Essays on Joy

Happiness can be described as a state that involves emotional or mental well-being of a person. It is characterized by positive or charming feelings ranging from little contentment to compelling joy. Various approaches have been developed to characterize happiness and identify its various sources. Different research and exploration groups, including positive psychology, try to apply the scientific method to answer questions about happiness, what it is and how it can be achieved. It is vital and essential to the human condition that "life, freedom and the quest for happiness" were regarded to be unalienable rights by the United States ...

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

The Story Of An Hour is a short story that narrates the time that pass by between the moment protagonist, Louise Mallard, leans of the news that her husband died and later discovers that indeed her husband is still alive. Once she hears of her husband’s death, Mallard perceives herself as a liberated woman but her perceived joy is short-lived.

Symbolism

The troubled heart The heart trouble that Mallard suffers from depicts a woman’s perceived physical weaknesses. It further represents Mallard’s hesitancy regarding her troubled marriage and her need for freedom. Mallard’s heart illness is the ...

Everybody has something innate that is endowed upon a person without compensation and voluntarily. According to Richard and David, every person is endowed with a calling that help them to fulfill a unique purpose in this world. For me, there are various gifts that rejuvenate my determination and shape up means to achieve my goals in future. Such gifts include a gift of singing, a gift of storytelling and a gift of cooking. I realized that storytelling is my gift when my cousins and my neighbor’s kids started to beg me to tell them bed time stories especially ...

Introduction

The story “Good Country People” by Flannery O. Connor is about a wealthy woman, Mrs. Hopewell, whose daughter, Joy, is a hard headed philosopher. Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter has a PhD in philosophy, something that her mother is not proud. Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter, Joy is rude and antisocial, and has a plastic leg which she is sensitive about. The second story is titled “The Life you Save Might be your Own” by the same author. Its characters are an old woman, her retarded daughter and a stranger, Mr. Shiflet. These two homesteads are visited by intelligent conmen who ...

Proposal Writing

Part 1 Cover Letter The proposal in this document to invite your organization to invest in our baby cologne manufacturing company, where we are currently seeking for £1, 500,000. We at Perfect Joy Babycare (PJB) Company manufacture the best of baby cologne. Our market covers the whole of United Kingdom and we are looking to spreading our business to other Europeancountries within the next few years. Our products are made from the highest quality, with good human resource personnel, quality materials. We have motivated employees that observe our ethical standard of manufacturing our products.

We will efficiently and ...

Fairy tales are stories that characteristically feature folkloric fantasy characters like dwarves, ogres, and witches among others to communicate a story. They are employ use of fear and violence to illuminate disparities of differences in the society. Studies from educators and sociologist are shown supportive evidence that the fear and violence in folk tales contribute to a better educated and safer society, therefore, supporting the point that fairy tales serve to or give a life lesson.

The happy prince

This was a story about a prince and a swallow who fell in love with each other. Before he died, he lived in ...

Review of the Documentary; Family Across the Sea

Scene 1: Arrival of the Gullah delegation in Sierra Leone. This scene is set in a ‘dark airport’ as described by the narrator, Augusta Baker, where a crowd is gathered to receive the Gullah descendants, who are on a trip from South Carolina, USA, to Sierra Leone where they trace their roots to. The visitors are believed to be descendants of escaped slaves, and have managed to maintain their culture and way of life despite being thousands of miles away from home. In this reunion scene, there is happiness in the air, with traditional songs of joy being sung. ...

Don't worry, be happy, words that we hear all too often, yet fail to make good on. We, as human beings, like to give different emotions different meanings. Happiness is one such emotion. For one man, happiness is making ends meet and living a life that is both peaceful and relaxing. For another man though, happiness has to do with being larger than life, and as such, making ends meet is simply not enough. Truth be told, a topic as personal as happiness is bound to result in varying definitions. Yet, there seems to be a bit of universality ...

