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Aeschylus’s play “Agamemnon” seeks to show his audience that revenge only leads to more violence. This is shown prominently through the character’s central beliefs and motives that are encouraged through the actions of others, which inevitably repeats itself over and over again. The play focuses predominantly around the house of Atreus, and the curse lay … Read more
Analysis of Epic Heroes in Ancient and Modern Societies The monster leaps from building to building, his gigantic hands swinging him onto the snake-like aliens. The conflict ensues. After the dust settles, only one figure remains. The hulking giant is the victor once more. The astounding battle scenes depicted in the film The Avengers has … Read more
Micro Essay Queer theory refers to any deviance from straight values that can be marked as non-, anti-straight, or contra-. Alexander Doty believes that queerness should be seen as anything that does not follow the norms set by a straight society. The reductive take on queerness in reference to sexual orientation is opposed by many … Read more
Homeland television series offers a variety of characters. Moreover, almost every character in the show is faced with trauma in some way. Homeland’s two main characters Brody and Carry serves as the main representation of people forced to experience the trauma. Both the subject of trauma and the topic of PTSD have been examined many … Read more
Sex Sells More Than Products A common criticism of advertising is the presence of the sexualized female image throughout the media in order to gain consumer interest and project a cultural message. These advertisements use sex to connect to the audience and to convey messages that relate to societal feminine stereotypes. A scene from the … Read more
In 1997, two software engineers, Reed Hastings and Marc Rudolph, founded Netflix after Hastings was charged a $40 late fee for ‘Apollo 13’ at Blockbuster. Originally Netflix was in the DVD delivery business. Customers would pay to have any one of more than 90,000 DVDs delivered straight to their house. Two years later in 1999 … Read more
Bigotry or prejudice? Controversial titles that are almost certain to grab someone’s attention standing around the water cooler. While most people find these words offensive, perhaps it was those debatable issues that All in the Family sitcom producers Norman Lear and Alan Yorkin thought could not only gain their network more viewership but ignite universal … Read more
Oprah Winfrey is one of the most influential and powerful African American woman in the world during this millenium. Oprah Winfrey is known for a plethora of thing. Oprah is a multi-billion dollar mogul. Winfrey is not only known as a talk show host, but also known as a philosopher and world influencer. She has … Read more
We Will Be Citizens: Religion and Homosexuality as National Themes in Angels in America Tony Kushner’s two-part play, Angels in America, claims to be “a gay fantasia on national themes” (Kushner). The intertwining stories center around the emergence of the AIDS virus in the late 1980’s, and manages to give faces and lives to some … Read more
The Byronic Hero is a variant of the Romantic Hero who possesses an “expression which indicates a mixture of contempt and gloom”[1] and whose behaviour is unpredictable, “moodily taciturn and violently explosive.”[2] However, the Byronic Hero has a redeeming characteristic or quality that earns him the title ‘hero.’ Leslie Fielder defines the “hero-villain as indeed … Read more
Above the vocal cords is a set of membranes and cartilage that make the shape of a funnel. When you bring that cartilage in and wrap the shape of the funnel to be even more horn-like, you get twang. The sound is less breathy, more clear and louder. Vocal twang helps improve vocal adduction. This … Read more
In Shakespeare’s play, the protagonist, Hamlet, is faced with the mission of avenging his father. He decides to act mad as part of his plan to kill Claudius and avenge his father. As the plot of the play rises, his madness becomes more and more believable. The readers know that Hamlet is acting mad because … Read more
We have all been interrupted during our TV show by the faces of neglected and homeless animals staring back at us. The ASPCA (The American Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals) commercial headlining Sarah McLachlan is an example of a rhetorical situation that uses the three persuasive appeals. The main motive for this … Read more
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with ten-year-old Zachary details his experience with uncontrollable anger and hearing distressing voices. An article, titled “Children Dealing with Violent Rage”, published on February 18th of 2011, gave insight to how Zach’s parents realized that Zach had a problem. They explained that starting at eighteen months old, Zach threw violent tantrums. He … Read more
In the video “A Class Divided”, Jane Elliot a teacher from Riceville, Iowa engages her third grade class into a brown eyed/blue eyed experiment. The experiment is to help the children to understand about prejudice and discrimination. The same experiment was also used a couple of years later with adults. In the brown eyed/blue eyed … Read more
In Gwen Wilde’s essay titled “Why the Pledge Should Be Revised”, the author uses a critical tone to persuade the audience that the pledge should not include the words “under God”. Wilde begins with the argument that the words “under God” were not always in pledge of allegiance. She enforces this argument with historical facts, … Read more
Comedy Central’s South Park is an animated comedy sitcom that utilizes surreal humor to lampoon a wide range of topics, many of which are controversial in society. Schulzke’s (2012) “Contentious Language: South Park and the Transformation of Meaning” article examines South Park’s “The F Word” episode and its attempt to challenge linguistic conventions. “The F … Read more
