Essays on Escape

In Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, there are a number of symbols inserted into the play that represent a theme or a character trait that help to portray something deeper about these people than can be normally conveyed through the typical methods of dialogue and direction. In this paper, we will examine five of these symbols and how they are developed throughout the course of the play. It is then made clear just how effectively symbols are used as a visual representations of the character’s inner motivations, as well as the messages about society and the human experience ...

(I). Different people define friendship in different ways. Friendship is a relationship between two people in which they have faith on each other, they mutually care for each other, know each other as a person, trust each other, and this ultimately makes them friends. Yes, Crito is a good friend of Socrates because he shows that he cares about him.
In Plato’s dialogue “Crito,” Crito’s presence at the prison early in the morning, fearing the Socrates will be executed soon is the very first evidence that he is a good friend to Socrates and cares about him. ...

Psychology

“Failure to escape traumatic shock” by Seligman and Maier” (1967)

The importance of the study was to ascertain whether or not dogs that were used in the experiment would try to escape if they were placed under undue stress (electric shock). Seligman and his colleague tried to determine the ways in which the dogs could learn by exposing them to three types of electric shock experiments. They found that in the groups, the dogs, who were placed in three groups, escape, yoked and control, were able to learn the escape/avoidance training that was administered to them. The set in ...

Introduction

Learned helplessness is one of the phenomena thought to be relevant in understanding depression in humans. Depression is believed to be a reaction learned by a person from events known to be stressful, but inescapable at the same time. Although the “learned helplessness” theory does not completely explain human depression, it is essential for understanding the reasons behind the feelings of depressed individuals such as being helpless and hopeless. Also, the theory explains the loss of sense of personal control over life events of many individuals. Thus, enhancing the sense of personal control may improve the situation of individuals ...

In Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, there are a number of symbols inserted into the play that represent a theme or a character trait that help to portray something deeper about these people than can be normally conveyed through the typical methods of dialogue and direction. In this paper, we will examine five of these symbols and how they are developed throughout the course of the play. It is then made clear just how effectively symbols are used as a visual representations of the character’s inner motivations, as well as the messages about society and the human experience ...

In Tennessee Williams’ classic play The Glass Menagerie, the work ends with Tom saying, “Blow out your candles, Laura,” followed by Laura following suit. This line and accompanying action are highly symbolic gestures, following along with the play’s themes of abandonment, the American Dream, family and more. The blowing out of the candles represents, for both of them, the chance to escape the suffocating nature of their life in their apartment with their family and to grow as people. This act being the final action of the play is significant, as it not only represents just how badly ...

Introduction

John Hunt Morgan was a popular Confederate general and cavalry officer during the Civil War. He is most remembered for his Morgan’s Raid wherein he led several hundred men on a more-than thousand mile journey from the South into Kentucky and as far as southern Ohio, which is the farthest point reached by any Confederate group in the north during this war (Dupuy, Johnson and Bongard, 1992, 525). He sowed terror and fear in the hearts of ordinary people from Indiana and Ohio (Boyer, 1912, 164-165). This short paper will examine General Morgan’s escape from the Ohio ...

- Harry and Reasons for escapes.
- Types of magic tricks and escapes.
Harry Houdini performed magic tricks in which he escaped from bondage by different objects. It included chains and handcuffs through which he would be tied first before he could manage to get off the chains and escape. He also performed magic tricks in which he was buried, but still managed to get him out of the coffins and the soil hence cheating death. His escapes were from different objects that were tied around his body or in the hands and legs only (Phillips).
- Relationship with ...

Introduction

Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall was a physical barrier that kept West Berlin and East Germany separate for 28 years from 1961 to 1989. After World War II came to an end, the allied powers comprised of the Unites States, Great Britain, Soviet Union and France divided the vanquished Germany and Berlin into four zones each and each of these zones was occupied by either of the allied forces. Soviet Union was a communist country while the other three allied forces were democratic and capitalist countries. Soon their relationship soured with the Soviet Union, resulting in the bifurcation ...

