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Painting and Other forms Of work Of art were patronized and practiced at the Kings’ and rulers’ palaces. Only their palaces were made of bricks and pillars of stone. General people’s houses were made of long grass, hay, clay and bamboo. This area was ruled by the Murray dynasty before the birth of Christ. The…

Ernest Hemingway is an incredible writer, known for what he leaves out of stories not for what he tells. His main emphasis in Hills Like White Elephants seems to be symbolism. Symbolism is the art or practice of using symbols, especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible…

Have you ever wondered where you would be in five, maybe ten years? What you would be doing? I never imagined that I would have a set career goal for myself. Most kids are uncertain about what they want in life; however, I always knew that my career choice was to be a neonatal nurse….

The principle goal of the American Revolution was to secure the”liberty” of the American colonies against the “tyranny” of the British. Yet, in many ways, once this goal was achieved, the problems of the newrepublic had just begun. Under the Articles of Confederation, the newstates were much more like thirteen separate countries than a singlenation….

Black DeathCantor states that, No one – peasant or aristocrat – was safe from the disease[bubonic plague], and once it was contracted, a horrible and painful death wasalmost a certainty. The dead and the dying lay in the streets abandoned byfrightened friends and relatives (482). This certainly paints an accurate andhorrifying picture of the fourteenth…

Story of an Hour”Story of an Hour”When I read Kate Chopin’s, “Story of an Hour” I am reminded of a Edgar Allan Poe horror poems. The narrator has a “divine transformation” yet it kills her. This puzzles me, so I will search for the true meaning of this strange story (marriage, as I believe). To…

The significant era of the 1940’s had expressed the most rapid innovations within social attitudes since the beginning of the ‘Industrial Revolution’. This was primarily due to the advocating of the first ever-socialist government. The initial idea gained formidable support by a great majority of the public who began to realise the terribly, corrupt social…

The information being presented and the author’s purpose determine how the writer organizes the concepts and ideas. – Text Structure 2. What should be your primary concern when reading literature? – Recognize the differences and similarities in real life experience 3. Literature leads us to the life of man, society, culture, and tradition. – understand…

Oedipus the King by Sophocles is about Oedipus, a man doomed by his fate. Like most tragedies, ‘Oedipus the King’; contains a tragic hero, a heroic figure unable to escape his/her own doom. This tragic hero usually has a hamartia or a tragic flaw which causes his/hers’ downfall. The tragic flaw that Sophocles gives Oedipus…

This film “Independence Day” is based upon the classic story “War of the worlds” by H. G Wells. Both of these stories are based around a popular science fiction theme of aliens coming down to earth and trying to destroy the planet earth, humanity always wins. “Independence Day” is a multi million pound film that…