Essays on Geography & Travel

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Texas Today

1 page / 657 words

James Bowie, Sam Houston, Davy Crockett and William Travis all left their native country and moved west to make a new start. Their destiny helped shape what we know as Texas today. Both Bush presidents, 41 and 43, were born in the Northeast but moved...

Texas

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China's Sovereignty Over South China Sea

2 pages / 949 words

The half-a-dozen nations have been drawn into a contention over the control of a conduit that fills in as a vital exchange course and is rich in natural resources. The increasing intermediary war being pursued in the South China Sea can be come down to...

China

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The Eiffel Tower

1 page / 585 words

The Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower is located in Paris,France. It’s not a wonder. The construction for making the tower started on January 28, 1887. Paris hosted an Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) to mark the 100-year anniversary of the French Revolution and the birth of...

Eiffel Tower

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The Consequences of Drug Abuse in Saudi Arabia

1 page / 561 words

“The penalty for drug traffiking in Saudi Arabia is death, and Saudi officials make no exceptions” (CountryReports). In a country where the consumption of drugs and alcohol is illegal and results in long jail time, and where the death penalty is given to those smuggling...

Drug Trafficking Saudi Arabia

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The Globalization of Japanese Popular Culture

5 pages / 2330 words

Globalization of the popular culture entails the examination of the ongoing evolution from a new and challenging perspective, through taking a keen observation of the movements of the popular culture into and out of Japan. From a multidisciplinary approach, scholars have noted that the changing...

Japan Japanese Culture

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The Significance of The Samurai in Japanese History

1 page / 512 words

Japan’s first capital city, Nara, was directly modeled after the Tang capital city, Chang’an. Out of the total Japanese population of about 5-6 million residents, Nara constituted for some 20,000 of them. Within that time period (710-784 C.E.), land was nationalized in the name of...

Japan Japanese Culture

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The Options to Achieve Peace with China

1 page / 468 words

I believe that the United States should not attempt to put any militaristic or economic restrictions on China. This is because the United States simply doesn’t have the power to back up whatever threats they may give. The United States should instead try to keep...

China Foreign Policy Peace

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Directing Transcendence in The Film Tokyo Story

3 pages / 1543 words

Tokyo Story, directed by Yasujiro Ozu, is a deeply meditative film. The plot is deceptively simple: an old couple visits their adult children in Tokyo. However, their children does not treat them well. On their return, the wife falls ill and passes away. At the...

Film Analysis Tokyo

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The Personification of Oil and Religion: Daniel Versus Eli in ‘there Will Be Blood’

2 pages / 1057 words

?The central conflict in There Will Be Blood (2007) is found in the relationship between the two main characters, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Eli Sunday (Paul Dano). Daniel’s plain-speaking oilman customs and Eli’s archaic spiritual beliefs represent the overall struggle between oil and religion....

Adventure Movie Review

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The Sound of Waves and Post World War 2 Japan

3 pages / 1284 words

In The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima conveys the loss of traditional values in Japan due to Westernization in after the Second World War. Through powerful symbols and juxtaposition, Mishima effectively expresses his anger towards the devastating effects of the war, such as a corrupted...

Japan Japanese Culture Novel

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Christianity, Culture, and Conflict in The River Between

3 pages / 1491 words

The River Between The novel by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, The River Between, tells the story of two tribes that hold very different beliefs central to themselves. However, though they agree on very little, there are still people that believe in peace and unity. The clash...

Kenya Novel

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Challenging Or Naturalizing Ideas About Australia in Remembering Babylon

3 pages / 1503 words

In the grace period of Australia’s colonial development, many cultural assumptions and ideas were created in response to the increase of British immigration. Australia was a home away from home, a land of opportunity and adventure that allowed the English populace ‘freedom’ from the almost...

Australia Cultural Identity Literature Review

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The Transformative Power of Drama in "Our Country’s Good"

4 pages / 1614 words

Wertenbaker wrote Our Country’s Good in order to depict a developmental process for the characters. Through the Howardian theory of redemption, by learning from each other, and by acting in their production of The Recruiting Officer, they transform into what Phillip calls “members of society...

Countries Drama

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Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Challenges of Motherhood as Illustrated in Joys of Motherhood

1 page / 1888 words

The idea that childbirth can test a woman and perhaps lead to self-awareness serves as a major theme for Buchi Emecheta’s Nigerian novel The Joys of Motherhood, in which a young Ibo woman marries twice, the first marriage highlighting her infertility. In her second marriage,...

Nigeria Novel

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Nigeria Vs Western Capitalist Society as Potrayed in Things Fall Apart and The Joys of Motherhood

1 page / 1298 words

The novels Things Fall Apart and The Joys of Motherhood both present Nigeria as a competitive, consumption-crazed country. Each novel, therefore, also creates a parallel between Nigeria and capitalist, Western societies–yet each one shows that the differences are not in degree, but in the details....

Nigeria Novel Things Fall Apart

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Herodotus Account of Events Leading Upto The Greco-persian Wars in The Histories

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Introduction: Understanding the Greco-Persian Wars In The Histories, Herodotus offers an account of the events leading to the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states of the 5th century BC and attempts to determine “the reason why they fought one another” (Herodotus, 1.1)....

Greece Narrator

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Personification of Jerusalem in 'Awlad Al-kaaba' and 'Face Lost in The Wilderness'

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In the poems Awlad al-Kahba (Sons of a Bitch) by Mudhafar Al-Nawab and Face Lost in the Wilderness by Fadwa Tuqan, there is great commonality in each poet’s personification of Jerusalem as a raped girl. Through the perspective of each poet, both works reflect upon...

Jerusalem Poetry Rape

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The Trope of Masquerade in "The Rover" and "Marriage A-la-mode"

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In England, the Baroque was a partly useful concept when discussing about the Restoration Comedy. The English theatres were closed for 18 years, during the English Civil War and English Commonwealth. They were reopened in the Restoration of Charles II (1660). During this period, the...

Comedy England Literature Review

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The Brothers Karamazov and Their Contemporary Russia

2 pages / 1087 words

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, exaggerates the extremes of Russia, saying that “[Russians] need continually…two extremes at the same moment, or they are miserable and dissatisfied and their existence is incomplete. They are wide, wide as mother Russia.” In many of his works, Dostoyevsky’s...

Novel Russia The Brothers Karamazov