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Book Analysis: “The Longest Ride” “The Longest Ride” by Nicholas Sparks is a novel that tells two love stories. The first is that of Ira Levinson a 91-year-old widower and his late wife Ruth. Ira’s story starts with him trapped inside a car following his accident, which rolls his car off the edge of a…

The Prussian philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883) is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century (History Guide, n. pag.). In the mid-19th century, Marx and German philosopher Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) founded Marxism, a body of thought that emphasizes the important role of class struggle in understanding society’s development from capitalism to a…

Nature is when a person is influenced by the inherited genes and nurture is when a person is influenced by the environment and surroundings. One example of nature would be, when a person has brown hair color naturally and he/she nurtures it by changing the color to black. Clearly the black hair color was inherited…

The Victorian period lasted from 1830 to 1880. This epoch marks the flood tide of England’s rise to economic and military domination. The Victorians brought increasing attempts to accomplish political, societal, and economic pursuits to run into alterations made by industrialisation. For illustration, characters in the verse form Ulysses, Prospice, and Beowulf go on journeys…

The two brothers do respect the laws of society to the most part, but are evil annilaters, whom believe they have received a message from God to kill all evil and purify the city of Boston. The film consists of the “purifications” of the brothers and the quest for one detective to find out why…

Jaycee Dugan endured those very same things and the main purpose of her writing her memoir, A Stolen Life was to give people who haven’t been subjected to such an extreme level of abuse an understanding of what it takes to survive being kidnapped and repeatedly raped and the toll it can take on a…

Explain the Themes addressed in Plato’s allegory of the Cave, Making particular reference to the Theory of Forms There are several themes represented in the allegory of the cave, one of the first themes you come across while reading the Allegory of the Cave is ignorance. The chains binding them to the cave could merely…

Edwin Sutherland’s theories of social learning for me, highlights a broader societal issue of perception on the belief that the majority of criminal activity is committed by the underprivileged, low socio-economic groups of society. Society has played a major role on influencing a person’s behavior towards his surroundings. He moves in a way such that…

            Shaun Tan’s The Arrival tells the story of a migrant who finds his way to a strange foreign land. In his quest for a better job and a better life, he shares his struggles with other strangers in the land who also help him survive the daily ordeals. Apparently, Tan’s picture book reflects an…

People frequently classify themselves by recalling memories and specific details from their past. Meena Alexander explores the uncommon experience of not feeling a sense of belonging in her life, which can stem from various factors such as culture, nationality, or religion. This concept of not fitting in with any social group is quite peculiar. However,…