Benjamin Mangelsdorf

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Shays's Rebellion was a historical event that actually occurred after the Revolutionary War. It happened in Massachusetts between 1786 and 1787. It was basically carried out by farmers that had...

In Persepolis, we see different cultures influencing Marjane in a variety of ways. One of the most obvious ways is how she interacts with Western culture. As a child, she thinks of Western...

Developing a thesis statement is an important step in writing a good paper, and it's best to have your thesis picked out before you begin writing. Once you have it, you can decide on your evidence,...

Marcus Garvey, a highly influential leader of African-American philosophy and politics in the early 1900s, is largely thought of as a man who worked alone, though this isn't entirely true. He was...

Crabbe is an epistolary book, meaning it is written as a series of documents rather than narrated in the typical way of a novel. In this case, we are reading through journal entries of Franklin...

"Three Dreams in a Desert" is just that: three dreams that the narrator has while in the desert. I will give a quick summary of each. The first is of a beast tied to another beast, both in the...

Judith Wright is largely known for poems focusing on aboriginal Australia and Australian issues, whereas a lot of Seamus Heaney poems focus on his native Ireland. Still, there are plenty of...

In The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola, there are two hugely key characters to know about. The first is Denise Baudu, a young woman who travels to Paris and starts working in a department store. She...

Negritude poetry was an African movement in the 1930s that centered around a celebration of Africa, African culture and people, and blackness in general. It was spearheaded by French-speaking...

Stephen Leacock's "My Financial Career" is a bit of an odd story—it is very short, and very few events really transpire. A rough summary would be that the narrator nervously walks into a bank to...

There is a lot to be gathered from the popularity of dystopian fiction among the youth market in America. While this is hardly a new phenomenon, it seemed particularly strong in the era of The...

This is a difficult question to answer, as nowhere in the book is it explicitly stated what exact breed Black Beauty is. We are, however, given some descriptions of his appearance, such as the fact...

The overlap—and indeed, the struggle—between Native culture and Christian culture forms the backbone of this story. It begins with Leon and Ken finding their dead grandfather, Teofilo, and taking...

The Bench is a story set in Apartheid-era South Africa. It begins with Karlie, a man who has been so indoctrinated into Apartheid racism that he has never considers the fact that maybe he is just...

In the book, Maulana Fazlullah is a Taliban leader. He gained public support using charisma and public speeches that essentially presented him as a man of the people who wanted to help better...

My Financial Career is a (very) short story about a man who nervously walks into a bank, deposits his $56, mistakenly draws it out again, leaves amidst "a roar of laughter," and then vows to never...

"Split Cherry Tree" is about a son and his father and the two worlds they live in: the working-class rural world and the more educated and refined new class. Dave Sexton, the boy, is in between the...

This is a tricky question. Generally, these time periods are named after the fact and the differences in the eras of places like Europe were both gradual and natural. When we think of recent...

An oxymoron is when a phrase is constructed using contradictory words or ideas that are placed next to each other. Some examples of this in common speech are the classic "jumbo shrimp" or the...

In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself miraculously turned into a giant insect. His family is (understandably!) terrified and shocked, and the story explores the emotions that...

When discussing how figurative language is used in writing, we are looking at devices like metaphors, similes, personification and more. Most good writers will often use many, if not all,...

Victor Frankenstein's abandonment of the monster is a major cause of the actions the monster later takes in the story. However, there are certainly more examples of cause and effect in Shelley's...

The Shining is set in the Overlook Hotel, which is located in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Some important things to remember about the hotel are that it is isolated due to the winter...