Literature Essays

They are then shipped to different parts of the world. Flowers are supposedly highly perishable goods, and it is due to this reason that accuracy, speed and dependability are crucial in such a situation. Though, the most important of these three operations performance objectives is the speed in the transportation of the flowers (Grant, 2007).

Hemmingway can be identified as the pioneer who revolted against 19-century romanticism in which verbiage, romantic allusions, and a great deal of description. His style can be assumed to have emerged as a reply to the crash of values after the First World War in the history of English Literature and hence introduced the world with unique art.

Despite gender differences, Christopher Marlowe’s and Anne Bradstreet’s poems are two exquisite pieces notable for strong-willed characters who each claim to have an overbearing degree of affection toward their loves. Marlowe’s creation depicts an ideal lover whose ardent love is characteristic of the Romantic period.

This is an open form type of poem because it does not have an established pattern. The writer is writing from free will and this is evident by the way the stanzas are divided. The opening stanza is seen to be shorter than the second stanza, which shows lack of a pattern (Oliver).

The plays Ghosts and The Seagull are respectively written by Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov.  However, the manners that this subject is present differ in the two.  Unlike the other works of literature that dwelt on the matter, marital strain in both Ghosts and The Seagull is presented as the cause of the problems and conflicts that the characters are facing.

In order to read fluently, students must learn to decode words rapidly and accurately, either in isolation or in connected text. The teacher’s task is therefore to provide students with opportunities for repeated oral reading that is given feedback by teachers, as well as by student peers.

A comparison between I Used to Live Here Once and Nothing Gold can Stay. A comparison of the two works, I Used to Live Here Once by Jean Rhys and Nothing Gold can Stay by Robert Frost present to the critic rich possibilities. The two works are very different in many ways and hence enable a contrast between the authorial intents and the contexts that are inhabited by the authors of the works.

This is due to the fact that they share a common theme, which is be careful what you wish for. Both protagonists find themselves in situations where they wish for one thing, but through turns of events and vicious irony, they end up getting much more than they bargained for.

This play is also known as Marat/Sade in the world of English Literature which was written in 1963 and initially, was published in German (Lorna Berman). The central idea of the play revolves around the human efforts and struggle in achieving revolution as well as it also discusses the common thought that how changes can be brought in the society.

Thus, it should take prior authorization from the authors and publishers for reproduction and use of the literary works, acknowledge and provide strong copyright protection to those authors who have authorized, and also pay royalties to them for each view of their work. Google’s Library Book Search Project’s impact is not restricted to American authors and publishers alone.

The reason for this cannot just be explained by a 1952 Pulitzer Prize and a 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. The greatness of Hemingway is revealed in his works. His straightforward style of writing prose reveals the very truth of the conflicts and inconsistencies behind human conflicts, and the naturalness of human nature.

The author interprets the story in many ways: as a tragic love story which depicts Emily’s great love for Homer Barron, as a comment on life in the deep American South as it is increasingly absorbed into the national psyche, as a murder mystery in which the facts are never clearly explained, or as a psychological depiction of insanity in the heroine.

Guilt can be either devastating to one’s life or leaves positive after-effects on his social and moral character, which is evident from the two stories that have been discussed here. Othello in a great rage kills himself as a punishment whereas Gilgamesh learns a lesson and sets off to find immortality and repay for his wrongdoing.

The influence of family on Shakespeare’s life and work William Shakespeare is amongst the world’s most famous playwrights particularly those who belong to the Renaissance era. Writers, artists, musicians, and other celebrities that have made a big name and earned a lot of fame in this world all have had certain factors in their life that had influenced their work.

The drama at that time was more focused on romance and unrealistic fantasies of life. Ibsen showed a new way of expressing the problems of society through drama. According to him, romance and fantasies are a mere part of society however; society’s core and normal issues are far bigger than these ("Ibsen and Realism").

My high school is certainly a place that I can distinctly visualize; it was the place where I had irreplaceable fun with my friends and took part in the various amazing events that were held there. Thinking about my high school now makes me realize that no matter how many good places I go to, it is still the one place which makes me wish there is a time machine to make me rewind time back to when I used to go there.

How all occasions do inform against me /And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,(35) / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. /Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, /Looking before and after, gave us not /That capability and godlike reason (40) (Shakespeare Act 4 Sc IV) 

That bard of love is Francis Petrarch. They may cross the moon, beat the stars, but probe they must the mystery of the heart struck with love—ask Francis Petrarch, he may be able to give some explanation from his practical experience of falling in love, without his lady-love being aware of it.

