Essays on Metaphor

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” is one of his easiest to read and, simultaneously, one of his most interesting poems. It covers several themes but the main theme is of aging, and the passing of time. The unhappy speaker muses about his impeding old age, and how this reminds him about the importance of love. Shakespeare uses many literary and stylistic devices to convey and enhance this theme. As the title suggests, the poem is in Shakespearian sonnet form, with fourteen lines and a rhyming scheme. The speaker and setting are inextricably linked and are central to the poem. ...

Q1 (a) Adichie’s essay presented two basic examples based on the concept of feminism that exists in the minds of men. At first, she illustrated that how she preferred to wear clothes that were less feminine while going to her graduation school. The example gives an impression to the audience that men in the society think that girls are a weaker entity. It also provides an idea that girls have insecurity. Therefore, they tend to look manly to prove themselves as stronger while making a public appearance Q1 (b) Another example that Adichie’s essay has provided is ...

Abstract

The basic principle of Marxist criticism is that society is divided in social classes that are in an antagonist relation, wherein the rich and strong exploit the poor and weak. In this sense, Walt Whitman’s poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” does not reflect the exploitative relation that Marx sees as representative for society, but he rather describes the society of one, hence an atypical society. The solitude, isolation and desolation are feelings that appear throughout the story, so the reader can understand that possession, or a high social status is not as important as companionship, or when one ...

Poems on Passing the Ruined Capital of Ōmi

The sections of the poem are as follows: it consists of a long chōka, and there are two envoys following it. In the first longer part, chōka, Hitomaro mentions the ruler who has chosen to move the capital from the location “under heavens” (Shirane, 2012) to a “wild place” (Shirane, 2012), and wonders how the ruler could have made such a decision. The author also describes the present desolation of the former capital, as its ruins stand in the spring sun. The contrast between the observed ruins, the broken, demolished city, and the past majesty of the ...

Most of the poem is a speaker's account of a woman who is undressing. The speaker calls and entices the mistress to come into bed. Further, the speaker believes that he will only be in content if he engages in coitus with the mistress. The next lines describe the act of gradually undressing the woman piece by piece. He compares her pieces of attire to different things such as her girdle, which he compares to elements in the heavens. He tells of the woman's beauty and compares his exploration of the woman's body as that of the exploration of ...

The political elements of Star Trek show that the series had more insight than what is apparent. The show started in the 1960s when the Cold War was at its height. Many authorities argue that Star Trek is an exploration based on self-interest, colonialism, collectivism and control . However, George Gonzalez takes a different approach in The Politics of Star Trek where he undertakes a critical review of the story within the context of the actual implications of the actions of the characters. This paper will review the first two chapters of the book in order to present the critical ...

Titus Andronicus is one of the bloodiest of Shakespare's tragedies, with many characters dying or being tortured both on stage and off. What stands out in the mist of all this violence, though, is that the imagery used in many of the lines echoes it. Characters often use metaphors referring to hands and tongues, and other body parts, which mirror the condition of the characters they are talking about. A particularly powerful example is the dialogue in Act II between Lavinia and her cousin Marcus Andronicus. By matching the extreme violence of what has happened to Lavinia with the ...

Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Raven” in 1945. The poem shows how lost love can lead to depression. Depression, and mental illness in general, is a topic common to many of Poe’s works, and he often uses an unreliable narrator as one of the primary means of showing such depression. Following the death of the woman he loved, a male speaker narrates “The Raven,” and through this first person account, the reader is allowed a glimpse of his descent into madness. Through the poem, Poe demonstrates to how the experience of losing a loved one can propel someone ...

Memory in poetry is an important aspect that poets must consider. According to Dymoke, Andrew and Anthony (18), it plays central roles such as constructing and maintaining the connections between things perceived in the poem. With a specific emphasis, the use of metaphors in poetry considerably promotes this function. A major function of metaphor in poetry is to talk about a single situation, object, or circumstance while alluding the other. According to Lakoff & Turner (2009), poetry, as a component of oral literature is a metaphor used to demonstrate the manner in which experience human life at a higher depth. ...

