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Analysis of The Dispossessed (1719 words, 3 pages)

"The personal is political". Ursula Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed is an excellent example of this notion, and how it is effective in both demonstrating and understanding political theory on a personal level. The author describes minute, often mundane details of the main character Shevek and his life on both ... Read More

An Analysis of The Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin (1715 words, 5 pages)

One of the worlds most cherished literary heroes F. Scott Fitzgerald once famously said, Action is character just these three words can be interpreted differently by any individual, but what most take out from it is that what a person does in life makes them who they are. In both ... Read More

The Definition of Representative Democracy and the Risks of Getting Involved in Electoral Politics and Electing Representatives (2292 words, 7 pages)

Research Question and Argument The neo-liberal policies of the 1980s and 1990s implemented in Latin American countries produced a capitalist order, which decreased the rights of organized labour and minority indigenous groups as it put power in hands of employers and plant managers. The question becomes than with the advance ... Read More

The Use of Irony in Oâ€™Henry's Stories (686 words, 2 pages)

The use of trickery in writing and confusing yet enlightening the reader with an unseen path is called irony whom uses his scamming hands to change the outcome of a story but managed carefully by the writer to do as he says, because every term has a temper of its ... Read More

An Analysis of Mike Davis' Book Planet of the Slums (1343 words, 4 pages)

There are many reports and books written on the future of urban centres around the world. Planet of the Slums written by Mike Davis is one of the many books written on this topic. The morbid fascination of Davis's book is that it seeks to identify exactly how and why ... Read More

Kant Argues Human Beings Are Social Animals (940 words, 2 pages)

The human being is destined by his reason to live in a society with human beings and in it to cultivate himself, to civilize himself, and to moralize himself by means of the arts and sciences (Italics in the text, Kant 229). In this quote, the term society points the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Drama "Orlando" by Sally Potter (1421 words, 2 pages)

Sally Potters costume drama Orlando is described in a review by James Berardinelli as a lavish tour through 400 years of history Berardinelli believed Orlando to be thin on story, this comment unintentionally concurs with the essay question the visual nature of the film disrupts the story and draws the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of Todd Clifton's Funeral Speech (1390 words, 2 pages)

In Todd Cliftons funeral speech, IM attempts to liberate himself through the use of rhetorical language. He breaks free of the Brotherhoods blueprints by speaking with no set framework, going against the brotherhoods belief in social vs. racial equality by implying Todd was a hero in a world of white ... Read More

Literary Examples of a Perfect World, Utopia and Dystopia (1177 words, 2 pages)

In all of human history, the notion of a perfect society has been considered and attempted, but never truly attained. A positive perfect world, were every member is blissful, is a utopia. Alternatively, a negative perfect, world full of disdain and melancholy, is a dystopia. 1984 is a dystopia because ... Read More

Character Development in William Shakespeare's King Lear (1491 words, 3 pages)

The development of the character is a genuinely important asset to the presentation of a story. Shakespeare is no stranger to producing a strong representation of his cast through different development methods. In the tragedy King Lear, the character Edmund, who is the illegitimate son to the Earl of Gloucester, ... Read More

Technical Film Analysis in the Movie Schindler's List Directed by Steven Spielberg (378 words, 1 pages)

Schindler's List (1993) is Steven Spielberg's award-winning masterpiece - a profoundly shocking, unsparing, fact-based, three-hour long epic of the nightmarish Holocaust. Its documentary authenticity vividly re-creates a dark, frightening period during World War II, when Jews in Nazi-occupied Krakow were first dispossessed of their businesses and homes, then placed in ... Read More

Confronting Nothingness in Robert Frost's Acquainted with the Night (325 words, 1 pages)

The sense of homelessness in "Acquainted With the Night" Frosts quintessential dramatic lyric of homelessness becomes acute when the speaker is granted his wish and the full burden of loneliness descends upon him. When the interrupted cry breaks over the roofs from another street, he stops his feet, but it ... Read More

A Paper on Usher Felling Weegee's Life and Work (615 words, 1 pages)

Weegee Weegee was born Usher Fellig in Zloczew, Austria in 1899. His hometown is now in Poland. His name was changed to Arthur at Ellis Island when he came with his family to live in New York's Lower East Side in 1910. He quit school at age 14 to help ... Read More

Friendship in Of Mice and Men, a Novel by John Steinbeck (2480 words, 7 pages)

John Steinbeck celebrated friendship it mapped the contours of his life and art. "In every bit of honest writing in the world," he noted in a 1938 journal entry, "...there is a base theme. Try to understand men if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Causes of War as Stated in Recent Anthropological Literature (822 words, 4 pages)

Why Does War Happen? In general, it could be said that the implications of the most recent anthropological literature lead to a refutation of the influential view long advanced by non-anthropological writers like Hobbes and Freud to the effect that war is the consequence of an innate propensity to aggression ... Read More

The Provocative Anarchism and Linguistic Inventiveness in Renaud's Song Writings (940 words, 2 pages)