Media Industries

Introduction During this semester we were asked to split up into groups of three to produce one episode of the Media Industries TV talk series on Bronxnet. For this practical field assignment, we were instructed to select two media professionals from any sector of the industries and invite them as a guest on our episode. Throughout this process we were exposed to various theoretical topics about the media industry and was later asked to choose two other group’s segments to critique for a writing assignment. My two choices are group one (Ana Acevedo, Johnsel Montes, Stephanie Feedor) and ...

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a short story that begins and ends with heartbreak. The story begins with the news that Mrs. Louise Mallard's husband, Mr. Brently Mallard has died. Mrs. Mallard, who suffers from heart trouble, reacts to this news rather unusually, unlike how a normal woman would, and secludes herself in her room. What follows are some vague descriptions and Mrs. Mallard’s frequently joyful exclamations of finally being free and being able to live herself for herself. Naturally, this makes readers wonder whether Mrs. Mallard was even happy with her marriage. However, ...

A documentary artist by Jaime manrique

In the story “The Documentary Artist”, Jaime Manrique writers of a new student who joins one of his film-directing class. The new boy called Sebastian is vocal unlike the other students in his class. He does not hide his love for horror movies. Unlike the other students, he is funny in a special way something that makes the lecturer love him (Colchie, 2002). The lecturer is attracted to the boy particularly the way he reacts when narrating a horror movie he had seen on one of the street theaters. The boy had a real passion for the movies. Though ...

When people’s emotions change, their body language, voice and facial expression changes, as well. Not a lot of people can pick up the changes in pitch, tone and volume. These are important factors to consider when analyzing the emotion of someone you are speaking to, especially if the conversation is over the phone (Gobl, Christer, and Ailbhe Nı́ Chasaide 189). Voice quality plays a vital role in communicating emotions, attitudes, reactions and moods. By knowing or understanding these things, an individual will be able to judge the emotion of someone that they are talking to. When you are ...

Introduction

Rumi an outstanding poet works are enjoyed by many throughout the world. This is because his poems are wise, ecstatic, and hilarious. This is evidenced by the translations of these works in many countries. Rumi’s poetry has actually influenced the Persian literature as well as Punjabi, Urdu, Turkish, among others. “Love’s Confusing Joy” is a documentary translated by Colman Barks, which is in fact an extension of what Singh said concerning love. Love is not essentially a rational analysis or a matter of intellect in this documentary. After watching the movie, we realize that love cannot be ...

The immediate thought that strikes someone who sees an apple diagram that appears to be bitten on one side is Apple Inc; an American multinational electronic company best known of the production of the production of the widely used Ipods, Mac computers and iPhones and Ipad computer tablets. Ideally, most people are able to identify various business organizations just by looking at the symbols and words associated with the company and since business underscore the important role that such business symbol play with regard to brand awareness, businesses strive to build their brand awareness strategies around the symbols that ...

Music has been a theme of our daily living. We hear music everywhere we travel in churches, shops, theatres, home and also in our means of transportation which includes the cars we drive. The exposure to music is so high because we also carry musical gadgets everywhere with us, this gadgets includes phones, Walkman, iPods and small radios. Music appreciation is the acceptance and acknowledgement of music and the message delivered by it. Music appreciation can also be known as the admiration of the music a person hears, each music article contains a special message which is delivered to ...

Introductions

Good country people is a novel by Flannery O'Connor that highlights on the life of a young educated but disabled girl. She is a girl who has been frustrated by life that she feels her name, Joy, was not rightly given to her. She changes it to Hulga, which signifies dissatisfaction, misery and the frustrations that life has thrown her way. O'Connor has used different characters in the book to bring out the character of Joy and the reason behind some of the happenings in her life. In this paper, we shall critically analyze the book and come up ...