Abstract

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is technological programming that gathers, accumulates, and evaluates data related to the earth’s surface. GIS interprets set of data on a single map, which is evaluated and interpreted subsequently. Over the years, the integration of the technology with the principles of Transportation Economics gained a significant attention of numerable economies. Particularly the metropolitan cities of developed countries that encounter various challenges related to the development and maintenance of infrastructure. It was found that GIS allows the Transportation Economists to develop and propose an efficient plan related to different routes and their smart integration. ...

Chapter 2, Question 6

Creation of teams in an organization is a significant activity in order to attain productivity. Most corporations tend to create teams for instituting synergy impact into an organizational conduct. Besides, an employee team is another approach of motivating resources and extracts maximum output in least possible investment of resources. Moreover, a successful and healthy team in an organization is a measurement of leadership skills and effectiveness of internal leaders. A leader is liable to combine a reserve, innovative, and active resources under similar banner for regulating the routine conduct (Hall, 1-2). Over the years, creation of employee teams has ...

Reflection

Reflection

While language is specific to humans, because this race is the only one capable of speaking due to its physical construction, communication is common to all other animals, regardless of species (Yule, 1996). Communication does not require words, but body language, signs, behaviors, etc., which transmit information, often unintentionally. On the other hand, language consists of sounds and syllables that shape an intentional information sharing process (Yule, 1996). Language is characterized by: displacement (the capacity of speaking about past, present and future), arbitrariness (the form of human language), productivity (the creativity to utter endless utterances), cultural transmission (passing ...

In the scope of this transpersonal development map, it is essential to note that the spirituality may be perceived by an individual from the set of various perspectives (such as theology, sociology, nursing, psychology etc.) and within the frameworks of different theories. For instance, spirituality is described by theology as individuals’ belief in God, which, in turn, is expressed by one through the religious practices and beliefs: “Unfolding: The beauty of the rose may be hidden but is already present within the bud. Likewise, our transcendent beauty and potential are hidden within, and spiritual practices help us unfold and ...

1. The book begins with a historical portrait of Ruth McBride Jordan. The author reveals that Ruth has had some name changes. Explain each name change and its significance. The change of Ruth’s name indicates the changes that she has undergone since her birth. She was born in Poland as Rachel Dwanra Zylska and as the name indicates she was born into an orthodox Jewish family. The first name change happens in her second year when her family immigrates to America. It is here that she gets her second name Rachel Deborah Zylska, which was ‘an American version ...

Literature

The story of an hour centers on a young woman who is married, and it is indicating her reaction to her husband’s death in a train accident (Chopin n.d). The cat in the rain is also a short story of an American wife who is suffering from the mistreatment she is receiving from her husband. She figures herself in the cat that she sees in the rain thus goes ahead to look for that Cat (Hemingway, n.d). This paper will discuss how the two authors use contrasting or similar elements of fiction, the impact of those items on ...

Invisibility of Women - Literature analyses of “The Women Men Don’t See” by James Tiptree Jr. in compare and contrast to “Invisibility in Academe” by Adrienne Rich

Introduction

The two literary texts analyzed in this essay are centered on the subject of feminine rights, power, and gender equality. James Tiptree expresses disdain for male domination in his story ‘The Women Men Don’t See’. He is concerned with the blatant disregard for feminine rights and identity flaunted by male dominance. On the other hand, Adrienne Rich writes an account of the feminine struggles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ...

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1) 1. French Hip-Hop genre is famous for several names of people, who have made a large contribution to the development of hip-hop culture in France: Dee Nasty, Phil Barney, Bernard Zekri, Jean Karaks, and Sidney. Dee Nasty is a DJ Radio Nova’s producer and a pioneer of Hip-Hop genre in France. He has produced the first Hip Hop record in France in 1980s and soon became world-known. He took part in many DMC World DJ Championships. Dee Nasty is also known for the distribution and development of graffiti, break dance, and funk music in French culture. ...

