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The poem Nighttime Fires by Regina Barecca explains the speaker’s complex view of her father. The speaker uses imagery to describe her father’s strange behaviours after losing his job. Figurative language is used strategically to explain the memories of this young girl’s strange adventures. The diction in this poem is also used very well helping…

In “The Myth of the Latin Woman”, Judith Ortiz Cofer intends to dispel several stereotypes about Hispanic women by expressing her own personal stories and observations. She starts off by relating an experience that happened on a bus in London, then she goes into explaining how her parents made her home in America a microcosm…

The American Dream: What Does It Mean Dreams come Into deferent varieties, big, small, colorful, black and white, long, short, and other things that you can think of. But there Is only one dream that every American wants to achieve, that is the American dream. The American dream started way back when America was founded….

The Hero’s Journey is a narrative pattern that can be found in novels, storytelling, myth, and religious rituals. Joseph Campbell first identified this pattern in his book A Hero with Thousand Faces (Campbell, 1972, p. 73). The Hero’s Journey pattern describes the typical adventure of the archetype known as The Hero who embarks on a…

Introduction In companies wanting to be successful they have to attract customers somehow into buying their products. The most effective way to do so is to advertise/promote the product through TV, magazines, or billboards. These advertisements later lead to people having cultural myths, “a story or idea that explains the culture or customs of people”…

What are Aristotle’s 3 unities?  Define each.  How does each show up in Medea?  The 3 unities of Aristotle are the three factors that he claims in his treatise of Poetics as to the rules to create true drama.   These 3 factors are the unity of action, which necessitates that the drama should have one…

In the Amish religion, there lies a pivotal tradition for many of its adolescent followers. There are a number of Americans whom are likely to have never heard of this rite; as it is practiced by a small demographic, consisting of roughly 200,000 people . Their tradition, referred to as the Pennsylvania-German term “Rumspringa”, can…

Across history, America has been renowned as the land of opportunity. It has attracted countless immigrants who sought the freedom and equality promised by our government. The essence of this reputation is captured in the American Dream, which asserts that success can be attained through one’s own endeavors alone. Though interpretations of success may vary,…

Introduction       The book explores the history of the myths that define American identity, the ways many Americans have absolutized those myths, and the ways African Americans and other dissenters have exposed those myths for their discriminatory dimensions. Richard T. Hughes identifies the six key myths that lie at the heart of the American experience;…

            Euripides’ Medea presents Medea’s vengefulness towards her husband which leads her to murder the king and princess of Corinth as well as her children. The murder of these individuals stands as a result of Medea’s humiliation after she found out that her husband, Jason, whom she aided in the escape from Colchis, intends to…