Notes from Underground
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
Dostoyevsky crafted Notes from Underground in a way that upon reading the first section, one is filled with confusion and many conflicting ideas. Yet as the second part of the story unravels, the confusion and conflict start to become clearer and it becomes apparent how the experiences of the...
We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multi Racial Schools, By Gary R. Howard
Essay - 9 pages - Literature
Gary R. Howard's book "We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools" articulates the knowledge and actions necessary for White teachers to move forward on the path of multicultural education toward transformative pedagogy. Howard sets a sturdy foundation of deconstructed...
Analysis of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
The dystopia that is portrayed in "The Handmaid's Tale" was created by Margaret Atwood as a warning of the future, with reflections from the time she was living. The book was written in 1986, in the heart of the Reagan administration, and many new strides in technology had taken place, as well as...
Analysis of Erasure by Percival Everett
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Throughout reading Percival Everett's Erasure, many conclusions can be made about Thelonius Ellison's character development, one could argue, even possible digression. Everett's title Erasure, itself signifies the act of devolution, to complete non-existence. Not only does the content of the text...
Langston Hughe's "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
During a time when Black culture was developing and creating its place in history, Langston Hughes wrote “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”, which became the manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance, and urged Blacks to not be ashamed of who they are; to take pride in their...
The influence of the Disney Princess
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Most girls grow up watching Disney films, especially the films that have story lines where the protagonist is a princess. Included among these films are classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin. Although many people see these films as harmless...
"The Reception" by Maria Barrett
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
This is an extract from Dishonored written by Maria Barrett in 1996. Thanks to the title "Reception", we can know at the first sight that this text relates an invitation and a kind of meeting. This story deals with relationships and reactions between the different characters and reveals the...
John Dunn and Locke's concept of State
Essay - 4 pages - Politic philosophy
John Locke, who was born in 1632, and died in 1704, was an English philosopher, a philosopher of the Enlightenment. His political theories founded what is called "liberalism". In his political theory, Locke is concerned with concepts that are specific, for example: the natural law, property,...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens(1860) - A review
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
This is a passage of a novel written by the famous author Charles Dickens during the great period described in the novel, the end of the nineteenth century. An adult remembers his experience, his first meeting with the other character when he was a child; so there is a question of remembering....
Should gay marriage be legalized?
Presentation - 13 pages - Politic philosophy
-5 countries in Europe have legalized gay marriage -Some, like France, put forward other types of partnerships -Others forbid any type of partnerships between gay people -Most states ban same-sex marriage -The issue is discussed in some specific cases -A few states have legalized same-sex marriage
A perfect day for a banana fish
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
A perfect day for a banana fish is a short story written by JD Salinger in 1948, it deals with one day in the life of Seymour and his wife Muriel who are staying at a hotel in Florida near the beach. Through the story, we understand that Seymour is a veteran and has lost his mind after coming...
A State of Being in Society
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Literature
One Society- Religious and cultural belief has been something of a stumbling block in the realization of a unity of nations. Communication and travel have broadened our horizons to the point where we are no longer able to live in isolation with our spiritual ideologies, and must therefore seek a...
Clive Ponting's 'A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations'
Book review - 10 pages - Literature
"In state affairs, by foreseeing [problems] at a distance, which is only done by men of talents, the evils which might arise from them are soon cured ; but when, from want of foreseight, they are suffered to increase to such a height that they are perceptible to everyone, there is no longer any...
A review of 'The human web: A bird's-eye view of world history' by J.R. & W.H. McNeill
Book review - 8 pages - Literature
In this book, the authors propose to traverse the field of world history and 'to know how the world got to be the way it is' through the theory of webs of exchanges and communication. Schematically a web is 'a set of connections that link people to one another' and is...
Martin Luther King: "I've Been to the Mountaintop"
Text commentary - 5 pages - Literature
King's final speech took place in a specific context of tension and it represented the heyday of the civil rights movement. Large riots in major cities and the divisive issue of the Vietnam War had shattered the liberal consensus for civil rights and created an atmosphere of crisis. On April...
Ernest Hemingway: A Pursuit Race
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
‘A Pursuit Race' is a short story in Ernest Hemingway's ‘Men Without Women' which is narrated from an omniscient point of view and which incorporates more precisely a heterodiegetic narrator. Here, the author knows everything and reveals to us the motivations, thoughts and feelings,...