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“Baseball was proof positive that democracy was real. A baseball box score after all, is a democratic thing. It doesn't say how big you are, or what religion you follow it does not know how you voted, or the color of your skin, it simply states what kind of ballplayer you were on any particular day”. It’s telling, when the film starts with a quote, which is methodically taken apart, denied and discarded only to turn true in the end. The story is not about the reality of the things, claimed in the quote; ...

Gross Income Exercise

The fruit and tree metaphor is a court decision on property ownership and transfers of gains from properties. The court holds that a person who gains money from property and services cannot transfer the income to another individual. The case is applicable to earnings from property or services rendered by persons in the United States. An applicable case is a scenario where a salesperson decides to transfer his commissions to his offspring to elude taxes on the earned commissions. Another application may be in the transfer of taxable bonds to another person, such as a father to her daughter, ...

Love and marriage have always been an inexhaustible topic in the literature of all nation and all times. Depiction of various shades of emotion in this context has offered the reader a great enjoyment as well as some food for thought. The short story The Story of an Hour by an American writer Kate Chopin is one of the examples of Considering the moral conventions of the her time, especially with regard to female rights and behavior, this story was definitely an unusual approach to interpreting the relationship between the sexes: the female protagonist hears about the abrupt death ...

Introduction

Casino Capitalism is a vivid description of the international financial markets, their behavior, and the economic strength they yield to various entities. The book goes on to describe the advantages of international financial markets and some of the evils associated with the same. The author, Susan Strange was a former student of the British international relations studies; she is mostly renowned for her contributions to the creation of the international political economy. Apart from her major publication of the Casino Capitalism in 1986, she also published other books, namely: States and Markets (1988), The Retreat of the State (1996) ...

Every poet has its own main theme that he or she carries along their whole literary life. Some of them focus on positive aspects of our life, such as love, family, friendships etc. However, there are those who see this world in not so bright colors. For example, such poets talk about grief, sorrow, loss etc. Emily Dickinson is one of such poets. She was a lady who focused on the negativity and quite upsetting things that happen in our life. The metaphor of death is common for both of her poems “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” ...

Critical thinking

Gareth Morgan “is a British/Canadian organizational theorist, management consultant and Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto” (Witzel ,2003). In 1986 he wrote a tremendous work on management “Images of organization”. This book was translated into many languages and is still republishing. While writing this book, Morgan had the idea to unite all existing theories and bring the most complete and easy understanding of the structure of any organization. He succeeded in completing this ask, that is why his book is still valuable and widely used. After reading this book I have got a lot of new information ...

There can be a consensus among literary critics about the fact that poetry provides the utmost scope of exudation of literary quintessence and aesthetic appeal on the part of the literary artist. The literary artist has the liberty to use a number of metaphors that is a type of figure of speech in which a kind of expression is used for the purpose of referring to something that is not literally denoted by the expression. A metaphor thus goes on to suggest a similarity between the signifier and the signified in the literary work. Thus, metaphor can very well ...

The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin’s The Story of An Hour is, on the surface, a romantic tale of a woman who wiles away the boring, husbandless hours she encounters alone in her room, waiting for her spouse to return. Through a strange mix-up concerning his death, and subsequent resurrection, she finds herself suffering from a life-ending heart attack herself. Those around her believe she has died from the sheer joy of find her husband has not died after all. Anybody who truly knew her would know she had actually died from a tragically broken heart, for she was a woman forlorn ...

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In Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall,” the poet explores the theme of the effects of separation and barriers on relationships. The stylistic devices that are used by the poet include the following: repetition, parallelism, metaphor and paradox. One of the above stylistic devices is illustrated by the following: “To each the boulders have fallen to each” (l. 13). This use of parallelismand repetition shows not only the fact that there is a physicalbarrier between him and his neighbor, but that he and his neighbor are on opposite sides of a mental barrier. Frost also employs ...