Over the past twenty-five years, French singer-songwriter Renaud has emerged as his country's leading exponent of chanson sociale, a rich and diverse tradition of popular song which has helped to rally, educate and galvanise dispossessed groups in French society since the first half of the nineteenth century. Renaud became well-known ... Read More

How Did European Colonialism Affect Aborigines? (607 words, 1 pages)

In 1770 Captain Cooks encounter with the aboriginal people was marked with violence but the European colonization of the continent which followed 18 years later can only be described in terms of an invasion. This event was to bring devastating consequences for the aboriginal people who were occupying the country ... Read More

John Steinbeck: The Greatest Writer of the American Depression (255 words, 1 pages)

John Steinbeck "Many of his books feature impoverished and dispossessed people, such as the American migrant farm workers"(Ito 7) John Steinbeck started his career as a writer during the Great depression and this time period effected his career greatly. Many of his books, short stories, and characters were either influenced ... Read More

Judith Wright Captures Amazing Imagery of the Australian Culture (528 words, 1 pages)

Judith Wright is a respected Australian poet is also known as a conservationist and protester. Her poetry has captured the most amazing imagery of Australian Culture. For Australian students to understand their own culture and history it is necessary to study the best poetry and Judith Wrights poetry is definitely ... Read More

The False Justifications in the Play "Medea" by Euripides (1037 words, 2 pages)

Throughout the play Medea by Euripides, Jason extends a helping hand to the dispossessed Medea. This kind gesture extends from Jason's guilty conscience over his engagement to the princess of Corinth. Through the abolition of guilt, false justification is built. There are three types of justifications shown. Firstly, justification through ... Read More

A Look at the American Revolutionary War with Regard to the Question of Whether Colonialists Justified Their Rebellion Against England (475 words, 2 pages)

American Revolutionary War Were the Colonists Justified in Their Rebellion against England? Did They Have an Adequate Cause for Revolution? Starting after the termination of the Seven-Years war, by the Peace of Paris, England repeatedly violated the American Colonists rights. A series of events, happening between 1763(ending of the Seven-Years ... Read More

Jeremy Rifkin's Persuasion on "Saving Our Planet" (612 words, 1 pages)

Jeremy Rifkin is an immensely persuasive writer and a fine synthesizer of cutting-edge ideas. Over the years he's taken on touchy subjects like the beef industry, energy consumption, green economics, and the future of work. As the president and founder of the Foundation on Economic Trends, he's also been active ... Read More

An Analysis of Blake's Poem London (1007 words, 2 pages)

In Blake's "London" the speaker connects various characters and sociopolitical institutions in order to critique the injustices perpetrated in England. The busy, commercial city of London functions as a space in which the speaker can imagine the inescapable interconnections of English institution and citizens. Although separated by differences of class ... Read More

Major Characters in Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1165 words, 2 pages)

Characters Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras Hamlet, Fortinbras and Leartes are all very different people with different lives, but as these men interact in the play we learn that there are many circumstances surrounding them that mysteriously connect them. All three of these characters had some reason to avenge some circumstance ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character Fortinbras in Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1017 words, 2 pages)

Fortinbras had levied an army to attack and conquer Denmark. Though son of the late King of Norway, the crown of Norway had gone to his uncle, just as the crown of Denmark had gone to Hamlet's uncle. This shows that in the world of the play it was not ... Read More

An Analysis of Hedvig Being the 'Wild Duck' by Mary McCarthy (434 words, 1 pages)

I agree with Mary McCarthy's statement about Hedvig being the "Wild Duck." Hedvig is perhaps the play's most pathetic figure by its innocent and martyred child. She is of uncertain parentage, belonging either to Hialmar or Werle and potentially passed from the former to the latter in a marriage designed ... Read More

An Outline for The Prince by Machiavelli (2408 words, 4 pages)

Outline for "The Prince" I. The basics - all dominions are acquired through either fortune (hereditary or exploitable circumstances) or ability (virt - strength, courage, skill, desperate measures not a reference to moral virtue) II. Hereditary rulers have an easier time keeping power and regaining it because they have less ... Read More

An Argument in Favor of Indian Gaming and the Way It Influences Indian Country and the United States (2281 words, 4 pages)

Indian gaming not only works for Indian Country, it works for America Indian gaming has positively influenced local communities, and has transformed Tribal communities that were once forgotten. The American government should stop belittling Indian Tribes and stop using its resources to fight Indian gaming. The government does not belittle ... Read More

The Sociological Imagination and the Concepts of the Sociological Enterprise to Aboriginal Health and Illness (1770 words, 4 pages)

Sociology begins with individuals' experiences in order to explore the collective themes and patterns of human behaviour that shape our society and the distribution of health within it (Willis, 1993). This essay will describe the "sociological imagination" and then apply the concepts of the sociological enterprise to Aboriginal health and ... Read More

A Comparison of Italian and German Unification (1116 words, 2 pages)

I Italian and German unification had many similarities amongst each other. However, significant players in both nations paths to a unified state had very different approaches to unification. Modern Italy owes its foundation most of all to the Camillo di Cavour. Before his time the Italian peninsula was made up ... Read More

Published: Wednesday 6th of November 2013