A different mirror- book review
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
The historical mirror can guide the living, helping them realize their past and present being. The book ‘a different mirror' presents a view of America's many cultures through the eyes of the minority who migrated to America aiming at getting a better life, the immigrants later got short...
Sir Gawain and Green Knight review: The Relationship between Mankind and the Divine
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
In the Bible, the holy Christian book, there are vivid descriptions of God and his values. These values are divine and holy, and men always try to replicate them. In the book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, there are demonstrations of similar values and their effects on humanity. This paper will...
Compare and Contrast the Epic Hero in Beowulf And Gilgamesh
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Epic heroes are heroes known in legends and stories for their warrior characters and their fight to uphold their societies in times of war. Many tribes have legends with epic heroes. These heroes arise when the community is in hard times, and they lead the community in war to grant them victory....
Moss and McAdams Accounting Firm
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
A matrix organization is out of character because it joins managers and employees from distinct departments with an aim of working towards achieving a common goal. Therefore, a matrix structure refers to a blending of the divisional and functional structures. The functional separates each...
"The Handmaid's Tale" by Atwood and "The Pickup" by Nadine Gordimer
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Imagine living in a society setting where signs painted in red reads, “this is a warning against women who fail to wear makeup and head scarves. Any woman who violates this is liable for punishment. God is the witness, and this is a warning.” In addition, the same society includes the...
A Valediction forbidding Mourning: Analytical review
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Poems, since time immemorial have a significant impact on the evolution of English literature. A famous poet is John Donne. He wrote a metaphysical poem, “A valediction forbidding mourning”, in the early seventeenth century. Speculations are that he composed it for Anne More, his wife,...
Forgiving my Father: Poem analysis
Case study - 1 pages - Literature
The poem “forgiving my father” portrays a relationship between the persona and her parents. The persona is willing to forgive her father after his financial irresponsibility and emotional abuse. The persona is angry at both her parents. She is angry at her father because he abuses her...
The book, 'The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains.'
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The book, ‘The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains' by Nicholas Carr's taps into the anxiety of identifying what the internet is doing to us. The book instigates by Carr sharing his feeling just like other people claiming that he can no longer think as he did before evidenced...
'The Monk and the Riddle' by Randy Komisar
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The book, ‘The Monk and the Riddle' by Randy Komisar draws insights about entrepreneurs from the writer's experience. Komisar presents advice and certain must dos' for anyone wishing to develop a successful business venture. His story is developed with interesting characters who must find...
Use of Voice in "More Rivers to cross"
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Many Rivers to Cross is a speech that June Jordan makes at a conference known as ‘women and work.' In it is part of her autobiography which she gives to show how many rivers she has to cross in her life. She starts the essay with her mother's suicide at a time when she was struggling...
Harold Kushner, God and Evil
Case study - 6 pages - Literature
Many religious authors have asked the question Kushner (2002) does in his book: “Why do the Righteous Suffer?” The easy answer provided by the author in the first chapter is that “God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck. Some are caused by bad people, and...
The Truth About Keats' Grecian Urn
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
In Sidney's A Defense on Poesy, poetry is “an art of imitation.” Granted, Sidney's definition does imply poetry serving as a mirror to a reality, and to imitate is to replicate something in closest form, in mimesis. To simply strike the possibility of poetry stemming from any sort of...
Modernism Alone Can Sustain Man's Interest in Literature
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Literature is an indispensable ingredient of man's education. In other words man cannot totally avoid literature so it cannot make its way into his education. Yet not many are ready to taste the nectar pouring from literary masterpieces. As a matter of fact most literary pieces appear as...
The Problem of Evil
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
The presence of evil, pain and suffering in the world poses a philosophical threat to the existence of God and is the most persistent argument raised against one's belief. This problem of evil is not that there is evil in the world or the fact that there is no balance between the good and the...
Poetry Explication Analysis
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The author of the poem is Edna St. Vincent Millay born in Maine a small town in the United States. The Sonnet is titled “What lips my lips have kissed”. The poem narrates of various loves reaching an end and the emotional defeat associated to the loss. The poem is a sonnet as it...
Nude Study of Thomas E. Mckeller" by John Singer Sargent
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
John Singer Sargent was born in January 12, 1856 and was the most successful painter of his era. Sargent was born to American parents in Florence, Italy. Her mother was an amateur artist while his father practiced illustration of medicines. It was through her mother's encouragements and support...
