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Attention: As Rheingold considers attention to be the most basic and significant literacy of the 21st century, he explains how it is the fundamental building block for the way of daily life; with attention framing the way in which individuals think, create tools, teach, socialize, transform civilizations etc. multi-tasking would be considered a constant attention-splitting…

Tartuffe was written in the era of Louis XIV, the Sun King, a time when France was arguably the greatest nation in the Western world and a time when the intellectual and aesthetic development of society was in a stage of development called the Baroque. It was a time of excess and a time of…

Mr7ro Odysseus’ long-awaited return from the Trojan War to his homeland, Ithaca, after ten years of wandering. The current action of The Odyssey occupies the last six weeks of the ten years, and the narrative includes many places – Olympus, Ithaca, Pylos, Pherae, Sparta, Ogygia, and Scheria. In Books 9-12, Odysseus narrates the story of…

Last year when I was lining up the contents for TGR #14, I almost typed up an e-mail to Steve Tompkins.  He had been contributing an essay to every other issue of TGR for several years. Of course, I quickly realized Stave was no longer with us and that got me to reflecting on his…

Both The Pianist and Maus offer different niceties about the functions of the Germans and the Jews in the Holocaust. Some may see merely the Nazis as the slayers in the Holocaust and non see other fortunes. The Pianist and Maus offer different cases to demo that confederates. bystanders and saviors provide a grey country…

Introduction WW1 Armistice happened at November 11th, 1918 on 11:11 and it ended war against the axis and ally power. The League of Nations later on started January 19, 1920 and was made to fix solutions. Later on they have made the Treaty of Versailles to end war completely and have everything come back. Later…

            The play “Antigone” by Sophocles depicts the tale of Antigone who defies the orders of King Creon and fulfills her wish of burying her brother’s body.  King Creon argues that Antigone’s brother, Polynices displayed disobedient behavior by fighting against him in the Thebes’ civil war so he orders to leave his body on the…

Russian Culture             Russians have a particularly rich culture which is a product of their history. The Russian cuisine and art are particularly their great source of pride and are just some aspect of their culture that is extremely influential. Russians are also known for their source of humor. The world literature has also been…

I chose “Sighting the Slave Ship” written by Pauline Stainer. After first reading the poem, I did a small amount of research on the speaker to get a feel of what type of writer she was. In reading some of her other work, I found that Stainer usually writes at the edge of something sacred….

Rabon’s tone towards the church was that of the church full of hypocrites with most of its followers not really believing only attending as part of a social gathering, Rabon also stated how the church delivers a message of peace, however, it is responsible for many of the most violent acts in history, the Spanish…