Essays on Escape

The myth of the Cyclops Polyphemus has changed throughout different Greek and Roman depictions of him. In the Archaic Greek poet Homer’s version in the Odyssey, Polyphemus is depicted as a large, man-eating monster, which threatened the life of Odysseus and his men. In the Hellenistic Greek poet Theocritus’ version of the myth in his Idyll, Polyphemus was humanized. He is depicted as being in love, and singing a love poem to a water nymph and feeling as though he is not good enough for her. Roman poet Ovid mixed these two elements together in his poem, the ...

The movie Rabbit Proof Fence was released in 2002, directed by Phillip Noyce. It is about the treatment of Aborigines and their children in Australia. This movie depicts the policies which the government introduced in 1970. The plot revolves around the issue of slavery at the time when this practice no longer existed in the democracy in West. This is a very realistic story based on true facts about racism. The film succeed in telling the story because it describes the hardships of the children of Aborigines who used to be separated from their families in order to be ...

Immigration Reasons

Immigration is the process of changing residence, associated with the movement to the temporary or permanent residence in the other country, resulted by many reasons . Immigration is a feature of economic reality in many economically advanced countries; however, the profile of immigration reasons and population has a great diversity. Primary objective is the reason for migration. Thus, Europe is chosen as a place of destination if the immigrant wants to enjoy the right of borderless movement across the Schengen zone. Australia and Canada are chosen if an immigrant prefers to make use of liberal immigrant labor legislation. Others choose ...

Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto which was written in 1764 during the Romantic period. Walpole was quite interested Gothic architecture and art. He went to great expense to decorate his home Strawberry Hill in the Gothic style. The Castle of Otranto is considered by most to be the first Gothic novel. The novel introduces many of the themes that are synonymous with Gothic literature. Some of the themes that are characteristic of a Gothic story are setting the scene in a castle, supernatural events, exaggerated emotions, women in fear of an evil man, along with a sense ...

The Domestic Violence program has been designed to help individuals who are suffering from violence in their homes. The individuals could stem from women and children escaping the abuse of a father and husband. The abuse could be from a women against a man. Any type of ab use that is domestic in nature can qualify for assistance with the program. “The records show that one in every four people in the country have had a situation with domestic violence” “The Family Violence Prevention and Services Program is funded by the federal government and assists with the programs throughout ...

The types of methods of resistance that enslaved blacks used in the Americas were revolts, whether planned or executed, and escapes. Revolts and resistance took place on the plantations, when slaves would pretend to be ill or break tools to make it look accidental (The Abolition Project, 2009). Some groups even used “guerilla tactics” to attack the plantations and attempt to free other slaves (The Abolition Project, 2009). Slave rebellions happened in many areas, most notably in Barbados in 1816, Demerara in 1823, and Jamaica in 1831 to 1832 (The National Archives, p. 2). These rebellions caused enough damage ...

Generally speaking, police officers must exercise some amount of force when they are involved in the arrest of persons of interest in the criminal proceedings. Force is permitted as it is necessary under specified circumstances including defense against perpetrators and cases of self-defense. Of course there are no universal classifications or definition on the extent of the force that these police officers use as each case of arrest is different and the perpetrators will respond in different ways. Nonetheless, the governing bodies such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police have created a structured definition of force as ...

Emily Dickinson is an original poet as she used her pen to challenge the existing conventions of poetry. Throughout her poems, Emily clearly experimented with a style of expression that moved away from the traditional styles of poetry and took on a unique style that made her speakers sharp-sighted observers who face the challenges of no escape from their societies. Additionally, Dickenson used her poems as a sword that would serve to liberate the speakers from the inescapable boundaries of the society. Clearly, Dickenson wrote poems that broke away from the traditional rules of poetry which challenged the narrow-minded ...

Everyman

“Everyman” is considered to be a morality play of the late 15th century. It is an allegorical play which brings up a point of Christian salvation and what human must do to accomplish it. The premise of the play is that the good as well as evil deeds of a person’s life will be tallied by God after death. It is a storyline of the life of Everyman, who represents by personal example all mankind. Firstly, the Messenger reads a prologue and conveys the audience to pay their attention to the motives and purposes of the play, which ...

The short story provides numerous themes through its scripts. There is a theme of loss, disillusion, youth, theme of insecurity, the theme of love, and theme of escape. The story comes from the Nine Stories collection that is subject to narrate basing on the third person. The narrator is unnamed and upon reading the story for the first time, the reader can realize that Salinger may entirely be exploring the theme of escape. The situation of which Eloise is spending most of the time drinking through the entire story while preferring not to avoid dealing with realities of life ...

