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Creation myths are connected with religion because that is how the earliest human beings thought, with dreams and reality intertwined and meaning picked from anywhere that seemed suitable at the time, with no particular attempt to find something better. Myth were a way to explain their rituals and/or ceremonies and rituals achieved mythical explanations. The…

In her work Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich writes about a very interesting experiment she conducted. Welfare reform was a hot topic at the time, and Ehrenreich wondered if single mothers would be able to take care of themselves and their children while working low-wage jobs. Thus, Ehrenreich herself decides to see if she can…

Booker T. Washington has become a significant symbol that represents a positive revolution in society that is based on evolving as a hardworking and educated being with the drive to be accounted for in the world. His philosophies and his ideas that encouraged people to become better for the purpose of obtaining social recognition have…

Although both A Farewell to Arms and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet share characteristics that classify them as tragedies, there is a distinction in the level of tragedy between the two stories. Both narratives feature noble protagonists with profound souls. Romeo is spotted by Tybalt, who dispatches a servant to fetch his rapier. Having…

The chosen extract is from Chapter 2 of “The Picture of Dorian Grey” by Oscar Wilde. It starts with the sentence “Suddenly the painter appeared at the door of the studio” and ends with the sentence “I would give my soul for that!” This chapter is significant because it introduces readers to Dorian Grey and…

The main character in Susanna Kaysen’s, “Girl, Interrupted” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper” are similar in the fact that they both were suppressed by male dominants. Be it therapist or physicians who either aided in their mental deformities or created them. They are similar in the sense that they are both restricted to…

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel written by John Steinbeck in the year of 1939. It takes place during the tragedy of Oklahoma, the Dust Bowl in the midwest. In the middle of summer,  the cornfields are shriveling up because of the waterless drought they are in. The dust is filling the skies and every single crop…

What are beliefs but a series of ideas that have likely originated from lessons we’ve learned from stories. Ones we’ve learned from our own lives or watched unfold. Stories have been around for centuries to pass down history or values. Stories are powerful in communication and for the psyche in which we want life to…

“…This indispensable distinctive feature of the sociopath is non in itself evil or barbarous. but combined with perverse appetencies or with an remarkably hostile or aggressive disposition. the deficiency of these normal restraints can ensue in an explosive and unsafe bundle. ” Within “The American Psycho” . Bret Easton Ellis composes a narrative which attempts…

Theodore Dreiser was born August 27, 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana. The younger brother of Paul Dresser, a well-known songwriter, Theodore was a famous novelist known for his outstanding American writing of naturalism. He was also a leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the…