Narrative

Today’s man finds himself living in a world that encapsulates him within the parameters of the norms and values of the society, with little room for individuality. Psychologically and physically,…

Spiritual clarity is a concept perhaps as obscure and fleeting of any of life’s elusive and rare human sentiments. That which defines the relationship between man and God, varied and…

Modern Temper: American Culture & Society in the 1920s is a very well-known book written by Lynn Dumenil. In this book, the author has portrayed some very important factors about…

“Development and displacement” depicts several growing challenges to the philosophies and practices of progress in the modern-day world, linked with kinds of displacement. Beginning with the caption-grasping situations linked with…

Religious books can be considered as important read. One of the most read books in history is the Bible. The Revelation of the Bible is the last book of the…

Richard McCann’s (2005) short story My Mother’s Clothes provides insights to gender issues that evolve from the development of ones’ sense of community, family, friendship and self. The story is…

The short story by Chekhov depicts an agreement between a millionaire and a young lawyer, in which the latter agrees to spent fifteen years in solitary confinement and thus will…

The era of 1919-1920 was an era of Harlem Renaissance, an era that witnessed the stimulant growth of Independence in creativity and creation of self identity. It was also known…

The short story, “A Story of an Hour”, by Kate Chopin is one work of literature that has called much attention. However, not all of the attention that the story…

While the representation of disaster is not entirely new to cinema and other forms of popular culture, there has been, in the years following the 20th century, an increase in…

The term postmodernism is applied loosely across a multitude of disciplines – architecture, arts, historiography, philosophy and theology – and is best understood as a theoretical point in which culture…

Reading selections by such authors as Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X and Audre Lorde has caused me to re-examine myself as a student, reader, and writer. These authors have demonstrated such…

My Family or Mi Familia is distinctively Hispanic but at the same is representative of the experience of many ethnic communities in the United States. In the review made by…

My name is Samantha Jocelyn; I am an International Baccalaureate Diploma student. To enhance my studies, I’m currently taking a higher level Theater Arts class at the local Youth Theatre…

A society which professed the ideals of freedom, equality and democracy, the institution of slavery was considered a blot. These sentiments found their way in the “Declaration of Independence”, ‘North-West…

Elizabeth Bishop’s “Lullaby for the Cat,” Robert Lowell’s “For the Union Dead,” and Sylvia Plath’s “Kindness” differ from postmodernism by using autonomous narrators and clear representation, as well a lack…

Post-race thinking emphasizes de constructive approaches to identities, and draws on theories of performativity and ethnicities. Race prejudice is based upon racial identity, whereas color prejudice is based upon skin…

In “1984” by George Orwell, the main character, Winston is in conflict in nearly every page of the book. He is in constant surveillance by the Party. He has also,…

Throughout the world, countries and cultures are struggling with the idea of queer. The problem is that the United States and many countries live with the concept of patriarchy. Patriarchy…

Su Tong is a pen name of Tong Zhonggui. He was born in 1963 in Suzhou and now living in Nanjing with his family. Su Tong is not only a…