Langston Hughes Poems

Life is not just a perfect picture with all puzzles joining together at once. One time it opens you the door of paradise, but other one throws you to the chasm of disappointment and loneliness. If people learn to find joy in every day and keep on going in spite of any life troubles, they will reach beautiful destination and create their own happiness. Only the most courageous ones, who are ready to follow their dreams and run the risk, will definitely choose the quickest and easiest path in the fascinating life journey. Dreams of course can not magically ...

Michael Foucault once said that “visibility is a trap”, which describes the best how panopticon works (Milchman and Rosenberg 18). While Jeremy Bertham’s idea of Panopticon initially concerned only the layout of a prison, the metaphor of his concept shed the light to the methods of power and control in the society. Back in 18th century Bertham proposed to replace physical abuse and torture of inmates by an innovative layout of prison that would allow one watchman to observe all prisoners, which may or may not know that they are observed (Semple 38). Further on, Foucault developed the ...

Space/ Scale/ Territory

Millennium Park is a 24.5-acre park that has several venues for performance, art, architecture, sculpture, and landscape architecture. It is located centrally in Chicago’s central business district and the lakefront. The Millennium Park emerged from a dilapidated ground-level parking space and rail yard into perhaps what may be regarded as the world’s biggest “green roof,” spanning two multi-level parking spaces with a total of over 4,000 cars and one commuter rail line. In Millennium Park, space is created in various ways. For example, there is the illusion of space created through structures and activities that allow ...

Introduction

It’s called a fugue state. A fugue state is characterized by a complete removal from, or interruption of, a person’s identity and a personal history. A fugue state is not always permanent, but during the episode, a person can completely forget who they are, and can assume a completely new identity for themselves. Usually, the fugue state isn’t even diagnosed until a person can recall their identity after the fugue state has ended (Costandi). This is a perfect metaphor for Death Fugue, a novel by Sheng Keyi. In her novel, she explores the events related to ...

Emily’s Dickinson “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is a six stanza poem that talks about the narrator’s experience with death. This essay focuses on the third stanza of this poem, which provides a vivid description of the voyage in the company of Death. Although the entire poem reflects contrasting perspectives between life and death, this particular stanza is special because it captures the discrepancy between the two, while creating a harmony.

“We passed the School, where Children strove

At recess – in the Ring – We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain – We passed the Setting Sun –” This four line stanza is written in ...

Introduction

Civil engineering and its related fields are very diverse and entail both structural design and architectural work. Structural engineering as we can deduct from the term ‘structure’ deals with the physical components of a given design. For example, in the house construction process, the structural engineer considers all the aspects of materials to be used and consults with the architect to ensure the durability of the home. On the other hand, architectural engineering refers to the technology of incorporating the basic functional aspects of a given design to make sure that an ambient environment has been created. My journey ...

Introduction

Over the years, little has changed the way romantic relationships are formed. Both scholars and the average dater agree it usually begins with physical attraction and perceived similarity, and progresses in a somewhat predictable manner from there. Typically, this progression has followed theoretical frameworks such as Knapp’s stages of relational development and Taylor’s (1968) social penetration theory. What these theorists might not have accounted for in the 1970’s (and what seems to be transforming the way young people pursue relationships) is the invention of the Smartphone.

Literature Review

One of the earliest perspectives on communication during romantic initiation ...

Living for the moment, sensing the present while engaging in the living of the current time is the central theme of Marie Howe’s “The Moment”. The poem is entrenched in the modern world, where time flies carried away by a multitude of tasks that should support the living, but end up by capturing the entire human existence. There are specific literary devices that the poet uses for accentuating the idea of living in the present, some of them being the alliteration, repetition and metaphors. With the use of these literary devices, spread across two stanzas, the theme of ...

George Herbert (1593-1633) adopted the Metaphysical style of poetry from Donne but in a simpler manner. His famous poem “Death” is an example of the poetry that uses rhetorical forms of writing like a paradox, hyperbole, and conceits. The poem constitutes two parts that have a contradicting view of death. The First part presents death as a fearsome being through the use of hideous expressions and imagery. The second part presents death as a friend and a passage to a better life. The last three stanzas give hope to Christians through the works of Jesus Christ. Through Christ’s ...

