How did the pre-1954 nationalism impact on the national movement in Algeria?
Case study - 10 pages - Political science
Ancient mythology tells us a lot about what could be an ideal national solidarity. Epic wars and huge battles were either fought to restore dignity of a nation or to fight against injustice. But what types of injustice? Mythology tends to explain the world around us and provides a...
The Divine Comedy of Dante -William Blake (1824-1827)
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
William Blake is a multifaceted artist. As a poet, painter and engraver, he was born in 1757 and died in 1827, having been able to complete these illustrations of the Divine Comedy of Dante. During his lifetime, he was appreciated and supported by those brothers and a few patrons such Linell or...
William Butler Yeats and Gerard Manley Hopkins as Innovators
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
In literature there can be two major types of innovation, innovation in style and innovation in content. At the turn of the 18th Century innovations were huge as writers were creating what we now refer to as modernist poetry. Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Butler Yeats are two of the central...
Notion of myths and heroes - English oral for BAC
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
I am going to develop the notion of myths and heroes. Let me introduce my subject by giving you a short definition of those terms. A myth is a story that may or may not be true. Mythology includes the legends of our history, our religions, stories of how the world was created, and our...
David Michôd's film "The King" (2019) and Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (1954-1955) - hero's representation in medievalism
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Medieval history
Medieval society did not have a word about ancient hero models, because heroes belonged only to God. Some knights recognized for their admirable achievements were awarded the title of "Paladin". Nevertheless, the term is restrictive because it cannot qualify Robin Hood, the typical robber of the...
Analysis of Ode on Melancholy by John Keats - publié le 16/04/2008
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Ode on Melancholy is an example of a Pindaric ode, i.e., it is composed in iambic pentameter (we have some occasional spondees too), while the rhyme scheme is a b a b c d e c d e for the first two stanzas and a b a b c d e d c e for the third and last one. We have three stanzas, the first one...
Sexual Taboo: Vampire Myths and Stories
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
The belief in vampires has been around for most of recorded history, dating back before the bible and Ancient Egypt to Babylonian demonology and very early Sumerian mythology . Although, it was never the mythology that we think of today; in those times it was a belief rooted just as...
Ancient Egyptian astronomy
Thesis - 3 pages - Ancient history
Ancient Egypt is a very interesting culture. Like most ancient cultures, ancient Egypt placed lots of importance on the sky and the heavenly bodies. Unlike anything on Earth, the heavens seemed to be unchanging and all-powerful. The idea that the heavens were all-powerful was reinforced by the...
Eisler's "Cultural evolution" and evolutionary theory
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
Riane Eisler's “The Chalice and the Blade”, published in 1988, presents a new theory of human cultural evolution, as well as a new vision of reconstructed history. Eisler draws from archaeological discoveries made in the latter half of the 20th century, as well as from mythology...
Hero myths seem to phallocentric in that all heroes are male- Who is the strongest candidate to be the heroine of Greek myth?
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
It is possible to find a wide range of both female and male heroes in Greek myth. Remarkable battles, brilliant sportsmanship, incredible physical abilities, are just some of the magnificent traits that are part of numerous ancient Greek legends. In this respect, the immense majority of the gods...
Decolonizing the Language Garden: Narratives of Exploration and Acquisition in Jamaica Kincaid's Garden Writing
Case study - 12 pages - Literature
While acknowledging their problematic nature, postcolonial writer Jamaica Kincaid maintains a predilection for explorer narratives. Between her two most exploratory and garden-related works, My Garden (Book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas, she refers to at least ten such narratives,...
The ancient culture and history of the Mayan civilization
Thesis - 12 pages - Ancient history
The Mayan civilization was a densely populated and highly advanced civilization that thrived in Mesoamerica from the second century B.C.E., until the arrival of the Spanish in the 15th Century B.C.E. They had their base in the Yucatan and spread over present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala,...
Plato as a proto-feminist: Tendencies towards the development of feminist thought
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
The idea of Plato's Republic being one of the true first pro-feminist arguments seems to have some steam in modern times. However, there seems to be major flaws with these theories. The fact that modern feminism is not grounded in Platonic feminism is perhaps the most striking issue. For, if...
Get thee behind me, A-bomb: Inverted Christianity and nuclear influence in a Canticle for Leibowitz
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It comes as no surprise that the thematic bulk of Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is drawn from traditional Christian mythology and lore. Age-old Catholic hierarchy, the Latin language and Biblical quotations are used liberally to set an appropriately pious scene. From...
