Michael Verderame

There are a number of possible reasons why political participation increased in the US in the late nineteenth century, particularly at the national level. New communication technologies, such as...

The increasing complexity of American economic life is largely responsible for the rise in the number of corporations in the late nineteenth century. The worlds of manufacturing, transportation,...

Following World War I, the role of the federal government changed drastically, as it became increasingly involved in the key institutions and sectors of American life. This trend had actually begun...

In F. R. Leavis's view, two essential aspects of Keats's greatness are his aestheticism and the degree to which the poet's personality disappears from his poetry. Keats's poetry, for Leavis, is...

Islam and Buddhism both successfully spread from their respective homelands of Saudi Arabia and India to become global religions. However, differences in their core theological orientations meant...

The flashback scene in which the narrator's mother reveals the story of his uncle's death occurs at a pivotal point in the story. The narrator's father has just died, and the narrator is forced to...

The sentence structure, sentence length, and word choice in Gary Soto's "Oranges" all combine to demonstrate that the speaker is a mature adult, looking back on an episode from his youth....

The work of the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy frequently subverts stereotypes about traditional gender roles by encouraging readers to approach topics in new ways. For instance, in "Anne Hathaway,"...

Although it is a comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream certainly raises important issues and seeks to provoke thought on the part of the audience. One issue the play deals with is the gender roles in...

The blues, as defined in James Baldwin's "The Use of the Blues," is not just a musical form. More fundamentally, the blues refers to a particular way of responding to the suffering and imperfection...