Essays on Prose

After evaluating all three of these excellent stories, I have determined that the winner of this fiction contest must be “Rock Springs” by Richard Ford. Telling the story of a father on the run from the law, attempting to start a new life for himself and his daughter, “Rock Springs” does a tremendous job of showcasing the unfairness of justice, and the inability for people to truly escape their sins. For its incredible command of character, its thematic richness, and the endlessly compelling prose, “Rock Springs” is the clear winner of this contest. Ford centers “Rock Springs” around the ...

Although the times of oppression related to gender, class, and race seem to have gone by, the issues of discrimination still matter in our country even nowadays when people finally seem to understand that diversity should be celebrated. According to Andersen and Collins, attitudes toward gender, class, and race are the foundation of our society and it is impossible to understand its structure, nor organization without taking into account this triad (Andersen & Collins, 2). This paper focuses on three issues related to how the subject should be dealt with in the modern context: intersection, or overlapping of different ingredients ...

Introduction

The most recommended book, in the field of font design and styles, The Elements of Typographic Style is a legendary milestone of Robert Bringhurst. Not only Amazon, but thousands of other web pages provide thorough reviews about the very book. Though the subject of the book is considered disproportionately impassioned and somehow nit-picky, unlike some fictions or biographies, the readers are loathed to set down saluting to the page-turner. The paper consists of a critical analysis of the aforementioned book in which we aim to not only summarize what the book is all about but how it is and ...

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Among American writers of the twentieth century, Flannery O’Connor holds a special place and has solid reputation as a representative of the unique American fiction subgenre – southern gothic. Despite being rather short, most of her stories convey important moral, cultural and philosophical messages while her peculiar techniques and choices reflect her own background. Indeed, Flannery O’Connor is among the writers whose literary legacy is closely intertwined with her biography, her family background, beliefs, experiences and challenges she was burdened with in the course of her rather brief life. The complex set of environmental factors which shaped her ...

There is no doubt that there have been several women writers who have not been awarded a justified position in the so-called “canon” of English literature. There are names such as Margery Kempe, Marie de France, Lady Jane Grey, Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Mary Queen of Scotts, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, and many more who challenge an equivalent share of fame, with the labors of their classical male contemporaries because of their prestigious works. The prime focus of the paper is to discuss Margaret Cavendish, a writer from the 17th century and presents a ...

Herodotus Assessment

In the ancient time period, the recording of history was connected to the activity of narrators and thinkers that did not aim to write historical, but rather literary. At the same time, the history genre belonged to literary prose. The initial works incorporated the features of two different sides of human activity: science and art. Due to this fact, the Greek narrative authors traditionally attracted the attention of readers. A special place in the development of history belongs to Herodotus’s work, which is considered as the first example of both historical and literary prose. In this essay, the ...

Introduction

The field of literature is arguably one of the oldest ones known to man. The term literature may refer to any written production that has been authored by a man, be it in the form of a poem, biography, or any narrative. In fact, it does not matter whether the subject material has or does not have any artistic and or intellectual value. The fact that it is a written production written by someone from which; an idea or a message can be obtained is already enough for it to be considered as a form of literature. The history ...

Traditional Chinese painting is reffered to as “guo hua” Chinese painting is closely linked to the means with which it is produced. The most used materials were ink and glue, that had to be rubbed to the necessary consistency with adding some water. The paint was applied with a brush made of animals’ hair and a stick of bamboo. As a basis of the painting there was used a sheet of silk or paper with spongy surface, due to which paintings were not subjected to correction. Thereby, the artist had to carry out his work with a high level ...

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine, a Jamaican born poet, is the author of several popular poems which were recognized widely across America. She also writes essays and has written two plays to her credit. She holds the high position of Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets. Her latest title winning works include, “Citizen: An American Lyric” which brought her to the finals of the National Book Award. It also made her the winner of National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and two more awards. She won several other awards for her other works as well. The poem “Citizen” is the ...

