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Both Paul and Rainstorm have a heart of passion and perseverance to succeed. Although Paul an impressionable young boy and Rainstorm an experienced young man; the two characters share an innate ability to persevere what could be perceived as curse rather than gift. Paul and Rainstorm endure through trying situations with outcomes on very diverse…

Is Virgil’s Aeneid an Anti-War Poem?Virgil opens the Aeneid’ with the words ARMA virumque cano ( I sing of arms and of men). The central role that war plays in this Roman epic is made apparent from the very first word of the Aeneid’ by the emphatic placing of the word arma at the very…

1. Introduction. In attempting to express themselves, people do not only produce utterances containing grammatical structures and words, but they also perform actions through those utterances (Yule, 1996). This means that when we use language, we are not only speaking, telling, saying, or writing something; we are also apologizing, complaining, complimenting, inviting, promising, or requesting….

Comrades! I, Snowball, was once among all of you comrades, assisting you and imparting knowledge on farming, reading, and writing. During that time, I was fully dedicated. It was me who conceived various advantageous strategies for the Animal Farm, including the windmill. However, jealousy consumed Napoleon, who had always opposed me. Eventually, he expelled me…

Providing an in depth analysis of these texts, this essay attempts to illustrate how both of these Afro-American writers depict and resolve their respective protagonists’ struggles. Religion is believed by many to serve as a means to achieving or finding self or identity. However, in the Euro-influenced Christian religion especially, directly after ‘finding one’s self,…

Henrik Ibsen, in his play “An Enemy of the People,” explores the idea that the majority of people are consistently mistaken. In other words, one must seek truth among the minority. These words hold significant wisdom, as the majority may lack the necessary knowledge and expertise to make optimal choices for themselves or their nations….

Greek philosopher Empedocles, who lived in Sicily in the fifth century B.C., posited that the Gods’ purpose was to govern the four elements and regulate the natural forces of the universe. Empedocles maintained that all matter comprises four fundamental elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Fire and air expand outwardly, while earth and water move…

Lewis Lapham argues that the belief in money is stronger in America than in any other society. However, over time, it becomes evident that money, although important to us, is simply a piece of paper and cannot truly bring happiness. I agree with Lapham’s assessment of wealth attitudes in the United States. This is also…

When Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote his novel, The Scarlet Letter, he was praised as being the male parent of the psychological novel. Since the completion of his landmark narrative, many other writers have taken their work in similar waies, and have tried to uncover human psychological science through their authorship. Writers have been seeking to convey…

Jayanta Mahapatra`s verse form “Dawn at Puri” narrates by depicting the Oriyan landscape. particularly the holy metropolis of Puri. Mahapatra is profoundly rooted in Indian civilization and ethos with which he is emotionally attached as a poet. Though the linguistic communication of look is English his esthesia is ‘Oriya’ . In order to appreciate the…