In Majid Majidi’s “Children of Heaven”, released in 1997, Ali and Zahra lead viewers through the old streets of Tehran, in an adventure to solve the problem of a lost pair of shoes. For western viewers, the film offers the perfect opportunity to become acquainted with the Iranian culture and the Oriental atmosphere of the old streets which pervades many of the scenes is fascinating. The filmmakers create a realistic picture of the Iranian capital and identify both the most beautiful, and the most disturbing aspects of urban life in this country. As the film progresses, the viewers ...

People of Renaissance had a fully-fledged and multi-faceted life and attained a high degree of perfection at the same time in different areas of knowledge and art. The aim of this paper is to review the life of one of Italy’s Renaissance men, Benvenuto Cellini and a review of his early work. The best prime years of his work as an artist were the years in which he sculpted the colossal bronze statue of Perseus. According to ancient Greek mythology, Perseus was the son of Zeus, Lord of the Olympian gods, who was attracted by the beauty of ...

Analysis of the Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

THESIS: In this paper, I am going to analyze the impact of fate and human behavior and actions in the development of action in the tragedy. I assume that, in spite of the fact that in the classical ancient Greek tragedy, everything must obey the will of the gods and the evil rock, in the tragedy of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, it can be observed a big role of free human will, which leads to a tragic end. The human factor influences to the unfolding of the plot of this tragedy and all the vicissitudes of fate are not ...

The first chapter of Leo Marx’s book ‘The Machine in the Garden. Technology and the Pastoral Idea in America’ is named Sleepy Hollow. This name is derived from one of Nathaniel’s Hawthorne’s writings whereby he describes a small space scooped out among the woods which is used for farming Indian corn and which according to Hawthorne “is like the lap of a bounteous Nature, filed with bread stuff”(Marx 12). Hawthorn observes various elements of nature and appreciates the ability of nature to provide a calm and serene environment to think and be imaginative. The nature ...

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Last Wednesday on 27th of January I had an opportunity to see drama play “Oscar Wilde: From the Depths” at Lantern Theater Company in Philadelphia. This biographical drama about Wilde’s imprisonment has impressed, I believe, not only me, but all the other visitors and has left some food for thoughts. In this review I will analyze what we have seen not only on the scene but in a combination with auditorium. The reaction of visitors before, during and after the play is also a part of overall theater performance which is interesting for admiring and interpretation.

General Impressions from the Play

Crowded hall ...

Fear is a relative term, at least from the human perspective. This suggests that humanity has experienced its own sets of fears, depending on the prevailing dangers of a particular physical environment and epoch. In this regard, it has always been common knowledge that survival is an integral part of every species, including the Homo sapiens, and that compromising the sense of safety of animals and humans is most likely to instigate a reaction of fear. As such, it can also be said that fear is a beneficial aspect of existence, given that it triggers reactions of alertness, fighting ...

Why Youth Joins Gangs?

The number of youth joining Gangs is increasing day by day. The public is concerned about the involvement of youth in the gangs and also the violence associated with their activities is being increased. Being in a gang is highly related to the delinquent behavior. Youth joins gangs because they experience certain pulls pertaining to the attractiveness of the gangs like gang membership can enhance their prestige or status among friends, they can make money etc. Thus, youth personal advantage in gang membership. There can be numerous reasons for why youth join gangs like parental/family influences, poverty/socio-economic status, neighborhood ...

Security is one of the major aspects in every company. It is crucial for all types of organizations, and especially for those who possess copyright items, to have a serious protection system that will help them to avoid unwanted interventions into their systems and the steal and further release of confidential data. We can observe the necessity of careful check and intensive protection on the example of Sony Pictures, which one of Fortune Magazine contributors called ‘the hack of the century’. In addition, it is claimed that Sony studious could have predicted the hack and could have secured their ...

Acknowledgement

I would like to give my heartfelt appreciation to the lecturer of the course for the time and commitment that he provided towards making us all round in the hospitality sector. They assisted me throughout my course. In addition, I would like to thank Ms Susan, the assistant manager of Healthy Life Spa in Koh Wood for allowing me to carry out the research at their facility. She helped me with the correct information as well as the motivation to carry out the research. Moreover, I would thank my family for supporting me throughout my research. Their commitment cannot ...