For this project, you will need to put into practice elements of effective design and content to create a Real Estate Flier for a Haunted or Historical Location and then write a long memo which explains your choices in design and content.

THE GOALS

This assignment is designed to help you practice Effective memo format and internal structure (header, paragraphing, organization, subheads, etc.) Language style and appropriate level of detailed content for a long memo/informal report Design elements that aid reader understanding and attention Contrast Alignment Repetition Proximity Image choices that are relevant and attract reader attention Color choices that reflect ...

1. “Notes on Punctuation” by Lewis Thomas - Summary The writers use punctuation marks in order to set the tone of the text according to Lewis Thomas. This differs from language to language and there are very few marks in English. It is important to use punctuation so that people do not write in an ambiguous manner. Commas are useful more than any other marks because they have many purposes. They should not be used in great amounts although they add a specific meaning. Lewis thinks that semicolons are important as well because they let the writer express themselves ...

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic, and a representative of the literary movement called Romanticism. He became popular thanks to his dark and grim short stories. Poe is considered to be the founder of the detective-fiction genre and psychological prose in literature. He is immediately recognized by his famous poem “The Raven.” But the writer proved his ability to create dread and fear not only in poetic lines, but also in prose. The short story “The Cask of Amontillado” that takes an honored place in Poe’s gallery of nightmares and horror accurately ...

"Walden or Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau belongs to the vivid and memorable American works of classical literature. The personality of the author and the pages of his famous book highlight anti-capitalist, romantic, and utopian ideas that received considerable spread in the United States in the 30-40-ies of the last century and these ideas were a kind of protest against the brutality of the bourgeois industrial progress and its accompanying social ills.   The ideological pioneers of the anti-capitalist and romantic-utopian protests were called transcendentalists. It is a circle of prominent representatives of the American democratic intelligentsia, ...

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 ...

2. Hemingway had an approach to writing he referred to as “the iceberg theory.” How does this theory apply to The Old Man and the Sea? Santiago's struggle with the marlin throughout the story represents a profound importance that Hemingway placed on experience in his writing. This experience could be used in order to inform a deeper understanding of the subjects that he was presenting. His prose was written in an efficient, non-description manner, which requires the reader to make their own judgments and inferences based on their personal experiences. This seems to create an underlying tension that is ...

Stefan Sagmeister is a graphic designer, typographer, and artist known not only for his artwork, but also for his authorship, and motivational speaking. He has created a brand that, while having commercial appeal, also has a sharp eye for detail, and carries the emotional weight, and sense of design of other current artists. Is work, when compared to other commercial art used similarly, is much more aligned with fine art, and as such appears to have more artistic value. Stefan Sagmeister was born in August 1962 in Austria. His Austrian citizenry ultimately shaped him significantly as an artist. He ...

The Orphan of Zhao

Introduction Dramaturgy as a full-fledged literary genre is originated in China relatively late - thousands of years later than poetry and prose, and later than the epoch of the heyday of theater and dramatic art in other ancient centers of civilization - Greece and India. The first surviving Chinese plays are dated XIII century. The famous Chinese classical historical drama - "The Orphan of Zhao" by Ji Junxiang is the first Chinese drama, translated in the XVIII century in Europe and reworked by Voltaire into classical tragedy called "Chinese Orphan." (Huang A., 2003, p.63) The theme of the play, ...

Begum Luleciler, Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago.

This research is conducted for the Lab in Experimental Psychology: Cognition (Psych 314) course. Effects of Problem Space on Anagram Problem Solving The world we live in today is not only highly complex but also dynamic. The average person has to make hundreds of decisions everyday right from the time he or she wakes up. For instance, whereas our forefathers had only one cereal to choose from, today we have thousands of brands and varieties. Similarly, the nature of the problems keep changing rapidly due to technological advancements. We can conjure that the problem space has been increasing over ...

