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âThe Dressâ is a short story about an impairing relationship between two sisters, Flora and Ra-chel, written by Julia Darling in 2006. The text tells a story about how the two sistersâ relationship breaks, which unfortunately happens on their motherâs fortieth birthday. This happens because of Flora who stole and ruined Rachelâs dress. In the … Read more
About sixty years ago, the United Nations took a moral stand against human rights crimes and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a proclamation of thirty rights that belong to us all, starting memorably with Article 1: âAll human beings are born free and equal.â The British writer, Ali Smith, has found much inspiration … Read more
Renaissance is defined as a rebirth or revival. The Harlem Renaissance started in the mid 1920âs. It marked the renewal and revival of African Americans. A time during which slavery was ushered from the minds of African Americans and one also during which their spirits were renewed culturally through poetry music and arts. Many African … Read more
Patrick M. Cronin, PhD, Clausewitz Condensed. AUTHORâS BACKGROUND Patrick Cronin PhD wrote Clausewitz Condensed in 1985 while a defense analyst for the Congressional Research Service for the Library of Congress and a senior analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses . While at the Congressional Research Service, he worked extensively on U.S.-Soviet military balance under … Read more
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a book by political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt, published in New York by Penguin Books in 1963. When the news of Eichmannâs capture and forthcoming trial was broadcast, Hannah Arendt proposed herself as a trial reporter to William Shawn, editor of The New … Read more
What do you like about the book? What I like is to read the struggles in the book. How Bridget it write in her diary is really funny to read! Sometimes you can read how much she is in love and other times she write about some low points in her life. Because it was … Read more
Comparative literature is a field that deals with study of literature from groups of people with different language or culture. The group of people studied can be from different nations, or they can share the same language but be located at different nations. These studies encompass an understanding and comparison of the literature between respective … Read more
The author of this book The new science of cities Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, where he is Chairman of the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Arizona State University. He is the coauthor of ‘ Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function … Read more
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a work of fiction written by Mohsin hamid in 2007. The story is told from a first-person point of view in the present, and is an intertwined tale of two stories. One of how Changez became an Islamic Fundamentalist, and the other an account of the interaction between Changez and his … Read more
All good books entertain us, inform us and intrigue us, Richard Harland’s World Shaker does all of this whilst giving us a vey meaningful book which makes you want to keep reading. A strong reoccurring theme of inequality brings along themes of, discrimination to females on the World Shaker, the division of social classes and … Read more
One major motif that takes place in the novel, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman is ‘Facing one’s Twin or Double.’ It all begins when Charles ‘Fat Charlie’ Nancy visits Florida for his father’s funeral. While there a friend of his father’s, Mrs. Higgler, tells Fat Charlie he has a brother and also how to contact … Read more
Full title: The Concept of Pynchon’s Entropy and its Role in Postmodern Society Marked by Massive Consumerism and Oversaturation with Information Introduction Pynchon deals in his work with a complex concept of entropy and reveals how certain trends in our contemporary culture marked by massive consumerism, have a tendency that is similar to that of … Read more
The author of this quote, Lorna Hardwick in her seminal work Reception Studies, was referring to the art of film; however, I would like to argue that it also fits the (quintessentially) Japanese art of anime. In the last few years, several people involved in the study of ancient cultures and civilisations (amongst whom a … Read more
“The Lottery”, a short story, by Shirley Jackson is a very suspenseful yet shocking read, which focus on how tragic it can be to blindly follow a tradition. The story is set in a small town, on the summer morning of June 27th. The story begins with the towns people gathering in the town square … Read more
The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a famous novel for its devastating and painfully honest depiction of identity, betrayal, deception and atonement. The narrative portrays the journey of a boy escaping from his haunted childhood while torturing himself with his own contrition. These two concepts of identity and redemption play a vital role … Read more
