Essays about Culture Page 60

When people hear the name The Beatles,” most think of the lead singer, John Lennon. However, the role of Paul McCartney is often overlooked. It was McCartney, not Lennon, who was the driving force behind the Beatles. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were in many bands together before the formation of the Beatles. In 1962,…

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. In this document, I will…

A Clockwork Orange: Violence and CorruptionAlex, the fifteen year old narrator of Anthony Burgess’s novel, A ClockworkOrange, lives in a society where violence reigns. This novel has a very directnature, and is often blunt to the point of offense, but this makes it morepowerful and helps to further its point. This point is that everyone…

There you are sitting in a theatre watching a play. You say to yourself, this play could be so much better if they would do that different. Of course the designers could do things differently, they might have even considered the same things that you have, the only thing wrong with that is that type…

A way of life and philosophy well ahead of its time when it was founded over 500 years ago, The Sikh religion today has a following of over 20 million people worldwide. Sikhism preaches a message of devotion and remembrance of God at all times, truthful living, equality of mankind, social justice and denounces superstitions…

The Catcher in the Rye, a contemporary novel by J. D. Salinger, is a thought-provoking, fascinating look at society’s values and issues in the 1950s. This book would make an excellent transition to film because it is full of both action and implication. It focuses on a four-day period of time in the life of…

Dances with Wolves is a movie staring Kevin Costner as Lt. JohnDunbar. John wants to see the frontier before it is gone from the war sohe goes to a fort there. When he gets to the fort he finds it abandonedand soon finds that there is a Sioux tribe as his neighbors. John becomesfriends with…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an important element of the Womens Rights Movement, but not many people know of her significance or contributions because she has been overshadowed by her long time associate and friend, Susan B. Anthony. However, I feel that she was a woman of great importance who was the driving force behind the…

A Rose for Emily takes place after the Civil War and into the 1900s in the town of Jefferson, Mississippia town very similar to the one in which William Faulkner spent most of his life. It is a story of the conflict between the old and the new South, the past and the presentwith Emily…

1rything seems to change. In the dark all evil is disguised, the “dark night strangles the traveling lamp. ” This traveling lamp is the sun, or light of the world. Shakespheare explores this idea in his tragic play, Macbath. Just as a person’s mood changes with the raising and setting of the sun, the mood…