Socrates was, and still is, considered to be one of the most profound contributors to human philosophy that has ever lived. In the end, he was, if anything, a bit progressive for his time. This was reflected in the fact that he introduced many new thoughts and ideologies that ran counter to culture at the time. As such, he was eventually arrested, placed on trial, and set for execution. With many supporters around the region, Socrates likely could have gotten free somehow. This could have perhaps took place via an escape, but he chose no such way out. As ...

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in the Modern World There is no denying the fact that humans faces with a lot of hard decisions every day in their life. Moreover, some of these issues are always highly important ones. For instance, the role of the government and laws in the person’s life and environment is one of the most crucial problem nowadays. In fact, people differ greatly towards this issue. Many of them consider that modern governmental rules cannot satisfy everything that citizens needs from them. Others believe that the relationship between person and government is much more complicated one. ...

In the conditions of today’s market economy, managers have crucial influence on the success and prosperity of each separate enterprise. That is why it is essential for managers to be continuously concentrated on personal development and enhancement. However, Carol Hymowitz in the article titled “Baby Boomers Seek New Ways To Escape Career Claustrophobia” and written in 2003 for The Wall Street Journal, claims that numerous of managers, because of being “baby boomers” and, thus, fated to deal with extreme competition at the workplace, do not see opportunities for promotion and “feel underutilized and stuck in jobs” (Hymowitz, 2003). ...

INTRODUCTION

Children are one of the most vulnerable and tender section of the society. They are the ones who shape up the future of the world. At the same time, any bad incidence with them will lead to increase in the sufferings of the world in every aspect or field. Children are being exposed to many illicit and harmful activities which affect them in a negative way mentally, physically and socially. One of those many activities is the act of childhood sex abuse. The incidences of sexual abuse have been on the rise since the last few decades. The increase ...

In regards to the question of rather or not Tom Wingfield is selfish for leaving in “The Glass Menagerie” and if it was wrong of him to leave his responsibilities. In my opinion the answer to both questions is no. First off I think that Amanda is the selfish one for trying to make him stay despite the fact that he is miserable. I think that Amanda has cast Tom and Laura in the roles of her and her estranged husband. She has made Tom into the husband/ father who is financially responsible for her and Laura and she ...

The council of the slew of generals President Abraham Lincoln had to tread through, was not unlike dangerous waters which were constantly shifting amid the complexity of the Civil War. The events surrounding the Civil War era, the Lincoln presidency with its turmoil of revolving generals, and the hotly debated issue of slavery form the most contested episode in United States’ annals of history. Among the short string of military generals under the auspices of Abraham Lincoln include George B. McClellan, Joseph Hooker, Ulysses S. Grant, and George G. Meade. Whether or not people agree with Abraham Lincoln’s ...

The anti-Semitic sentiment set in motion by Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and the near Satanic equation of Barabas had buttressed the plan of a play Shakespeare conceived in the commercial town of Venice with its life-loving gentry. The gentlemen of Venice who paraded themselves in gondolas in the romantic canals and waterways were instantly cut out for popular sympathy and affection, as the very opening seems to suggest. The dolour of Antonio and the volley of indulgent comments and cajoling coming in response proves it beyond doubt. To add to it are the fancies of the wastrel ...

Program

Abstract The following pages will discuss the reasons for the great migration of the black population to the northern United States, discussing the reasons, risks involved, long-term social and cultural impacts, and the impact on different aspects of American life. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the majority of the African-American population in the United States continued to reside in the South through the early 1900s. The difficulty and the expense of travel left most of the population with little choice but to remain in the region that had just years before sought to keep them enslaved. ...

August Deaton’s Great Escape

One of the most recent and well-known works in the sphere of economic is Angus Deaton’s book called “Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality” for which the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This fundamental work of his life deals with the issues of poverty and its impact on economic welfare of the state, in particular on concrete economic indices, such as GDP per capita, number of states which have to be provided with appropriate finance support, level of income which has to be fixed in a state willing to be called ...

Introduction

Among the contemporary poets, Margaret Atwood is a name which resonates highly among the literary society. Aged 75 years as of today, she has become face of the feminist critic, while also writing several famous prose and poetry alike. Some of the most common themes in her poetry are -- feminism, westernisation versus civilisation, exploitation of nature etc. She became an established and well read author in the very early phases of her writing career, owing much to the fact that her poetry is realistic and contemporary in nature. For the very reason, I have decided to work on ...

