Literature Essays

The book covers a wider concept regarding the foundation of critical success factors of an individual or an organization. In this regard, the book has revealed the essence of leadership to be one of the most successful factors for an individual or an organization. Contextually, there are several concepts of Peter Drucker that have been adapted.

What does make a piece of art eternal? It’s an interest which every new generation of people demonstrates to this piece of art, isn’t it? Probably, because this piece of art raises eternal problems, reveals dilemmas and arguments which stay the same - unanswered. Definitely, William Shakespeare’s artistic legacy stays classical and great firstly for this reason.

The handbook is very influential in its simple and compound sentence structure formation, passing the right information that the juniors can easily digest while at the same time providing an elaborate guide to the teacher creating an enabling platform that favors learning. The handbook has deployed the use of simple and complex sentence structures.

The author’s perspective as depicted from the poem is that they are renewing a promise to kill each other with his partner. The perspective is illustrated with the two being intoxicated; one with alcohol and the night-blue juniper berry while the other smoking (Ballingrud). This he refers to as a slow death process taking on earth or part of the soil.

Hamlet is an extraordinary play, one which is not only the most popular for its literary value but also one which is enacted endless time to date. The play has a unique sense of drama, intensity, emotions, violence, blood and many other extreme sentiments which make it worthy of all the acclamation it has been gathering.

The author states that the Literal meaning of the poem is the direct meaning of the poem. Poet review requires the individuals to discuss every detail in the poem. Poetry needs critical analysis because it is subject to imaginations. Poem analysis is done in order to have a better understanding of its meaning.

Both Desdemona and Emilia are wives of men who serve the military. They both are faithful to their husbands and also attempt to win their husband’s pleasure. Desdemona’s love and her commitment to being loyal to her husband can be seen in many instances. Her sincerity for his love was seen when she confessed everything upon being asked by father.

This research will begin with the statement that between 1880 and 1930, more than 3,000 African Americans were hanged, tortured and burned by the White Southern mobs, activities that were not lightly taken by Ida B. Wells. Ida B. Wells was a pioneer feminist and civil rights icon who was also a news editor, sociologists and a strong leader in the civil rights movements.

A similar situation happens to the hero of “The things that they carried” Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. He lives in another illusion- an illusion of mutual love. The girl he has a crush on is his college girlfriend Martha whom he writes letters regularly. Cross carries the souvenirs which remind him of Martha day and night: her letters and photographs.

Secrecy of love is a condition to retain love feelings for the loved one as reflected by the central theme of William Blake’s poem. In this secrecy, care, love, and affection live for a longer period of time, if they are kept inside one’s heart. The author has woven love with secrecy and it will vanish away if it is told or shared with the loved one.

The researcher states that in 2014, Falola authored his latest book, which is a memoir of historical events that he witnessed during his teenage years. The memoir titled Counting the Tiger's Teeth: An African Teenager's Story is a recollection of Falola’s experiences in 1968 to 1970 when an Agbekoya rebellion happened in Nigeria.

The researcher states that when Oscar Handlin published The Uprooted, the subtitle read "The epic story of the considerable movements that made the American individuals." More than a half-century later, Handlin's book appears a bit extravagant and nostalgic. However, it makes some focuses that are still imperative to recall.

On October 7, 1998, a young gay man named Mathew Shepard was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming. Shepard had been brutally beaten and left for dead in an act of viciousness by two local roofers he had met in a bar. The events shocked the whole nation. His demise became a national symbol of intolerance.

The researcher states that Henderson resides in Washington, D.C, where she is an employee of the Yellow Ribbon Fund. This is a non-profit entity that helps the service members who have been injured together with their families. Henderson has written other books, such as Driving by Moonlight and Zargari Incident, in addition to While They’re at War.

The stigma of being a black in the land of whites made him realize that the color of skin will always cause the society to ostracize him. Grange Copeland returns to his homeland where he senses a kind of social freedom. Through the character of Grange Copeland, the author has explored the oppression faced by black tenant farmers from their landowners.

The women’s compassion to the stranger arguably offered them vital lessons that the power to affect social and economic emancipation rests in their hands and that being dependent on some superhero to rescue them is unrealistic because a superhero is normally overburdened with responsibilities, therefore he may show up when he is too worn out by natural forces to even tend to himself.

They deal with the saga of their main female characters and how they successfully challenge the crisis of their lives. The stumbling block in the married lives of both women originates from the patriarchal system of marriage. The difference in their challenges to the system acts as the barometer of the progress of the feminist movement.