The original cowboys were all white. Meaning, they were all Caucasians. However, long before they came into being, there were already other cowboys on the making. This was in Texas where a group of slaves worked in ranches. The period was the early nineteenth century. As was discussed above, cowboys mainly gained prominence in the late nineteenth century. Black slaves were mainly born into slavery, but they later gained a life away from slavery in the ranches. This is where the thesis of this paper is deduced. Black men became cowboys so as to avoid the discrimination and shame ...

In 1820, in Maryland, an Africa-American girl was born into slavery (Abnett, 3); a usual occurrence at that time. What makes her outstanding however is what she later became. The girl, born as Araminta Harriet Ross, later became a humanitarian, military spy, soldier, women’s activist and abolitionist of great repute. She dedicated her lifetime to fighting slavery, and helped many slaves to escape from slavery (Elish, 9). She became synonymous was the underground railroad as it was the passage through which she guided escaped slaves to freedom. It is such fact that she is also referred to as ...

The aim of this paper is to understand the assertions and debates regarding the escape of Socrates as he was considered for death sentence by the authorities of Athens. There are a number of dialogues that were noted in the history which clearly allows the readers to understand the severity of the situation. Socrates believed that he was eligible for the ruling that was undertaken by the law against him. Crito makes an assertion that it would have been critical if he would not have saved his friend’s life.
Crito wanted Socrates to escape so that everyone could ...

Socrates sentencing had been delayed for a month presenting to Crito a good opportunity to advise Socrates to escape when the ship, that was at Delos arrived. Crito made several attempts to convince Socrates to escape into exile since it was a common practice in Athens. The Athenians would not mind since they wanted Socrates to leave the city. In this paper, Crito’s arguments made to Socrates are analyzed first, followed by Socrates responses and ultimate decision.
Crito held that he would have lost such a dear friend should Socrates be killed. He proceeded to explain that he ...

Introduction

In the United States alone, statistics show that one in every four women experience domestic violence (NCADV, n.d.). The National Coalition against Domestic Violence (NCADV) reported that around 1.3 million women in the US have been victimized and subjected to physical assault by their partners. Although domestic violence affects both men and women, NCADV reiterated that 85 percent – the majority – of all victims are women. Other alarming facts about domestic violence is that in most cases, women do not report these violent incidents to the police due to fear. Moreover, in families, children witness violence between their parents, which ...

Introduction

Nothing is impossible, the impossible just takes longer. This is clearly brought out in the prison break series where the things done by the actors may seem impossible even to the viewers but through strategic planning, those involved deliver and make happen. Michael Scofield is the leader in this case and no matter how much his crew, the likes of his brother Lincoln Burrows, inmates T-Bag, Sucre, among others, lose hope as view Michael’s plan as not achievable, he proves them wrong. In fact, Michael shows qualities of a good leader indeed, it is true what they say ...

Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain, and Morrison’s Home are two Interesting to read literatures. Each book brings its own uniqueness to the table. Indeed, in both books, there is a brilliant course in regards to exploring their examinations of race, family, and religion. It is obvious that Baldwin is clearly the frankest of the two (however not essentially the most prevailing for that). However, America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison lengthens her philosophical point of view on our history with his story of redemption. Baldwin's first main masterpiece, a story that has ...

Willy Loman and Amanda Wingfield are the main characters in to great American tragedies that both suffer from a tragic flaw. A tragic flaw is a misperception or a lack of insight due to one’s strengths. Both Willy and Amanda cannot see their worlds fully and understand those around them because of their own pride which blinds them. Amanda’s pride keeps her rooted in a past that she can never recreate for her daughter and results in her inability to see her children for who they really are. Willy’s pride in his work prevents him from ...

