Essays on Journey

Don’t you just hate school uniforms? Well, imagine living in a country where all women had to follow a very strict dress code. The system consisted of covering your face and body so that you were not seen; this covering was called a burqa. The Taliban were a militia that took control of the small,…

Joseph Campbell. an American psychologist and fabulous research worker. wrote a celebrated book entitled The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In his womb-to-tomb research Campbell discovered many common forms running through hero myths and narratives from around the universe. Old ages of research lead Campbell to detect several basic phases that about every heroquest goes…

Visual Text essay for Tsotsi Describe important visual or aural symbol(s) in a visual text you have studied and analyse how the symbol(s) helped develop ideas in the text. In the film Tsotsi directed by Gavin Hood there were many important symbols. The film is about a young man, Tsotsi (a nickname which means thug)…

Do you have any sympathy at all for Hibbert? Give evidence for your opinion It could be argued that the realistic way the horrors of life in a First World War trench are depicted in “Journey’s End” leads us to feel sympathy for all the soldiers, including Hibbert, an officer in the company led by…

The English novelist E.M. Foster once wrote, “Railway terminals are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.” The sentence in its essence signifies the marked importance that the railways occupied in the hearts and minds of the people in the…

Much contemplation, debate, and consternation has been directed at the possibility and potential nature of the afterlife. The numerous perspectives have generated an array of overlapping conceptualizations of the experiences that persons might or might not expect after death. This paper will explore how perceptions of the underworld have evolved through time and across cultures….

Effects of the Industrial Revolution: Review of Wolfgang Schivelbusch. The Railway Journey. (California, 1987) The railway revolutionized England, America and all Europe. Established opinion stresses the efficiency and progress that such travel engendered, but the more or less non-quantifiable things that were lost or damaged is something else entirely. Efficiency is easy to quantify, the…

DS and my fellow student officer, assalamualaikum and good afternoon. Today, I am here to discuss a memorable incident from my life. “A good long ride can clear your mind, restore your faith, and use up a lot of fuel.” And I absolutely enjoy doing that. Despite the potential discomfort of being in unfamiliar territory…

T.S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in a small town in Massachusetts. He was the youngest of seven children. Eliot was educated at Smith’s Academy in St. Louis and Milton Academy in Massachusetts. He later went to college at Harvard University where he became an editor for the Harvard Advocate which published many…

Ordinary World In the first opening scene we see is Indiana Jone’s whip in his pocket. Then we see the chapeau from buttocks and that is when the rock-ribbed Indiana Jones fans realize that they are witnessing the entryway of a great hero. The ordinary universe for Indiana Jones is truly non that tiring at…