Departure Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

26th April 2011

Introduction

Siddhartha is a novel written by Hermann Hesse. It deals with Siddhartha’s (a boy) journey in search of knowledge. The word Siddhartha is a combination of two Sanskrit words: Siddha (“achieved”) and artha (“meaning or wealth’). Siddhartha in whole means “the one who has found meaning/wealth…”
Siddartha sets out, with his friend Govinda, to search for knowledge. He leaves asceticism and goes to a down-to-earth life and back to asceticism again in his effort to attain enlightenment and experience.
Hermann uses experience here to refer to the sum of the conscious happenings/events as experienced by a person in ...

Introduction

Chinese poetry has been existent for a long time but it was only in the sixteenth century when it became known to the Western world. Missionary scholars came across some famous Chinese poems and helped in their translations. The translations brought into light some of the most prolific Chinese poets. One of these prolific Chinese poets is Du Fu. His expertise in Chinese poetry comes into lime light as one goes through his set of poems. Du Fu was the author of over 1000 poems. Some of his most famous poems include Three Partings, Three Officers, A song of Chariots, ...

Was Nora right to leave at the end of the play?

Firstly, she was right to leave because Torvald treats her in a completely stereotypical way – like a doll, as the title of the page suggests. All the names he calls her as endearments have the effect of stressing her weakness and dependence on him. They make her sound like a child, a doll, Torvald’s personal plaything: “little songbird”, “squirrel”, “lark”, “little featherhead”, “little skylark”, “little person”, little woman.” It could be argued that these are harmless and loving endearments, but they clearly show the balance of power in the Helmers’ marriage. If Nora acts at times in a flirtatious and childish way, it ...