After having read Good Country People three times, the first time to take note of

my personal reaction, the second and third times to glean information, I found from my

personal perspective this is the typical O’Conner story--everything is hum-drum dry and

then along comes the antagonist to turn it upside down and to teach someone (even the

reader) a lesson. Initially it appears that Mrs. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman will be the

ones who will be learning something in this story. They are both set in their ways and

look like they need to see another point of view in life. Their personalities are sharply

defined and brought to the reader’s ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature and circumstances under which secondary victims of traumatic incidents or victims of negligence can lay claim for compensation. This paper deals with a very important aspect of tort law which is negligently inflicted psychiatric injury. This is most common in victims of post traumatic stress disorder who witnessed an extremely traumatic incident. The paper also examines the liabilities which would follow from such a case, especially if the guilty person is employed in the service of the company i.e. employment liability. Civil litigation involving tort law happens that when ...

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin is full of irony and incongruity in the feelings of the main character Mrs. Mallard. Marriage is shown as constraining and her desire for freedom and independence is expressed vividly. Her public demonstration of sadness at her husband’s death stands in stark contrast to the ‘monstrous joy’ she feels at the thought of having a ‘Body and soul free!’ The narrator describes the emotions of Mrs. Mallard with powerful and vibrant words. The character has a deep inner life with a lot of desires, feelings and emotions. The thoughts she ...

Introduction

This paper is an analysis of the film Chariots of fire that premiered in the 80’s about the contrasts between Christianity and Jewish religion. It elaborates the different views of the competing parties in terms of what motivated them to participate in the race. The setting of the film is the 1924 Olympics in Paris, France. The main characters in the film include Harold Abrahams and Eric Lindell who both ran for different reasons. As explained in a commentary for the film, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell both ran, but for different reasons, both ran on the same ...

Critique Essay on the First Section of the ‘Joy Luck Club’ – Presentation of the first four chapters in terms of their context, plot and writing technique– Reflections drawn on the reading of these four chapters [The author’s name]

Abstract

This paper will present you with the critique essay on the First Four Chapters of the ‘Joy Luck Club’. The essay will present you with an overview of the plot of ‘The Joy Luck Club’ and will emphasize on the plot, narrative technique and characters of the first four chapters. Each chapter is a different story which is combined to ...

The first essay answers questions regarding Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” where the ending offers more than a small shock as to how and why the female protagonist dies. She does feel a joy that kills, but unfortunately, it is not the joy that ended her life, rather it was the cruel taking away of a joyful life that she intended on living after her husband’s death. The second essay deals with questions regarding Shirley Jackson’s equally shocking story “The Lottery,” which gives a frightening portrayal of what happens when people blindly ...

Discussion

It is true, that the invention of nanotechnology, genetic engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence has dramatically changed our life. But alongside with the revolution of the technology, arises the question about the impact of these inventions into human life. As it was stated by Bill Joy computer inventions, developing intelligent machines do all things better than human beings can do them. Thus, I do agree with his point that at some certain point people will not be able to control over the machines, since the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as personal ...

Amy Tan’s exquisite novel The Joy Luck Club, is the unforgettable tale of four immigrant Chinese families residing in San Francisco. The novel is narrated through a uniquely feminist perspective. The Chinese mothers with their essential parochial background coupled with the bitter childhood experiences, growing-up in China during the hard times of the Chairman Mao’s cultural indoctrination and the subsequent political purge, think circumspectly and while-away their time playing Mah jong. On the contrary, the confident American born and raised daughters have a completely different approach towards life. The generation-gap and cultural differences between the mothers and ...

Introduction

Many thinkers and scientists have proposed models and theories about how people learn; they are called learning theories. The learning theories are classified as behaviourism, cognitivism, constructivism, humanism and design-based. Behaviorism is based on the supposition that learning occurs for an organism through interactions with the environment. Behaviouristic school assumes that an organism always responds to a stimulus and the ‘responses’ are depends on the nature of the stimulus, i.e. rewarding or pain giving. Here, the learner is considered as a system that has the capability to respond to a stimulus and the learner is passive. The definition that ...

In 2008, Asian Americans make up 5% of the population in the United States. Despite a manageable number, the Asian American community is largely misunderstood (Le). In an attempt to comprehend them, we would look into a material that portrays what their culture is about. With this, the movie that would be discussed in this paper is The Joy Luck Club. The movie is based on the novel of the same name written by Amy Tan. She is an Asian American. The movie portrayed the significant American Dreams of the Chinese Americans and their descendants. This indicated the culture ...

