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Thousand CranesNobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's short novel, Thousand Cranes, examines the nature of love through the relationships of several characters in postwar Japan. Kikuji Mitani is the protagonist...
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Thousand CranesThe main theme of Thousand Cranes is fate and the fact that, in this story at least, it seems to be inescapable. It was fate that brought protagonist Kikuji Mitani's father together with his varied...
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Thousand CranesThousand Cranes was written by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata and takes place not long after the end of World War II. Much of the story takes place at various traditional Japanese tea...
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Don QuixoteWhy do Don Quixote and Sancho need to leave La Mancha for their adventures to occur? How does the...Don Quixote and Sancho Panza leave La Mancha because Don Quixote has read chivalric romances that make him want to right all the wrongs in the world. As Cervantes writes: "In short, his wits being...
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Don QuixoteIn the iconic tale, Senor Alonso Quijana may well have been Cervantes' alter ego, given the latter's own love of reading and adventure. Senor Quijana's obsession with the life of chivalry...
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Seamus HeaneyThis beautiful poem by Seamus Heaney is, as the title indicates, an elegy, a poem of lament. Traditionally, an elegy contains three sections: an expression of grief, an expression of praise for the...
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneThe Rosicrucians claimed to have access to mysterious, hidden knowledge from the ancient past, which could provide spiritual and intellectual enlightenment. Their ideas came from places like the...
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was T.S. Eliot's first published poem. Over five years elapsed between the time writing began and the time of publication, largely because Eliot had some...
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HistoryRomanticism developed as a reaction against the Enlightenment. Enlightenment thought was based on three basic tenets: rationalism, or the belief that the universe followed rules that man could...
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William ShakespeareOthello's racial background affects events in the play for two reasons: the way people think of Othello and the way that other people's reaction to Othello makes him think of himself. Other people...
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ReferenceI watched Casablanca in my english lit class, and i'm a little pressed on time, being that finals...To understand why Rick needs redemption, let's look at what Rick and his rival for Isla's love, Victor Lazlo each represent. Victor represents the idealistic vision of a cause. He is willing to...
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Alfred, Lord TennysonAs the poem opens, Oenone is sad and heartbroken that Paris, her husband, has left her for Helen. The nature around her reflects her depression by falling silent and drooping, just as she is doing....
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Law and PoliticsAuthoritarian regimes may be structured as dictatorships run by a single strongman or junta, with a straightforward, top-down flow of power, but not all cases are so simple. Structures of...
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The TempestIn The Tempest, one of Shakespeare's most well-loved and most heavily symbolic plays, the island setting does indeed affect and influence the play's action and the behavior of the characters. It's...
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The TempestThroughout the play, Prospero has been dictatorial and controlling. But in the final act he becomes forgiving. The play offers three reasons for this change. First, Ariel motivates Prospero to...
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LiteratureThe short story collection The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury contains 18 tales, the second of which is "Kaleidoscope." The story describes the final moments of the lives of the crew of a...
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HistoryWomen and African Americans in the United States have historically had to struggle to obtain the same rights as white males, and it’s true that history books tend to focus on “dead white...
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SulaEva's quite a complex character, so it's inevitable that there are both sympathetic and unsympathetic elements to her personality. Much of what is good and bad in Eva stems from being left by her...
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ReferenceChildren who are born with biracial identity face special challenges in social situations. One of the general ways of defining biracial identity is that of having one parent of African descent and...
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NightThe central message shared by all three is this: indifference allows evil to triumph, but indifference can be overcome through the sharing of memories. Through his writing and speeches, Elie Wiesel...
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LiteratureThe famed English poet W. Somerset Maugham wrote this interesting version of this, said to be an ancient Mesopotamian fable or folktale. The tone is fascinating because it is deceptively simple,...
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Turtles All the Way DownJohn Green's Turtles All the Way Down is, at its core, an attempt by John Green to work through his own issues with anxiety. He, like the main character, Aza, suffers from OCD, and this is made...
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Turtles All the Way DownThe main character in John Green's Turtles All the Way Down is the narrator of the story, Aza Holmes. She suffers from several anxiety disorders, including hypochondria and Obsessive Compulsive...
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Turtles All the Way DownThe main theme of Turtles All the Way Down is mental illness. The author, John Green, who himself suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, wrote a book in which the main character is constantly...