Ernest Hemingway: A Pursuit Race - publié le 18/01/2012
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
‘A Pursuit Race' is a short story in Ernest Hemingway's ‘Men Without Women' which is narrated from an omniscient point of view and which incorporates more precisely a heterodiegetic narrator. Here, the author knows everything and reveals to us the motivations, thoughts and feelings,...
Research of Joan of Arc
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
Saint Joan of Arc, the 'Maid of Orleans' (Orleans -a French city) is considered a national heroine of France. She was also a Catholic Saint. Joan was a peasant girl born in eastern France at Domrémy, just next to the Loraine, who claimed divine guidance. She said she could hear God...
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
Book review - 10 pages - Literature
John Rawls (1921-2002) was a major political philosopher of the twentieth century. He occupied several teaching positions in Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and Oxford universities. In 1971, he published his most famous work - 'A Theory of Justice'. As one of the most commented and ambitious...
The Giant Trees
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
This text is the story of Clyde Macfarlane's Australian gap-year. Clyde is a 23 British anthropology graduate. He wrote this after his backpacking experience in Tasmania for the travel section of the famous British newspaper “The guardian”. He went there in order to see the big trees...
The Other Side Of The Truth
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
The Nigerian police is different than the English police. First, in Nigeria, they are in khaki uniforms and they have black berets. They do much noise because it's written « banging, rattling. » Their attitudes is rough because their way of speak is very bad for example. They don't...
The death penalty: The importance of dying with honor
Internship report - 15 pages - Literature
In literature as in cinema, the subject of death penalty has been largely used. It can be seen in fantastic films such as The Green Mile by Frank Darabont, as well as in journalistic type of books, as in In Cold Blood by Truman Capote or in The Executioner's song by Norman Mailer, as well as many...
Same sex desire as demonstrated in Art and Literature in antiquity
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Many artists use their medium to express their thoughts or feelings on a particular subject. Often this material has to do with a current event, trend, or mindset that they have noticed. Some choose to portray things in a very realistic light, and others were more inclined to put their own...
The Reflection of Robert Louis Stevenson's Paternal, Religious and Moral Conflicts in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, published in 1886, was an instant bestseller in both Britain and the United States. Journalists and the public were eager to learn of Stevenson's inspiration for the story, and Stevenson responded to their inquiries with his essay...
Bertrand Russell's Criticism of William James' "The Will to Believe"
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
William James, the late 19th and early 20th century American psychologist and philosopher, turned against the modern philosophical tradition with his philosophy of pragmatism. Specifically, James disagreed with the well-established philosophical theories that one can build existential truths from...
Report on Hofstede's model of national cultural differences and Mc Sweeney's critics on the subject
Case study - 5 pages - Philosophy
Geert Hofstede published his first book in 1980, titled “Culture's Consequences”, at a time where empirical studies were particularly needed instead of proliferating theories on cultural issues (Hofstede & Hofstede, 2005). His findings were, in their own way, revolutionary. But as...
Commentary on the extract from 'The Downing Street years', By Margaret Thatcher
Internship report - 3 pages - Literature
In 'The Downing Street Years', published in 1993, Margaret Thatcher tackles the subject of the Brixton riots of 1981 and relates how she dealt with the proliferation of riots after the publication of the Scarman report. In the extract studied here, she argues that her economic policy is...
Three The Hard Way: Jocasta, Antigone, and Ruth Dead Resurrected
Thesis - 10 pages - Literature
In a flash one day it occurred to me that babies did not come flying out of a stomach which could magically reseal itself, as I had been thinking all of those years prior. I saw something (perhaps a woman, perhaps one with child), and suddenly I knew everything. It was a moment of realization...
Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four: When the future meets the past
Thesis - 4 pages - Literature
Freewill has always been an attribute of humanity that is to be protected at all costs, as freewill plays an important role in defining who we are. Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four go to great lengths to show the effects of loss of individuality when governments take control of the...
The Challenges of Religion in Seventeenth Century Poetry
Thesis - 5 pages - Literature
Poetry has often been used as a vehicle to depict the complex aspects of religious life. Religion has always played a crucial role in the cultural development since the earliest times of mankind. Literature constituted an excellent means to express the feelings shared by the religious world....