C.S. Lewis - Introduction C.S. Lewis was one of the most renowned Christians in the early 1900s. Various history magazines at this time compared him to influential individuals such as Luther King Jnr and Pope John XXIII. Lewis’s popularity as a Christian rose because of his conversion from atheism to become one of the most ardent supporters of Christianity. This paper will look at how C.S. Lewis found God and converted to Christianity. - C.S. Lewis Background Lewis was referred to as Jack by his close friends and members of his family. Lewis was a university professor. He ...

The film, The Joy Luck Club, based on Amy Tan’s novel, portrays the story of four women and their daughters who eventually migrate from China to America. The story goes on to delve deep into how they are dissociated from their origins. These women live in a culture and time that is vastly different from the one in which they were themselves brought up. The four older ladies meet once a week to play mahjong and they name their group as the ‘Joy Luck Club’. During the meeting they talk about stories of their respective families and grandchildren. ...

A discussion of story of job and Kubler’s grieving stages

Abstract Loss is inevitable. Every life is faced with several losses from losing jobs and money to losing our loved ones. Though some losses are irreversible and the trauma might extend for longer period of time as compared to other losses that can be replaced with other options. Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced a theory of some stages of grief that a person goes through. The modern theology and spiritual healthcare recognizes her school of thought for counselling and comforting a grieving person. The following essay discusses the theory presented by Dr Ross and compares this theory with ...

Joy’s lecture raises various ethical dilemmas in its delivery. The talk is interesting and well executed; furthermore, it appears to be well-received by the live audience. However, the more important moral issues result from his suggestions, rather than from his views on the world. Joy’s lecture talk is thought provoking as he asks his audience to think about ethics and morality which are based on a likely future. Essentially, he is tackling ethical dilemmas such as how to control and shape a future which is predicted to be bleak. Perhaps it is unsurprising that Joy supports the ...

Implications of an Ethical Issue-Abortion

Introduction In one’s day to day life, decisions are made. These can be minor decisions like what to wear or major decision that has an impact on their life and that of others. When making these decisions people base their answers on a variety of understandings. Some of the basis of decisions includes morality or ethics from a Christian perspective. These two bases guide one in what is right and what is wrong using principles and beliefs previously formed. Abortion is one critical decision that can be supported and condemned using moral and ethical set standards.

Ethical dilemma ...

For Aristotle, happiness is the highest good that people can comprehend. A man always tends to set goals that he considers good for himself. Aristotle argues that this goal is happiness. Therefore, happiness is what all people seek. The question is what is this happiness? Many people believe that happiness lies in sensual pleasures and luxury; some believe that it is in gaining of power, honors and reputation. However, this cannot be the aim of a man. The life wholly dedicated to pleasure resembles the life of animals (Aristotle). Aristotle argued that honor is something external; people look for ...

Technology is one of the most significant aspects of Western Civilization. Since the last century, it has been growing exponentially, and people have started to doubt whether this is necessarily good. Even though people had thought it to always be benevolent, World War II, especially the nuclear bombs, showed that scientific progress could also produce a lot of harm. Warning about this, Bill Joy wrote a famous article in Wired called “Why the Future doesn’t Need Us”. In it, he pondered the possibility of technology developing to such a degree that it grows a conscience of its own ...

This story is about a young woman who is unhappy in her marriage. She is a good wife, but she lives like her husband’s possession. Louise accepts these circumstances because she can’t change them, but deep inside she hopes that her life won’t be long. “Only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long” (Chopin 4). The title of the story is The Story of an Hour because Louise’s life changes only for an hour, during which she feels intense joy of freedom. The irony in the story is Louise’s ...