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Turtles All the Way DownTurtles All the Way Down is the latest novel by John Green. It, like most of his others, takes a look at the complicated part of life that is the teenaged years. This particular book follows...
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Life of PiFirst, let us take a look at the definition of hero from a literary standpoint. The term hero has been used to simply denote the main character. As an archetype, the hero has appeared in every...
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HistoryThe early republic was marked by tensions between an effort at reform (a humane consideration) and the desire of the country to grow economically and politically. The Second Great Awakening, a...
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HistoryThe Cold War followed hard upon World War II and in many respects deprived the world of a true peace. The Soviet Union had joined the Allies following the invasion of Nazi Germany in 1941, but as...
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A Raisin in the SunWhat is the significance of the lines, " Travis: I just came in.........Ruth: To the doctor" (Act...In A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry depicts an African-American family struggling to make ends meet, going about the mundane events of their lives—waking up, sharing a bathroom with other...
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God's Bits of Wood
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God's Bits of WoodAlthough God's Bits of Wood is the story of the Senegalese railway workers strike in 1947, it is meant to be a testament to the continued courage and strength of the African people. The novel first...
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God's Bits of WoodThe most important theme of God's Bits of Wood is unity. The novel is based on the true story of how Senegalese railway workers went on strike in 1947 to fight for better working conditions and...
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God's Bits of WoodGod's Bits of Wood is a novel by Ousmane Sembene based on the real-life events involved in the Senegalese railway workers' strike in 1947. The setting stretches from Senegal to Mali and the story...
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Suicide in the Trenches"Suicide in the Trenches" is one of Sassoon's most famous war poems. It confronts the grim reality of war with characteristically blunt and unflinching language: we are left in no doubt as to the...
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Literature"The Taste of Watermelon" is a coming-of-age story about a sixteen year-old-boy who goes a long way in maturing from a boy to a man in the course of one evening in which he steals a watermelon. The...
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HistoryWhen analyzing historical sources in search of what they can tell us about a period in time, we must always start by considering how accurate and reliable that source is likely to be. These diary...
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LiteratureThe "formalist" approach to literature really begins with the New Critics. As a group, they were distinctive because rather than simply being academic specialists in theories about literature, many...
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To Kill a MockingbirdJem's always been a very observant young man. He has the uncanny ability to read people's expressions, interpret their behavior, and sense when something's not quite right. We see this illustrated...
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Social SciencesIn your question, you ask about Ghana's perspective about the Rohingya refugee crisis. Bear in mind, however, that the Rohingya refugee situation primarily affects Bangladesh. Although Ghana has a...
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To Kill a MockingbirdThe night Miss Maudie's house burns down, Atticus wakes up Jem and Scout and leads them outside, both in case the fire spreads and because the neighborhood is gathering to try to help, saving what...
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ScienceThe pH scale measures the hydrogen ion concentration in a solution to determine how acidic or basic it is. Pure water has a pH of 7 while solutions with lower pH numbers are more acidic and those...
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ReferenceWhat are these mismatched trends between gasoline "prices at the pump" and oil "costs per barrel"...What the two graphs, one depicting the price variations in the cost of a barrel of crude oil and the other the price per gallon consumers "pay at the pump," illustrate is that costs largely track...
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LiteratureGordon LaChance is the protagonist of King's novella, The Body. In this line, he is referring to the version of himself which he feels he can still see "behind the lines of print" of the very first...
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All the Pretty Horses
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The Sign of the BeaverMatt's father has left him all alone in the Maine log cabin they have recently built together. He is going to head back home to Massachusetts to fetch Matt's sister, his mother, and the new baby....
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A Wrinkle in TimeSandy and Dennys are the sensible members of the Murry clan. Unlike the rest of their family, they're practical, down-to-earth, and just so incredibly normal. Since their father left, they've...
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Babylon RevisitedWhy does Fitzgerald begin the story with what seems to be the end of a conversation then continue...Fitzgerald likely does this to inspire interest or curiosity in his readers. Sometimes, writers begin their story in the middle or even tail end of a conversation. They purposely provide no other...
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and DenimIn the chapter "Us and Them," Sedaris is indeed specific about how far he moves away. He tells us that, when his family first moved to North Carolina, they lived in a rented house three blocks from...
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Bud, Not BuddyAs a "what do you think" type of question, you can feel free to answer the question however you think. The key component is to have an answer that can be supported with evidence from the text. Miss...
