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The trials and tribulations of war are things that are not easily forgotten by those involved, and are also things not easily understood by those not involved. It is impossible to truly understand the emotional toll that something as devastating as a war can have on a person. In the poem “Facing It” by Yusef…

Desperate Times Call for Drastic Measures “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! ” howls Lord Capulet to Juliet in William Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet. Capulet’s words take readers by surprise in Act three Scene five since Capulet has never behaved furiously towards Juliet. Because of Capulet’s selfish interest in his own happiness, his fury…

Two novels that I could read over and over once more The Joy Luck Club  by Amy Tan and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafby Fannie Flag. The two novels portion similar qualities while conveying their different narrative lines. The Joy Luck Club is a sage about several Chinese female parents and their…

In my essay my essay I am going to be exploring what techniques Charles Dickens uses to create characters and themes raised through them. The three main characters I will be focussing on in my essay will be: Pip, Miss’s Havisham and Estella. I will be exploring how these three characters are used my Dickens…

“Mother Courage and her Children” is a play, composed by a prominent German dramaturge Bertold Brecht in 1939, at the beginning of the World War. It is a story of a thrifty canteen woman, who seeks to gain profit from soldiers of Swedish army during  Thirty Years’ War of 1618-1648. Together with her three children…

Question: In our text, multiple poets have more than one poem. During the 1920s through 1960s, Langston Hughes was influenced by the desire to portray black American life. He found inspiration in jazz music, which was particularly popular among black Americans at that time. In his poems, Hughes effectively captured the true essence of his…

Facing Mount Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, Vintage Books, February 12, 1962, $12.45 Jomo Kenyatta (1893 – 1978) was born among the Kikuyu tribe in British East Africa which is known to us as Kenya at a small village called Ichaweri in the district of Gatundu. His intitial name was Kamau wa Ngengi and later he took…

The red hunting hat is one Of the most recognizTABLE symbols from twentieth- century American literature. It is inseparTABLE from our image of Holder, with good reason: it is a symbol of his uniqueness and individuality. The hat is outlandish, and it shows that Holder desires to be different from everyone around him. At the…

Mary Shelley’s life was greatly influenced by Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsmith, and Lord Byron. As the wife of Percy Shelley, she was exposed to the same influences as her husband. The Romanticism movement had a profound impact on both their works. It was during a challenge proposed by Byron to determine who among the three…

Throughout “Things Fall Apart” various proverbs are used to teach the cause and effect of decisions, warn against certain events, and poetic words to find meaning. These types of proverbs are the most traditional and prominent ways of teaching in the Bio culture. Another prominent way in the Gobo culture is trying to obtain a…