Human beings attempt to gain insights into something new and unfamiliar by making comparisons with already known concepts. The book “Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History” offers thoughts about the Chinese art through the lens of Western art. Such an approach damages both the...
The novel “The Fault In Our Stars” is written by John Green. This book connects all your life’s practicality. The author manages to relate all the points to the teen life of every person. The book is written to portray a real story of two...
Abstract Various factors lead Morrison to write God Help the Child, in which one of the major factor is the self. Most of the work of Morrison contains social statements and attest to the physical, emotional and psychological abuse African American suffered at the hands...
The aim of this paper is to study the concept of the trauma of black Haitian womanhood in Edwidge Danticat’s novel Breath, Eyes, Memory. The novel tells the story of a young Haitian-American woman Sophie Caco, who tries to reconstruct her identity and to find...
Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” is a science fiction story published in 1952. It is a time travel narrative set up in 2055 where a time travel outfitting agency named Time Safari Inc offers people to travel back to the age of dinosaurs and...
The 21st century has witnessed a significant shift in the way work is conducted, with the rise of remote work or working from home. This trend has sparked debates and discussions about the advantages and disadvantages of working from home compared to the traditional office...
“Unwind” by Neal Shusterman is a thought-provoking and controversial novel that delves into the ethical and moral implications of using human parts for organ transplantation. The book raises important questions about the value of life, the rights of individuals, and the consequences of technology on...
The Flip Over Sweater is a short story that explores the themes of identity, self-discovery, and the power of perspective. Written by renowned author Angela Carter, the story follows the protagonist, Sarah, as she navigates the complexities of her own sense of self and the...
Brian Doyle’s essay “Joyas Voladoras” is a masterful exploration of existence, encapsulated within the poignant metaphor of the heart. A heart, Doyle suggests, is not merely an organ but a vessel of experience, emotion, and vitality. Through an intricate juxtaposition of the hummingbird and the...
Introduction James Baldwin’s essay “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” remains a poignant and powerful piece of American literature. Written in 1963, it addresses Baldwin’s nephew, James, and through him, the broader African American community about...
The Cellist of Sarajevo, a novel written by Steven Galloway is set in the city of Sarajevo, during the Bosnian war in the 1990’s. Galloway chose this setting to recount the stories of eyewitnesses present during the siege of Sarajevo, and to give his reader’s...
It have some men in this world, they don’t do nothing at all, and you feel that they would dead from starvation, but day after day you meeting them and they looking hale, they laughing and they talking as if they have a million dollars,...
In his veto of the infamous “Cat Bill”, Governor Stevenson wields a professional but deliberate diction as well as figurative language to logically yet sarcastically reject and ridicule the utter absurdity of allowing the imprisonment of the common household cat. Made-to-order essay as fast as...
The Skin I’m In The Skin I’m In is about a girl named Maleeka Madison III being teased because of the color of her skin. This book takes place at McClenton Middle School. There was a new teacher named Miss Saunders and Maleeka’s friend, Charlese,...
In both Cooley and DuBois’ writings, the authors contemplate the ways an individual shapes their identity based on their interactions with the people and society around them. Cooley explains this in a more generalized manner, in which the individual’s identity is intrinsically linked to society...
During the late 19th Century after the end of the Reconstruction Era many citizens of the United States began to explore the frontier of the country and moved west in large numbers. This was predominately caused by the need for resources for growing industry and...
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, is a play that tells the story of a mother, Amanda, and her two children, Laura and Tom. Laura is a young woman who suffered from a disease that left her crippled, mentally and physically. Tom brings home a...
Isolation can affect anyone. But how can it affect relationships? The novel, The Stranger, by Albert Camus, is about an isolated character named Meursault. His relationships are heavily affected by his isolation, but he still chose to be isolated. Isolation can affect relationships because it...
Key events have the potential to adjust the lives of entire families. The people around tragic events have new understandings and knowledge of the world around them, like the ripple on a pond surface after a stone is thrown they feel in a variety of...
In the story Long, Long After School it details the experiences of a devoted teacher attempting to thwart the racism that occurs in her beloved classroom. With an open mind Miss Tretheway is determined to end this dilemma, and is constantly attempting to fix society’s...
The first thing to note whilst reading ‘The Sociological Imagination’ (first published in 1959) is that when C. Write Mills refers to “man”/ “men” he is in fact referring to the entire population rather than specifically the male gender. This is typical of writing from...
In this essay it will be show the risky and the difficult way of living sailing the sea on a ship, most of the people can think that is easy, but no ones knows until they live it. On those days you need to have...
Voyage into the Female Relationship The novel Voyage in the Dark is a tale about a girl named Anna Morgan who is in a constant struggle with her identity. She was born in the Caribbean, a child of a white man and a Caribbean woman....
The short story ‘Bliss’ emphasises the complexity of the thoughts going within the protagonist’s mind to accept the feelings which are weird according to the society norms. The story shows how Bertha discovers that she is a bisexual and how she feels about it. It...
In this week’s reаdings, we encountеred the book The Red Indians” by Peter Kulchyski which reveаls the strugglеs and resistаnce of First Nations peoples to retаin their lаnd and identitiвs which Europeаn settlers were trying to dеprive. Author nаrrates us through the resistаnce of Native...
The book The Hunger Games, is about a society similar to ours. The poor live in horrible conditions while the rich control everything. The people take pleasure in watching teens compete in a death match. The story focuses on the character of Katniss Everdeen, from...
What would you do to break the everyday routine of life? Just for one day, to be part of something new, and to engage in random activities. How far would you go to feel alive again? A wealthy suburban man named Neddy Merrill, who the...
In life we require a great deal of motivation. Whether it comes to work love or any other relationship. However, sometimes the motivation from our colleagues, family, friends isn’t quite beneficial and we tend to drift away from the fact that we need motivation to...
Connie and Christabel are two different teenage girls who lived in different eras. In the article “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, Oates illustrated Connie as a young pretty girl, who liked to look at herself, but rebellious. She always argued with her...
In Trevor Noah’s 2016 book Born a Crime, he relates his youth in South Africa under the politically-sanctioned racial segregation government known as the Apartheid, and the first couple of long periods of a fair standard by the country’s dark greater part. The story is...