Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Analysis of Solitude Excluding the title of the novel (sorry, didn’t mean to spoil the book), it is evident that throughout Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s hit, One Hundred Years of Solitude, there exists this element of solitude that has a direct correlation with the various exhibited themes. One of the distinguishing qualities that establishes the … Read more

What makes ‘great people’?

A great individual is any person who has achieved incredible or magnificent goals in life and has created a name that future generations will remember in reference to a field of achievement. It involves doing work that is useful to humanity and supposes happiness in other people’s lives. People in this category are open-minded and … Read more

Franz Kafka and Percy Shelley's Ekphrastic Works to Transcendence

 Franz Kafka’s “The Cares of a Family Man” and Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias” are two texts that contain an object as the center of each work. In Kafka’s short story, a family man attempts to interpret the lifelike object/creature Odradek. His story is notional ekphrastic because it is, as James A.W. Heffernan explains in his … Read more

Genotype to Phenotype – PTC Analysis

Introduction: To determine how genotype determines phenotype, genetic sequence analysis is commonly used — which, in turn, helps us to better understand human biology as a whole. A pivotal role of genetic variation: what distinguishes our species from other species is simply our ability to distinguish — how we think, how we act and react, … Read more

Go-Go: The Impact It Has Had on DC Music, Culture and People

Have you ever been to the Nationals Capital, see the monuments, and wonder what else is could this beautiful city possibly offer the world? Well, there is something out there for you, Go-go music. The native indigenous music to Washington, DC. The heavily percussive style of music that got its hype during the “chocolate city … Read more

Catullus’s Use of Poetry and Effects of the Sallustian Theory of Decline

I. Thesis Statement Through his invective poetry lampooning the corrupt officials of the Roman Republic, Catullus communicates his grievances with the current state of the Republic, laments the loss of pietas, the defining value of Rome, and corroborates the Sallustian theory of decline. II. Introductory Paragraph In the 1995 thriller Seven, directed by David Fincher, … Read more

”The War in Afghanistan: 17 Years of Conflict and Counting

Introduction The Afghanistan war began back in 2001 and is still ongoing with The United States and Allied soldiers still fighting in Afghanistan to this today. With seventeen years passing since the United Nations first deployed troops to the rough mountainous landscape known as Afghanistan, it has been a tough uphill battle with thousands of … Read more

Explore How Ladislas Starevich Changed Animation with "The Cameraman's Revenge" (1912)

 In this essay, I argue that Ladislas Starevich's The Cameraman's Revenge (1912), in both it's method and it's medium serves as a reflection of the artistic and cultural conventions of it's time, while simultaneously turning a critical lens upon this time and thus effectively becoming a source of social commentary. In order to argue … Read more

The History of African American Poetry Through the Harlem Renaissance

 In the 1920’s, creative and intellectual life flourished within African American communities in the North and Midwest regions of the United States, but nowhere more so than in Harlem. The small New York City neighborhood was filled with black artists, poets, intellectuals, writers, and musicians. Black-owned businesses, from newspapers, publishing houses, and music companies … Read more

Bipolar Disorder- Facts, Diagnosis, and Treatments

 Most people think Bipolar disorder is a scary disorder that causes a person to go slowly insane. They may also think that most people who have Bipolar disorder are crazy people that live on the streets. Well, that is completely false. A majority of people with Bipolar disorder are highly functioning members of society … Read more

The Absurd Truth of Life in David Lynch’s Films

Throughout his films, David Lynch presents the truth of the depths of the American life. While it may be surreal and absurd, it’s its absurdity that allows it to be realistic. The majority of David Lynch’s films are set in small towns, but even through these small towns we see a deep dark hidden secret … Read more