Literature

In the poems  When the Somber Slaughterhouse Opens Its Caverns of Death  by Andre Chenier and  The Village Bell  by Alphonse De Lamartine, the poets use symbolism to illustrate the human condition and the freedom of death. Cheniers piece uses the imagery of a slaughterhouse to show the dehumanization of human life as a mechanism which frees us from the restraints of death, while de Lamartine uses the image of a village bell as symbolic  of a kind of spiritual death toll...

Muslims believe in submission to Gods will as dictated by the Koran, which contains the Islamic laws. Unlike the Christians who emphasis on the right doctrine, the Muslims emphasis on the right action. As a sign of faith, the Muslims base their belief in one God, his prophet-Mohammed, and the Koran, which acts as the source of Gods revelation. The Quran spells out directives against certain practices such as fornication, female infanticide, murder, exploiting the poor, theft and false contracts...

St. Augustines Confessions provides an account of his spiritual and philosophical development. Divided into different sections, the text provides an in-depth account of Augustines internal struggles not only in defining the terms of his faith and his religion but also in determining the relationship of both the soul and the body in determining an individuals relationship with the divine. His importance in medieval literature can be traced to his inclusion of both classical and medieval topics in...

Allegory was an established feature of Elizabethan life, and was mentioned by a range of contemporary literary commentators. As Sir John Harington emphasized in the introduction to his translation of Orlando Furioso (1591), the honeyed sweetness of the verse is not where the underlying meaning of an Elizabethan text is to be found, and those of stronger stomachs should look beneath the surface to digest the allegory. Traces of allegories being employed on the English Renaissance stage include the...

Thesis Statement The identification process of the true cause of the Lyme disease and the accurate diagnostic tools of the causal organism has significantly increased the knowledge of the disease since 1975. Several treatments are being developed and novel drugs are still in the pipeline. Thanks to the women of Connecticut and the doctors who led to the discovery of the bacterial cause of Lyme infection. Causes of Lyme disease Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by bacterium in the genus...

Causes and effect of smoking has been the subjects of various researches as it is a public knowledge that smoking causes a variety of diseases in addition to lung cancer. Coldez and Hunter (2000) affirmed that it is not surprising should smoking be a cause of so many different types of cancer (p. 7). Coldez and Hunter asserts that inhalation is a very effective way of distributing chemicals throughout the body (p. 7) while tobacco smoke is believe to contain some fifty chemicals that are known to...

Reading through William Shakespeares sonnets, one can easily notice how he compared women to nature, and how he looked at love as an eternal thing. In sonnets 18, 20, and 130 for example, Shakespeare likened the beauty of a woman to nature and her character to the elements of it. The beginning line of Sonnet 20 goes like this A womans face, with natures own hand painted. This is just one of the several other lines in the above-mentioned sonnets which describe women. Ultimately, Shakespeare used...

SirMadam I am writing to you with the intention to seek for your support and assistance in our fund raising campaign. As you know, the American Foundation for the Disabled has always sought to find better options for children with physical abilities and helping them live better lives. The current endeavor showcases a program entitled Reaching out Boundaries, Running for a Purpose which would happen next week March 5, 2010. It involves participants running for the benefit of the Good Samaritan Program...

Impact of Cellular Phones on Shopping Cellular phones have given individuals more flexibility through  increased connectivity and communication,  which further increases as the services offered through the cellular phones started to go beyond mere SMS and calls to include e-mail and Internet browsing (Deeter,  2009, p. 32). The use of cellphones, initially intended for business purposes, have also changed and proliferated different age groups to include even youth that made use of...

Change is inevitable in the lives of human beings, the circumstances in which an individual is leading hisher life in present times is bound to change in the future. The ability to accept changes in ones life is significant for an individual to adapt himselfherself to the various circumstances in hisher life. If a person is unable to accept the changes that have occurred in hisher life or the society in which heshe is leading hisher life, it may have a detrimental effect on the thinking and behavior...

Macbeth is an epic tragedy that delves on the remarkable pity and remorse of the main character which implicitly reveals its flaws as a human being. Macbeth, the main character in this epic, was first portrayed as a valiant soldier who has the perfect characterization of a real hero. Nevertheless, because of his great ambition to become a king, he was influenced to kill King Duncan in order to get the crown and glory for himself. This incident, though it makes his dream come true, becomes his worst...

Christine Jorgensen was a revolution personified. As a kid, George Jorgensen, Jr., was uncomfortable being around many people. He was a loner. Even as a child he felt that he was different from others. This feeling caused him to withdraw himself from the kids his age, who would always call him a sissy. He would rather read when all the other kids would play. I remember that I anticipated school with a great deal of excitement, for my great ambition at that year was to learn to read. (Jorgensen,...

Each person is unique in one way or another and this uniqueness can be perceived by different people in different ways.  David Sedaris story Go Carolina is not really a story about being gay, rather, it is a story about being different and unique and how society puts much pressure on people who are different to blend in with existing social norms. Reading the story, one would initially notice that instead of focusing more on the protagonists being gay, the author dwells more on the verbal...

(St. Francis Assisi Church, New York Father Laurences Chambers) Father Laurence Im sure that heaven is delighted that you two have decided to get married, my son, but Im praying that this wont end tragically.  You know how bad things are between your families. I still dont understand why your businesses have to compete so ruthlessly when you can cooperate. Romeo I know. But Im sure I want to do this. I can assure you Juliet thinks the same. Tragedy will come if it will, but the sadness that...

But here the timidity and awkwardness of youth and inexperience were still apparent and there was a feeling of embarrassment in the atmosphere, as if someone had just knocked at the door. Anna Sergeyevna, the lady with the dog, seemed to regard the affair as something very special, very serious, as if she had become a fallen woman (Chekhov 1527). I chose this passage because here, Chekhov shows the confusion between Anna Sergeyevna and Gurov as natural and even anticipated Gurov, with his rich...

Aggression in teens is caused by a number of factors. Some of these factors are hereditary while others are acquired during the individuals development. The environment in which the youth grows in plays a vital role in the personality. The environment shapes the character and mannerism of the adolescent. In adolescence, a teen undergoes several physical and psychological changes which can easily be influenced by the environment. Watching video games could have an adverse effect on the child aggressiveness....

King Oedipus by Sophocles is one of the greatest classical tragedies where he deals with the fundamental issues of human life on earth. This play is also famous for its use of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is a literary device in which a dialogue or a situation is used to convey one meaning to the character or characters on the stage had a different meaning to the audience. In Greek tragedy, irony was frequently used to make their dramas interesting to the audience, because the audience knows what...

The novel was written in the seventeenth century by Mme De Lafayette, under the assumed name of Segrais.  It is a fact that the novel was semi-autobiographic in nature and this is the reason that the novelist preferred to hide under an assumed name.  The novel rings with the melancholy and sweetness of the character of the novelist.  She was also connected with the prominent women of her century and this too led to the writing of many works of art. The story is centers on a womans...

In his poems Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod presents Prometheus as a trickster figure  an irritating figure to Zeus in short, a benefactor of man. Hesiod draws upon Prometheus gift of fire to man to mark the separation of mankind from the world of the gods. Prometheus, bounded by his own nature, protects man from both the gods and the animals of the wild (Thury and Devinney, 513). He gives man intelligence  of the ability to create civilization and culture  to protect them from...