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Liberal Education
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I believe that during school, the only part of our education that allows us to prepare for future challenges in a practical manner is Liberal Arts. In the current environment of burgeoning change, it not only gives us a platform through which we can practice being flexible, but is ...
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The Transformation of Gilgamesh
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps one of the most revered literary works remaining from ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, hence treated with the respect it deserves. According to legend, the literary piece was found among ruins in Ninevah dating all the way back to 2000 B.C, in ...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee portrays Scout as a younger her, seeing that she was too a tomboy growing up. Scout is ridiculed for such actions. Boo Radley is teased just because people don't know him. Discrimination doesn't have to just be about race, it can also be because people ...
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Retrospection of Poems
Retrospection in the following poems "Those Winter Days" and "Unknown Citizen"
Retrospection in the following poems "Those Winter Days" and "Unknown Citizen"
Retrospection “Those Winter Days”
Robert Hayden's tribute to his foster father demonstrates the effectiveness of understatement, brevity and artful imagery. Mingled with respectful memories of the father ...
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Jane Eyre was the novel that symbolized the opening of a new era for feminism and motivated the women to challenge the biasness of the Victorian attitudes towards women, and made them aware of the need top be independent. It focused on completely new concepts of marriage, desires and ...
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Born into a Unitarian family, Ralph Waldo Emerson abandoned a formal religious career due to doctrinal doubts, and stands with Thoreau as a representative of the philosophic-literary school of thought known as transcendentalism. Emerson was drawn in this direction partly through his European trip of 1832-3, which featured meetings in ...
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Edmund Spenser and Sir Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
His major work is the allegorical epic The Faerie Queene, of which six books survive (three published in 1590 and three in 1596). Other books include The Shepheard's Calendar (1579), Astrophel (1586), the love sonnets Amoretti, and the marriage poem Epithalamion (1595).
Born in London, ...
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THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
The Tuskegee Airmen
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World War II African American fighter pilots, bomber escorts, and ground support crew who, because of segregation in the armed forces, trained at Tuskegee Institute and a nearby training complex in Alabama. By the end of World War II, nearly 1,000 men had graduated from ...
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Animal Imagery in Othello
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All through his play Othello, William Shakespeare provides the exploit of animal simile as an intends for his role players that are to say Iago, to correspond their ideas and personality. With the countless of such envisions, a great deal can be articulated to the reality that Iago's lecture ...
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Afro-Peruvian Music and Dance
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Afro-Peruvian music dances are those created by the people of African descent in Peru. At the colonial time, peoples of African descent were gradually adapting to new customs, but sought to preserve their cultural heritage, mainly musical, and developed in an Afro-Peruvian culture itself. From that original ...