The Hungry Stones and Western Culture Would you say that the following author, text, or story rejects European and western influences on his culture, accepts ideas that are fundamentally western as its own, or reshapes western culture into something new? What is the significance of this?

It is the story of an old fisherman who is never successful in catching fish. When he goes out to the sea with determination to catch fish, he is rewarded with a big fish but it is a great ordeal, which the novel describes. To Have and Have Not was written in 1937. It is the story of a man who is forced to practice illegal means of livelihood.

The main character of the story, Phoenix Jackson’s characterization in the story is discovered fundamentally with the help of these themes. As Phoenix Jackson sets off on her journey through the woods to get her ailing grandson medicine, there is a long list of obstacles that she must overcome on her way. 

Shakespeare as a playwright has surpassed all the limitations and shortcomings a writer can have to express the emotional paradigms in human beings on stage. Tragedies of Shakespeare are remarkable but as regards to the comedies of Shakespeare they are timeless.

In some cases, the issues that writers write about are highly fictitious and based on their imaginations. But whatever the approach a writer uses, what is important remains that they present to readers a story that is based on meaning. Normally, two key elements are used by writers in drumming home the ideas and meaning they seek to present or draw to the reader.

Industrialization was born out of the British Agricultural Revolution, which brought about overwhelming growth and increases in agricultural productivity. The social structure of Britain thus became characterized by massive and rapid population growth because there was enough for families to feed themselves.

American identity has long been a central subject under discussion among writers particularly due to America’s historical background and its culturally diverse inhabitants. A wide range of factors including colonization, conquest, immigration, race, ethnicity, color, and gender affect the national identity of American citizens.

The poet is categorical in ascertaining that whatever he wants to put through should not be construed with any speculations whatsoever. He casts a ray of the doubt when he uses the phrase. Lightly this would be mistaken to depict his lack of understanding or clear interpretation of the world as he views it. However, deeper meanings could arise and help clear any doubts whatsoever.

Major Pettigrew’s last stand, A novel by the author Helen Simonson, tells us the story about the quietness of life and love. Helen invites her reader to experience love at first sight but not at the first moment and crafts such an enchanting love story, which is brilliant and in accordance with human nature. The story is funny and messy as well as complicated.

one that accurately captures the phenomenon a researcher intends  True / false  7) The most fundamental aspect of ethnography involves administering questionnaires to people True / false  8) All methods of sampling require a sampling frame in order to select research participants True / false  9) Focus group participants are usually interviewed separately to gather their opinions True / false  10) A statistic is a numerical fact systematically collected about a topic True / false  Clearly circle the letter representing correct answer (questions 11-18)  11) Which one of the following statements BEST defines EPISTEMOLOGY?

Yet what are these samples made of, and how do lab technicians utilize the unique qualities of human tissue to make specific identifications? The answer lies in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and its unique composition. Like a fingerprint, each person has a unique DNA sequence that contributes to their individuality (NIH).

From the myriad discoveries made by Oedipus to the way he handles those discoveries while relating them to his own life, to the way he relentlessly gives up himself to find the murderer of his father in order to lift the curse and to come across the reality that he murdered his father, this play leaves the people in utter awe and appreciation. 

Introduction Both Maru and The Lion and the Jewel have been hailed as the best works of their writers. Both writers also seek to bring out change and progress through their protagonists in these works, however in one case progress is obtained while in the other, old traditions win the battle.

The essay describes the evil of war through the discussion of main “Mother Sauvage’s” topics. Guy de Maupassant used the contrast of beauty and gore in his short story to show that the evil of war lived in people’s hearts and nothing could change it. However, the main conflict of “Mother Sauvage” is a mother’s love to her children.

The play King Oedipus consisted of eight dramatic personae and they were: Oedipus, Creon, Priest of Zeus, a chorus by Theban elder, Jocasta, Teiresias, herd of Laus and a messenger. Theaters in ancient Greeks included the use of chorus in plays; they were performed from the background concurrently with the play.

Interestingly, the phase of autumn parallels how each day moves from morning, noon, and evening. Keats captures the splendor of the season’s abrupt changes in its phase and skillfully turned its scenes into a short three-stanza masterpiece. The poet, who casually addresses the season as “To Autumn”, expresses his direct and personal bond with the season by regarding it as an intimate companion.

