Summary The article “Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving in” was originally written by Roger Fisher and Ury William in 1981. The chosen fragment covers the two main chapters, namely, “The Problem” and “The Method.” Both chapters outline the criteria for negotiating effectively without biases. The primary purpose of the article is to address the[…]
Option 1 Sylvia’s experiences as a young girl and as one of Miss Moore’s students highlight the value of active, critical education. Miss Moore decides to take her students to a toy store to create an understanding of the differences in social class. The teacher also has an aim of enlightening her students to challenge[…]
Introduction. This study focuses on two historical trips in particular. Many ancient Mesopotamian writings tell the same narrative and conclude in the same way. Both “The Descent of Inanna” and “The Epic of Gilgamesh” are identical in essential elements yet differ often during their adventures. Both stories take place in the same period and the[…]
True, love is one of the most pervasive themes in literature. Indeed, the subject of love is addressed in a plethora of literal works (Zala and Joshi, 2017). Love may be good energy that inspires people to make selfless sacrifices for others, or it can be a toxic force that drives people crazy or to[…]
Crane’s way to deal with expounding on war was viewed as new and novel upon its distribution on account of its original style and its utilization of novel scholarly procedures. This essay will discuss what was innovative about Crane’s approach to imagery, dialogue, personification and interior monologue in The Red Badge of Courage. Preeminent, Crane[…]
Introduction “Cause Ah love you so hard and Ah know you don’t love me no mo’ (Hurston 79) The quote referees to a scenario in the short story when Missie is sure that Joe would not forgive her after he found her cheating. It is an indication of the theme of betrayal that is evident[…]
One of the most outstanding scholars and philosophers of ancient Greece, Socrates, once posited that the secret of change is to focus all the energy not on fighting the old but on building the new. This quote speaks to the dominant theme of coping with the challenges of adapting to a new world’s milieu in[…]
Abstract The study examines the failure of feminism on accounts of avoiding the truth and focusing on novelists figures that emphasize beauty. More importantly, the study dwells on the complexity that feminists have introduced pertaining to the perception of women as objects of beauty and aesthetics. Feminist theorists have had their fair share of criticism[…]
Introduction The growth and development process of Edgar Allen Poe’s life offered very depressing experiences, such as the death of his entire family. In turn, psychological and mental challenges he underwent were successfully presented through dark stories that resonated with horror literature that was an emerging theme during the early 2o century in America. Through[…]
Elizabeth I has been known historically as ‘quick tempered, a clever wordsmith and a resourceful strategist’.[1] Having ‘received one of the finest humanist educations of her day; and from the age of eleven, if not earlier’ leading her to produce a ‘steady flow’ of works, it is apparent that reading and writing played a vital role[…]
For many years, the Chinese classic tale Journey to the West has been told in various versions. The story has been inspired by Hsuang-Tsang’s journey during the 17th century. The contemporary work is the conclusion of around 900 years of telling and reciting the work as a folktale and a legend. The story has also recaptured[…]
There are different themes evident in Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven.” The first theme is creation of art before the Georgia Flu and after the pandemic, which claimed the lives of many people (St John Mandel 20). Before the crisis, the novel depicts artistic creation through movies and performances. For instance, Miranda pursues novel[…]
The Heart of a Woman poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson gives a description of the freedom that women crave but they are imprisoned in their shelters. The first stanza describes the freedom that a woman gets at dawn and flies from home while the second stanza the woman is forced to see her world’s reality as[…]
Before writing A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines grew intrigued by the Willie Francis case, a young man who was sentenced to death through the electric chair, guilty of murdering a white man. Gaines established a deep connection with Francis’s case, which lead him to use that as inspiration for the plot of his current novel.[…]
Arguably, the striking similarity between Virgil’s Aeneid and Dante’s inferno is that the main characters undertake an underground journey. In the Inferno, Dante sets out into hell both as an epic hero and as a poet. Dante’s underworld journey is largely inspired by Virgil’s Aeneid that delineates Virgil’s journey into the underworld of his hero[…]
The play begins amid a raging storm. The setting comprises a stricken boat with an outstanding crew aboard the ship. As the Sailors fight to save the ship, some Imperial voyagers arrive, and Alonso, inquires about the location of the ace (chief). The boatswain warns the passengers that they will meddle and instructs them to[…]
‘The Tables Turned’ presents the reader with a persona who passionately argues that man can learn infinitely more from nature than from the world of books. The ‘self’ within the poem cries out to ‘my Friend’ and pleads not be sedentary but instead to seek his knowledge from a place ‘of ready wealth’, that is[…]
A cohesive essay is an essay that primarily talks about a single subject using the author’s ideas and evidence from scholarly articles. Besides, cohesive themes follow a logical structure of reflection and analysis of the topic. These short stories, The Sisters, Araby, and an Encounter, are extracted from James Joyce’s “Dubliners,” first published in 1914.[…]
This novel was published around 1925 by Scott Fitzgerald in New York. The book narrates the tragic story of Great Gatsby, a well-known millionaire. This interplay story tells how a millionaire pursues a famous Daisy Buchanan, a young woman who had developed love with her since childhood. Basing the Scott Fitzgerald arguments, the publications are[…]
The piece of literature for this essay is southland by Nina Revoyr. The crime novel and compelling story contains the themes of redemption, racism, murder justice and a rich narrative that fleshes pout both the present and the past. Thus, the author describes the details of World War II, the tragedies of the riots and[…]
Introduction and Statement of the Problem The Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling, a British author, comprises fantasy novels about a boy, Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger – all students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The plot of the story revolves around Harry Potter’s fight with Lord Voldemort, a[…]
Michelle Alexander, in his book The New Jim Crow, makes a radical attack on the system of racial discrimination that still exists and flourishes in the US. However, the author’s attention is attracted to one particular aspect of the US politics in the last decades, which is often neglected by the social activist, mass incarceration[…]
Amy Tan’s novel “Mother Tongue” is a tale about Tan’s relationship with her mother. Chinese and American cultures are contrasted and contrasted with each other in this article. She uses her own writing style to establish a link between these two civilizations because she believes that language possesses unfathomable power, which she believes to be[…]
From the heat and dust of Latin America, poverty-stricken and often violent, Gabriel Garcia Marquez combined past accounts and irrational beliefs, the genuine and the dreamlike to make a world as extraordinary and alluring as a South-American carnival. He grew up in a Columbian town known as Aracataca, a lonely kid who put up at[…]