Part One

One of the specific assessment measures that were applied in this study includes the attention condition. In this assessment measure, the participant was presented with leisure activities and work materials. The paraprofessional denied the participant attention by reading a book with the back turned to him. Unless tantrum behavior was demonstrated by the participant, the paraprofessional continued to deny him attention. In an instance where the participant demonstrated tantrum behavior, the paraprofessional gave a reprimand (Mueller & Sterling-Turner, 2005).
The other specific measure used was he escape condition where the paraprofessional gave task demands involving handwriting activities. A procedure containing ...

The ‘fast five movie’ commonly known as the Fast and Furious 5 is an American action movie written by Chris Morgan and directed by Justin Lin. The following describes the plot of the movie; with the help of his sister and friends, Dom is rescued from the hands of the authorities. The team is the pursued hotly by Hobbs, who follows them to Rio de Janeiro in South America. Hobbs is caught in between two gangs fighting each other i.e. Dam’s team and Reyes’ team. Although the movie has a lot of action and heavy compact, it presents ...

How the Developing Market Escaped the Debt Trap

1.0 Introduction
The debt crisis between the years 2007 and 2008 had huge impacts on the performance of many economies across the world. This saw many industries in such economies collapse while others report very poor performance as a result of lack of funds to invest in them. This is because many people who had funds were afraid of losing their hard-earned money were they to invest it in the various industries. Moreover, people had lost confidence in the financial institutions and were therefore afraid of investing any funds in such sectors for fear of losing their investments. This ...

- Introduction - Context
In general, I am a person who lives under the sign of “Carpe Diem” – “Live the Moment” and I am doing this every day, living my life to the fullest. This is not to say, however, that I do not have a personal plan, but I am not forgetting to live, to enjoy the little joys and emotions that life has to offer, for the sake of strictly following my personal plan. I never considered too much the expression “You can’t escape your destiny”, until this year. It is probably because I consider that ...

I chose my essay to be ‘an argument for making the death penalty mandatory for murders’ because it has been a dilemma in the society. There have been sections advocating for its abolishment and those for its reinforcement. However, statistics show that murder rates are increasing and break outs in prison increase due to advanced technology, hence there have been calls to make the death penalty for murder mandatory so as to rid offenders from the society and prevent the crime reoccurring.
To make my essay stronger for the portfolio, I did revisions in the four sections of the ...

Abnormal psychology deals with unusual patterns of thought and behavior that are considered as a mental disorder. Scholars and prominent academicians have attempted to explain the psychological and biological causes of mental disorders. Abnormal psychology can be classified as normal, abnormal and supernormal. Clinical psychology and psychopathology are some of the branches of medicine that deal with abnormal psychology. It is a complete departure from the traditional and archaic methods of diagnosing and treating mental disorders. A case in point for these treatment methods was the trephining method. Stone Age physicians believed that evil spirits caused mental disorders. They ...

Slavery began in the late 16th century to early 18th century. Africans were brought to American colonies by white Europeans to come and work on their plantations in the South as well as, the North. They were treated harshly with no payments for all their hard work. Moreover, they lived under harsh living conditions a factor that would later lead to their resistance in opposition of these conditions. Racism towards African Americans who were slaves was at its extreme since they did not have any rights; civil nor political. African American slaves had three forms of resistance to slavery ...

Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass are renowned African America civil rights figures who escaped from slavery. The civil rights activists spent a momentous time of their life fighting against slavery and advocating for social justice thus holding prominent ranks in the American history. In addition, Douglass and Harriet were African Americans abolitionists whose births are not recorded but estimated. Fredrick Douglass was the son of a black woman Harriet Bailey and a white man, making him an African American. Harriet Tubman was born to slave parents Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green Ross. Both Harriet and Douglass were abused by ...