#1 The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692 by Cotton Mather The quote was said by Benjamin Abbot. Abbot was one of the people who gave testimony against Martha Carrier at the Salem Witch Trials. Currier stood trial accused of being a. witch. He alleged that she had caused a boil to form on his foot. Abbot then claimed that after his foot was lanced “several gallons of corruption ran out of it”. He then claimed that two more sores appeared, each requiring the doctor to ...

Sagas of Icelanders

Introduction Everything in the history of Icelandic culture was not like in the culture of other European countries. However, the Icelandic people also felt the influence of other peoples' culture. And this influence gave completely unique results. Everywhere in Europe, the introduction of Christianity was accompanied by the elimination of folk heathen traditions. In Iceland, the introduction of Christianity led to the careful preservation of this traditions. All literary movements and all the literary genres in Iceland were peculiar. But a unique genre of Icelandic literature and at the same time the most peculiar prose genre of world literature ...

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic, a representative of the literary movement called Romanticism. He became popular thanks to his dark and grim short stories. Poe is considered to be the founder of the detective-fiction genre and psychological prose in literature. He is immediately recognized by his famous poem The Raven. But the writer proved his ability to create dread and fear not only in poetic lines, but also in prose. So, the short story The Cask of Amontillado also takes an honored place in Poe’s gallery of nightmares and horror. In ...

Emily Dickinson is an original poet as she used her pen to challenge the existing conventions of poetry. Throughout her poems, Emily clearly experimented with a style of expression that moved away from the traditional styles of poetry and took on a unique style that made her speakers sharp-sighted observers who face the challenges of no escape from their societies. Additionally, Dickenson used her poems as a sword that would serve to liberate the speakers from the inescapable boundaries of the society. Clearly, Dickenson wrote poems that broke away from the traditional rules of poetry which challenged the narrow-minded ...

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Phillip K. Dick) – Air Raid (John Varley). ‘We Can Remember It for You Wholesale’ is a futuristic short story written by Phillip K. Dick, centered on the concept of memory manipulation. It takes on the undiscovered fields of new age science. The concepts involved in the short story are so complex and underdeveloped even in this age and time. But still the author immaculately and ostentatiously nails his narrative. In the same sense, ‘Air Raid’ written by John Varley, seems to be the perfect match for the pairing. Both these short stories ...

English literature spanning various centuries reveals idiosyncratic trends and ideals of British history, which allows students and scholars to examine and assess successive literary periods. Indeed, literature can be situated within its historical context because literature cannot be separated from the context in which it as written. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales underscores societal concerns with regards to corruption. Moreover, it provides a window into the historical ideals with regards to gender and how women were expected to behave and comport themselves according to their class. In a similar fashion, Beowulf, a classic in old English literature, reflects the ...

India, as a country is well known for it, is a deeply rooted culture of long lasting and old unabridged poetic acts famously known as Sanskrit plays. This is mainly because this type of play essentially combines the use of both the conventional Prakrit with Sanskrit together with a wide variety of other vernacular language forms. A critical look at this type of dramas indicates that Sanskrit plays cover a wide array of play types and subject matters. These mainly entail full-length episodes of mythical and love stories as well as palace intrigues and political dramas. In addition to ...

Postmodernism is a fascinating school of literary theory that focuses on the abstract, the post-structural: “For the postmodernistfragmentation is an exhilarating, liberating phenomenon, symptomatic of our escape from the claustrophobic embrace of fixed systems of belief” (Barry Chapter 4). Postmodernism celebrates the unshackling of traditional narrative and literary structures and vies for something new; in this way, Dennis Cooley’s book of poetry Bloody Jack is a quintessential example of this phenomenon. Loosely following the life of famous Canadian outlaw John Krafchenko (otherwise known as Bloody Jack), Cooley’s poems straddle the line between fiction and nonfiction, transcending genre and defying ...

Thomas King’s 1993 novel Green Grass, Running Water is not written like a typical narrative novel, with a beginning, middle and end. Instead, the work functions as a strange, compelling mixture of myth and fictional anthology, with a series of concurrent stories being told at once. King’s incredibly deft handling of this mixture of stories, which runs the gamut from outright myths to Judeo-Christian creation stories to tales of the everyday, creates a style that sits somewhere between Indian oral tradition and Western fiction literature. This allows for a unique exploration of the way these two cultures mix, the yearning of Aboriginals to ...

