Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

than were in Stalin’s gulags” (1). He gives us a comparison between the Soviet prison and American prison. At first I did not know who Ivan Denisovich was until I did some research and read that it was a character from a novel written by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn the story about Soviet labor camps in the 1950s. Furthermore, Mr. Gopnik continues by putting himself inside the American prison, stating that time does not exists like if it was never discovered. He also quotes the song Bob…

freer than he is” (40) – subjected only to the unjust oppression by the Soviet government – their ideas of what the sun and moon can mean is significantly repressed to ideas of misfortunes that are perpetuated by the camp and the government. In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the sun and the moon are symbols of two ideas that derives from the prisoner’s experience in the Gulag camp: incarceration and enlightenment. Although the sun is often thought as…

could possess various ideas towards the achievement of a good life. Two different pieces of work that demonstrate different views towards a good life are The Crucible (TC) by Arthur Miller and One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (ID) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were published in 1953 and 1962 respectively. These two books achieve the purpose of illustrating the route to a good life by the use of characters seizing different traits and by the manipulation of human dignity and moral values that…

The book “All the light we cannot see” is a historical novel written by a well-known author, Anthony Doerr. The book was mainly set in German and France at the time of World War II. The Cleveland born author, Anthony Doerr, wrote many books like; The Shell Collector, Memory wall, the memoir, four seasons in Rome, and About Grace. He now lives with his wife and two sons. Doerr used metaphors in his book by adding a special something in his characters. Marie-Laure is one of the main character in…

The word evil is often associated with the profound immorality of being malevolent and vile. Society has adopted their own version of protection against evil by creating laws and regulations for their citizens to live in, with the goal of a perfect community. Philosophically, evil falls under the idea of a necessary step in the march of history and the moral categorization of the natural world. The general morale of what we decided is evil can be traced back to the Bible, whose standard of…

As a writer I believe I still have a lot more to learn. In writing I think writing fiction is one of my strengths, for example I do enjoy writing short stories on my free time just for fun. I often share them with one of my friends and my cousin. I am still pretty shy about them, but they seem to really like them. Although, they are not the best stories I can spend a lot of time writing them without getting bored. I also enjoy writing argumentative essays, finding evidence that supports my…

One of the most crucial issues that plagues us in the modern age is the topic of internet privacy. Today, eighty percent of the population of the United States use social media, almost quadruple the amount of people that used about a decade ago (“U.S. Population with a Social Media Profile 2017.”). The issue of privacy is one that affects everyone today. There are many reasons that people fear our digital society, but the are three main factors that people tend to be the most afraid of. The…

In Death and Redemption, Steven Barnes provides the first major revision in our understanding of the Gulag since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago of the 1970s. Barnes, while noting that Solzhenitsyn – who lacked archival records and relied only on first-hand testimony and his own personal experience – was remarkably correct about many aspects of the Gulag’s history, nevertheless challenges Solzhenitsyn’s contention that we should understand the Gulag only as a place of destruction.…

Name: Sumeng Chen Course: Eng108 Date: 9/13/2015 Writing a Rhetorical Analysis The article Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide ' is written by Professor Daniel Solove and was published in the year 2011 as an excerpt of the book Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security by the same author. The research on the article is individually sponsored; however, the author takes a neutral stance and examines the issue associated with privacy thus revealing various…

Frankenstein is arguably one of the most well-known horror stories known in contemporary society. Since its publication in 1818, various film and literary adaptations have been due to its popularity and critique of human morality in the face of technological innovation. Although promoted as one of the first science fiction novels, Frankenstein contained more elements of horror stemming from its gothic elements and romantic thought aside from its components of science fiction. By examining the…