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Human nature is one of the most abstract and widely debated concepts, yet even the most unethical people realize that war can destroy a person. However, many individuals and corporations do little to combat this. In fact, The American Leion Magazine in 1923 once stated, “Until Americans reach college they should not be exposed to…

Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Brontë in 1847 and it is now considered a classic of English literature; However, at the time of its publication, the work was strongly criticized mainly by strong language and violent scenes. Most critics in that time concluded that it was a man who wrote Wuthering Heights, because no…

Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, tr. Prestupléniye i nakazániye, IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume….

Khaled Hosseni’s The Kite Runner is a novel about a young Afghan boy named Amir and his friend Hassan and the trials and tribulations they go through in their lives. Although the story was mostly about Amir and his life before he left Afghanistan and how that affected him after he arrived in California, no…

“A life with no memory is no life at all”. This is, in my opinion, a true representation of Jonas’ story in the Giver. Jonas lived in a perfect world where everything is controlled by strict rules. Jonas was selected by the Elders to become the receiver of memory in the community. The receiver is…

The tyrannical rule of Trujillo wreaked havoc on the lives of the citizens in the Dominican Republic and set a precedent of male superiority. The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz takes place in a deleterious atmosphere of patriarchy and emphasizes the disconnect between the female and male Latino identity. This disconnect…

Media representation has always had a hand in shaping the public’s view and attitude of what is being portrayed. It is partially responsible in the process of constructing who minorities are and how they should act. In the media, promoting racial stereotypes only helps justify and perpetuate racial misrepresentations in the real world. Representation in…

In my opinion, Candide changed his thinking by the end of the story in a way that he became less optimistic, he is still with an optimistic view, but comparing how Candide started at the beginning of the story with an optimistic view followed by the philosophy of Pangloss he became less optimistic. The mentor…

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is chronicled from the vantage point of a fourteen-year-old white girl named Lily Owens, over the course of the summer of 1964. Lily introduces herself to the reader as a nerdy, aloof teen from the town of Sylvan, South Carolina, whose household has been plagued with…

Throughout the novel “A Tale of Two Cities” Charles Dickens uses an extreme amount of figurative language. The type of figurative language that truly rises to the top is when Dickens uses sarcasm and wit to portray a point. This type of figurative language is of course Satire, and Dickens uses it frequently throughout his…