The early 1900s was a turbulent era for America. As World War I raged in Europe, the Spanish flu ravaged nations and communities around the world, leading to the death of millions, and becoming one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of mankind. While America dealt with the aftermath of prohibition and the Great Depression, Russia and Ireland were engulfed in civil war, leading to major political shifts that reverberated throughout the Western hemisphere. It is no wonder, then, that some historians and scholars refer to this decade as “The Crazy Years” (Lamb 195). The sentiments of ...

Introduction to Part III

Welcome to Part III of the Research Assignment for HIST 105. In Part II you used a scholarly monograph - one kind of secondary source - to learn about the historical roots of your chosen contemporary issue. You analyzed this source, learned how to properly cite monographs using Chicago-style citation, and used it to revise your research question. In Part III, you will continue to use scholarly sources to investigate the historical roots of your contemporary issue, but this time you will locate a secondary scholarly article and primary source.

After you've completed Part III, your instructor or your ...

During the English 101 class, I learned valuable skills in doing works of research through the guidance and tutorship of the instructor and feedback from classmates. I also learned how to research, analyse and document information and ideas in order to develop a position or statement.

Thesis statement: brainstorming varied ideas to support a claim, by using research and documented data while drawing guidance and support from the instructors and the peers. For the purpose of this essay, I will use instances and examples to demonstrate the maturity and absolute growth of the skills and objectivity that have been named. In ...

Summary and Response

Summary of Politics and the English Language

George Orwell has criticized the contemporary English prose due to its inaccurate and disgusting usage of language. He has argued that language does not get shaped by us for our use rather it is shaped by the modern prose which is ugly as the manner in which we think is inaccurate. Language has become the result of ‘foolish thoughts’, rather than ‘foolish thoughts’ being the result of language. Also, he said that being vague is the clearer characteristic of the English Language style. Due to lack of imagery, the figurate ...

The process of revising my essay was quite challenging but at the same time satisfying as I had the opportunity to extend myself as a good writer. The essay I chose to revise was titled “The Future for Women Driving in Saudi Arabia.” As William Zinsser quoted, “Rewriting is the essence of writing well”(Zinsser, 12) it was therefore my responsibility to go through the essay at least three times so as to correct all the grammar mistakes (proof read), restructure sentences (edit) and reorganize ideas to enable the paper have a fluid flow. Revising the essay implies re-reading ...

1. Lisa Robertson's essay "The Venus Problem" is a unique way to present an essay, mixing multimedia usages of images, prose, poetry and verse, and more to provide a fascinating and wonderfully beautiful. The essay itself runs not from top to bottom, but left to right, acting as a constant scroll of prose and analysis of the poems. In each page, Robertson plays with spacing, line placement, italicization, and more to create an offbeat way to read her analysis. Her use of spacing, emphasizing the last word of one of her pages ("variance") by placing it on another section ...

Introduction:

On page 41 of “Gawain and the Green Knight” the poem speaks more of metrical romance. In this context the poet brings the theme of hunting and seduction. This is in relation to the frequently distinguished corresponding flanked by the three consequent hunting panoramas which are followed by the three seduction scenes. This clearly highlights the correspondence of the scenes that actually does arise when the lord goes out hunting. In this context the scene that does arise is the one which is illustrated by the lord rising early in the morning and goes deer hunting.

In these ...

