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Analysis of Early Civilizations Through LiteratureA culture that evolves and changes through time is a healthy culture indeed. From the early pagan warriors to the artisans of the Renaissance, the European world dramatically reformed. The literature of each era indicates the profound cultural innovations. The Anglo-Saxons arguably most important literary piece, Beowulf, is a story…

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…

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel… ” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Mankind differs from other species by being intelligent. Intelligence and creativity allows humans to survive despite their relatively inferior physical attributes. Besides these benefits, being intelligent has also inspired fear. Humanity has always been afraid of being the…

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…

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…

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…

            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…

Introduction Media plays a very large impact and role in the lives of thousands of people who have such access to it. It is undeniable that many things which happens in the current society is due to media—that is it has contributed to the information dissemination of many things. Advertisements, news feeds, weather forecasts are…

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….