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For centuries Class conflict has been a struggle of people who are constantly fighting and taking control. ‘Breaking Bad’ is best explained by class conflict and the protestant ethic best explains the relationship between Walter and Jesse. These two sociological perspectives are two out of five perspectives that are reoccurring throughout the series of Walter’s … Read more
Quite a few people jokingly say that they have a friend or family relative who is addicted to television. What they may not realize is it may in fact be true. In Marie Winns essay TV Addiction, she first defines what she believes an addict to be, then she compares an addict to someone who … Read more
Ivanhoe This novel, Ivanhoe, was written by Sir Walter Scott, and contains 500 pages of exciting drama and romance. It follows the adventures of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, Richard the Lion-Heart, the outlaws of Sherwood Forest, and many other exciting heroes and heroines. Ivanhoe has returned from the crusade to claim his lady love, Rowena, but … Read more
Women in Science: The Big Bang Theory’s Biggest Punchline The Big Bang Theory is one of television’s most popular shows and you can seldom flip through the channels without stumbling upon a rerun or two. While the show’s popularity is impressive, its treatment and portrayal of female characters is not. Women are treated in this … Read more
Perhaps the major drawback to a satellite-based system is latency. The delays can be noticeable on some online applications. Discuss what issues this might raise for the Choice suite of applications. Consistently, more motels joined the Quality Courts structure, which had transformed into an intense power in the lodging business and had developed a reputation … 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
It makes your blood boil. Your eyes see red. Your fists clench so hard that they turn pale. It keeps you up at night, thinking and formulating plots on how to extract it. It flows through your body and mind like an uncontrollable rage, seething to be released. Revenge is toxic. And such a strong, … Read more
PRESENTATION I am Akib Akhlak, bachelor of journalism and mass communication, from Amity University, Noida. I got a chance of doing temporary position with Sahara India News Network from nineteenth JUNE 2017 to nineteenth July 2017 under Supervision of Mr. Zameer Hashmi. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I offer my earnest thanks towards every one of those individuals who … Read more
“Sing sorrow, sorrow: but good win out in the end” (Oresteia, Agamemnon 121). Such is the chorus’ refrain in the opening lines of Aeschylus’ trilogy, the Oresteia. Written in the 5th century B.C.E., Aeschylus’ classic tragedy not only profoundly impacted the Athenians of his time, but even today continues to provoke weighty questions regarding the … Read more
The use of one’s voice is one of the most powerful weapons humans possess. Yet, too often it is not used to its full potential, and rather, is overlooked, used to harm, or silenced altogether. Voices are shaped over many years and experiences, and they evolve throughout a lifetime. Each individual possesses a voice unique … Read more
Teens are believed to be the founders of the word, “cool”. The movie, The Merchants of Cool, focuses on the aspect that teens run the economy. Two major theories can prove this claim. These theories would include, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism. Conflict theory plays a major role in this claim. Conflict theory focuses on … Read more
In the wide spectrum of humanistic characteristics, that of desire is one of the most prominent. It is an emotion that is challenging to resist, as it tends to control many aspects of life because of the strength it possesses. In the realm of non-human emotions, however, similar feelings emerge; whether a mortal being or … Read more
When I was growing up, I would be reading large chapter books, quite large compared to my age, but I would also like to watch television. Yet my mother would caution me that the television set was no good, and now that I am a college student of legal age and on my own, she … Read more
Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street Revenge is a common driving force in many novels, movies, and in this case, musical. The ideology of Sweeney Todd is pretty simple; Sweeney wants revenge on the Judge who sent him away to an unjust incarceration while the judge took his daughter as a part of the … Read more
When the general public studies and analyzes fiction, the plot, exposition of characters, climax, and resolution seemingly serve as the “critical” elements highlighted in its evaluation. Provocative literature, however, employs several less predictable but arguably more poignant characteristics. Description and symbolism flesh out the plot and characters, adding depth and form rather than mere shape … Read more
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak. -I Corinthians 14:34 It is a good thing that women religious writers, especially Marguerite Porete, did not listen to this scripture and spoke up in church. While all women mystics are quite different from each other, they all … Read more
“Better for some never means better for all.” In everyday life we encounter people who can be nice, moderate, or are just monsters. Those monsters are corrupt, inconsiderate, or badly-behaved people. In literature this person is called the antagonist, someone who makes the main characters life harder than it should be. These characteristics can be … Read more
Antigone and Ariel as Tragic Heroes A tragic hero includes someone who is of noble birth, has great qualities and flaws, has a fatal flaw, has a tragic downfall, gets physically or spiritually wounded, is more self aware in cause, and is felt pity from the audience. Antigone, by Sophocles, is about a character named … Read more
Through a focus upon gender, both Elia Kazan’s film of Tennessee Williams’ original play, A Streetcar Named Desire (Warner Bros, 1951) and Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale (Vintage, 1986) effectively manage to mirror the concerns of both time and place. Despite differing contextual influences, both of these texts manage to aptly explore similar issues … Read more
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is the twisted story of Montresor’s revenge against Fortunato, a “friend” who insulted his family name. After luring Fortunato into his family’s catacombs with the promise of enjoying a drink of Amontillado, Montresor chains him to wall and leaves him there to die. Different aspects of Poe’s … Read more
Like most zombie movies, fictions, cartoons, at the beginning of the comics of the Walking Dead, our protagonist woke up from a coma and found that the world has changed. For a time, Atlanta became a dead city, a city of horror, corpses across the field, mourning all over the place. The government no longer … Read more
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
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
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
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
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