Literature as a Way to Express Immigration and Ethnicity

When exploring the varying attributes of immigration and its connection to ethnicity and national identity, one of the best ways to examine these issues is through literature. While literature does not provide the objectivity of facts and figures, narrative fiction in literature provides endless avenues for subjective, thematic discussion about the broader emotional and human issues surrounding topics like immigration. A number of fantastic works tackling themes of immigration help to reach the core of the issues that immigrants must face in their new country, particularly as they relate to generation gaps and cultural acclimation. Social sciences and objective ...

As far as we know, the question of virtue’s connection to happiness came out of the context of society. Though it is possible that this question arose in earlier human communities, we do know that strong arguments for this viewpoint arose from ancient Greek cultures, advocated by Aristotle, and also from the Buddhist tradition in the East. This idea makes sense, as modern humans exist within the context of a society. As Flanagan points out in Chapter 6, Buddhism is founded on this basic idea that happiness is a product of perspective that results from culminating virtue in ...

According to White (2004); several scholars have said that Plato’s Symposium was able to get to the summit because of Diotima’s love due to her thoughtful and great admiration of beauty. However, this is not so. He attributes this to the ability of the philosopher to introduce the true virtue and its eternal existence. The author further argues that the virtue that has been brought into question was not from within the soul but from the outside and that the element of living forever should be based on the work that the philosopher was able to leave ...

Introduction – Thesis Statement

The nineteenth century in literature implied various literary classifications, among which there can be mentioned the realism and naturalism. Kate Chopin explores these genres in her writings, and she employs bold themes such as racism, social conventions, or woman’s identity, making her an unconventional writer, appreciated for her writing style and for her original approaches to human matters. A defining feature of Chopin’s writing, which reveals from two of her short stories “Desiree’s Baby” and “The Story of an Hour” is irony.

Supporting Paragraphs

Nothing is what it seems to be in Chopin’s short stories. As such, ...

I. Introduction with Thesis The parable of the hidden treasure and the pearl which Jesus gave to the disciples tries to explain the value of the heavenly kingdom. Just as it is for all the parables Jesus told His followers, this one gives a picture of what is known in comparison with what is not yet revealed. The meaning of the parable is that the kingdom of heaven is of great value which if one finds it; they are willing to enthusiastically give up all that they possess in order to obtain it. In essence, the privileges that those ...

Sooner or later every person wonders what the meaning of life is. Often it happens when there are some troubles in life and when the person feels tired, but I prefer to think about it when everything suits me. I think that when you understand why you live, why your life was given to you, it becomes much easier to live with pleasure and to tale responsibility for your life. In this paper I want to describe my vision of the meaning of life and compare it to some other views on this problem. For me the meaning of ...

Happiness is the state and condition of a non consistent joy. It is a source of pleasure that does not bring with it any consequences. It is a joy that does not by any chance contradict a person’s morals and values but rather upholds them. It is one that makes use of a person’s brains to the fullest and not that which will make s person underutilized. It is not a joy based on misleading reality but one that is realistic and genuine. It is, therefore, an emotional mood of satisfaction pleasurable to the individual that is ...

“The Plague” by Albert Camus is a meditative journey in which fulfillment shows that some kind of solace can be achieved by resisting absurd. Camus skillfully demonstrates that rebellion is not always completely futile and some instances of life are worth resistance. The main character of “The Plague” Dr. Rieux does not stop to struggle throughout the whole novel. Even after he loses his dearest people – his wife and best friend – Rieux cannot avoid making medical rounds that give him purpose with their “certitude”. (Camus, p. 238) Only when Rieux comes home to see his mother, he finds desired ...

Congruence for Humankind musical event to raise funds for DUkes

SPRINGFIELD, MO. On the 30th of April 2015, DUkes, Drury University’s Ukulele Club, will host a musical event dubbed ‘Congruence for Humankind’ to raise funds for the club’s upcoming trip to Japan in August. The aim of this musical event is to create a connection between love and music using unique music played on the Ukulele. DUkes dedicate this event to the harmony of humankind throughout the world regardless of racial, cultural or gender barriers. The event will be held in Downtown Springfield 106–117 Park Central Sq. Springfield, MO 65806 from 4 pm to 6 pm. ...