Robert Hass born in 1941 in San Francisco is a contemporary American poet and has more often been referred to as a California poet; because sometimes his poems tend to have a West Coast based aura and theme. This poet has been recognized as the most celebrated and widely read contemporary English poet. His works don’t only include original writings, but he is also known as a critic and translator for the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and the Japanese haiku experts Issa, Buson and lastly Basho. His translation of Czeslaw Milosz from “Hymn” goes on to say: “There is no ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Review: The Prices of Motherhood Today the shelves of bookstores appear to be littered with propaganda either glorifying or demoralizing the job of being a mother. It has become less of a true stance in the world, and more of a political debate, standing alongside people who disagree on smoking in public, or abortion. We no longer argue the real issues when it comes to motherhood, but simply pass off whether or not motherhood is “hard” or “worth it” in terms of our own lives. We generalize the rest of the population’s stance based on our own views in terms ...

Abstract

Reality is a powerful source of inspiration for writers in the 20th century. For Raymond Carver the American reality of the working class served as the main source of inspiration for his short stories that fall into the dirty – realism literary style. A technique that is representative for this current and that Carver subtly masters in his short stories is the insertion of objects into the narration, attributing them the value of reflecting the reality through familiar descriptions of the working class American society’s lifestyle. In Carver’s narration the objects tell stories, unite people in the same universe ...

Reading: In the first week, students will ask and answer questions about the salient details of a text. For example, students may be read to from the Corduroy series, a series of children's books about the adventures of a stuffed bear, and be asked questions based on the text. They may interact with a stuffed bear to personalize their experience of the story. Writing: Students will learn the basics of simple sentence construction using objects, subject, articles, and verbs (for example: The boy kicked the ball). They will use word banks to guide their sentence writing. Speaking and Listening: Students will ...

Ernest Hemingway was born at Oak Park, Michigan in 1899 to educated parents. His working musician mother taught him music while his doctor father introduced him to the world of the “great outdoors.” Hemingway’s father was instrumental instilling a passion for hunting and fishing. Since childhood Hemingway pursued essentially manly pursuits like boxing and hunting. He was enthralled by bullfighting which to him was a mixture of sport and hunting. Hemingway disliked anything effeminate therefore he hated his name Ernest which reminded Hemingway of the effeminate hero of Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Ernest.” In the words ...

The topic of my experimental study is “Pragmatics of the English fiction and the pragmatics problems of its translation”. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to better identify and comprehensively study the pragmatics of the artistic text and pragmatic problems of its translation. Pragmatic approach to the study of language phenomena contributes to the disclosure of the communicative purpose of a linguistic unit, its use as an instrument of the addressee action, influence and interaction, its correlation with the behavior and activities of the sender. The language of fiction is a special system of signs, common ...

When many people think of satire, they understand that it is a subversive approach to a certain social or political issue through the use of irony. Works like the Earl of Rochester’s “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind,” Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal or John Dryden’s MacFlecknoe all make fun of some perceived failing of its audience, whether it be the “Satire’s poking fun at rationalism and reason, Swift’s pointing out of the problems facing Ireland as a result of English ignorance, or Dryden’s ridiculing of his contemporaries’ inadequate literary criticism. However, to what end do ...

Shakespeare in the “Julius Caesar” play was much concerned about how individual lives. He provides an insight of the human’s life by raising the argument about the aptitude free will versus the power of fate in life. The playwright ultimately backs the philosophy in which freedom and fate have delicate coexistence. He uses characters such as Cassius, Caesar and Brutus to bring about the issue of the fate and free will. As Cassius and Brutus were attempting to eliminate Caesar from power, Caesar suggested “men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is ...

Japanese writing uses both Kanji and Kana. Kana includes both Hiragana and Katakana alphabets. A long time ago, there was no alphabet in Japan, so the characters for writing were borrowed from neighboring China. As ancient China was then ruled by the Han (Kan) Dynasty, all the characters were called Kanji and the Chinese writing is called Kanbun. Because kanji has many strokes, it takes a very long time to write and to memorize. Thus, the Japanese invented the Hiragana and Katakana. Women used the Hiragana alphabet in creating their letters and diaries. An example of the literature written in ...

Abstract

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is one of the most fascinating and well-known poems by the famed English poet, becoming one of the bastions of British Romantic literature through its immense lyricism and use of metaphor. The poem deals with themes of the violation of nature, the encroaching threat of the Orient and its strangeness on European culture, as well as the stifling nature of guilt, all contributing to a multi-faceted and pluralistic tale that deals with the breadth of human experience.

