Affluence

In cultures around the world, people are acting, protecting, and making decisions in the name of “honour.” Broadly, honour is high respect, regard, or esteem. However, the value and meaning of honour varies by culture and even by individual. Gabriel García Márquez wrote Chronicle of a Death Foretold to reflect the actions and responses of Colombian society to the event of murder. Describing the murder of Santiago Nasar, Chronicle of a Death Foretold depicts the significance of honour in…

Few topics trigger more controversy amongst economic historians than the Industrial Revolution and whether its inception heralded salubrious improvements to the British population. The Industrial Revolution is commonly defined as the transitory phase of rapid significant technological advancement of manufacturing processes that occurred approximately between 1750s and 1850s. Standards-of-living refer to the material and non-material aspects of one’s wellbeing, benchmarked against one’s wealth,…

What are the chances that two authors born around 400 miles apart from one another, in the same time period, happen to go to Paris to write at the same time? F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, two of the most respected authors in literature, both became expatriates who fled to Paris after World War I in the 1920s. Although both authors had the same historical context in their works, their general writing style was quite different. Fitzgerald used a more flowy sentence structure, full of…

In Edouard Manet's painting Bar at the Folies-Bergere, T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and Susan Glaspell's Trifles, the women's physical and metaphorical distance emphasizes male fear of the feminine world that the male figures cannot understand. Manet focuses on the woman at the bar, who looks detached and unhappy, in contrast with the women in the reflection who enjoy the ambiance of the bar. The man in the mirror seems to approach the barmaid anxiously and without…

Poe represents this in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” to show readers the reality of evil within. The old man’s room was “as black as pitch with the thick darkness ( for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers). . .” (75). Having affluence, the old man attempts to prevent burglars from getting into his house. Although, the irony in this is that he is trying to ostracize malicious people from him but the evil is already inside. This then causes fear of this evil which increases the…

Over time film has truly evolved and progressed in more ways than one. Since 1930 the art of the film has truly developed including evolving genres and ever changing production techniques. Since the creation of motion pictures in 1890 the presence of film has always been apart of society. Although motion pictures started off with no audio and color, directors were able to still get different ideas across to the audience. Throughout time many different effects were created in order to illustrate…

Toussant Louverture Toussant Louverture was born on May 20, 1743 (This Week 30) and died April 7, 1803 alone, in a French prison (Norton 6.) His impact on the history of Haiti will eternally be visible and the effects will continue forward for all time. To clarify a historical context: Haiti was discovered by Christopher Colombus and was promptly colonized. Spain was quite happy to claim it and quite happy to use its natural resources as many other powerful European countries were doing; however…

schooling provided might be completely unbalanced. I have seen this firsthand because I have gone to a number of different schools. One of the biggest problems surrounding this issue is that it continually perpetuates a cycle between those with affluence and those without, ultimately lengthening the gap. The first time I noticed this issue was in the fifth grade. I made a transition from public school to private school at that time. It was a small school, possessing…

the Duke was in his introduction of the Duchess to the envoy. He describes her as a prized possession that can only be revealed to whomever he chooses. The Duke reiterates the name Fra Pandolf as the painter, so that the envoy will recognize his affluence, making it safe for the audience conclude that Fra Pandolf could not have been just an ordinary artist, but a well-known and expensive artist. The Duke’s admiration for the prized painting rather than the subject of the painting, also proves to…

As a female writer in early nineteenth century England, Emily Bronte defies societal norms that deems men as intellectual superiors, especially in the sphere of literature. In a time period when feminism was burgeoning as a radical notion, emerging novels from female authors such as the Bronte sisters gave a voice to a marginalised group who were hitherto without one. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights was deemed radical during its Victorian age: presenting racially ambiguous characters, asexual…