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After shiping on the literary journey that is “The Odyssey” . I decided to undertake this verse form by Dorothy Parker. Although short in length. the verse form was deceivingly disputing due to the unraveling of symbolism within the words. Embedded within the short sentences were insightful mentions to apparently ordinary objects. such as the…

We are here to celebrate the life of a beautiful young woman Juliet Caplet. She was born 13 short years ago into the house of Caplet. We are here to celebrate her lifer cut short – given hope in sacrifice to mend the hatred and violence between her house and that of the Montage’s. May…

The debate surrounding the Loch Ness monster’s existence has persisted among scientists and enthusiasts for a long time. Despite extensive use of sonar and tracking devices, no concrete evidence confirming the presence of the Loch Ness monster has been found. However, there are captivating tales and legends associated with it. The lack of substantial proof…

Eleven Eleven, written by Sandra Cisneros, explores the character of an eleven-year-old through the use of various literary devices. The first-person narrator, Rachel, is portrayed as naive yet articulate, as she recounts the events of her humiliating eleventh birthday. Despite her young vocabulary, Rachel effectively communicates the challenges of maturing with the insight of an…

Bienvenido Santos’ short narrative “When the Dancers Came” shares a common theme with the rest of his stories in “Scent of Apples.” This theme explores the sense of loss experienced in the Filipino American community, whether it be a loss of home, identity, or family. In “When the Dancers Came,” Santos conveys this loss through…

Shakespeare employs language tools and techniques to create a tense and exciting scene in Act 3 Scene 1 of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, as he showcases a fight scene in the streets of fair Verona, Italy. The fate of our ‘star crossed lovers’ takes a drastic turn for the worse when Tybalt and Mercutio meet their…

Hitler believed in cultural cleaning. He wanted the colored race to vanish. To him non-whites were an inferior race. Persons of Judaic descent were peculiarly singled out. Hitler ordered their imprisonment in concentration cantonments which had distressing life conditions. Jewish? captives? were severely mistreated and so most were killed. This cultural cleaning didnT merely take…

Two stories that are heavy in literary technique are “Tell Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson. These short stories were written exactly 105 years apart; Poe’s short story was written in 1843 while Jackson’s was written in 1948. “Tell Tale Heart,” Poe develops the plot and creates a mood…

John Steinbeck’s novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ is set in California in the 1930’s, when the Great Depression swept across America, resulting in catastrophic changes to the lives of millions. Some people starved trying to find work; while others did all they could to just hang on a little longer. Everyone dreamed of being financially…

Introduction In recent years, television programming, along with publishing ventures, have presented a number of projects looking at the concept of catastrophism, along with diffusionism. One of the best of these books is Brad Steiger’s Worlds Before Our Own, a work that initially earned that writer a great deal of ridicule and personal attacks. Yet…