Life is one journey that causes the people living it to feel entrapped in different situations. It is then left upon the individuals to figure out ways out of this entrapment. To start with, the main actor is trapped. A famous photographer called Jeff is the main hero of the movie. He is trapped physically to a wheel chair. The cause of this is a broken leg that is accompanied by a heavy cast. The cast covers his body to the hip restricting his movements. Jeff cannot leave his apartment no matter how much he would like to. There ...

The very word “human trafficking” brings chills of distaste to the average American. However, many adults do not understand the actual scale of the practice and what it entails. Around the world, children are forced to be murdering soldiers, children of both genders are compelled to become prostitutes, and migrants workers labor for little or no wages in a desperate attempt to feed themselves (Office of the United States Press Secretary, 2014). President Barack Obama issued a proclamation stating the United States fully recognizes the problem and in keeping with historic values, dedicated the power of the country to ...

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Introduction Slavery is often considered as a social institution or an established practice that has existed since the early history of mankind and is present in almost all regions of the world. Among the earliest accounts of slavery were found in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia as early as 2,300 B.C.. However, it could not be fully established as to when slavery actually started as its genesis was lost in the passage of time. An important point to consider though in studying the origins of slavery is that it could not have existed during the time ...

Abstract

The current antiretroviral drugs have been efficient in the management of HIV by suppressing the virus's replication. It has, therefore, helped in changing this virus from a deathly disease to a chronic infection. The utilization of extremely active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) calls for a lifetime prescription to prevent viral rebound by reducing the viral load to undetectable low levels. This high maintenance of treatment and the various side effects of the drugs and non-HIV related morbidity have led to the need for a better form of therapy. There has been an extensive study on stem cell manipulation done to develop gene therapy ...

After viewing the film, I have a mixed take of what Spike Lee believes whether mass media outlets can be changed or that racial stereotypes will continue to be emphasized. The film argued both ways implicitly and explicitly where one could interpret the movie in both ways. The argument that mass media can be changed is represented by Sloane Hopkins, the assistant of Delacroix who was embarrassed to be associated with the minstrel show that was created. She even went to the extreme of pointing a gun at Delacroix to force him to see his racial misdeeds. The argument that leans ...

The United States of America has remained as the top destination for immigrants because of the belief that the country can offer a new home, life and freedom they cannot get in their own home countries. Some would migrate to America because of the war, while there are a few seeking asylum from their respective governments or threats. Migrants come from all over the globe, especially in border countries such as the Latin American countries like Mexico. However, as the years progress, illegal immigration of immigrants, especially of Mexicans are increasing rapidly that raises the concern of many regarding the dangers ...

Introduction

The film, City of God, provides a broad perspective over which a number of issues can be drawn. A story is told of a generation of children trying to survive in one of the biggest slums in Rio de Janeiro in the sixties and the seventies. Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund direct the movie the city of God. The main character in the movie is Li’IZe. At a tender age, Li’IZe who is the main character in the movie had wanted to become a leader in the City of God. Through Li’IZe’s aggressive and ambitious nature, he becomes ...

1. From the very beginning of the war, it was obvious that the U.S. nation building mission in Afghanistan was going to be a failure, just as the Soviets and every other foreign power had failed there in the past.

2. In 2001, we failed to kill Osama bin Laden and he escaped into the tribal areas of Pakistan, although only a fool would believe that he had no help from the government and intelligence services of that country.

3. After all, they created the Taliban in ...

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The physical environment, as described in a story, can take on different meanings and describe various physical sensations when perceived by the narrator, both in first and in third person. The quality of the descriptions relating to the physical, sensual feelings such as sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch are affected by an omnipotent narrator writing from a third person perspective, or when written from a ...

Executive Summary: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fires

On March 25, 1911, 146 young shirtwaist makers and plant managers lost their lives as a fire erupted in the building. Workers were unable to escape because of locked doors. Ladders by the Fire Department were unable to reach the 8th floor, the source of the fire. Many jumped from the burning building. The death toll was substantial. Many were quick to judge the efforts of the Fire Department, claiming they were useless in the situation It is reported that employees were unable to escape because of locked doors that were meant to prevent thefts. He also related that ...

When the word “death” is uttered, what comes to our mind? Most of the time, we think about loss, grief, sorrow, and emotional pain. Death is something that some of us wouldn’t want to think about. However, death is inevitable. Although some dies earlier than others, no one can escape it. Every people would eventually have to leave this world. As much as I am aware of this fact, I used to just ignore the idea that someone I love would eventually face death, especially the woman that I love the most – my mother. She ...

