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The last ten years have been the age of superheroes and their magnificence on screen. Audiences witnessed their lives, the hard times they have been through, the villains they have fought against and their achievements. Gladys L. Knight says; …examples of female toughness epitomize the current trend wherein women are depicted as tough as nails…

The book ‘On Liberty’ was “published in 1859 and was known as John Stuart Mill’s finest and most controversial book” (Austin, 2000). In his classic work Mill (1859) sets out to “investigate the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual”. In ‘On Libery’, it was emphasized…

“A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality…never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. Thus Kino’s future was real, but, having set it up, other forces were set up to destroy it.” (Steinbeck 29). A historical fiction novella written by John Steinbeck: The Pearl, tells an intriguing story of a poor fisherman,…

Both of the poems “The Apparition” and “The Flea” are both about trying to get women into bed, so they can have sex. However, in “The Flea” John Donne uses a very flirty tone, while in “The Apparition” John Donne uses a revengeful tone. John Donne uses these two different approaches in the two poems…

Would you kill if it means a way of surviving? In the book The Hunger Games it tells us a story about a nation in North America called Panem, which is surrounded by twelve districts. There is a class inequality between districts. The higher the district, the lower the poverty. Every year the Capitol forces…

In the book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, the author, Jared Diamond, starts his prologue by first posing a question to his readers: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo … but we black people had little cargo of our own?”(Diamond 14). Later revealing that this is the exact question he received…

Emerson idea of Self Reliance can be compared to the life of Frederick Douglass. Douglass’ life in captivity limited his choices for experience and kept him without material possessions. These are two factors considered by Emerson to be important in obtaining Self Reliance. Emerson Self Reliance can also be contrasted to the life of Frederick…

While the course of true love will seldom run smoothly, yet the path can be fraught with unknown perils. Rarely does one realize what rewards and enticements the future will unfold. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is noted for popularizing the literary style of magic realism which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary situations. In…

Jared Diamond, an evolutionary biologist and biogeographer who has worked extensively in New Guinea, rejects racially oriented explanations for differential human development. He agrees that the explication for European success is biological, but believes that intelligence had nothing to do with the differential development of societies. Geography had everything to do with it. Differences among…

Everyone will always experience an opposing force or obstacle that gets in the ways of his or her own belief. To keep one’s belief safe, each person has a different way of rebelling. In the two stories “The Gospel According to Garcia” by Ariel Dorfman and “Sonny’s Blue” by James Baldwin, both pieces of fiction…