Abstract

Depression is known to influence an individual’s cognition and reaction. With this, studies were analyzed to come up a consistent assumptions and conclusions about how cognition and depression is connected. Cognitive Theories of Depression was discussed. The foundations of cognitive theories of depression was briefly explained, and later focused on studies by Aaron Beck, Dr. Albert Ellis and Martin Seligman. The main principles and assumptions of their works were explained as well as analyzed their objectives and proposals. Moreover, cognitive deficits in depressed individuals were discussed. Furthermore, it was explained how cognitive deficits develop, and the idea of ...

The fourth amendment to the US Constitution provides and ensures one of the fundamental human rights. This amendment guarantees freedom against unreasonable search and seizure by public servants and officials or any other agents of the US government. In order to conduct search and seizures legally, such officials and governmental agents are required to have reasonable ground, on the basis of which they receive specific warrant.
There are many cases concerning this constitutional amendment that were considered and decided by the US Supreme Court. And the landmark decision in this sphere is Tennessee v. Garner. According to the factual ...

- 1. A) Using Walton, Cutcher-Gershenfeld and McKersie’s strategic negotiations framework (Table 6.2) in Chapter 6 of the Boxall and Purcell text, how would you describe the old management’s strategy?
- The strategic negotiations framework described in the chapter is a behavioural approach to managing employee relations in the organization (Walton, Cutcher-Gershenfeld, & McKersie, 1994). Given the decisions made by the HR manager, the strategic negotiations framework is divided into three types of approaches. First is “fostering” approach that requires total commitment from all the members, and then comes the “forcing” approach which involves bargaining tactics and the third ...

Philosophy

Question one
Martin Luther Jr was an avid supporter of the civil rights in the United States of America. As a minister of the church, he advocated for the eradication of the injustice form the fabric of the Society. The colored people were constantly faced with injustice from every sphere of life and, as a result, their dignity was constantly violated. As the president of the Southern Christian leadership, he championed for the rights of the black minorities in the United States of America.
Marin Luther argues that his actions were influenced by the refusal of the Birmingham authorities ...

Slavery began in the late 16th century to early 18th century. Africans were brought to American colonies by white masters to come and work on their plantations in the South. They were treated harshly with no payments for all their hard work. In addition, they lived under harsh living conditions, and this led to their resistance against these harsh conditions. The racism towards the African Americans who were slaves was at its extreme as they did not have any rights; no civil nor political rights.
The conditions were worse for the slaves, and they decided to resist in order ...

"Araby" can be said to be a complex short story written by Joyce as a reflection of the life of a young boy growing up in Dublin city. The narrator, a boy, is not named, and Joyce, the author, uses him as the first person; though the narrator appears to be more mature than the boy referred in the short story. Araby, focuses on fantasy and escape; revolving around despair, darkness as well as enlightenment. The story is retrospective of Joyce's life and looks back of his past life as well as his constant struggles (Smith 10).
This story, ...

Introduction:

The morality of genetic research can play out in many ways. Two broad fields of concern are that of genetically engineered organisms and the ethics involved in the use of human stem cells taken from zygotes and human embryos. Another issue is the patenting of the genome and how that affects medicines and the rights of people to “own” their own cells. Of special concern is that bio-engineering might escape and have long term adverse effects as the manipulated creations cross genetic structures with other biological elements in the environment. This paper will look at the general ethical concerns ...

Introduction

Northern Africa and Sub Saharan Africa are two of the most politically troubled places on earth. Over the years the region has seen different ethnical or religious groups fighting with each other for political power. These internal fights created a state of panic and chaos in all those North African nations, accounting for the deaths of thousands of people every year. Apart from political problem the region is plagued with a lot of other social and economic problem. In order to get rid of the abject poverty and unemployment, thousands of Africans make attempts to escape to European or ...

In his short story “Eveline,” James Joyce presents a character who apparently wants to escape the confines of her current life but who ultimately chooses to stay confined. The story does not explicitly state the reasons for her decision, leaving it up to the reader to provide a rationale for what seems to be a foolish choice. In some ways, though, her decision may be interpreted less as a failure of courage on her part and more as a failure of imagination on Joyce’s part. Simply put, Joyce succumbs in the story to the traditional gender stereotype of ...

