (AD) has become extremely perverse as commercialism and consumerism have become a main aspect and priority of everyday life, not just for American society, Generically the AD can be defined as "...life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement." This was originally defined by James Truslow Adams in 1932. but since then the AD has changed dramatically, as society's values and consumeristic nature changes along with…...
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American Beauty vs The Great Gatsby
Upholding the American Dream means standing by the belief that if one is determined and pushes beyond the limits then they will achieve success and happiness. However, this so- called American Dream is a delusion that is tainted with self-seeking, narcissistic values and lies that can lead toward melancholy. The reason why Americans have been so obsessed with the desire to become happy lies within the famous line from the Declaration of Independence: “the pursuit of happiness.” Because of this…...
American BeautyCultureHappinessPsychology
Prostitution Legalization in New Zealand: Language Diversity?
In her argumentative essay, "Enough Already, It's Time to Decriminalize Prostitution," Patty Kelly debates that prostitution should be legalized. She begins her essay by addressing the arrest of State Senator, Elliot Spitzer, who had been caught paying women for sex. Furthermore, she uses this as an example that prostitution is "a part of our culture, and is not going away" (Kelly, 2012, p. 436). Kelly spent a year at a legal brothel in Mexico and uses her first hand experience…...
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The Cultural Concepts and Practices of the Maori Tribe in New Zealand
The Māori cultural practices form part of the distinct cultures of the New Zealand. The cultural practices have over time taken place in the various eras such as before the spread of the European into the country, during the spread and interaction of the European, and lastly, the modern era of the 20th century. There are proofs that the culture of the Māori has been greatly influenced by the western European cultures but there are traces of it that has…...
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Epic Fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
A Song of and Fire is an epic fantasy comprised of five books, with seven ultimately planned for the complete series. The first volume, titled A Game of Thrones, is followed by A Clash of Kings. A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and a Dance with Dragons. The events of ASOIAF take place in a vast world spanning continents and islands each with its own mountains, rivers, and forests, and histories. The complexity of Planets (as fans like…...
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