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Adolf Hitler Comparison of Adolf Hitler with Other Dictators (Mussolini and Stalin) Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 to a customs official named Alois Hitler. Like Mussolini and Stalin, he came from a humble background. His father had three wives and several children, but unfortunately only Adolf and his sister Paula survived to…

Racial discrimination is defined as an act that deals with considering a person differently based from that person’s race (Bell). Based on this definition, it does not seem something serious, but what happened during the 1920s in America aroused a new act against the right of people to equality. It was in 1920 that racial…

Greek drama was written in such a way that the characters are the pivotal aspect of the play. The main characters in Sophocles’ epic play, Antigone, are both very strong personalities, which naturally leads to conflict. Antigone and King Creon both have very intense beliefs and roles in this play that oppose each other, and…

Why do honorable people end up with a downfall for their achievements? William Shakespeare with his knowledge of human nature shows Brutus and Cassius’s behaviors as idealistic and realistic in one of his most tragic plays Julius Caesar. The main theme Shakespeare uses in the play is idealism v realism. Julius Caesar the new king…

The text highlights the strong influence that Hurston’s life as an African American during the Harlem Renaissance had on her work. This artistic movement served as a platform for black artists to express their pride in their race and delve into their culture through various forms of art, such as literature and music. Published in…

The changes that occurred in the Gilded Age led to shaping American into the superpower and well respected international country that it is recognized as today. The most important changes were the discovery of uses of copper, the assembly line production technique and the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. The uses of copper that…

The Parthenon is widely considered to be the apotheosis of classical architecture, regarded as an enduring symbol of Greek culture, Athenian democracy and Western civilization as a whole. It is constructed in the traditional Doric order of temple design, representing logic, morality, restraint and control. The temple has a simple structure, defined by its simple,…

New Historicism & Marxist Literary Criticism on “A Cask of Amontillado” “A Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe was first published in 1846 in an American magazine. The historical context of this piece is as much about revenge as the plot in the story itself. During this time, Poe had acquired a bitter rival…

Abstract This paper will discuss American Imperialism in the 19th Century. It will briefly tell what American Imperialism was. It will then tell why the policy was adopted and discuss how it was rationalized. It will discuss what countries became involved in the policy and will finish by talking about the anti-imperialism views of some?…

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” not much is known about the narrator in the story who also happens to be the main character. In fact, the narrator did not reveal his name and some other basic bits of information that one might normally first seek in the biography of every story’s…