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For everyone, home is a basic existential experience. What a person perceives as home (in the philosophical sense of the word) can be compared to a set of concentric circles, with one’s “I” at the center. My home is the room I live in for a time, the room I’ve grown accustomed to and have,…

Ambrose Bierce “The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is an incredible powerful and suspense story; told of all fears of a young father coming to light as his life swings in and out of reality. Ambrose Bierce writes this story during the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century. During this time period the two…

Many of the scenes within act 1 are very important as they concern character development, the value of theatre and other key aspects of the play. In scene 3, men are out shooting birds. Phillip’s nature is explored and an audience would begin to understand how he differs from the other officers and soldiers in…

The movie “All the President”s Men” 1976, is based on the work of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein two Washington Post newspaper writers, who uncovered the cover-up of the White House”s involvement in the Democratic Party National headquarters, Watergate, break-in. At first, Bob Woodward discovers what seems to be a minor break-in but is surprised…

AuthorHenry Graham Greene was born on 2 October 1904 in Berkhamsted in England and was one of six children. At the age of eight he went to the Berkhamsted school. As a teenager he was under so immense pressure that he got psychological problems and suffered a nervous breakdown. In 1922 he was enrolled on…

As an introduction we want to mention, that music plays a certain role in a people’s life. Someone connected his or her life with this art and became a musician; someone listens to music on headphones on the way to the school or university. But it can be hardly found such a person who would…

Eva Smith is a name given to a person who cannot be identified, like the American: Jon Doe. The character Eva Smith could represent any person of low social, or financial standings, in Britain, the Inspector may not be talking about the same person every time. During each person’s own interrogation, the Inspector uses a…

In the mockery of a Western type story, Stephen Cranes The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky has a simple story line with great meaning against inflexibility. With outlandish humor Crane takes the town of Yellow Sky and their marshal Jack Potter through the change of time, proving nothing can stay stagnant. The Bride Comes to…

‘Hard Times’ was written in the Victorian period around 1854 when work had became more important. Coketown is meant to represent a typical Victorian town where people were rapidly moving, to work in the mills. However there was no housing for these people and the town is very polluted. Life for the working class was…

I mean not to speak of divine prophecies; nor of heathen oracles; nor of natural predictions; but only of prophecies that have been of certain memory, and from hidden causes. Saith the Pythonissa to Saul, To-morrow thou and thy son shall be with me. Homer hath these verses: At domus Æneæ cunctis dominabitur oris,…