20th-century English people

“Are the clean, organised, minimalist approaches of De Stijl a reaction against the blood, filth, destruction and chaos of war?” De Stijl, also called “Neoplasticism” was a Dutch art movement that occurred during the start of the 20th century. Translated into English, “De Stijl” means “The Style”. It was considered a social and a political movement due to its time, the era of the first world war. It began with Theo Van Doesburg and after meeting Piet Mondrian bonded over their love and passion…

Marianne Moore’s Poem “Graveyard” When thinking of a graveyard, you think of a place where dead people are buried. Through imagery and metaphor, Marianne Moore takes you on a ride of your life capturing life’s hardships along the way. Moore’s early poetry was written during a period of profound political and social upheaval. The women’s suffrage movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries culminated in the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, guaranteeing women the right to…

All the same, the performance of this limerick indexes a boisterous and inappropriate behavior involving alcohol long associated with the Irish as a community. As a dialect itself, the stigma carries its weight onto how the Irish are perceived as a people, and within the context of my family, which they still preformed with a lyrical implement of the typical Irish accent; ‘peed’ pronounced as the extenuated…

Nasht’s 2004 documentary which follows the story of Australian ‘Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History’ who was one of the last great imperial adventurers, who captured some of the greatest events of the 20th century and pioneered the use of colour photography. Similarly, in Lord Tennyson’s 19th century, mythical and philosophical poem; “Ulysses”, the narrative voice of the King is used to explore the notion of discovery and its ability to evolve the self instigating a psychological shift, and…

Division, Degradation, and Determination It is amazing. The amount in which America has changed is truly great. Over the past 100 years of this nation’s history, culture and the way in which society acts as a whole has evolved drastically. Without a doubt, the story of “Battle Royal” displays this fact very well. The author, Ralph Ellison, tactfully uses artful wording and vividly makes his writing come alive to captivate his readers. The main character in his story is a young African…

At the turn of the twentieth century, the ideas of evolution changed the worlds views of society. Many authors felt inspired by these new ideas of evolution, as seen in numerous novels during this time period. In the scientific novel The Island Of Dr. Moreau written by H.G. Wells, Wells utilizes his characters to compare and contrast the idea of evolution. Thus, this paper will evaluate and analyze literary criticisms discussing theme and character in Wells’s novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau. A…

World War. He wrote about the effect of Allied propaganda during World War I, saying, “From a propaganda point of view it was a matchless performance, for Wilson Brewed the subtle poison, which industrious men injected into the veins of a staggering people, until the smashing powers of the allied armies knocked them into…

Women in Society What was the role of women in the early 1800s? How did that role change over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries and how did it remain the same? Lucy Stone wrote, “I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.” Throughout history, our perspective of women has changed greatly. Wars and human rights movements have affected women’s role in…

self-reported, thus it is likely that they represent only a small portion of all election-related hate crimes that occurred in the immediate aftermath of November 8, 2016. So what is a hate crime, why were there so many after the election, and what motivates people to act in such a cruel and seemingly irrational way? Hate crime is generally classified as an act of violence where the perpetrator targets the victim for belonging to a…

no one of them was worthy enough for the countries to take the risk of the war. I personally agree with the first argument that WWI was in fact inevitable. Human’s physical production mode and social life changed dramatically before and after 20th century. From the early 1870s to 1914, the second industrial revolution was completed, and industrialization era was coming. Industrialization aggravated the unbalance of economic development among main countries. The economy of Germany and U.S. grew…