English Literature

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.s Mother Night is a masterpiece of Black Humor. Mother Night, is presented as the work of one Howard W. Campbell, Jr. who is a prisoner awaiting trial in Israel for Nazi war crimes, with Vonnegut as the editor of the work. Unlike many of Vonneguts other works, the story is not concerned with the future, it is set in present day settings with Howard reminiscing about his past. Howard dedicates his recollections to Mata Hari, a Dutch exotic dancer who was executed by the French on...

One of the numerous painful realities of life, death is one such reality which evokes intense emotions in human beings. Although all human beings accept the fact that death is inevitable, most of the people fear death and seek ways to cheat it. People harbor different attitudes while looking at death and it is these attitudes that shape their reactions when they face death. Numerous literary works depict death as their themes and one such work which stands among them is the play Hamlet by William...

Poetry is probably the most used and loved form of literature. Compared to short stories or even novels, poems touch all the senses of a person most especially with the senses of sight and sound, even if this happens in the hypothetical sense. After all, for poetry to be understood and most especially to be appreciated, it has to be sights and sounds. The sights would naturally pertain to the images and pictures evoked in the minds eyes while the sounds would be reflected in the rhymes and rhythm...

Frankenstein, also referred to as The Modern Prometheus is a novel which was written by Mary Shelley. Moreover, this novel speaks of a scientist, victor Frankenstein, who creates an monster with human characteristics but with larger than life attributes. In Germany, Frankenstein literally refers to stone of the Franks, which represents a region or a town. At university, victors interest in sciences urges him to research on how life decays. After creating the monster, he not only hates its features...

There has always been controversy regarding the necessity of a college degree in a persons life. In the olden days, people used to acquire good and highly paying jobs after graduating from high school. However nowadays, with the advancement in technology, changed customer demands, increased employer expectations and new ways of cutting costs, people and companies are coming to the realization that high school education may not equip people fully with the necessary skills to cope with the changing...

     In the first paragraph of the poem, the feelings of a caged bird are being described. It is as if the caged bird feels the warmth of the sun and sees its brightness as it touches the slopes of the land. The bird even though caged can feel the soft breeze of the wind and can still imagine the wind as it stirs the grass on the land. The water in the river flows smoothly and the caged bird describes its shimmers with that of glasses. The bird continues on and illustrates how...

What is startling is the fact that male stereotypes have demonstrated an enduring resiliency despite evidence suggesting that these stereotypes often do not apply to the aging male population.  This is perhaps why Tuesdays with Morrie, a book by Mitch Albom about one of his dying professors, has touched such a raw nerve in both the academic community and in society more generally.  Men are in this book by Mitch Albom portrayed as vulnerable, as requiring some type of social support network,...

Dr. Bergman in his book The Discovery of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Lessons in the Practice of Political Medicine discusses and explains why it took so long for the public and the medical community to accept Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as a legitimate disease rather than as an unknown type of accident.  Historically, this type of death has had three main characteristics.  These characteristics were that the infant deaths were not expected because there were no prior health warnings,...

The business world has changed tremendously and it is today characterized by increasing competition, globalization and technological dynamism. I operate a communications firm which deals with installation of information technology devices including internet services, software management and programming for our customers. The communications industry commonly referred to as the information technology industry is one of the most dynamic industries today (LaRue, Childs, Larson  Ivany, 2004).    ...

James Joyces Ulysses is fairly regarded as the bright example of professional talented modernism. A complex combination of various literary and non-literary elements, Ulysses as if is being written and read at the intersection of artistic and routine features of the human life. Episode 15 Circe is as unique as it is also difficult to understand. It is written as a reflection of numerous hallucinations which intersect and interact, and which, as soon as they are understood and analysed, present a...

I belong to two different communities one is my current community which is in Ann Arbor where I study at the University of Michigan, and the other is the community that I left back in Shanghai, China.  My community at Ann Arbor is composed mostly of students who are also from different locations and just moved here to Ann Arbor to study at the University of Michigan.     The fact that University of Michigan is located at Ann Arbor makes majority of the population here diverse,...

The stories Girl by Jamaica Kincaid and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston share the same theme about the complexity of a woman. Both stories teaches that the more the world tries to dictate how a woman must act and react, the more the world complicates matters for her. This is because she is not a simple mechanical toy that one can simply input instructions on. A woman is human. She thinks and she feels she gets hurt and she inflicts pain. She is never predictable. As a matter of fact, a...

Environmentally and Economically    Equally alarming than another world war is global warming. It is one of the major problems that scientists and practitioners from the different branches of science and technology are working on. Since carbon dioxide is among the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, it may be implied that vehicles (cars) are major contributors to the crisis. Consequently, environmentally friendly card models were introduced by car manufacturers. The most accessible...

When you think of a vegetarian diet, you may get the misconception that the diet is lacking in proteins and therefore less healthy. This is unfounded since you can manage to balance the diet and get all the essential nutrients including proteins leading to a healthy living. There are whole benefits accrued to the practice of vegetarianism. How is a vegetarian diet better    A well balanced vegetarian diet goes a long way in preventing diseases such as cancer, hypertension, arthritis...

Globalization is being talked about everywhere. It has become a common subject of discussion and debate lately. Scholars from all over the world have become occupied in learning about it as a national issue and phenomenon, and sociologists have already initiated studies that aim to find out about its effects on peoples lives. Because of this global curiosity about such a phenomenon, globalization has been tried to defined and explicated in a lot of different ways. Now, people at the least have a...