Do we live better than our parents used to?
Case study - 15 pages - Politic philosophy
Our parents, born during The Glorious Thirty, lived the first years of their life in a society still untouched by oil crisis, very prosperous but so rigid and socially unfair. They grew up with the appearance and early spread of HIV, and lived in the uncertainties caused by the Cold War…...
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
In the first chapter of his essay On Liberty, Mill emphasizes on the importance of the civil and social grounds of liberty, as opposed to the « Liberty of the Will ». Therefore his work deals with the opposition between his concept of liberty and the needed authority of the state. At first Mill...
Consider the relationship and struggle between Urizen and Los in Blake's work
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The recognition of the English poet's literary talent William Blake has been slow and this is to be linked with the novelty of the ideas he developed, but also with the subversive aspect of his reinterpretation of the biblical works, in order to express his views about the world around him....
Discuss the interaction between the translators and their agents, editors and publishers. What effect does such direct contact have on nature and quality of translation?
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Throughout history the concept of translation and translation in itself has played a major role as it has made the access to important texts easier such as the bible and thus has enabled people to interact more easily. Since the 1970's its role has increased because of the fast evolution of this...
Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim and David Irving: Tralfamadorians in Training
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
Where Billy Pilgrim begins, Kurt Vonnegut ends and this is where David Irving intrudes for good measure. However this is what makes the post-modern interpretation of this book so interesting (at least to this author). Certainly, an all pervading odor of fatalism and cynicism colors the work and...
The Mother Tongue (Bill Bryson)
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In the fourth chapter of Mother Tongue (Penguin 31/10/1991), “The First Thousand years”, Bill Bryson highlights the history of the development of the English tongue. In a small area of northern Germany, the country language is very closed to the Old English. This place was indeed the...
Stone of Laughter - Hoda Barakat
Case study - 6 pages - Literature
Many have undertaken the task of writing in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Among them, a few female Lebanese authors have attempted to recount their own experience of the war through fiction. The most renowned are Hanan el Sheykh with her novel Hikayat Zahra and Hoda...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
The Epic of Gilgamesh is among the earliest of all known works literature in the world. The poem tells the story of King Gilgamesh of Uruk who is thought to have reigned around 2700 BCE. Uruk is believed by some to be the origin of the name of modern day Iraq and was located in southern...
Eternal recurrence as the ultimate test of life-affirmation
Case study - 13 pages - Philosophy
What is life-affirmation? To be sure it is the heart of all of Nietzsche's books (dare I say even of every word?). It is a holy Yes-saying to life, to one's world as it has been, is now, and as one will make it. The one who affirms life is not passive, but rather is alive and passionate; she...
Commentary about: The Tiger, poem by William Blake
Case study - 1 pages - Literature
This poem in verse comes from the collection Songs of experience. The poem is entitled The Tiger and it was written by William Blake in the 18th century, more precisely in 1794. This written document deals with a tiger which symbolizes all the creator's work at the time of Genesis. So, there...
Testaments betrayed by Milan Kundera
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
« We don't give a damn about testaments» declares Milan Kundera in Testaments betrayed. Why Max Brod has not respected Kafka's testament? Why has Vogel accepted that people make alterations to his friend Janacek's work? Kundera highlights the growing disrespect to the wishes of the authors. The...
"The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven", Sherman Alexie
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie paints through twenty two short stories a dark picture of Native Americans' today's situation in the United States of America. Published in 1993 by The Atlantic Monthly Press, this book describes the current conditions of livings in...
Nietzsche and Freud on the "Oceanic Feeling"
Essay - 8 pages - Philosophy
It is indisputable that Nietzsche was a major influence on Freud's theories on psychoanalysis. Specifically within Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, and Nietzsche's essay “Schopenhauer as Educator,” there are clearly shared opinions on, for example, the necessity of examination...
Waxing historical
Essay - 10 pages - Philosophy
To say the very least, the period of German history dominated by the Nazis is a difficult one to study. For the historian, this period, located comfortably between the years 1933 and 1945, provides also one of the best tests of the his job, bringing up questions as large and elemental as that of...
Two Truths in Nietzsche's On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense
Case study - 6 pages - Philosophy
A common criticism brought against Nietzsche, especially regarding his essay On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense, is that Nietzsche seems to wholly refute the idea of an objective truth and to simultaneously express his own ideas and opinions with a confidence and assertion as if to suggest a...