It is a distinctive phenomenon- a byproduct 0of an eventful encounter between India and Britain: it seeks to express an Indian sensibility in a language that is not primarily Indian.  The development of English as the official language in India was the result of a historical process that commenced with England’s relation with India in the first decade of the seventeenth century.

Both were black Americans and took the lead in articulating the grievances of the oppressed blacks in America. Both had their lives cut shot through gunshots and were assassinated, Malcolm being in 1965 and Luther in 1968. During this period, other two key figures were also assassinated stretching the list of those who died by the bullet.

Gyan and Sai are an Indian-Nepalese couple, and the author tells of their romance and how unrest, betrayals and violence culminates in their eventual separation. Other characters like the Cook, the judge, Lola, Noni, Father Booty and Bindu also have their equal share of troubles and various forms of unrest.

Though Achebe moans this disintegration, he has not glossed over the deficits, deficiencies and superstitions that the tribal culture holds at its heart. By assuming this neutral stance he puts forward the proposition that the African tribes are not as savage and brute as what any European stereotypical view about the African professes; rather the Africans have their own culture, cultural standards and values, justice system, society, etc unlike the Europeans’ stereotypical anticipation; that the western culture is not as whimsical as the Africans commonly assume it.

The novel satirizes colonial injustices and traditional patriarchy. In an attempt to reflect the postcolonial multicultural tenor and universal appeal, the author uses global inscriptions into themes, style, characterization, myths, and setting of the narrative (Robinson, 2006:26). This paper seeks to how deep Oyono goes insofar as anti-colonialism and affirmation of nationalism are concerned.

The three authors’ styles were fundamentally shaped due to their past life experiences. Hemingway was mostly thought to have acquired his writing styles from his previous war experience. In his story, The Hills like White Elephants, he uses a great deal of dialogue, action, as well as suspense to create joy in reading it (Hemingway 4). These three traits are also dominant in Paul’s Case as well as Babylon Revisited.

Generally speaking, each genre of literature has its own set of expectations, and Shakespeare both embraced and resisted the structure. Shakespeare believed that comedy and tragedy are completely different genres and as such require different levels of focus and also different types of story constructions.

Gender inequality has been a topic of discussion for several centuries with different scholars and poets using their works to demonstrate the magnitude of the issue. Poets such as Shakespeare and Jane Austen have used their literary works to show the differences society demonstrates when distributing social roles between men and women.

The first rule is that words should not always be depended on and can hardly ever be pinned down to a precise single meaning. The second rule is that the whole truths of words are hardly ever presented on the stage. What is placed on the stage is meant to arouse a creative response, not to set up moments of actuality?

A person can be beautiful by having a talent, a personality, or anything else that can make her a person that is well-liked by others. Imagination has no boundaries. Beauty on the outside does not matter in life, but what the person is like on the inside matters most in one’s practical life and it is what really counts.  

Women are important in sustaining the society, they play essential roles at different societal levels and therefore deserve similar rights as men do.For a long time different societies have shown biases against women always apportioning women subordinating roles to the men in the society.

The increased murder in the Whitechapel district, London was a mystery because the serial killer murdered and injured numerous people. The storyline presents a plot synopsis and it includes an introduction or background information to the setting of the story. This is a factual story, which has a controversial case of murder that took place in the city of Whitechapel.

Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is a story that narrates of psychological effects of feeling rejected involving the character Connie. The story is a narration of the way one may act in a weird behavior with such actions justified by the mental conflict that such a character has undergone in their lives.

Interestingly, even though the entire short story focuses upon the material hardship that the husband and wife face, a further interesting component that is woven into the short story is the understanding that material wealth is nothing more than a pipe dream that the lower classes chase with single minded ambition.

The author states that slavery as a drastic oppression against Afro-Americans was depicted by Jacobs based on her own experience of being oppressed. The main goal of slaveholders was to gain money and they tried to destroy a family unit among their slaves. In this paradigm, the readers can trace the way a theme of freedom is depicted by Jacobs.

I think dawdling is the inaction that prompts Hamlet's ruin and behind the inaction, there were three primary laws: being hopeful, fatalistic, and over-scientific. Optimism prevents Hamlet from avenging the homicide of his father, whenever he has the chance to execute Claudius (his uncle, the killer of his dad) when he is imploring.