Proposal

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is one of ...

In the short story “The Lottery”, written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, the author showcases a dystopian future in which tradition and a sense of community is placed above the individual. An ironic twist at the end turns a pleasant, slice-of-life story about a developing society into a morality tale in which our obsession with tradition is taken to its most extreme conclusion. The characters tacitly endorse horrific violence, showing the real monsters that lie at the very core of human nature. With “The Lottery,” Jackson wishes to showcase the foolishness of mob mentality and the gradual erosion of social freedoms from acceptance by ...

Celtic society was known for its rather elaborate yet defined system which separated the intellectual roles into three professioanl branches: the Bards, or the singers of praises and feared satirists, the Vates, or the diviners and seers, and the Druids, or the priests and wizards, judges and advisors, prophets and teachers of the Celtic world. Merlin is a man of great magic and mystery, making him one of the most enigmatic figure in the Arthurian legend. However, it was his accurate prophecies regarding the history of Britain and the rise and fall of its three kings that made him a legendary ...

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Christianty regards the Holy Bible and Islam considers the Holy Quran as their holy books. The Holy Bible and Holy Quran are considered as a source of inspiration and instruction by Christians and Muslims respectively. The Holy Quran is said to have a miraculous nature because of its distinctive and unique literary style. The Arabian lands revolutionized forever after the Quran’s incredible and marvelous revelation. The world witnessed that the Madinah state in Saudi Arabia based its laws and outlook on the foundation of Quranic teachings; 13 years after the revelation of first Quranic verse. ...

The first part explains the purpose and role of civil service examination. It aims at picking out selective men who are good. They are singled out because their talents, abilities and skills, are needed by the government. The second part describes how civil service examinations are utilised currently. There are new examinations which add more names to potential civil servants. This comes before these potential men are cleared as qualified and fit for government service. These additional exams include those held on important anniversaries, at the National Academy for the students, on the provincial level and on occasions of ...

Online writing is an emerging field that many find lucrative and appealing. Some people opt to work as full-time online writers such as bloggers, website content writers, or online technical writers. The best part of this type of employment is the mobility it offers writers – as long as there is internet connection, writers can complete their jobs anytime. Such is the case of Travis, the CEO of Metican Writers, Inc., a personal, freelance-based writing business, established since 2008. Freelance writing jobs offer a unique opportunity to earn good income while working at the convenience of one’s home. Travis shares ...

I. That Milne was a children’s book writer and an adult philosopher - People in their eighties are still reading his books. - His quotations are all over the net on adult websites. - His writing was used in the “Tao of Pooh,” and the “Te of Piglet,” by Benjamin Hoff, in a serious philosophical discussion for adults. - Milne was reported not to even LIKE children that much, and he let his own be raised mostly by a nanny. - Milne was very distressed over his success from the book as he considered himself an ...

Scholars and acolytes of Gertrude Stein prefer to refer to her as "The Mother of Us All" as the attribution of her last dramaturgical opera inspired by the figure of the American feminist Susan B. Anthony. This definition would suggest a bond of deferential respect and intimate cultural affiliation by certain groups of writers and critics positioned on the edge of the traditional culture. All these scholars were gathered around Gertrude Stein as around a true pioneer of feminism and gender studies. The linguistic revolution that took place in hers works was astonishing and impressed all of them. She was a giant, a ...

Nowadays, most people know only two genres of a story that are defined by its length. These genres are a short story and a novel. Both of them may have longer or shorter versions, but there are only these two well-known genres. Nevertheless, earlier it was a bit differently. Suddenly, people forgets about a novella. The fact is that earlier many types of periodicals would have published stories of all kinds of length. Then situation has changed and today publishers are not that flexible. However, fiction still may be divided into three genres by its length. Usually, short stories, novellas, and novels are determined ...