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An animal is a multi-cellular organism with cells that are not enclosed in a rigid cell wall. Animals differ from other organisms in two major aspects: 1) through the structure of their cell wall and (2) through their feeding habits. For example, unlike other organisms, such as plants, animals do not have a rigid cell wall. Plants on the other hand have a rigid cell wall. In terms of nutrition, animals are heterotrophs because of the way they synthesize organic compounds. Plants, on the other hand, are autotrophs. Plants are classified as autotrophs because they synthesize organic molecules directly using energy from ...

The case chosen for discussion in this paper is that of Jason (38), a factory worker. After reading the case, the first thing we would want to know is whether Jason is an addict. There are two symptoms that must be looked for before an individual is determined to be an addict. These symptoms are (i) out of control behavior, and (ii) a behavior that is self destructive. If a person’s behavior is under their control, then the person should not be considered an addict. It doesn’t matter at what frequency the subject engages in an addictive behavior. What really matters ...

The three short stories present in The Suicide Club, although can be read as standalone pieces are woven to create a larger plot. The larger plot revolves around the work of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and Colonel Geraldine, his assistant and their quest to finally toppling the unnamed president of the Suicide Club. The main reason why they wish to destroy the mentioned organization is that it gives men with ways to escape their disastrous, dysfunctional and unhappy loves without the threat of over self-destruction. One of the underlying themes in Robert Louis Steven’s novel is the theme of ...

Abstract

Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (CCS) is a technological method that is used to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from a variety of sources including industries and fossil fuels production and power sources. This type of technology involves the capture of dioxide either after burning or before burning and then transporting via ships or pipelines and then directing it into the deep underground for storage purposes. This type of technology has been in existence since the 1970’s and has rapidly evolved over time. In fact, the increased impact of the greenhouse effect due to increased amounts ...

The essay “Mimis in the Middle” describes the life of American Mexicans in their most vulnerable period of life. The fact that the Mimis are teenagers raised in a Mexican family is difficult and can be truly painful for the majority of teenagers, but the Mimis found a way to escape from that gloom reality and become the popular blondes whom everyone like. The virtual reality that the Mimis have created helped the whole family to feel better about them and gave hope for everyone that maybe they can feel as true Americans.

For a poor working class Mexican family the ...

Tobacco became the success of Jamestown, Virginia when export to England began in 1619. With the income produced, the city decided to arrange for two imports: 20 black men for manual labor and 90 women from England as brides. Thus America began its history of slavery (Innercity.org 2014). Photographs, art, journalism, and literature displayed its brutality. The public was informed of families torn apart, beatings, murder, and rape. The general theme was inhumanity, but there were many owners of slaves that treated them well. history remembers beatings, rape, murder, and splitting families apart.

The indignities ...

Everybody has the right to choose the kind of life that they want, but they should be guided at every turn to choose a life that does force them into an early grave, a lifetime in prison, or the guilt of knowing that they have deprived an individual of the right to live. When a drunken driver causes damage or even death to any member of the society, this becomes a criminal offence. They choose to drink and drive knowing that driving under the influence of alcohol can only lead to negative consequences. The government of every country has a duty to correct negative ...

We should have learned from South Vietnam that the U.S. is just not very good at nation building, and in fact we did remember that lesson for a time, but then we forgot it again and had to be reminded in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Even in 2001, when Osama bin Laden escaped into Pakistan and, as it turned out, hid there for ten years with the collusion of the authorities, it should have been quite clear that nation building in that part of the world would fail. Britain and Russia also failed there in the past so we ...

King Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010. 213-29. Print.

This is a passionate letter written by former American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Junior. The letter addresses and responds to several issues thrown at him by white clergymen about the nature of his civil rights organizations and its conduct. King penned down the letter to defend his organization and its use of the “non violence” philosophy in its fight against racial inequality and injustice among ...

Introduction

The book Plato, Crito is a dialogue between Crito and Socrates who pays a visit to Socrates in his cell sometime before dawn. Crito had made plans to get Socrates out of prison to exile safety. Socrates turns the so many arguments that are presented to him about the plans to have him out of the prison cell. Crito is influenced by what he terms as the unjust death of his friend and he fears that the community will criticize him that he made no efforts to bring to safety his lifetime friend.

