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Dionne Brand’s “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater” opens with a note: “On looking at the photograph of Mammy Prater an ex-slave, 115 years old when her photograph was taken”. This note points attention to the still-life that is photography and poetry, the distances between subject, object, and artist that are already in place – set […]

When I first read “Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge,” by Hart Crane, I felt some difficulty in understanding the poem, but I wanted to probe its images and use of language to try to develop a better understanding of the poem. A reading of secondary sources informed me that the poem is actually the introduction or […]

In this paper I will be discussing two poems of the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska – “A Thank-You Note” and “The End and the Beginning” – and how she uses the element of irony in her works. Szymborska’s work has been considered grim poetry because she tackles on the subject of war and its aftermath, […]

Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun” is a multi-faceted poem with distinct feminist and artistic themes. Despite Dickensons’s unique position as the only nineteenth-century American female poet to transcend typical sentimental poetry, her work indicates a strong feminine theme. This atypical perspective of feminism is also apparent in the aforementioned poem. […]

Brad Roberts’ song `Afternoons and Coffeespoons`, which alludes to T.S. Eliot’s poem `The Song of Love by J. Alfred Prufrock`, gives a great example of postmodern intertextuality invading our consciousness not only through the modern literature but through the texts of rock-songs as well. `Crash Test Dummies` leader, well-read and wit, refers to T.S. Eliot’s […]

In this paper I’m going to compare and contrast the poems “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan and “At the San Francisco Airport” by Yvor Winters. Linda Pastan is one of the most notable contemporary poets and a winner of numerous literary awards. Yvor Winters is among the most influential poets of the […]

Edgar Allen Poe is arguably the most famous American author noted for his writing in the horror and macabre genre. He has penned renowned short stories including “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Gold Bug,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, among others. Besides these, Poe also crafted compelling poetry and criticism, along with the notable […]

“Annabel Lee” is a well-known and revered love poem from the nineteenth century, comparable in its prominence to “the Anniversary”, a seventeenth-century masterpiece by John Donne. Both poems utilize similar poetic symbols and techniques, but are distinguished by their unique form and thematic elements. They both highlight how the poets’ personal life experiences have deeply […]

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories were set within 19th century Europe. He used witty depictions of various rumored tales and stories that vaguely resembled occurrences during his eventful life, “The setting is European, set in some indeterminate past, so as not to get too close to depicting Poe’s own enemies. ” (Murphy) Poe wrote ‘The Cask […]

“A First Amendment Junkie” by Susan Jacoby and “Let`s Put Pornography Back in the Closet” by Susan Brownmiller are both illustrative essay that present the subjective views of the stated authors on the issue of feminine depiction in pornography and constitutional rights of free speech and expression. Susan Jacoby observe the issue of freedom of […]

A stable job is hard to achieve at this hard and challenging period. Therefore, deciding on a career to choose is very important. Every man has his own choice to decide on. It is very important for us students to have a right path to take. Choosing a career is one of them. The career […]

Politics is the art of ruling for the benefit of the people. It implies power and power needs to find justification and arguments to support it. This is why there has always been a connection between politics and the principles of morality, no matter if the latter ones supported the former or if they stood […]

On April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by an earthquake that shook the city or about 20 seconds. The quake cracked gas lines to homes and businesses and ignited a deadly menace. The fires raged for days on end and burned down the city’s buildings and neighborhoods. 75% of the city was destroyed. Homes, […]

Plantation of Ulster was mainly a planned process of colonization that took place in the early 17th century in the northern Irish province of Ulster. This took place when James I of England was reigning. The main settlers on the land were mainly the English and the Scottish Protestants. This land had been taken away […]

The case of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, et al. v. Casey (1992) is a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief, filed by five abortion clinics and a physician who provides abortion services, representing the class of physicians who similarly provide such services. (FindLaw). They question the constitutionality of five provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion […]

A small plane crashed in Scotland in July 1976. Five passengers and the pilot were killed on the spot; all the passengers in the plane were from Scotland. At the time of the crash, there were no eyewitnesses to the crash, and the plane was controlled by the Scotland air traffic. The plane was a […]

1.What is a hurdle rate? How do you use it in a project evaluation? Hurdle rate is the minimum amount of return on a project the company is willing to accept before starting a project. It is used in project evaluation to evaluate the amount of return on the project. A common method for evaluating […]

Through his critique “On the Scarlet Letter”, D.H. Lawrence vividly portrays his perspective on Hester. He perceives her, stemming from her act of adultery, as a “demon” and perceives her as “the great nemesis of women”. His viewpoints are conveyed effectively through the use of literary tools such as sarcasm, fragmented sentence structure, and repetition. […]

Social class, although somewhat illusive in meaning, is one of the most important conceptual discussions among sociologists. Developed in the mid-eighteenth century, originally class was a process to categorize animals, plants, and any natural event not promoted by humans, such as rain, or volcanic action (Nesbit, 2005). However, a French group of intellects called Encylopedistes […]

Algebra’s history spans numerous decades and has been instrumental since the dawn of time. The evolution of algebraic notation unfolded across three phases: the rhetorical stage, the syncopated stage, and the symbolic stage – the last being the one we commonly employ in day-to-day algebraic applications. In previous civilizations, mathematics played a crucial role in […]

Social •An increase in size of slave population as hundreds of thousands of African slaves were imported annually into the New World •Change in racial composition of society – by the mid 18th century. Blacks far outnumbered whites, in some cases the ratio was as much as 25:1 •New laws were introduced to regulate and […]

Huxley championed the incorporation of recreational drugs into daily life, essentially to forge artificial joy. The consumption of soma ushered users into a parallel universe, awash with happiness and euphoria. “As the soma began taking hold, eyes sparkled, cheeks blazed, and a radiant spirit of universal kindness bloomed on every countenance with joyful, amicable grins” […]