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"Important themes are often expressed in key moments in texts." -Tal Adler The important theme of identity is expressed by the authors of my comparative texts through the use of their respective techniques with the effective use of key moments to heighten my awareness of its presence. During my comparative course, I have studied ‘The Spinning Heart’ by Donal Ryan (TSH), ‘A Doll’s House’, (ADH) a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen, and ‘The King’s Speech’, (TKS) directed by Tom…

Childhood memories take up a great amount of space within our minds. As we grow older, those memories may fade, but the overall feel of them lingers around as long as we have our memory intact. Often, we will remember our young past as being thoroughly nice with only few atrocities. This way, we ensure ourselves a mental escape from the difficulties of adult life in the romanticised idea of our childhood. In this essay, I will be analysing the short story ‘…Divorced, Beheaded, Survived’, which…

isolated, beautiful and pure land for both texts, they bear juxtaposing symbolic meanings in the two texts. Eden in Paradise Lost Book IX is also known as “Paradise” (“and to the border comes Eden, where delicious Paradise now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, as with a rural mound, the champaign head”) “of a steep wilderness” , which clearly depicts the isolation of Eden. This is further reinforced by Satan’s words – “sweet interchange of hill and valley, rivers, woods and plains, now…

Not very many people because their attention is on other things or they don't know the true definition to what animal cruelty really means. Animals don't have a voice so the people are their voice to save them. What animal cruelty means is any violence or neglect to an animal, abuse that is lead to suffering or death. The Laws of Cruelty only for domestic animals for example house pets, horses, working animals. Animal Breeding and raising livestock is also Animal Cruelty if the animal is in pain…

To begin with, love is the major theme in Nabokov’s novel The Gift. The critic Alexander Dolinin, who in his essay of The Gift published in the Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, argues that The Gift itself can be called “a kind of declaration of love...love of the creator for his creature, and of the creature for its creator, love of a son for his father, love of an exile for his native land, love for language and those who love it, love for the beauty of the world, and last but not least,…

Throughout the years, the youth culture has been influenced by the media. Children and teenagers have been exposed to too many ads, causing them to believe that “life is about getting and spending”. Nowadays it is common to hear a child complaining about how he dislikes his IPad cover because it is not his favorite color or how he has a tablet but not a cell phone. Kids have become consumerist, dependent of the products sold by the media. This is shown in the documentary “Consuming Kids: The…

To be religious is to be spiritual. A sacred space is designated by the people as a holy place or even a burial ground. These places have some similarities and some differences. In this essay I will describe each location, similarities and differences each one has. Despite any religion or deity each place signifies a specific time in history where God was reverenced. In 100 B.C., the pyramid of the sun was created in Teotihucan, Mexico. Teotihucan means “place where the Gods where born.” The…

Known as the “father of haute couture” and “the first couturier”, Charles Frederick Worth’s renown in the fashion industry remains consistent from the establishment of his fashion salon in 1858. Many garments made by Worth are housed by numbers of institutions, including the Costume Institute, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as evidences of Worth’s success in the fashion industry. Worth designed dress from prominent figures from all around the world, who would…

The Saint Louis Zoo The Saint Louis Zoo was voted second best zoo in the United States in a USA Today poll where they had the people who go to these zoos vote. The zoo is home to over 15,000 animals per their website. Many of them are rare and endangered species. They have some exhibits that they charge for but admission to the zoo is free. The Mission of the Saint Louis Zoo is to conserve animals and their habitats through animal management, research, recreation, and educational programs…

The great “American Dream” is the idea that in America, every citizen, despite social and financial standing, should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and wealth through hard work, determination, and initiative (Oxford Dictionary). After all, this is precisely what America was founded upon: the Founding Fathers took it upon themselves to turn what had been English colonies into a new nation in which its citizens could live according to law far more suitable than the law of the English…