Those people who follow the norms of a given society in terms of morality and civilization are considered part of the society. The implication here is that those people, who do not follow the laid-down norms, are considered societal outcasts. Essentially, the society dictates what is wrong and what is acceptable.

Book four stanzas for example typically demonstrate this difference as it paints Maldoror as an ancient, immobile body where a number of animals nest. Therefore, this is clearly inconsistent relative to other passages where Maldoror is displayed as deftly sneaking around cities. Therefore, he could freely reject morality, God, and religion.

The model and the painter are different outside, but similar inside. The model looks “frumpish,” while the nude woman is on a raised podium, and, with white drapery, she looks like a piece of “nobility and modesty in classical sculpture” (Steiner, 2010, p. 23). The two women’s heads in the mirror are reflections of each other: they are “in effect, a pair of models”.

This research will begin with the statement that the author of the book, Charles Bowden, was a non-fiction writer and an investigative journalist who worked for different newspapers and magazines and also wrote many books in the course of his career. Most of the books written by Charles Bowden center ion the violence, murders, and tortures on the Mexican-USA border.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "The Birth Mark" revolves around a scientist who is obsessed with the powers of nature. The story starts with the marriage of a scientist named Aylmer to a gorgeous woman named Georgiana. However later on Aylmer realizes that his wife has a mark on her cheeks that is going to haunt them for all their lives.

Hamid presents nostalgic moments among the characters for previous, better and optimistic times. Changez, a young Pakistani from the city of Lahore who moves abroad to the United States, experiences several nostalgic moments that define his past and happy moments. Changez sees the repulsive underside of American foreign policy and its effect on smaller countries such as Pakistan.

Tomas and Gabe decided to abandon their true racial individuality and replace it with other racial identities due to three main factors: uncertainty over their racial status, fear of rejection from the mainstream society, and feeling of humiliation for the colonial experience of the Asian ancestry.

Hamid uses various approaches and examples to build on the theme of love and unity, fear, religion, and escape. The story outlines the challenges immigrant face and the reason for the existence of refugees. The novel has majored on the life of the couple who are forced to escape from their motherland to foreign country due to civil war. 

In his Novel Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Gladwell uses case studies, rhetorical questions, experiments, and efficiently researched analysis; a compilation that efficiently tackles his well-thought idea of thin-slicing otherwise known as thinking without thinking making him a very credible author.

King Dasaratha, on the other hand, is a character in The Ramayana that fulfills and fails to fulfill his dharma in equal measure, thus demonstrating the shifting nature of Dharma. King Dasaratha observed depicted the moral consistency aligned with dharma, when he kept his words of honor and upheld the promise he had made to his wife, that he would satisfy or grant any request that his wife makes (VÁLMÍKI, 1874).

Beginners mind is what people practice in meditation. Suzuki was very tactful to use high-level thoughts and help people connect with larger or great minds. The Zen teachings are crucial in people’s lives as they help them establish the true nature of life. Practicing them and well-approaching life can help individuals avoid struggling with it.

The text can be considered to have various tips for me as a life coach. One of the best policies that I have derived from the book is the strategy concerning evasion of grief and bad moments. On this note, when I am in such discouraging moments, I would try getting my mind away and thinking of the past good moments.

The Color Purple is an epistolary novel. In this controversial novel, Walker depicts the struggles of black women, belonging to the rural town of Georgia. Though there are many female characters in this novel, the center of attraction is the protagonist and narrator, Celie, who is a fourteen-year-old uneducated black girl.

The author states that an example of this type of poetry can be found in Coleridge’s poem entitled “Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement,” written in late 1795 or early 1796. Drawing from personal experience, Coleridge focuses this small soliloquy upon the appreciation of his natural surroundings.

The author states that as the reading of I, Tituba, Black Witch οf Salem and Drown, the reading Annie John was very meaningful to me where a meaning οf fatherly love is seen. It was not intense, it was not breath-taking, but it was one οf the most exciting novels I have ever read. How interesting it was to watch a young girl οf my age grow up!

A logical analysis may show that Marlow lied to avoid the unpleasant situation, based on the universal law that what ought to be done in any situation depends on the consequences that may produce from it. If we apply this standard of avoiding difficult situations by telling lies no one would trust anything said by somebody.

