American Literature

    The article the promise of stem cell research by Michael Bay and Matt Ford was published on the CNN as a CNN Future Summit Technology profile on April 20, 2006.  The article argues that stem cell research has the potential to transform the practice of medicine by bringing cure to a list of diseases that have been difficult to handle in the past. These include diabetes, heart attack and Alzheimers disease among others. The article therefore concludes that stem cell research...

1.  It has been said that travel is the best form of education. What did the hero Gilgamesh learn from his travels    The travel of Gilgamesh started when he decided to become immortal and search Utnapishtim to gain the secret to immortality. During his quest, he found the secret plant that restore his youth and give him immortality, but instead of having the plant all to himself, he decided to share it with his people in Uruk.  By deciding to share the plant, Gilgamesh...

...its of more importance to community that innocence should be protected, than it is that guilt should be punished were the words of John Adams when he was asked to defend Captain Preston and his eight soldiers after they had killed five disorderly colonists. The jury wanted to convict all the soldiers because it was not clear who exactly had shot the five. In his opinion, Adams thought it was not wise for the jury to convict even one innocent man it was better for all soldiers to be acquitted...

Based on the definition of tragedy as given by Aristotle, then the drama Death of a Salesman is definitely a tragedy.  Throughout this analysis, the reader will see how the Arthur Millers drama, Death of a Salesman fits into each of the six categories that Aristotle defines as being pertinent to the concept of a dramatic tragedy.  There are critics who do not believe that any type of modern drama can be defined as tragedy.  They believe that dramas written at the time and after Ibsen...

Dearest One,    Time and again, it has been said, and readily proven that the future of a community, a country or the whole world lies in the hands of the young people of its generation. This is true in my time. I am living in a time where the world has no lack for young dreamers  young visionaries. There is a vibrant zeal and idealism in this age and the world picks up its pace and speed to match the cadence of the young. Dynamic, and full of vigor, the youth of today slowly...

1) What are the main motivations for Spain and France to colonize in the New World    There were three motivations for the Spanish and the French in colonizing the New World.  These can be summed up by the three Gs  Gold, Glory and God.  They colonized new lands for prestige as well as for the purpose of enriching themselves through the natural resources and being Catholic countries, an opportunity to win more souls to the Catholic faith in the light of the Protestant...

Though both are stories that exhibit elements of their centuries-old religious origins, and the culture of particular peoples the biblical story of Samson and the Navajo story of the Changing Woman do not seem to have much in common in the onset. One is a story of a judge of a people, while the other is the mother of another. When seen in their original religious and cultural contexts though, they do reveal two common values. One value that is portrayed in both texts is that a man and a woman in...

The book Invisible Man is written by Ralph Ellison who is an African-American and was born in Oklahoma. Invisible Man was the only book of authors lifetime that was published and won him National award. The book mainly covers and addresses the social and intellectual issues that were faced by the African- American during the time of segregation. The book had been a success to describe the differences between blacks and whites. The main constituent of the book is said to be the racial policies of...

A.1.The chrysanthemums stand as symbols for the kind of life led by the protagonist of the story, Elisa. Elisa is a beautiful woman but her husband never appreciates her beauty or gives any importance to her feelings and desires. Similarly, the chrysanthemums are regarded as unimportant flowers by the society in spite of the fact they are beautiful and lovely. The chrysanthemums represent Eliza in the story and the way she is treated by her husband, Henry and the tinker. The chrysanthemums are not...

A.1. I was not surprised by the ending of the story, as I got a hint to regarding the unexpected end of the story owing to the various signs presented in the story. It is while reading the fourth paragraph that I came to know about the tragic end of the story. The calmness of the villagers starts turning into fear and this is evident from the reaction of the villager when the stool is placed before them. The villagers kept their distance, leaving a space between themselves and the stool. (Jackson). ...

    Despite the promise of an easier life, it cannot be denied that the advancements of todays time have also brought further stress in peoples lives. Stress has become part of the worlds reality as every of aspect of life is threatened by problems and daily pressures. Even family life also brings a certain amount of stress to everyone. Sometimes, stress from the family sphere becomes the main reason for a family to have either a united household or divided lives.    ...

Undoubtedly, Wendy Brown has fully explored the notions behind the words tolerance and equality wherein Brown perceived utter discrepancy particularly in the way these words have been applied to two different groups struggling to find their rightful identities in society. In an attempt to demonstrate these discrepancies especially with the existing conditions of women, Brown focuses on investigating how tolerance was applied to the Jews. In this case, Brown asked why was the Jewish Question often...

    In his poem  Song of Myself,  Walt Whitman envisages a concept of an interconnection between man (and woman), God, and nature as all part of the same essence. When he speaks of himself, he is speaking not of the individual man but the individual as part of the larger world. In the poem Whitman inclusively describes plants, animals, men and women, African Americans, Native Americans, and people of all religious faiths as belonging to his idea of self. Whitman is not doing...

Implicit in her desire was racial self-loathing. And twenty years later I was still wondering about how one learns that. (Morrison, 1998, p. 210).      In the afterword to her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison shares the story of a real-life incident that partially inspired her moving narrative (Morrison, 1998, p. 209). In elementary school, Morrison had known a dark-skinned, Black girl who had shared with her the secret knowledge that she longed to...

The literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1900s was called Naturalism. Naturalism utilized realism in entirety and suggested that social conditions, inheritance, and surroundings had an unavoidable strength in determining human characters. It was portrayed as a literary progression that seemed to copy the day to day reality out of our lives, in contrast other movements such as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which characters might have received an extremely figurative, impractical, or even...

    In comparing Poes 1843 short story The Tell-Tale Heart with Hawthornes 1843 short story The Birthmark, it is clear that both of the themes center on the idea of physical imperfection being a mark of moral shortcoming.  In Poes story, it is an older man who suffers the scorn and eventually murder, or attempted murder, committed by a younger man.  In Hawthornes story, it is a young wife Georgiana who endures the extreme disapproval and also murder committed by her own...

    James Baldwin starts his novel with John, the main character of the story, entering his fourteenth year and realizing that he should do something that his father expects him to do. From the time that he is aware, he had been told that he should become a preacher and serve the Lord. Confused of what his father wants, he realizes on his birthday whether he wants to satisfy other (his desire) or to become a man of church. He recollects some incidents from his childhood and state...

Pain has always been an eternal feeling, thought, idea and concept. It has long been part of humanity that even how grave the emotional struggles it causes men are, it still remains an inescapable reality and as inevitable as pain is the sought for truth. Over the years, great minds have tried explicating what the truth is, in relation to the common objective of deciphering why it appears so significant in humanity. And as what most of their studies found, truth, just like pain is an irreversible...

  On a Fair May, 2008 - My Aunt Peep is what I can call a cool aunt. She relates to our generations trappings but gives you wise and colorful advices. She taught me how to sing nursery rhymes, listen to Rock n Roll music and jazz, stories and poems.   Today while we sit and wait at the airports lobby we talk about something fragile that she treads to the conversation carefully. I clutch the brass urn carefully like it was alive as she asked, How do you feel   Im sad. Right after...