“Too stupid to Die” a new reality stunt based series is all set to premiere. Zach Holmes, the internet sensation and a hothead adventurer banned by YouTube, will feature in the show conducting bizarre pranks, hilarious tricks and appalling stunts. Van Toffler, former president of MTV networks music and logo group, was associated for 28 … Read more
Frederick Douglass’ second autobiography, My Bondage, and My Freedom, significantly revises key portions of his original narrative style and extends the story of his life to include his experiences as a traveling lecturer in the United States as well as England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Douglass also frames his second autobiography differently, replacing the introductory … Read more
“sometimes a word is put down with a sign of negation, when as much is signified as if we had spoken it affirmatively, if not more” John Smith (225) Thomas More’s Utopia is a work that embodies and embraces ambiguity. In fact almost every aspect of the book is instilled with a range of interpretable … Read more
Revenge: Acceptable or Condemnable? Living creatures often find themselves at odds with the individuals with whom they associate. In the event of defeat, humans seek revenge on the victor in hopes of satisfying the desire for justice. While this option appeals to one’s wounded pride, several drawbacks accompany acts of revenge. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The … Read more
A Class Divided-A PBS Film In this documentary, Jane Elliott, a third grade teacher divided her class into two groups based on their eye color; one group had blue eyes and the other had brown eyes. On the first day of the experiment, Elliott told the children who had blue eyes that they were superior … Read more
Beowulf, the Old-English epic poem, is characteristic of its Nordic-Germanic roots as a tale of a great Scandinavian warrior – Beowulf – who saves a neighboring kingdom from the wrath of the destructive, blood-thirsty monster, Grendel, and eventually becomes the king of his own people, the Geats, and sacrifices himself for their proliferation. Beowulf is … Read more
The book The Giver is about a supposedly ideal society, however as the book continues it seems to be more of a dystopia with a totalitarian government. Everyday life is the same and almost never changes because the consequence is so severe, which could be public humiliation to releasing. In our Society you can do … Read more
In the More Utopian readings (Utopia by Sir Thomas More) we learn about the different ways that the Utopians lived. We learn about their different rituals they have and how they have to follow a certain lifestyle. The readings have all been very interesting due to the fact that each one is different in its … Read more
“On or about December 1910 human nature changed. All human relations shifted…and when human relations change there is at the same time change in religion, politics, and literature”; thus, Modernism was born (Woolf qtd in Galens 175). Modernism was a movement that pursued a truthful portrayal of the world by focusing on the human experience … Read more
In Chapter Three of Leech’s The Critical Idiom: Tragedy (henceforth shortened as Tragedy), the traditional Aristotelian view of a tragic hero is defined as an exalted person, usually of high rank, who is held because of said rank “in a position of recognizable eminence” (34). Eminence is a key component of being and recognizing an … Read more
Regardless of the inappropriate usage of the phrase, the couch potato on us releases once we get to Netflix and start to relax for the next several hours. Propped up feet, relaxed on your favorite spot in the house, drinks and chips on your left, and an internet connection and you’re all set for binge … Read more
“How will you like being made exactly like other people?” is a question that echoes through Antoinette’s mind early within Jean Rhys’s responsive and revisionist text, Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys 22). Constructing her protagonist from Charlotte Bronte’s insane Bertha Mason, Rhys aims to write the history, the preface, of one of the most discussed feminist … Read more
In the essay “Watching Tv Makes You Smarter,” Steven Johnson argues that several of the series that our society considers not beneficial TV is actually quite beneficial to our mental skill. This convincing paper by Steven Johnson confronts what present literature and history, educates us: TV is awful, evade looking at series. As many may … Read more
Power of lies + Reputation = REVENGE Revenge can be taken in many different ways, such as fights, lies , arguments, etc. In Arthur Miller’s Crucible, the theme of revenge plays a major role. He based this book on the Salem Witch Trials which took place in the early 1950’s. All the characters were somehow … Read more
Scientists believe the Universe began in a hot ‘big bang’ about 13,600 million years ago. The Universe continues to expand today. The evidence for the Big Bang theory includes the existence of a microwave background radiation, and red-shift. Stars do not remain the same, but change as they age. Scientists have gathered a lot of … Read more
Aura is a novel that explores the corporeality of aging, the eternal nature of desire and the struggle against mortality. What strikes the reader from the outset is the second person narrative in the present tense, a stylistic choice that is known to have a number of effects on both the narrative and the reactions … Read more
