Andy Warhol is not only a Pop artist, but also he is an American artist who was known as the master of Pop Art. In the 1950s, commercial products entered into the highly valued fine art space. In the 1960s, everyday life inspired Andy Warhol, and source material became mass-produced products and commercial artifacts. The content […]
Hero a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. In many stories, there is a hero. Someone who swoops in to save the day at the last minute; someone who everyone looks up to. At the very beginning of this course, the class as a whole made a list […]
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Get startedGreek myths and stories are constructed by a multitude of different approaches formed by Greek tragedians and philosophers. Tragedians were known for their influential drama in writings. Sophocles was one of the most acclaimed Greek tragedians. Sophocles is mainly associated with his unique use of tragic irony, extended metaphor, and the internal conflicts placed among […]
Everyone dreams of getting into high school. The drive for some might be getting to associate with the popular crowds. For others, it may be getting to experience another level of social interaction. However, my story is different but yet similar. I dreamed of going to high school but due to life circumstances my path […]
This is me, ten years later. Now this blog isn’t going to be about that David Copperfield kind of crap, because I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. This is about what I have done for the past ten years of my life. After I wrote a book […]
Characters in Greek tragedies are constantly met with difficult, life-determining decisions, and are tragic because they make the “wrong” choice. “Wrong”, because it can be argued that they were incapable of escaping their fates in the first place. In Oedipus’s and Orestes’s case, they were not actually given a choice of how to proceed with […]
Honing in on a period of time known for being scandalous and charged with strict religious beliefs, Salem in 1692 is dense with recognizable American history. The events of the momentous year caused hangings, trial hearings, a disrupted community, and death by being crushed. Schiff’s exasperating account of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 synthesizes […]
When the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929 many people were convinced there would be a decade long depression (U.S. History 2008) and they felt that there was no hope left. Herbert Hoover was seen as doing nothing to help the nation during this awful time. Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated as a candidate […]
America, throughout history, has seen thousands of rags-to-riches tales of people who become immensely wealthy through their creativity and ideas, but none are quite like the amazing and turbulent as Andrew Carnegie’s. Throughout his life Carnegie met numerous trials and tribulations and each one he overcame. Throughout his life Carnegie had many accomplishments to speak […]
It is often said how important courage is and how impactful it is. However, most do not really take in how important courage can be. Those that do not have such courage will never succeed and surpass their greatest obstacles. “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” […]
Since at a young age, I asked questions about things that I was curious about or unsure of as any kid does. The answers I received were mostly from the people I was surrounded by, whether they were opinionated or not. Due to the fact I was a child, I shaped my beliefs around those […]
Angie Thomas’ outstanding best-selling novel, The Hate U Give, was inspired by the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and Tupac Shakur’s break down of the acronym “T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.”. Tupac explained that the acronym stands for, “The Hate U Give Little Infants ‘Effs’ Everybody.” This descriptor means that the lack of opportunities the minority class are given ends up […]
The decimation of history makes individuals comply with the gathering more and wind up thoughtless items to the gathering. The gathering forced on the off chance that all records told a similar story, the lie go into history and moved toward becoming truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the gathering trademark ‘controls the future’who controls […]
The plot of the book Of Mice and Men is very organized. All of the events that occur are in chronological order. The story starts off with two workers that are migrants, George and Lennie. They are traveling to a California farm, where the bus drops them off miles away from the actual farm. George […]
The bleeding throat of her child lay slit open in before her as Sethe dreaded her future as a slave. Death seemed to Sethe as the most humane fate for her poor little girl. Beloved is the story of a woman who would rather kill her child than see her sold into slavery. The author, […]
Beloved by Toni Morrison is written to expose the culture of African Americans after the Civil War era as well as the drawing attention to the impact of slavery in the African American community. The novel stars the protagonist, Sethe, who is haunted by the ghost of her dead baby daughter murdered by Sethe herself, […]
The mother daughter relationship is a complicated form of love, in which it’s a relationship full of nurturing, mentoring, and gentle guiding. It’s a relationship that is treasured both by the daughter and the mother, and is carried throughout their lifetimes, and eventually passed on from the daughter to their own. However, throughout Toni Morrison’s […]
The novel “Beloved” by Toni Morrison is full of ambiguity. This ambiguity can lead readers to believe that Beloved could represent various things, such as Sethe’s deceased daughter, or slavery as a whole. Either way, the bigger picture is that Beloved represents the past returning to the present. The characters engagement with Beloved and as […]
In 1987, the novel “Beloved” came about. This post-civil war novel by Toni Morrison is a heartbreaking novel of battling with memories, your horrible actions, and the past. In everyone’s life, there is a moment that is so horrific and so heartbreaking that all you want to do is push it so far back in […]
With love comes trust. Paul D sees the trees as something he can trust, something you can go to when you need reassurance or support. Trees are also become a sign to a second life for him especially when the Cherokee directed him to follow the blossoming trees all the way up to Cincinnati and […]
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved used a number of theoretical perspectives including psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality argues that human behavior is the result of the interactions among the three component part of the mind. These components include id, ego, and superego. Using the psychoanalytic theory, Beloved can be analyzed as a character, a […]
When she speaks about the past, she talks about the act she committed when she tried to cut the throat of her daughter. It’s still a painful memory however, she had had no alternative, for her that was the best and only option to defend her baby. One could say that she was selfish in […]
Beloved is a masterpiece written by the American writer Toni Morrison. This book was published on September 13, 1987. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. The book is set after end of slavery and it is based on slavery, racism and the love of mother. Beloved is the story of Sethe, a black woman around […]
In the mid 1900’s racism took over the United States, causing people to die, be severely beaten and traumatized for no reason. It started in the colonial era when white Americans were given so many rights and privileges and yet denied all other races. European Americans were granted certain rights to an extent, such as […]
Sethe(former slave), her teenage daughter Denver(who was named after the white woman who helped free Sethe. Amy Denver.), and her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs live in house 124 that has been shunned by the rest of the town because 15 years before the story takes place, Sethe murdered one of her children by slitting it’s throat […]
The Mahabharata is an ancient Indian epic well known for its 18TH book, the Bhagavad Gita. The Bhagavad Gita means the “Song of the Spirit” and contains dialogue between Sri Krishna and Prince Arjuna. In the book Arjuna is a leader of the Pandavas and is set to fight against the Kauravas to gain control […]
The human body is required to act. First, it is motivated by essential needs in order to live. After, action is motivated by feelings of desire or fear. The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna’s Counsel in Time of War, translated by Barbara Stoler Miller, discusses this topic, how action is binding, and how it relates to knowledge and […]
As Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita faces his relatives in war and experiences strong apprehension, he is counseled by the Lord Krishna, who motivates him to set aside his own thoughts and live for the divine, “firmly established in faith” (Bhagavad). The story is meant to answer questions of Hindus who may have trouble setting aside […]
There are two great Hindu epics that originated in heroic accounts of early battles fought by the Aryan clans. The longer of the two, Mahabharata, tells of an intense and hostile feud between rivaling sides of a family, each aided by deities. The most famous portion of Mahabharata is The Bhagavad Gita which is what […]
To start this, soon to be an amazing, research paper, I would like to summarize the poem, “The Bhagavad Gita”. The Bhagavad Gita is a form of a dialogue between Arjuna, a heroic warrior, and Krishna, a God who pretends to be Arjuna’s charioteer. Their discourse takes place on the day of the battle, on […]