Motivation is the intense desire to cater to a need through the achievement of a goal. The drive to achieve these goals comes from internal sources, which are individually based, and they arise from within the person they include examples like hunger, thirst, the need to lose weight etc., they are also as a result of external source which originate from the environment examples being incentives. Both these sources can combine to form a push and pull effect where the motivation to reach a certain goal is caused by both sources (Deckers, 2005). For example one can get an ...

At least 9 million people die because of hunger and malnutrition, sadly 5 million are children. In a world of plenty, a huge number go hungry. The biggest percentage of the people who go hungry live in the developing countries. Three-quarters of all the hungry people in the developing countries live in rural areas, mostly in the villages of Africa and Asia. Despite this worrying trend, food wastage in the developed countries is very high. For instance, in the United Kingdom, close 40% of food is never eaten, in U.S., 40-50% of all food ready to harvest is never ...

Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most beloved poets. She wrote of nature, love, and death. It is said that Dickinson wrote 1800 poems, the majority of which were untitled. Dickinson was known to be somewhat reclusive and introverted throughout her life. These traits, however, did not preclude her from observing and appreciating even the simplest forms of her natural surroundings. One of Dickinson’s poems involving nature is “A Bird Came Down the Walk-.” It is this poem that will be discussed here. Dickinson’s poetry is of a personal quality, not only to the poet, but ...

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These paintings come from a ten-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with a fairly severe cause of autism. He has to have someone sitting next to him if he is going to make art. He was supplied with a variety of sponges and paint to make patterns. Their repetitive nature comes from the fact that if you do not prompt him in a different direction, he keeps doing the same thing over and over. When I look at the paintings at lower left, lower right and upper right, I am somewhat surprised that this is only a ten-year-old making ...

Abstract

'Gothic' term represents medieval art that carries a strange history. The style of art developed in Northern France and spread to the rest of Western Europe. Late Gothic art expanded well into the 16th century before getting consumed by the Renaissance art. Gothic period carries splendid examples of sculptures, stained glass, fresco, panel painting, ivories and illuminated manuscripts. The essay offers a perspective on the popularity of Gothic ivories and how they encouraged the devotional practice. The ivory diptychs were used as sophisticated tools and were seen as physical vestiges of the divine. Gothic ivories were the visual cues ...

HU250 – section number

Introduction: One of the most famous concepts in philosophy is Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, described in his book The Republic. In this allegory, he describes a situation in which there are prisoners in a cave, not knowing of the reality and nature of light and thinks of the shadow puppets that they are used to seeing as reality, even though in fact it is a mere manifestation of it. Next, he outlines a situation wherein a prisoner is freed and gets familiar with the light, and thus sees things in a new way. He then summarizes that ...

Literature review: Nora Helmer in the play Dollhouse by Henrik Ibsen

Nora Helmer is one if not the most interesting character in the three-act play prose written by the great writer Henrik Ibsen. Many of the literally critics me included argue that such an immature, incredibly ignorant person can never have attained the kind of understanding or the revolutionary, amazing qualities that are represented by Nora by the time she leaves her home. While analyzing the play I noticed the creative and careful construction of the character Nora take place in the play. Ibsen has created Nora in such a way that her far sightedness and show of independence can ...

It was in Dead Poets Society that I have first encountered the words Carpe diem. In the movie, the main protagonist (Keating) explains the phrase Carpe diem with this sentence: “Because we are food for worms, lads. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold and die.” (“Dead Poets Society” 14:40－14:53) That is why Keating encouraged his students to “seize the day.” But the real question is what does it take in order for an individual to seize the day? For Robert Herrick, ...

