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Federico’s Ghost by Martin Espada is an intriguing poem of advocacy which attempts to give a voice to those who do not have a chance to speak and who are alone in the world. This suggests an intertwining of aesthetics and politics especially in this poem which refers to the ghost of a child who appears to help those which are currently oppressed.
The poem deals with the story of a young boy who is called Federico and who works tilling the land in tomato fields, back breaking work for almost no pay in a desperately poor family who do not have ...

Andre Breton a well renowned French writer and a poet were born in a modest family in Normandy. In his research, he mainly majored in psychiatry and medicine. During the World War II, he participated as a doctor in a neurological ward in Nantas where his research on the artistic tradition started. The main influences for his study were the anti-social behavior that was exhibited by some of his patients. For instance, Jacques Vache, a young patient at the age of 24 years committed suicide and wrote several letters that were published in an introductory essay called Letters de querre in 1919. The novelist married ...

The book’s title gives a summary of the concepts explored in the book. Pollan creatively writes about nutrition to make the society acknowledge the need of assuming a habit of healthy living. In natural foods, the author means unprocessed food unlike the commonly consumed by the current generation that are highly processed. The author refers to modern day food as food- like substances. People eat these substances because they are edible and food-like (Pollan, 51). Pollan presents the modern day worry of food nutrition, regarding it as the American Paradox. He observes that the more people worry themselves about nutrition ...

The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

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The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture” deals with the major Christian culture written by Francis A. Schaeffer, and published in 1976. Basing on the book, a series of ten films were produced. In the book, Schaeffer objected to the influences of Renaissance, the Charles Darwin and the Enlightenment. His thoughts inspired many leaders of ...

The book follows Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a reclusive mad scientist, who seeks to create new life by sewing together the limbs and remains of several other dead bodies and reanimate them. Victor's childhood was geared very closely toward the pursuit of science, while he befriended his adopted sister Elizabeth and studied science with his father. After attending university, he decides to finally reanimate a dead body with life, assembling a rough body consisting of mismatched parts of ugly organs and limbs, bringing it to life. However, Victor thinks his work ugly, and escapes the room where he reanimated him, leaving the monster ...

Ray Kinsella narrates the story Shoeless Joe (Kinsella, 1999). It’s set in a quiet farm in Iowa, where Kinsella’s support team were his wife as well as his daughter, Karin. Somehow, part of this support group is his father (even though he they were estranged most the novel), Johnny Kinsella, who introduced to him the love he has and was so compelled to write about – baseball. His love for this sport carried him out into such a play on fantasy, and led him to do the things which he did. His feelings and emotions towards the sport were in a ...