Introduction

This essay seeks to analyze the subject of death in two epical stories. It is based on the critical analysis of the epic of Gilgamesh and the book of Genesis in the Bible with regards to the issue of death. The theme of death in both Genesis and Gilgamesh takes the form of the protagonists' realization of their own mortality, which is attributed to disobedience in both narratives. Gilgamesh falls asleep although instructed to remain awake. This is similar to the case of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit. Having witnessed both Enkindu and his flower dying, Gilgamesh ...

Before we proceed any further let us first understand what the definition of tourism is. As per Guyer Feuler “Tourism is a collection of activities, services and industries which deliver a travel experience comprising of transportation, accommodation, eating and drinking establishments, retail shops, entertainment businesses and other hospitality services provided for individuals or groups travelling away from home”. As per UNWTO definition “Tourism comprises of the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes”. For tourism to happen people must travel ...

Should the death penalty be mandatory for people that kill other people?

The saying goes do unto others what you would have them do unto you. Therefore, the price for taking away life should cost the offender his or her life. Different kinds of punishment have been used to discourage criminals from unlawful actions, and the greater the criminal act the greater should be the punishment. The death penalty is a controversial issue and people base their arguments for or against death penalty on practical, emotional, religious or practical grounds. People in favor of the capital punishment argue that it improves peace in the society by ensuring that such people do not offend again, it is a just retribution and less expensive.

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Black holes are space zones in the universe that are dark in nature and possess natural forces of attraction that have a very high gravity. This implies that they are able to attract and pull anything including light at a very high speed. This explains the origin of the name, Black hole. Several myths have been generated in many attempts to try and explain what a black hole is and Hollywood is at the forefront of it. Movies from Hollywood portray black holes as time physical entrances to tunnels that if one goes through, he can either move back ...

The book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”. Is one of the most celebrated and finest slave narratives of the nineteenth century. It is an autobiography of a well-known Afro-American during his life as a slave. The whole book exploits the author’s early life, a life that ended soon after his escape from slavery. At the time of his escape from slavery, it is said that Douglass was approximately twenty years old. The book is a formative of some of the experiences that he faced in his lifetime during his demonstration for the cruelty of the slavery ...

English

Analysis of Advertisements According to Fowles’s Categories and Their Effectiveness with Bovee et al.
Under Fowles’s list of fifteen emotional appeals, “giving form to people’s deep-lying desires and picturing states of being that individuals privately yearn for, advertisers have the best chance of arresting attention and affecting communication,” while Bovee et al (1989), suggests “that an effective sales pitch contributes to the advertising’s appeal to customers.” ‘The Time’ magazine, dated January 31, 2011, has quite a few news breakers, but one distinct advertisement that draws the attention of most of its readers is the one ...

The stand your ground law is a type of jurisdiction in which, individuals are given the right to use force in the event they are in danger or approached by such circumstances. The law does not provide any statute for the evasion of such circumstances but allows for the individual to counteract the force with an equal measure of force. When this law is reviewed with respect to the humanitarian perspective of human rights, it is considered as a wrong undertaking. As a matter of fact, I consider this law as a discriminative law and violate the natural course ...

Literature is a powerful tool that has the ability to take readers to different worlds and different eras. Literature has a way to change readers’ perspectives and teach valuable lessons. From the beginning of time the world has known stories. As time passed stories developed into pieces of literature that have lived for thousands of years, and the most recognizable of that literature that has survived this long will continue to flourish readers’ imagination. Literature has the power to access one of the greatest forms of relaxation and stress relief; it has the power to help readers escape. Most ...

