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The focus of this paper is to examine the connection between Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a renowned Russian composer, and the Romantic movement in music. Tchaikovsky was born in Votinsk, Russia in 1840. Although he displayed great aptitude for playing the piano from an early age, his family initially desired him to pursue a career in…

In the heroic poem verse form Beowulf, one learns about one of the first known great heroes. Although heroes don’t ever wear nesss or bear world powers, some people choose to believe that these are the lone heroes that exist. In truth,  heroes are people who do extraordinary things, even in little steps. A hero…

Julia Alvarez writes about how she became a picky eater and how food influenced her life, the way she eats and even perceived foods. Growing up in the Dominican Republic, foods outside the home where not necessarily safe and therefore forbidden. Since infant mortality was high, Julia’s mother worried about her children growing up healthy…

Mompellion is a man who follows his God unselfishly and courageously’ Discuss Geraldine Brooks portrays Mompellion as a complicated and imperfect man who unfavorably leads Eyam through his concept of God’s ways. The “casket of gold” which God had sent to Eyam was used to “refine” the population was Mompellion’s view of the plague as…

Gilgamesh is one of the oldest stories ever told. He was a king about six thousand years ago in Uruk. After the death of his friend, Gilgamesh sets out on a quest for immortality. However, he dies in the end. In the book The Epic of Gilgamesh (Kovacs, 1989), fragrance plays an important role. When…

Andrew Marvell writes an elaborate poem that not only speaks to his coy mistressbut also to the reader. He suggests to his coy mistress that time is inevitablyticking and that he (the speaker) wishes for her to act upon his wish and have asexual relationship. Marvell simultaneously suggest to the reader that he/shemust act upon…

William Shakespeare, the greatest dramatist of his time, personifies evil through the character of Iago in his play ‘Othello’. The play was first performed around 1604-05 and printed in 1622. Whereas Ben Jonson, one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, portrays a similar character through Mosca in his play ‘Volpone’ which was first performed in the year 1605….

The themes in the novel Catcher in the Rye relate to the many evolving realizations that Holder makes throughout the book. We get a glimpse of the themes starting to develop when Holder tells us about his past. We see that Holder in a way think he is a very mature young man that does…

Throughout The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby plays the main character. He is slowly introduced and revealed by Nick Carraway, his neighbor. Gatsby does both right and wrong things, he has acquired his great amounts of wealth through shady business and all to attain a financial situation that is equivalent to that of his love, Daisy…

Sophocle’s tragic play Antigone, written in 441 BC, is a theatrical piece of drama in which an audience is compelled to empathize with its character’s. When empathizing with characters in Antigone the audience can, in imaginative and cognitive ways, participate in the understanding of a character’s feelings, ideas as well as their situations. Antigone, Creon…