Feminism is defined as a particular movement that is organized to achieve the rights of women. The use of it is etched throughout literature. Two works where feminism is heavily illustrated are Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's House and Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Both works present prime examples of feminism in their display of breaking away from the traditional roles, and the consequences of moving away from masculine conventions. These works from the perspective of the writer, highlight the importance of women in society, and their respective roles and functions being different from the conventional viewpoints by the masculine ...

Book Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

This is a great novel which is narrated directly through Christopher Boone, the main character and a kid with autism. Christopher is falsely accused of killing their neighbour’s dog, in which he decides to find out the real victim to prove his innocence. However, Mark Haddon, the author of the book argues that despite Christopher’s disability, he was still able to acquire cues, which led to unbelievable discoveries.

Q1. The only two emotions that Christopher was able to identify

Christopher was only able to identify the sad and happy faces. The identification of these two emotions is evident when Christopher gives out a detailed explanation that he has ...

Comparative paper between “Out of all Them Bright Stars” and “All You Zombies”

“Out of all Them Bright Stars” is a science fiction short story written by Nancy Kress and “All You Zombies” is a short story of the same genre written by Robert Heinlein. These two stories are similar because they are both science fiction and they differ because of the topics they deal with. The stories are different and while “Out of all Them Bright Stars” is about blue men coming from space to Earth, “All You Zombies” deals with a story which involves the time machine. “All You Zombies” is a story about a man who is young and ...

Flannery O’Connor is known for her knack of incorporating Southern values and religious beliefs in all of her stories and novels. Often, the main character goes through a horrific event that extracts views and interpretations of religion from the characters as well as the audience. “Good Country People” is a story about a woman and her daughter, and their reluctance to escape their small world on their country farm. Mrs. Hopewell, who lives with her daughter Hulga, welcomes a bible salesman named Manley Pointer into their house one day under the impression that he is wholesome and innocent. ...

The purpose of the conceptual metaphor, as Lakoff and Johnson (1980) described it, is that conceptual metaphors use concrete experiences to help explain abstract concepts. In a conceptual metaphor, as they posit the concept, there is the source domain and the target domain. The source domain is what we use to form a meaningful comparison, while the target domain is the concept that we are trying to explain with the metaphor. Let’s take the comparison “Marriage is a marathon, not a sprint.” A lot of people enter marriage not fully aware of the work that lies ahead of ...

Abstract

Television is a strong media form that can have significant influence to the minds of the minors. Behavioral and psychological effects of television have been documented in research studies, but what is most significant is how literature reviews demonstrated the impact of television shows in the communication of minors and their mindsets. Television, in its various media forms, has the ability to influence behavior and may result in persuasive effects in the use of words and other forms of communication in order to attract its viewers, especially the minors. As the young audience is exposed to television in its ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a popular iconic personality of the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 1960s, was a strong and inspiring speaker. An African American by birth, Dr. King was a Baptist minister who actively campaigned to end racial discrimination and segregation in America. Dr. King is best known for his belief in non violence and civil disobedience in keeping with Christian beliefs. King, who was inspired by Gandhi, quoted him in many of his speeches while campaigning for the Civil Rights in America (Raab, 2014). Dr. King’s popular speech ‘I have a dream’ ...

Discussion of the crisis issues associated with the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster in 2004

Management in crisis is a tough enough situation. However, the horrific onslaught of a suddenly unexpected tsunami literally crashing dramatically upon one’s doorstep is simply unthinkable. The inconceivable occurred in Indonesia, when the Aceh-stimulated earthquake stirred the violent killer waves in 2004 costing the lives of 127,000 people, roughly half a million injured – leaving behind potential scores of disease-prone epidemics and mourning of loved ones (Pascapurnama, Murakami, Chagan-Yasutan, Hattori, Sasaki & Egawa 2016). One international journalist and helper in the aftermath of the Indonesian Indian Ocean Earthquake Tsunami disaster, Bill Nicol, in his book Tsunami Chronicles, described the ...

