Dorians

because one person might not be able to manage the maturity it takes to read the book, but it does not mean it should be banned for everyone else to be allowed to read it. The same idea is also represented by Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, when he articulates that, “The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” This shows that when the world censors a book, it goes to show that they are to be put to shame for taking away ideas and…

gratifying young adult romance novels or something thought-provoking that would impact them, and perhaps, change them for the better? Then, I would realize that I can choose both. With that, I would recommend Oscar Wilde’s The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray, Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. While all of these novels have impacted me, there is definitely one that I will never forget: Slaughterhouse-Five. While at first glance…

Crown of Midnight In my book, Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Mass, there is an eighteen year old girl named Celaena Sardothien who is the King’s assassin. She just outwitted, outfought, and outlasted twenty four brutal men to be the King’s most feared assassin. If you won, you would be rewarded with a large salary, being able to live in the castle, and most important to Celaena, freedom after 5 years if you kill everyone on the list that the King gives you. Celaena stalks her victim and…

In the article, “Marketization of Education: An Ethical Dilemma” by Samuel M. Natale and Caroline Doran, Natale and Doran focus on how the priorities of higher education institutions have changed. The authors explain how the shift in these priorities affect the university, faculty, students, learning, as well as possible solutions to these problems. Natale and Doran start off by explaining how the priorities of the universities have shifted from giving students a meaningful education to making…

The topics of the songs were different, but love was a popular one among them. 4. What are the modes in Western music? Describe at least one mode in Western music. There are seven modes in Western music such as Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, and Locrian. The modes starts on a different step of a major scale and continues on the associated major scale. For example, the Phrygian mode in C begins on E, the third step of the C scale, and moves up the major scale and ends in E.…

This kind of contract with devil is also happened in Faust and Dorian Gray stories (Dorian Gray Lecture Note 1). Nevertheless, the devil also asked for cost. Therefore, Jekyll needs to kill himself to vanish Hyde’s track in reality (J&H). Thus, this essay will examine that Gothic elements are featured in the Story of the Door…

There is no question about police brutality being an epidemic in our country. This paper will address the factors that police consider when resorting to exceeded use of authority. Through this, cases like Tulsa, Oklahoma’s fatal shooting of an unarmed, African American man, Terrence Crutcher, and the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of another unarmed, African American man, Michael Brown will be reviewed. Related topics such as: Racial Threat Theory, racial profiling, institutional racism, and police…

The Bronze Age in the Mediterranean Grecian regions was a time for exploration and war, trade and commerce, and ingenuity. Two monumental cultures with the evident demise influenced one another through economy, architecture, and logogram. The Minoans originated on the island of Crete, and their palace and administrative center titled Knossos. The Mycenaean culture, on the other hand, flourished on the mainland of Greece, in the palaces of Pylos and Mycenae. Both cultures thrived from maritime…

In “Child of the Far Frontier,” Wallace Stegner writes in the first person about his childhood and his upbringing, with details that reveal how one’s past experiences—especially during their childhood—profoundly impact their overall identity in ways that cannot always be reversed; this is verifiably true both in Stegner’s case and those of others, nearly an axiom of the human condition. One example is how people sometimes follow in the footsteps of their parents and other family members in terms…

Research Project A comparison of “Koko” and “So What” “Koko” as well as “So What” are two of the most influential and famous pieces pertaining to Jazz. With “Koko” being composed and performed by Charlie “Bird” Parker and “So What” being composed and performed by Miles Davis. These two musicians are no doubt heavily involved in the development of jazz and are two of the most renowned musicians in the world. “Koko” was composed in the early 1940’s, where as “So What” was composed in the late…