O’Brien’s novel An Béal Bocht or The Poor Mouth is a satire of the purest form. This novel was published in 1941 in the Gaelic language, and then later translated into English. The title comes from a Gaelic saying of ‘putting on the poor mouth’. This saying basically means to exaggerate one’s poor economic situation, to put off creditors. 

Alexander Pope was one of the poets who belonged to the Neo-Classical period or the Age of reason in English literature, which extended from 1600 to 1785. This period was further subdivided into three subdivisions the Restoration, and the Age of Sensibility, with the works of Alexander Pope being characteristic of the Augustan age. 

The final genre to be discussed related to children’s literature is poetry.  Poetry is truly critical to the overall learning process as it allows children to utilize creative techniques in an abstract manner in addition to broadening the use of language.  The first book to be discussed is entitled Usborne Puzzle adventures - The incredible dinosaur expedition by Karen Dolby.

Writing a research proposal depends on the topic the researcher chooses and aims to carry out research for it. Depending on the nature of the topic whether qualitative, quantitative or mixed, research proposals are designed accordingly. In a qualitative research, the proposal can be categorized into two approaches.

The simple definition of metaphor states that it is a figure of speech, generally a phrase that is used to describe the meaning of a more real but unrelated word. In other words, metaphors can compare unrelated subjects without using comparative terms ‘like’ or ‘as’. Wikipedia gives a clear definition of metaphors - “Metaphor is a language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects.” 

The story itself is simply told and without any complexities in the narrative, yet imbued with deep metaphorical significance. T’ao Chien or Tao Yuanming lived during the tumultuous period of the ‘Six Dynasties’ and is regarded as one of China’s finest poets. The turmoil of the period reflects in his poetry, but a sense of hope is present. 

It is evidently clear from the discussion that the main character of the story, Ray Kinsella, an Iowa farmer, and consummate dreamer, who one day, following a mysterious voice which tells him, “if you build it, he will come,” is driven to do it.  His hope: that in building the ball field Ray’s father’s hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, will appear.

Although England had been the first to develop the modern industrial system, it was, of course, impossible for her to prevent the gradual introduction of the new inventions on the Continent. Napoleon, in his effort to ruin England's commerce by excluding her from the European markets, was led to foster and protect French industries.

The type of play “An Enemy of the People” was drama with a major sense of comedy that made a blunt social reality acceptable for the audiences. It was the story of a struggle by a daring person to do the morally correct deeds and speaking the truth even facing the immense social prejudice.

American topics frequently center around middle-class women and are often characterized by plain language. However, it is in this colloquialism that American authors are able to capture the voice of the nation, “its multiracial and immigrant streams of speech and behavior, its violence and exuberance, its ignorance of its own general and regional history.

The paper has a title.  The paper itself is interesting and informative; however, the title is rather droll.  It would be nicer if the writer of the paper had chosen something that really stood out.  Instead of “Holistic Medicine vs. Pharmaceutical Medicine,” perhaps the writer might want to consider having a title that is catchier.

Throughout Persepolis, Marjane struggles with what it means to be Iranian, especially when she realizes that the West sees all Iranians as terrorists (203) or the epitome of evil (195). This book gives a graphic picture of Iran during the heady days of the revolution, how the Iranians are tossed from one political hypocrisy to another.

Rhetorical questions are questions that are not necessarily intended to be answered but because they have the tone of a question, function to make the brain start searching for answers. Some authors may choose to answer these questions later in the text, which also works to help keep interested in the work flowing and to build continuity into the writing.

The story moves ahead along with his journey where he swims in different pools. This results in the passage of a very long time and Neddy tends to lose track of all time. It is then realized that Neddy is actually denying the cruel realities of his life and he is running away from all the problems of his life.

The given statement means that a literary activity arises from a special occasion of encountering the established order. While lacking the possibilities of development and enhancing the potential of coercion, the statement entails that a social order gives way to the human expression, in the form of literary expression, linked up with the conscience having concern for humanity.

The research published by Tulane University Pediatrics states that speaking controls the behavior being but eventually it destroys self-esteem, confidence and brings out emotional conflicts with parents. The study indicated that 2,500 kids who were spanked very often at the age of 3 were more likely to be aggressive at age 5.

Manguel’s writing tackles each of its chapters in a freestanding approach that picks on topics in the “History of reading” thereby bringing on a new approach to how reading approaches have conventionally been taught over time and what has been popularly referred to as reading as a metaphor, offering a relation what is conventionally being heard to that information which is read over time.