Religion and spirituality continue to be unrecognized as effective strategies for coping against tragedies and life pressures and as essential factors in self-protection and psycho-emotional resiliency (Bryan-Davis, Austria, Kawahara & Willis, 2014). Despite that, these concepts constitute key pathways towards the holistic health and well-being of women (Bryant-Davis, Gray & Bhang, 2014). This paper explores the influences of religion and spirituality on women’s wellbeing, the few specific forms of nontraditional spirituality (such as Astrology, Hinduism, Gnosticism, Yoga, and Meditation), the seven markers of spiritual wellness according to Pazzino (2014), my personal definition of spirituality, my personal spiritual wellness self-assessment, and ...

Often in life I have found myself in a situation where I have to decide between two or more opportunities and prayerfully consider which way God wants me to go. During my teenage years I was confronted with the choice of the best high school and college, after that it was time to choose which way my career path should go. Not only have I been in this situation, but my family members, my close friends and literally everyone around me would be confronted with such choices in life. However, I think, we Christians have a different burden and ...

The story happens in the home of Louise Mallard in the late nineteenth century; however, the author, Chopin, does not state the precise location. The main character is Louise Mallard while minor characters include Brently Mallard (her husband), Josephine (her sister) and Richards (a friend to her husband). The story is entirely about Louise and presents a negative view about marriage since the news of the husband’s death undoubtfully overjoys the woman. The question here is why the woman is all happy over her husband’s death. Most likely her feeling is psychological since she feels she has ...

Two Kinds is a story found in the book ‘The Joy Luck Club’, written by Amy Tan. The short story is about the conflict between a mother and her daughter who are clearly separated by things such as age, culture and perception. Jing-Mei Woo is the main character, and it is clear from the beginning that the high expectations her mother has over her affect her way of life. Through the unfolding events that the author gives, we get to understand the course that events took. In essence, whereas Woo saw Jing-Mei as a prodigy in piano playing, Jing-Mei ...

Introduction

Most people in the world today have either smoked, seen or heard about marijuana either in medical or recreational settings. For others, the drug remains an issue to be solved while for other people it is a drug that should continually gain usage among humanity. Whether, one has smoked marijuana or not, the common ground concerning the drug is its illegal status both locally and internationally. However, the illegal status is gradually shifting with countries and states striving to legalize the drug. As such, there are continual debates on the legal status of the drug around the world. Despite ...

How HIPAA Violation Affects the Medical Billing Process

HIPAA is a privacy policy that prevents patient’s health details while making sure that they are held confidential especially those of HIV/AIDS patients. HIPAA affects the billing process by keeping patients demographics updated and private. The medical billing process involves a follow up on insurance firms on patients who have insurance cover so as the medical cover can be paid. This process involves the hospital, the insurance, and a chain of process is undertaken. HIPAA sets a limit to the amount of information revealed to patient’s relatives while regulating individuals who can access patient’s sensitive medical ...

Introduction

The Bodhicaryāvatāra, a text by Śāntideva, explores the Bodhisattva ideal by prescribing how an individual should live and providing justifications for this. His close awareness of ethics makes him remarkable among Indian philosophers, whose main concern was theoretical philosophy or metaphysics. Śāntideva’s ethical writings are widely known, cited and respected by Tibetan Buddhists as well as Western thinkers. His accurate insights into human characteristics and behavior are lauded by various philosophers who allude to some of his solutions to common human problems. Śāntideva utilizes various techniques to appeal to specific human characteristics with the goal of ...

I have chosen to examine four short stories whose characters are people with physical markings or mental disorders. People who have these traits are unusual and regarded as odd by "normal" people. Usually, they develop some mental powers and become able to achieve much more than people who have neither physical nor mental problems. Maybe these "marked" people achieve success because they believe in themselves, whereas, "normal", healthy people tend to be paradoxically more self-conscious which hold them back. However, they are always there to judge the challenged ones. The stories that were particularly interesting to me are: Roman ...