Margaret Cezair-Thompson novel, "The True History of Paradise,” is a story about Jean Landing, a Jamaican woman who is determined to escape from her motherland of Jamaica. It is in 1981, and the country is sliding into anarchy after continuous political unrest. The author intelligently injects the storyline with the whole family background of Jean and Jamaica’s whole history. This Jamaican history stretches from the pre-Columbian days up-to-the time Jean gets on her flight. The unfolding political turmoil in her country of birth causes her to make a decision to flee immediately. Even before making her final preparations, ...

Today day by day the use of the internet and other modern technologies is increasing constantly. Since 1995, the use of the internet has increased from 0.4% to 40.9% of the world population (“Internet Growth Statistics”). People start to implement it in every sphere of their life, making it easier for them and more convenient to cope with daily tasks. In this situation, it is important not to forget that technology is not all about convenience and comfort in life, but rather it is a double-edged sword. Using it more and more, people can become lazy, more and more ...

In the film Barbara took place in German directed by Christian Petzold. The film was among one of the best international film and nominated was on severally for the Academy Awards. It has also won awards such as Silver Bear under the category of best director (Barbara film, 2012).
The film began with a middle aged woman sited, relaxing under a shade with her legs crossed. Some young middle aged men were keenly watching her from a window close to the park where the lady was sited. One of the men suggests that if she was six then, you ...

Introduction

The book, the glass menagerie, is an interesting read that encompasses and represents the lives of human beings who are torn between the world of reality and of fantasy. Therefore, it becomes imperative to discuss the storyline of the book and its connection to psychological theories. The book is filled with puzzling events that are more symbolic than real happenings. Just like the title describes it, the glass menagerie is a fanciful and fragile world in which the book’s characters live in. the book centers around three characters, namely, Tom, Jim, Amanda and Laura. Each of these characters ...

US History

In 2012, critical acclaim, academy awards, and millions of box-office of dollars went towards the film Argo.1 A movie about the Middle East and terrorism, Argo touches upon this familiar topic in the United States. The film portrays a segment of the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979-1981; a tense period of 444 days in which fifty-three American hostages were seized from the American Embassy in Tehran.2 Argo chooses to ignore those fifty-three victims, and focuses on the successful escape of six Americans from the embassy in November 1979. Tony Mendez, the CIA operative who came up with the ridiculous, ...

Introduction

The name Harriet Tubman often springs up when discussing the history of the United States in the 19th Century. She was a humanitarian and abolitionist of the African-American nature. She was born around 1822 and died in March 10, 1913. Important to note is the fact that she was born a slave. Despite this fact, through her skills and desire, Tubman managed to escape slavery by finding freedom in the North. After the escape, Tubman devoted herself to help other slaves to escape the slavery they were subjected to (Clinton, 2004). Essentially, through the underground railway, she succeeded to ...

Interpretive

• What effect does Watson’s narration have on the reader’s perceptions of Holmes?
ANSWER:
Watson’s narration affects the reader’s perception of Holmes in that it makes it easier for the readers to believe that Holmes is more than just a character in a book while still maintaining the mystery of his identity.

SUPPORT:

“How on earth did you know that?” I asked in astonishment. (p 17)
Holmes was not a difficult man to live with. He was quiet in his ways, and his habits were irregular. (p 21)
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found ...

Carmen Parsons-Bowie

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Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010), Divine Comedy of Dante
It is a common knowledge that this movie is adapted from Dante Aligheri’ called The Divine Comedy. This movie is animated from the country of Japan. The story is really simple. Dante had apparently gone to the Crusades for spiritual nourishment. However, when he came back, he found that his wife, Beatrice had been slaughtered. The Dark One, the name Dante gives to grim the reaper, was nonetheless present to take to hell, the girl’s soul. Dante did not know the reason for this. He therefore followed the ...