Socrates is given an opportunity to escape ...

II, William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” Charles Baudelaire, “Get Drunk”

Individualism is the basic trait of romanticism. This element is evident of the production of all the poets of the period, including the selected artists. Individualism distinguishes the point of view of the poet under his perception over the political and social state of the time. It is a reflection of the visionary reality correlated reverence depicted with the use of imagery and embedded with passion and idealism. Together, these elements compose the distinguished style of each poet of the period of romanticism. These traits will ...

Throughout the course of this essay I will attempt to construct a picture of modern techno cultures in respect of the laws and norms of the world they inhabit but don’t necessarily fit into. I will try to display to the reader that these techno cultures live within our world but outside our laws, they themselves construct their own laws as they live in their own worlds, they live in our world but in another world of their choosing. I will in a sense try to find reality in these virtual worlds and try to discover what is real and ...

Despite the fact that the United States history has serious experience gained from the American Civil War till the famous speech of Martin Luther King, our society is still harmed by presence of destructive ideas of social inequality and division not by the social position or character, but by ethnicity and therefore skin color. This problem is one of the most painful for the contemporary American nation as it is the boundary on the way to social progress and development. It divides our society and creates imaginary warfare and the set of senseless conflicts.

For sure, it has ...

Wild Bunch (1969) and Pat Garret & Billy the Kid (1973)

There are different similarities and differences between the two movies. Firstly, they both depict a Western setting in which the place resides in a sand dunes and desert setting or in barren lands. Interaction with the settings can be seen using the landscape as protection against the enemies and a sanctuary for outlaws. The village scenes are places of authority, which present a stark contrast compared to the predominant desert landscape. The story also progress as the authority is chasing the outlaws while their efforts have been constantly undermined with the ability ...

Feminism is a complex concept that is not easy to define. It is an ideology that brings together several different subcategories that uniquely differ from one another. The stylish and radical author of the twentieth century, Angela Carter, exposes her feminist view through her various writings including Fairy Tales, The Sadeian Woman and The Bloody Chamber. As observed by Anna Katsavos in her interview, Carter believes that the view of the female gender is negative with their role being less than ideal to an extent that does not please nor give them glory (Carter and Katsavos 12). In her earliest ...

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Aspects of magic and the supernatural play a key role in both “The Fourth Century” and “Death in the Andes." The use of magic and the supernatural however differs in the two books. The Fourth Century by Edouard Glissant tells the story of a young boy named Mathieu Beluse, who seeks to discover to country’s long lost history. The common expectation would be for him to look for information literature texts or other recorded materials, but the young boy is aware that the recorded versions are hugely distorted and are, therefore, not accurate. Here, aspects of magic and ...

An American Slave by Fredrick Douglass is one of the finest 19th-century narratives about the slaves and the slavery. This is an autobiography that is well known due to its American African origin type. The book narrates the unfolding events surrounding the early life of Fredrick Douglass, right from the birth in Tuckahoe, Hillsborough and escape from the slavery at the age of about twenty. American Slave focuses on the various formative experiences that stood out clearly in Douglass’ life. This could be treated as a demonstration of how cruel slavery was and at the same time, bringing out how ...

In the morality play, “Everyman”, the author sees death as an inevitable act that comes to all mankind. In fact, the author perceives death and treats death as though death is a messenger from God. The general concept in the play is that no one can escape Death because God sends Death to remind mankind of His might. Ideally, the message of death in the play arises from the search for a motive for living. While Everyman attempts to make an agreement with Death so as to extend his time on Earth, Death tells him that he has no use ...

The transformation in Helen Keller’s life comes, as a result, of the accomplishment of good literary skills even after having physical impairment and deafness. The author was born blind and deaf, and she receives her transformation and excitement after learning about words and language in the world around her.

The author compares her experience to a person being at sea in a situation of dense fog that surrounds the search for light. Keller describes the experience as the wordless cry of the soul. Sullivan helps Keller in her transformation that explains to her names for the objects she can feel and ...

12 Years a Slave

The concepts of freedom and democracy in America have developed significantly since the colonial periods. The foundation of these concepts lay in the enlightenment period when the colonists sought independence from the Crown. However, soon after the enlightenment period and independence only white people benefited in terms of freedom and independence. African American citizens continued to live with limited freedom and did not enjoy the benefits of democracy such as voting. Although America was independent, the thought of freedom and majority rule did not mean much to African Americans who were subjected to serve their ...