A sociological account of a 'day in the life' of a drug
Case study - 5 pages - Philosophy
He saw her across the room. Even through the dim lighting and stuffy haze of his own muddled thoughts recognized her. Even though she was clearly one of those group, social druggies, surrounded by other exceedingly loud or exceedingly companionable, rosy-faced drunks, and completely on the...
Film as permission to realize again the fantastic
Case study - 6 pages - Philosophy
The concepts of “fantasy” and “reality” when placed together are often recognized as two parts to a single dichotomy. The separation is easily continued to include such corresponding pairings as childhood-adulthood, idealism-realism, and also genius-science. The total result...
Once upon a time, women in fairy tales
Case study - 15 pages - Literature
The release of Rapunzel in December 2010 tackles the issue of the female condition by re-interpreting and modernizing a classical fairy tale. In the original one, the heroine is a princess, whose hair are three-meter long, locked in doorless tower. She is victimized and passive, undergoing the...
The Dark Virgins
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
For ages now, the great Rache tribe has cursed the dwellers of Raginpoo forest. Whenever there's a commotion or a calamity in the village, they would blame the Raginpoo people right away without even knowing the truth about the said people. One day, Reug and Delash, the two sons of the wise...
Defining the intimacy between the work of English poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Shakespeare
Course material - 7 pages - Literature
William Shakespeare is a world-renowned poet and playwright who has brought the narrative stories into a different level of genius he so cleverly crafted through the sublime musings he got from his views on the society, love, and the likes. On the other hand, Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a poet...
Shakespeare - The tempest art and nature
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
The Tempest by William Shakespeare pursues the idea of a celebratory exploration of the nature of theatrical art. More than this, the whole play is set on a duality between art and nature, sometimes combining and sometimes contrasting each other. Art would be defined as grace, civility and...
Paper about the major themes of the book "The Canterbury Tales"
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Written in the late 14th century, during a period in history when England was experiencing a political and social turmoil, the Canterbury Tales are Geoffrey Chaucer's most celebrated literary work. At that time, a schism was beginning to develop with the Christian church. The significance of...
Gandhi, 1982, by Richard Attenborough
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
As you might know, India became a British colony in 1857. The histories of Gandhi and India are linked together since he fought for the independence of India. Therefore we decided to study the film Gandhi, produced by Richard Attenborough. He is a talented actor, director and producer who was...
Twelfth Night, Act 3 scene 1, v.59-162
Text commentary - 4 pages - Literature
Act III opens in Olivia's garden. We can say that this scene is light and jovial because Viola (disguised as Cesario since Act I) has just encountered Olivia's Clown Feste. It is mainly a scene between Olivia and Viola, and we may say that the last time they were together on stage was in...
With their backs against fort walls a soldier's-eye, view of the siege of Zeelandia
Book review - 25 pages - Literature
On February 17th, 1662, in the stifling, humid chill of Formosa's cold season, they marched. Despite being deathly sick, injured, partially starved and otherwise exhausted, the 400 to 500 men of the Dutch East India Company remaining in the garrison of Fort Zeelandia marched to the beat of...
Commentary on Libra's shooting scene
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Libra is a novel written by Don Delillo and published in 1988. It deals with the life of Lee Harvey Oswald in parallel with the plotters of the conspiracy which led him to be charged with John Fitzgerald Kennedy's murder. This extract is the climax of the novel, the scene where the President...
Go tell it on the mountain
Essay - 10 pages - Philosophy
“Go tell it on the Mountain” is an exceptional novel that portrays the life of John, the main character. John's life as articulated through the novel is an accurate representation of James Baldwin's life. The quote above demonstrates John being saved as one of the “saints” of...
Ethnic Nationalism and Conflict: Yugoslavia and Germany
Essay - 7 pages - Philosophy
“Nationalism, as Michnik points out, is a device for avoiding responsibility. By identifying “the other,” which may be an ethnic minority, neighbors, or even just political opponents, as an enemy bent on subverting the nation, nationalist can shift blame for every social ill from...
Blacks, Jews, and Gendered Representations
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
The gendered representations of Blacks and Jews have caused them to struggle with their identities as people in American society. The stereotypes that have arisen from these representations have given two options to these marginalized groups of people:(1) either follow the predisposed vision the...
Archeology Constructing the Past
Case study - 4 pages - Philosophy
Archeological findings provide a way in which pieces of the past can be discovered. This information is useful for providing insight as to how we've evolved technologically and socially. However, it has become increasingly difficult in determining how this information should be circulated. The...
