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Think about your senior year in high school. All the decisions you had to make, what colleges to apply to, and which one to choose when you got the acceptance letters; whether or not you wanted to go to college at all. You may have had different people telling you different things, everyone trying to…

Sarah Bernhardt strides across the pages of Susan Glenns book like a colossus. In her nine tours of the United States between 1880 and 1918 the French-born actress and master of self-promotion made an indelible impression on the American landscape that transcended the stage. Bernhardt and other turn-of-the-20th-century female performers became leaders of and metaphors…

What is hip hop? What are some of the common stereotypes and generalizations by which hip hop is conceived? Is it a music that is for only one group of people? Does hip hop promote violence and negativity? Many people claim that it is a disgraceful, meangless din. Antagonists often claim that hip hop is…

The American Renaissance is a time that American writers received more recognition as to the quality of their works. Before this time scholars looked upon the works of the artist and writers in America were looked upon as secondary to the across the Atlantic. The novelist Gustave de Beaumont “warned Europeans not to ‘look for…

The subject of censorship is a very controversial one, especially the banning of books. Many people believe they must protect themselves and others from the evils of many classic books and works of art because they can be deemed indecent in one way or another. Many believe that this is absurd and censorship in its…

toriesSalem Witchcraft TrialsThroughout society and throughout literature, vulnerable communities under certain conditions can be easily taken advantage of by a person or group of people presumed innocent. In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, there are three main factors that allowed the girls fallacious stories to be believed: Salems flawed court system, its lack…

The camera is at the center of our society; video and pictures document our lives and we are consumed by the content they capture Ð’- just look at social networking sites such as flickr and YouTube or news sites such as CNN’s I-Report. While the decision used to be whether to purchase a film or…

Everyman is an English morality play written by an anonymous author in the late fifteenth century. It is an allegorical play and may have been based on an earlier Dutch morality play. In the beginning of the play, a foreword describes the message the story will portray. A messenger tells the audience that people should…

An Unknown Girl, by Moniza Alvi, is another poem, which explores the experience of being female, but is more specific to seeking identity. From her name and the poem, I think she is from an Indian family, but now lives in England. It sounds like she has gone to India to visit and see if…

– Brave New World – By: Aldous Huxley Author: Aldous Huxley was born in 1894, and died in 1963. He first went to Eton, andthen to Oxford. He was a brilliant man, and became a succesful writer of short stories inthe twenties and thirties. He also wrote essays and novels, like ‘Brave New World’. Thefirst…