One of the finest American writers during the 18th century, Nathaniel Hawthorne was a confident man and utterly skilled in his craft. Most of his stories contain allegorical devices that captivated readers of all generations. Likewise, he was odds with Edgar Allan Poe, who was more freeform with his words, indulging in prose that explored the recesses of his imagination without becoming moralistic or allegorical (Hawthorne, v-vii). Aside from The Scarlet Letter a novel recollecting a feverish nightmare, thus suffocating the reader with its dark prose and allegory. On the other hand, The Birthmark, Hawthorne tries to recreate the 18th century nuptials ...

- How do they use visuals to keep attention? The company annual reports that have been selected for this paper are that of Intel Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices Corporation. The main references used in comparing these two reports are the two companies’ respective annual reports. Simply we, have extracted the companies’ respective annual reports from their respective websites, studied it, and compared them in terms of their contents, and the way how the information inside each report was presented. Both reports can generally be considered dull in terms of the visual aids. No pictures were used in ...

Readers find many ways to understand the literary works; one of such way would be to comprehend the themes and corresponding these literary works. In addition to it, a read has many choices to analyze and comprehend the themes and corresponding in a story or a poem. This paper focuses on literary devices that can be utilized by the author R. Wayne Clugston, in “Journey into Literature”. From this, literary work of the author two short stories has been selected for themes and corresponding works. The literary writers in the 19th century were very few. The women who wrote usually belonged ...

Influences of two Art periods

Influences of two arts The Medieval literature is related to the feudal era. With the subordination to religious ideology, it carried a significant spiritual values​​, discovering and protecting a person, revealing new sides of a soul, to differ material aspects from those values which were emphasized by antique literature. Thus, the humanism of early medieval Latin literature was reinforced by another Christian humanism the dogma of the Church in the Middle Ages was not so humane.

1. Christianity 2. Ancient heritage 3. Folklore Christianity of the Medieval era is different from our idea now. In the Middle Ages, ...

Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried tells an anthologized story of a platoon of American soldiers throughout the Vietnam conflict, demonstrating just how significant the effect of the war was on everyone who experienced it. Drawing greatly on O’Brien’s own experiences as a soldier in Vietnam, the stories are greatly extrapolated from his recollections of being there, though they do not necessarily cover strictly accurate events in the life of O’Brien. Instead, the mood and atmosphere of O’Brien’s experiences is projected onto this semi-autobiographical group of characters, creating a stylized world in which people, places ...

Introduction

Confucianism is the term of a cultural development, which began in Ch’ing period. Confucianism is the tradition that shaped the moral beliefs and social relationships of the Chinese people. Kong Qiu, and in Latin name was Confucius was the founder of Confucianism. Confucius was a teacher to people of the nobility back in the days when proper education was just starting in China. Confucius’ teachings were soon translated by strict political theorists into strict rules, and more on Chinese history, Confucianism was associated with a supreme hierarchy of influence and absolute obedience (patheos.com). In this essay, we will discuss how Confucianism ...

Poetry as a genre is clearly distinguishable from prose owing to certain characteristics. Poetry is described as heightened form of ordinary language. Intense feelings and emotions take the form of heightened language. “Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power;” ( Engle. In Gardendigest 2). Language is heightened by using technical devices like meter, rhythm and cadence. Poetic language is also heightened by using it figuratively with the help of devices like symbolism, imagery and metaphor. The intense feelings expressed in poetry can be personal or collective emotions shared by a community. Intense subjective love is expressed in the following line:

My love is like a red red rose

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Introduction and biographical information: The poet Adrienne Rich was an intellectual and poet whose work life spanned about 70 years. She began as an award-winning formal writer of lyric poetry and published as early as 1951. In the 1960s and 1970s she changed her style to feminist free verse poetry. She addressed political issues. She had married into the traditional wife and mother roles while at the same time being an intellectual. She and her husband separated and then he died in 1970. Rich was faced with being a single parent to her three sons. Rich’s poetry reflected her ...