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The story “The Snake” by John Steinbeck revolves around the events involving a biologist named Dr. Phillips and a mysterious woman. Dr. Phillips was conducting an experiment on starfish when a woman with black entered his room in a mysterious manner. She approached him with the sole intention of purchasing a male rattlesnake from Dr….

Daddy – Sylvia Plath English Commentary Daddy is a confessional poem written by the famous American poet Sylvia Plath. The poem was written on October 12, 1962 shortly before her death. It gives the readers glimpses from her life and the poem can be said to be symbolic. The tittle “Daddy” symbolizes her father and…

It was the trickiest legislative move ever accomplished in the Congress. Here’s my best play-by-play: Obamacare was signed into law in March 2010. If you recall, Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic majority in the House of Representatives was unable to pass their version of a healthcare law. Because all revenue bills have to originate in the House,…

Laura de Mello e Souza embarked on her doctoral dissertation, which examined sorcery in colonial Brazil from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Before she started writing her dissertation, numerous works on historiography had already been published. However, none of them specifically focused on Brazil. De Mello e Souza recognized the wealth of information available…

“Our immortality comes through our children and their children. Through our roots and branches. The family is immortality. And Hitler has destroyed not just branches and roots, but entire family trees, forests. All of them, gone.” (Amy Harmon). The holocaust was a very dreadful event that happened in history. The Holocaust occurred in 1933; it…

In The Chronicles of Narnia, the ordinary world is the kids treating Lucy like she is a baby. Lucy knows she is more mature than what they say about her. She isn’t treated good by her brother Edmund. The call to adventure is when Lucy is looking for a place to hide while she is…

Utilization is defined as the act of regarding or worshiping someone as an idol in your life. In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, utilization is a motif that has not been previously examined in the lesson. Utilization, more specifically, is shown by the main character in this play, Wily, who is…

An epic hero possesses superhuman qualities, embodies societal values, and is larger than life. Beowulf perfectly exemplifies this description. Throughout his legendary journey, he exhibits numerous superhuman qualities. His embodiment of societal values is also evident. Furthermore, Beowulf’s larger-than-life persona is undeniable. Notably, he demonstrates his superhuman strength in the intense battle against Grendel. Despite…

The definition of Academic writing is in many different forms, it follows the characteristics, examples, explanation and a list of published works where this writing is used. It is generally a fulfillment of what is required for a college or university. Strategies for initial preparation are brainstorming; outlining and organizing ideas; research (get the information…

Jared Diamond’s (Diamond) book Guns, Germs, and Steel, won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and was made into a documentary by the National Geographic Society, broadcast in 2005. The documentary was shown in three parts: Out of Eden, Conquest, and Into the Tropics. The series builds towards the ultimate conclusion that geography, and the…