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Espionage and thrillers is a novel genre that contains unlimited amount of action. Espionage and thrillers emerged after WW2 and during the cold war is primarily in response to the climate of fear and suspicion that the war, and the threat of a potential nuclear holocaust, created. Furthermore, writing thrillers and espionage novels allowed them…

IntroductionThe book I read and analyzed was “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkein. I shall discuss the plot and character development, setting, author’s style and my opinions about it.Plot DevelopmentThere are too many characters in the story and so it is hard to follow and know each one of them. (There are many dwarves and it’s…

William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a romantic tragedy. It is one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays because even though the plot is not unique, Shakespeare wrote it so that the audience would get more involved in the play emotionally. An example of this is when the audience wants Romeo to receive the note from…

Some called her the first French feminist. More to the point, Olympe de Gouges was quite likely the first woman to be executed for forthright opinions about women’s rights. This obscure French heroine has sparked the imagination of playwright Wendy Kesselman, and the result is a stylistic departure for the author of such powerful but…

‘It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. ‘–George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver paved the way for agriculturists to come. He always went for…

The Great Gatsby | The American DreamThis essay looks at Fitzgerald’s critique of Jay Gatsby’s particular visionof the 1920s American Dream; what Fitzgerald seems to be criticizing is notthe American Dream itself but the corruption of the American Dream. The ideal of the American Dream is based on the fantasy that an individualcan achieve success…

In our class, Survey of American Literature, we have read and analyzed the classic American works that have Influenced and In some cases Ingrained themselves Into our country’s identity and belief system. Among those studied has been Benjamin Franklins Autobiography, Ralph Wald Emerson essays, The American Scholar and Self -Reliance, and Frederick Douglass’ Narrative. Each…

Is the nature of sense perception such that, as Huxley suggests, sensations are essentially private and incommunicable?”By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensation, feelings, insights, fancies-all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.” Aldous Huxley was an English writer, a humanist and…

How do we lie? Statistics show that a person lies more than 50 times a day. We are not judging; it is just statistics. What is the lie? In other words, it is a deception. Someone can assume that it is just a process of making someone foolish. But is it just like that? Because…

The Pop Arts’ movement began in the late 50’s and early 60’s. Dubbed, the founding father of the movement, Andy Warhol brought forward society’s obsession with mass culture and allowed it to become the subject of art itself. Using many techniques such as isolation, repetition and colour placement, Warhol brought to the world of art…