Introduction

Approaches that incorporate various strategies and techniques in order to identify likely interventions and diagnose the causes meant for the solutions of problem behaviors is what is referred to as a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) (Durand and Crimmins, 1992).
The functional behavioral assessment surpasses demonstrated behavior and instead focuses on discovering environmental, affective, social and biological factors that target, end, sustain or initiate behavior. This approach is paramount as it leads the observer way past the behavior or symptom up to the motivation underneath it. The following steps are highly recommended while implementing and planning an FBA (functional behavior ...

According to Laurence Perrine, there are two primary purposes for any literature – to entertain and enlighten. While entertaining is the easier part, Perrine opines that a literature should do more than just entertain, if it is worth scholarly scrutiny. Thus, a fiction can be categorized into escape and interpretive literature. An escape literature is one, which mainly aims at entertaining and intended as a time pass. Whereas, an interpretive literature aims at making the reader delve more intensely into the world around him. While an escape literature aims at taking its reader away from his ...

Social Psychological Principles in Real Life

The human mind is highly unpredictable and can be influenced by its surroundings quite easily. This has been proved many more times than one can count and it is conspicuous to one’s eyes in the manner people react to situations based on their social surroundings. Whether it’s at home, in school, college, office or even in a social gathering, people often react to situations based on their surroundings and upbringing. A chance meeting between two strangers that in the course of time develops into some form of relationship is perhaps a way to describe this.
When to ...

Socrates, in Book 5 of Plato’s Republic as explained by his student Plato distinguishes the terms faction and war. Socrates distinguishes the two terms by stating that faction is hostility towards one’s own people. On the other hand, he refers to war as hostility towards strangers. In the book, which is written in a dialogue form, Socrates is speaking to Glaucon whom he tells that faction only occurs between kinsmen. He further illustrates by giving an example of a Greek race fighting against another Greek who are its own and kin, as faction rather than war. On ...

Introduction

The dialogue that follows Crito’s visit to his tutor Socrates in the early morning on the eve of his death is one that touches on fidelity to the law and the elements of the social contract in general. Socrates faces the death sentence for the crime of impiety and has resigned to his fate. Crito’s visit is not to say goodbye, but rather to see to it that he escapes from his impending death because he regards his trial as an injustice. He argues that allowing himself to be killed would be an insult to him (Crito) ...

Compare the attempt to escape the miseries of the world in Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium."

Introduction

The different faces through which a person goes through makes them have a number of experiences. This is largely caused by internal and external expectations which could be contrary to what a person can deliver. It reaches a time when an individual feels lonely despite the numerous people they could be around them. After being in a world of their own and realizing that nobody seems to understand to understand their plight, people tend to find ways ...

Historians affirm that Thomas Garrett is one of the prominent personalities who took an active role in the development of Underground Railroad. He was born on 21 August 1790 at Upper Darby Pennsylvania and died on 25 January 1817. Throughout his lifetime and career as a stationmaster, Thomas worked as an abolitionist and helped more than three thousand slaves escape; an idea that compelled others credit him as Delaware greatest savior (Heinrichs, 56).
The venture of helping slaves originated from his up bring as White Quaker son, where he learnt to help and assist runway slaves. His family owned ...

Esteemed literary critic Vladimir Propp, in his essay "Fairy Tale Transformations," breaks down the essence of the fairy tale into a series of elements and functions, all linked inexorably to religious practices found in past traditions. According to Propp, fairy tales are an amalgam of the functions and roles of religion and culture in various societies; the tropes of fairy tales are reflections of these customs. These functions all exist in some form or another in the vast majority of fairy tales, allowing Propp to organize and codify the structures and natures of fairy tales. "We observe that the ...

Analysis of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

There are a few main characters in Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Obviously, as the title character, Tom Sawyer is a main character. He is a boy living in St. Petersburg, Missouri, with his sister and half-brother, all orphaned and living with their Aunt Polly. Twain does not give much physical description of Tom, but he seems very active and physically fit, probably around 12 years old or so. He hates wearing shoes or the clothes he has to wear for church. He has no use for school or religion, preferring to play games with ...