In addition to the on-screen celebrities who frequently grace our television screens with their splendor, there exist some behind-screen celebs who take up positions off the screen and showcase their prowess and inborn talent through their voices on the set of cartoons, video games and animated movies. The celebrated voice artist, producer and director Matt … Read more
Harney v. Sony Pictures Television Inc., 41 Med.L.Rptr. 113. Facts: In April, 2007, photographer Donald Harney took a picture of what appeared to be a father and daughter out at an event. Almost a full year later, in 2008, the couple in question became involved in a kidnapping case, and the daughter was abducted by … Read more
“‘Send him,’ quoth [Minos], ‘to our infernal king, / To doom him as best seems his majesty” (1.1.52-3). Nestled in the lengthy opening monologue by Don Andrea, these lines introduce the overarching question that Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy seeks to answer – the question of Don Andrea’s “doom.” In the underworld, Aeacus and Rhadamanth … Read more
Family Guy, which is created by Seth MacFarlane, on January 31, 1999 it had three seasons previously befoe being cancelled but because of dvd sale the shown went back on air in with new episodes in 2005 on May 1 and now with over 200 episode family guy is in it 15 season as of … Read more
I.INTRODUCTION A superhero or a superheroine (which is found in 1917) is a type of heroic stock character, usually possessing supernatural or superhuman powers, who is dedicated to fighting crime, protecting the public, and usually battling supervillains while in some of the people, a superhero cannot be defined solely by superhuman powers like Batman, he … Read more
Pretty Little Liars is a series about four girls who got reunited a year after the murder of their loved one Alison DiLaurentis, who was the one who united the four of them in the first place. Alison Dilaurentis who is played by Sasha Pieterse, was the Queen Bee of Rosewood’s teenage society. She was … Read more
As two key figureheads in what is now deemed the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen served as voices for a previously voiceless population. Their poetry speaks of the enduring struggles of being an African American, and the effort required to merely survive in such a discriminatory society. However, despite being poets with similar … Read more
Is revenge ever justified? Mankind believes in the necessity of revenge to make justice, by their own hands. The idea of revenge has been present in numerous novels, television shows, as well as movies and films. For instance in the movie Taken, the theme of revenge is clearly shown when a retired Gonverment Agent, Bryan, … Read more
Texts are, by nature, cultural artefacts, intrinsically influenced by the societys from which they emerge. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) offers a “twist of today’s society” – the phallocentric Gileadean dictatorship, as seen through the eyes of narrator Offred. Set in a totalitarian and repressive theocracy, Atwood warns of the danger of fundamentalist religion … Read more
Before every factual program is produced, certain issues must be kept in mind to make sure the right message is being put across and to make sure the factual program is being produced in the right style. Each factual program must make sure the facts and information they’re telling its audience is accurate. Facts must … Read more
Cycle of Revenge Gandhi said, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” What Gandhi meant was that taking revenge will make a destructive cycle. In Sherman Alexie’s Flight, it shows the vicious cycle in action. In the story there is a boy named Zits who discovers the true meaning of revenge through … Read more
Antonia Peacocke, a student of Harvard University at the time, writes in her article, Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, of the history of the television show Family Guy. She also explains how its content is not meant to be taken very seriously. Peacocke explains the topic thoroughly, giving the … Read more
Writer Oscar Wilde once said: “A mask tells us more than a face.” Throughout history, lies and masks have been a means to an end in achieving the goals of women who are limited in their current situations – social, political, or economical. Women traditionally cannot simply lash out in moments of angry frustration. The … Read more
The debate between religion verses science has been a conflict over centuries and a dividing factor in modern day culture. Typically, doctors have a difficult time understanding a patient’s decision to deny treatment because of their beliefs and religion, which could potentially terminate a life-threatening disease. However, in Grey’s Anatomy, a popular television series, the … Read more
Charles Darwin gave his theory of evolution by the way or Natural Selection in 1858 as an explanation for adaptation and variation in species and organisms. Natural selection is the differentiation of organisms due to the differences in phenotype. Natural selection acts on the phenotype of an organism. The phenotype is the observable characteristics of … Read more
Every piece of literature has already been written; the reason for this is the phenomenon of archetypes. Archetypes are symbols, images, characters, ideas, and themes that are occurring all throughout literature. Carl Joung believed that these archetypes are due to the human unconsciousness. He stated that humans all share a collective unconscious, this is where … Read more
In Ourselves We Trust America has always been a place of ideals, a place where people have striven for their concept of a perfect lifestyle. Certain virtues have permeated the American spirit, and they continue to influence social revolutionaries today. Motivation, courage, intellect, and thoughtfulness are some of the most pertinent assets of the stereotypical … Read more