Learning to Drive is a film directed by Isabel Coixet, released in 2014 and it deals with the role of women in the society. Although it seems that an Indian Sikh woman must have a much different life than an American woman from the upper class, they have things in common as well. This film is an example of gender equality in America. Wendy is a book editor and a critic who goes through a divorce and she has to become better equipped for life. She never thought that it was important for her to drive and once her ...

Insrtuctor’s Name

It is truth universally acknowledged that the theme of the human’s choice has always been popular with the poets and writers. It is not surprising that Robert Frost, an iconic American poet, addresses it in his most famous and most quoted poem, The Road not Taken (“The Norton Anthology of Poetry” 1232-1233). In spite of the widely spread opinion that the poem raises the problem of “being an individual” or “taking a different road from the masses” (Fagan 293), I strongly believe that the poet’s major intention is to emphasize that no matter what choice we make ...

In a letter from Emily Dickenson to “Austin”, Dickenson writes of her difficulty in writing, afterward focusing instead on her identity as a sister, rather than a writer. It seems interesting that a woman who was so outspoken, in general, and willing to embrace her ideas is willing to rely on her brother both in terms of getting her the prescription she needs, and as it relates to his judgement regarding what is best with her father. He voice in the letter is also interesting because it is familiar. While a formal letter would refer to individuals by their ...

Introduction

For this assignment I have decided to write an exegesis of Matthew 17:1-13. I have chosen the New International Version (NIV) as it is easier to read and understand. The New Spirit Filled Life Bible commentary explains that the book of Mathew was written around A.D 50-75 (Hayford 1321). The author is not exactly known, but it is attributed to Matthew. The major theme of this book is that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament, and that he is the Son of God.

The Bible passage, Matthew 17:1-13, proceeds as follows;

  “Six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, ...

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Annotated Bibliography

Dalirian, Zohreh, Alienation in Edward Hopper's and Jackson Pollock's Paintings (Wichita, Kan.: Wichita State University, 2010. In this published dissertation, Zohreh Dalirian compares Pollock’s alienation to that of Edward Hopper as expressed through their different artworks. He views Pollock’s art as a metaphor for his life. The alienation captured in his artwork can be used to explain his psychological characteristics. This work may be used to explore the link between artistic expression and psychology. Fisher, K, "Expressing The Age: How The Painting Of Jackson Pollock Displayed The Political Culture Of Abstract Expressionism.", Philogia, Vol. 2, ...

Introduction

In contemporary society, the term “lament” is used in everyday conversations, yet it is an old method of expression with a wide-ranging history in biblical and cultural contexts. In the Bible and ancient culture, lamentation was a specific practice used in written lyrical texts. In the Bible, the lament is applied as a prayerful plea to the creator or a dirge regarding the death of destruction of someone or something. In literary culture, lament has been used in poetry as well as prose writing for a long time. The Biblical book of Job provides a vivid example of lament. ...

With a sophisticated yet obviously distinguishable flavor of absurd, the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner features a deeply philosophical worldview of the man that was openly rejected by the society. Franz Woyzcek, apart from being the main character and driving force of the plot of the play, stands out to symbolize controversy and peculiarity of human nature, which is most vividly embodied in his unstable psychic condition and stormy social behavior. On the whole, the play is given the perspective of depicting Woyzeck’s social and family life, with each of the scenes contributing to the thematic growth ...

A Literary Analysis

Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants” takes place at a train station in Spain on a very hot summer day. The two main characters, the American and Jig, the girl, are travelling by train because the girl is going to get an operation. They are waiting for the next train that will take them to Madrid, the location of the operation, and they have forty minutes waiting until it gets there. The operation is likely an abortion, and the American is pushing for it while Jig is concerned and hesitant to go through with it. During ...

There is a common discussion amongst those interested in literature about the metaphors and allusions in the works of Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll first invented the Alice character in the work Alice in Wonderland, published in 1865. Scholars studying Carroll’s stories, including Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have debated whether or not he was able to weave together abstract notions into a cogent story, or if he simply delivered fractured fairy tales for a 20th Century audience. The truth is that Carroll worked purely within the realm of thte imagination, and although he did occasionally ...