Symbols and the Speaker in "My Last Duchess"
Essay - 10 pages - Literature
In a poem there is more than meets the eye. Robert Browning's “My Last Duchess” belongs to the genre of the dramatic monologue from the Victorian period. In this study I will analyze the poem centering on the symbols and the speaker, what is their role and how do they contribute to its...
Kamikaze Girls from the class perspective
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The film Kamikaze Girls can be said that it is the story is about the friendship of the two female protagonists and demonstrating the youth subcultures in Japan. However, we can also try to look at this film in relation to the concept of class. Class, as concluded by Bennett, Grossberg and Morris...
Existentialism, as Developed Through the Parisian Society in Perfume. How does Patrick Süskind use the society of Paris to develop the existential ideas in his novel "Perfume"?
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind, chronicles the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the anti-hero, whose heightened sense of smell allows him to create the Ultimate Perfume through the murder of virgin women. The quest to create this ultimate scent is what gives meaning to his life. However in...
The Role of Moira in "The Handmaids Tale"
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
In the novel “The Handmaids Tale” by Margaret Atwood, the character of Moira rarely appears in the main storyline, but rather, her character is brought out through the many flashbacks of the protagonist, Offred. She is shown to us to be a rebellious, intelligent and perseverant person...
'To succeed in creating a convincing character, the write needs to give the audience a sense that characters have inner thoughts and feelings'. To what extent, and in what ways, does this statement apply to 'The Handmaids Tale' and 'The House of
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Both ‘The Handmaid's Tale' by Margret Atwood and ‘The House of Bernada Alba' by Frederico Garcia Lorca are stories that focus on the development of character, rather than the development of action. In order to make these characters convincing, the author could express the characters...
Madonna and child
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Giovanni Bellini was an acclaimed and distinguished artist of 15th Century Europe. Of Italian descent, and more specifically from Venice, Giovanni Bellini was a prominent and celebrated artist during an era of history where visual arts took center stage, the Renaissance Era. He was best known...
Sailing the wine -Dark Sea
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
In his book sailing the Dark wine sea, Thomas Cahill tries to give the reader an insight into Greek society and civilization through the lives and words of politicians, playwrights, poets, philosophers and artistes through an immaculate narrative. The book sailing the dark wine sea tells of some...
Good vs. Evil in both Macbeth and Lord of the Flies
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the once fearless and courteous Macbeth encounters three witches that foretell his future as the new King of Scotland. Intrigued by their prophecies and driven by the desire to become King over Scotland, the ambitious Macbeth along with his manipulative wife...
After Auschwitz poetry analysis
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
After Auschwitz is a poem that was written by Anne Sexton on January 1973. This poem was then included in a volume entitled "The Awful Rowing Towards God". It was publish in 1975, a year after her death. After Auschwitz tells about the anger of the poet about what happened during Nazi's regime....
An analysis on the poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath
Case study - 6 pages - Literature
Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. That imaginative awareness can be in a lot of form of human emotional situation. By reading a poem we can get those various kinds of emotional. A...
Poem analysis: A Mate Can Do No Wrong by Henry Lawson
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The friendship was learnt in their way of working. They learnt to believe each other in their togetherness. They had been to many places like Hungerford, Bourke and Billabong together. They give their whole belief to their friends. So, no matter what their friends said, they would believe it....
An Analysis on the poem "How Old is my heart, how old?" by Christopher John Brennan
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
This poem basically is about a life and death. It is an old man who reflects and does introspection of his life when he was young. It seems that he regrets of what he had done in his youth. He wonders whether he had lived his life properly or not. Moreover, it seems that he was not satisfied with...
Characters and the way they deal with mishaps
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The idea of a false reality is very much present in many works that we have read, but how the stories and its characters deal with the scenarios that provoke such illusions differ immensely. In Kate Chopin's short story “At the ‘Cadian Ball,” the characters deal with hard times by...
The life of William Byrd
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
William Byrd was of the most influential composers of his time and remembered in history as a composer of both secular and sacred music. With Byrd's compositions numbering 470+ it is no question that he was one of the most significant composers during the renaissance era. His ability to compose...
