Aaryn Kealty, M.A.

The Diary of Anne Frank sheds light on the life of a young Jewish girl in hiding during World War II. While much of her situation is unusual, there are still many things that Anne experiences just...

Simply put, nationalism is a strong connection to one's nation. Citizens swayed by nationalism focus on their own nation's interests over the interest of other nations. In the United States, for...

Industrialization at first appeared to be a great leap into the future. Tasks that had once taken laborers hours or even days to complete were now taking significantly less time with the aid of new...

When Starr interacts with Khalil at the beginning of the novel The Hate U Give, she describes the crowd parting for Khalil, as if he were a black Moses. She then mentions that while he is trying to...

In Angie Thomas's novel The Hate U Give, protagonist Starr Carter’s view of the world changes drastically from beginning to end, and her view of law enforcement is no exception. She moves from a...

In 1925, a German art critic first used the term “magical realism” in an essay to describe an emerging form of visual art in which realism is still present but with a new emphasis. Franz Roh, the...

In the novel Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson portrays the Revolutionary War through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old enslaved girl named Isabel. While Isabel may be a young enslaved African American...