Tradition and culture is an important theme in immigrant literature, especially between generations. There is a certain anxiety that develops in the relationship between parents and children of immigrant cultures; the younger generation is eager to shuck the exotic, alienating traditions of their parent’s host nation in order to fit in, while the older generation fears the ending of the traditions that helped define who they are and their culture. Meanwhile, these children of immigrants maintain a certain longing for their culture’s traditions, creating a metaphysical tug-of-war that occurs within these divided family dynamics. These tensions and ...

Abstract

This paper will reflect over crime problems from the movie Gran Tornio that was directed, produced and star in by Clint Eastwood. It will reflect over the angles of crimes. It will consider the worldview that is being presented. It will show also how the problems could have been dealt with in a Christian worldview. This movie was so beautiful for it incorporated the themes of cultures, racism, family, religion, hope, and change. A movie that was so elegantly done that only a noble and well respected person like Clint Eastwood could create. Clint Eastwood also stars in this ...

Birds have been applied in poetic imagery since time immemorial. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries apply birds in the same taste and scale. Ordinarily, the common thread in the use of birds is the position it assumes in the poetry. Birds tend to represent two contrasting yet essential matters. That is freedom and captivity. Free birds and their lives have been applied across the centuries’ poetry to represent freedom of the people, of the beauty of love and freedom. On the other hand, the same birds have been applied illustratively to show the concept of captivity. The latter applies ...

Exchange among Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Mary Wollstonecraft

GE: The role of the writer in our time is much different than it will be in the future, I think. As the wheels of industry churn faster and faster, they will produce more and more distractions from the realities of society, and those in power will keep the public from noticing the stratagems that they use to hold onto that power, because of the sheer number of distractions available. EB: Don’t you think that what we put together has a spiritual component to it? After all, while writing does allow the expression of the noble and the ...

As one’s own creation

Introduction The famous painter Henry Emile Benoit Matisse created Le Bonheur de vivre, also known as The Joy of life in 1905 to 1906. It is regarded as one of his best works altogether, especially as his greatest Fauve painting. With bold use of colours, silhouette and emotions, the painting is definitely a masterpiece. Born in 1869, Henry Matisse was regarded as one of the three artists who revolutionised the plastic arts in early 20th century (Searle, 2002 ). This creative essay illumines the analysis of Le Bonheur de vivre by the writer as a painting made ...

Life is full of uncertainties and it’s never obvious when one is to lose a loved one. Coping with death is not an easy task even though people have been bereaved since time immemorial and have generally recovered. Every loss is unique on its own kind. Besides, every individual is unique, thus grief experiences varies remarkably from one individual to another. While some people experience normal grief reactions and cope well, others experience more severe grief reactions and may take too long to recover. This paper focuses on the grief experience of Ruth Fuller, a 34-year old mother ...

The Joy Luck Club (1993) was based on Amy Tan’s 1989 novel and deals with issues of culture, assimilation and generation conflicts between a group of four Chinese mothers and their Americanized daughters. All four women in the club had emigrated from China to the U.S. after World War II, and met after church to play Chinese mahjong every week. In reality, they had little joy or luck, and no expectations, only the hope that their children would have better lives than theirs. By the Confucian standards which the mothers learned from childhood, there were very definite differences ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 43” alternately knows as “How May I Love Thee” is a declaration of her feelings for her husband to be, who was courting her at the time; Robert Browning. It is part of the series of sonnets she wrote for him “Songs from the Portuguese”, a title which she deliberately made to mislead by letting people think that the poem were written by a Portuguese person and she only translated them. Later however, it was established that she herself had been the author of the series and the reference to the Portuguese in the ...

In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, poet William Blake dichotomises the one sided view of hell describing the need for its existence as seen through the innate behaviours of human being. Proverbs of Hell serves as a central part of this work where the poet explains how a human should be in accordance with the nature of hell. Where heaven is seen as a place of static peace and balance, hell, according to Blake is a place where the extremes are witnessed and doing so is as good as progressing on the spiritual path. Some of the proverbs ...