Rachel Pesek, M.A.

There is definitely humor in Anne Frank's Diary. In using humor, Anne shows that even under the most dire circumstances, she is still a young girl who expresses feelings across the emotional...

Different cultures have different acceptable norms in business, so that can be a difficult arena to navigate in terms of operations. For example, in many developing countries, bribery is an...

When working on this essay, the first thing you'll need to do is decide which position you will want to take: either that a singer-songwriter should be able to win the Nobel Prize in literature or...

Rushdie grounds the novel in the moment of midnight at the moment of India's independence. Yet he takes this historical, factual moment and immediately plunges it into the mythic—the protagonist is...

When Toni Morrison’s novel A Mercy came out in 2008, it immediately drew comparisons to her acclaimed novel Beloved, which was written over twenty years before. A Mercy (which takes place in the...

At the end of her novel A Mercy, Morrison sets up this hierarchy of ownership: from hard, to wrong, to wicked. To be given dominion over another, which is what happens with a mother and child, is a...

On one level, Morrison is saying that story of Beloved is not one to be passed on to the next generations. She shows the dangers of literally conjuring up the ghost of the traumatized past as she...