Decadence

How do the writers present emotions in ‘Macbeth’ and ‘An Inspector Calls’? Both Shakespeare and Priestly are present-day changing characters. From the beginning, both stories are set up for a tragedy. Macbeth and the Birling Household are at a pinnacle point in their careers but because of their fatal flaw; their ambition, they are on an immediate downfall. Macbeth- a play written in the 17th century for King James 1 is set in a society predominantly obsessed with the esoteric. Superstitions…

Why You Think The Way You Do by Glenn S. Sunshine describes worldviews beginning with Rome and ending with our worldview today. He goes through and talks about each worldview and what shaped it and also how it leads to the next worldview during European history. He talks about the major viewpoints during European history. He begins with the worldview of ancient Rome then to Christianity followed by Medieval, which years later led to the Enlightenment and Renaissance worldview and then eventually…

Fitchen talks about malnutrition in the United States, a country, which most people expect that it feeds its citizens well. She elaborates the cultural values and meanings that are attached to the opposition rich-poor on the image of a poor person buying a steak with a food stamp. She shows that domestic hunger often goes unnoticed, because those people who are poor enough to qualify for government food stamps, may be seen in grocery stores, purchasing not only basic food stuffs, but also…

Portrayal of Bengali Renaissance in Satyajit Ray’s films Western education / Modern ideas (Mahanagar, Devi) The liberal ideas of the West played a crucial role in the awakening of Bengal. Modern ideas substituted the age old customs and it began with the establishment of Brahmo Samaj and spread of English education. The concepts and ideas from the West forced the educated youth to think in a rational manner and they started despising everything that is traditional. In this concern, the historian…

escaped slaves were unworthy of aid provided by the army. Yet, during the Red River Campaign of 1864, he identified the region in which he was encamped as the setting for the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin and attacks the local wealthy planters for their decadence in fine homes and laziness in acquiring their wealth through the labor of others. Lieutenant Haverly, who so fervently proclaimed his devotion to the Republic, rooted his opposition to abolition in his concern for free northern labor. He…

"The world unfolds from but a glimmer lost in the halls of darkness. Crafted from the darkness into the light. The Commencement of the beginning of the end and to the end of the beginning shall the world finds its undoing." Cool and cloudless was the night. Stars flourished as scenes of mythology in the cosmos without a moon to outshine them. No boundary existed between the jagged land of the Norwegian Federation and the salty sea. Waves launched themselves into sprays as they crashed onto…

Mohammed Abdul Alim rose early in time for the first call to prayer. He looked at the German still sleeping. He wanted to kill him now, but that would attract unwanted attention from the occupying forces. Killing a German minister wouldn’t go unnoticed. Besides, he needed Kleiner to bring him Kohlenz who would lead him to the scroll. He took his mat outside the cave and consulted his compass in order to position it correctly in the direction of Mecca. He removed his Raybans and Rolex watch,…

One of the most important parts of society today is the family unit. Each family unit is different in the way that it is structured and the way that it is comprised. People come from different cultures and backgrounds whether they financial, religious, and racial or ethnicity differences it does not matter, they will make a different impact within the individual family unit. While taking two people from two different backgrounds and placing them together within a marriage can create a variety of…

CHAPTER ONE: Roman’s Speech It had been a hectic day in school today for the young Grapes of Grapeville High School. The students had just closed for the day. Young Grapes spilled out of the front and side doors of the various classrooms in the school. You could see them trooping out of the school gate in large numbers; all of them talking excitedly. It was obvious from their countenances that they were all happy to call it a day as regards to academic activities and head to their various…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth” (NGA, web) (May, 1). Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…