Eugenio Montale - Ossi di sepia, Le occasioni, La bufera e altro and Satura
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Eugenio Montale is a very important Italian poet of the 20th century who acquired fame within literary circles. Being as talented as he was, he was awarded the Nobel Prize of literature. Between 1925 and 1982, he published eight collections of poetry, one of which was posthumous. In this essay, I...
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...
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....
Cosmic creation myths across cultures
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
According to Norse Mythology, what is referred to as the planet Earth was once Ginnungagap. Ginnungagap is the Great Emptiness. South of Gunnunugagp was the firey realm of Muspell. Muspell only had lakes of fire and rivers of poison. The fiery pit prevented any type of growth to emerge....
Opposing values in American thought as depicted in films
Case study - 4 pages - Arts and art history
In a world where movie directors and filmmakers are building a name for themselves Robert Ray in A Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema(1930-1980) tries to show the need for filmmakers to produce movies that every person can relate. Ray emphasizes on the need for commitment in both plot and...
Analysis of Rimbaud's "Vénus Anadyomène": A Parody of the Venus Myth in Poetry
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
Discover Arthur Rimbaud's provocative poem, Vénus Anadyomène, a parody of the myth of Venus that challenges traditional representations of beauty and femininity. Written in 1870, this sonnet subverts expectations with its vivid and unsettling imagery, describing Venus emerging from a bathtub...
Gothic Literature and Art
Presentation - 9 pages - Arts and art history
Gothic Literature started in the late 18th century, alongside Romanticism. Writers were inspired by the beauty of the medieval age. They were also fascinated by the imposing figures of nature and mythology.
"You are Defined by Those that Oppose You."
Thesis - 5 pages - Philosophy
It is arguable that today it is commonly, if subconsciously, accepted that nationality is the most important aspect of one's identity. Whether it is a national sports team, a national representative at Eurosong, a national author…etc. one's nationality has become the most basic marker of...
Death and Identity in Ladakh and Rondônia
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
Every culture defines different entities and ideas in relation to which the individual can experience his or her identity and physical or mental substances on which one's identities are located. Mortuary rites described in Hiroaki Mori and Yukari Hayashi's film The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way...
The fashion's effects on the stock markets?
Essay - 12 pages - Finance
In this final assignment of Technical Analysis and Market Psychology II, I would like to give another point of view on what determines the rise or the fall in stock markets. The basic view of stocks is that the stock markets will provide events that will make people happy or optimistic. In the...
Unconscious discord: The battle between modern Greece and its ideal in the mind
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In the 18th and 19th centuries, many men from the West journeyed to Greece, trading in their comfortable existences in Europe and America for exciting adventures where many risked their lives in the face of pirates, brigands, and plague; and for some of these men, traveling to Greece “was by...
"Myth and Reality" in Antony and Cleopatra - publié le 17/01/2020
Essay - 7 pages - Literature
William Shakespeare, Londonien writer from end of XVIth century, beginning of XVIIth, is considered to be one of the most important playwright of all times. He is one of the most translated writer in the world, and has been studied for generations worldwide. His plays are played in many different...
The symbol of the foreigner in French history
Case study - 4 pages - Modern history
The word foreigner is strongly connected to the idea of Nation; indeed it is the creation of the Nation that in turn generated this new meaning given to the word foreigner. The creation of the nation drew a line between national and non national, between citizens and foreigners. To some...
Abraham: Father of monotheism
Thesis - 3 pages - Philosophy
The story of Abraham is one of the most important and prominent stories in Islam, Christianity and Judaism. This can be clearly seen by the fact that these three religions are often referred to as the Abrahamic religions. Abraham is often considered the father of the great monotheistic traditions...
Matthew Barney or the Gesamtkunstwerk of the 21st century - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
When talking or writing about the American artist Matthew Barney, critics and historians of art always start with the traditional biographic descriptions which in the case of Barney are quite pleasant and are justified by the fact that the artist himself uses autobiographic references in his own...
Racial stereotypes and their role in the concept of Manifest Destiny by Justin Herndon
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
The modern connotations of the concept of “Manifest Destiny” are generally of two diverging camps; One is a romanticized image of devout pilgrims, such as the Mormons, who left the crowded and sinful cities of the East for the freedom of the West, hoping to find a new promised land, or...
