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Dr. Pradip Bhattacharya. Even though Ashoka admitted to his poor leadership skills in the beginning, he went through a spiritual revival that led him to become a great leader in history. Afterwards, Ashoka promoted Buddhism, gave up war and violence, and made laws to endorse peace and justice in his kingdom, and beyond.[2] Ashoka the Great inspired the Mauryan Empire to its zenith through his leadership, compassion, dedication, and integrity, as well as his visionary optimism for equality and…

Dominance and Oppression The struggle for dominance has always existed: race over race, business over business, age over age. These forms of oppression, as well as many others, are common themes in numerous pieces of literature. For example, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens exemplifies the rich thinking themselves superior to the poor. John Steinbeck uses gender dominance in some of his many novels. The world of Of Mice and Men is a patriarchal one brimming with male dominance and womanly…

and The Great Gatsby (1925) were viewed as fairly weak and frail. They were entitled to staying at home, cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children, etc. However, this view of women having a role under men was making a radical change. Women began to challenge and test the government and the overall society they lived in. This upset the men because this movement displayed that they were slowly losing their dominance and supremacy over the female society. The two main characters in The Great…

The Importance and Significance of Geography in The Great Gatsby Geography plays a very important part in the novel The Great Gatsby. There is the significance of East and West Egg, places that are similar in the fact that, for the most part, only very wealthy people live there. Also, the people there very entitled. They are very different in almost every way besides that.There is also the middle ground that is the Mid-west, which is completely different from both the East and the West. The…

motion pictures to the progression of professional sports, America has seen magnificent transformations in the field of entertainment. Such elements of culture have been especially important when the nation is struggling, much like it was during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. It was at this time that the underprivileged of America were forced into debt and economic decline, causing them to turn to popular culture for a distraction from the turmoil being faced. The 1930’s in America…

Where Thomas Paine 's ideas to separate America from Great Britain a last resort to restore a fair constitution for all people regardless of their status in society and ultimately create an ideal government in America? Thomas Paine 's observations in England helped him to develop his argument to encourage American colonists to seek independence from Great Britain. The knowledge Paine gained in England demonstrated his honest stand against England to help Americans come to a crucial decision…

Achieving the American dream was the main goal in the 1920’s, and still is today. The American dream is the ideal life of freedom consisting of opportunity. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it shows how this idea had been distorted. The concept of having opportunity had been changed into the concept of obtaining wealth. By focusing too much on materialistic values, Myrtle and Gatsby had a corrupt understanding of the American dream therefore, never achieving it and making it hopeless.…

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, first published in 1937, is a novel set in the context of the 1929 Great Depression in America. The Nobel Prize-winning author tells the compelling story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two drifters in search of work, with the skilful use of various narrative techniques. Animal imagery is the most important technique successfully employed by Steinbeck to vividly portray the characters’ physical and behavioural traits in the book. Language is another…

Although the United Sates had experienced several depression before, none had been as severe nor as long-lasting before October 24, 1929, “Black Thursday”, a world-wide economic disintegration, “The Great Depression”. At first many economists believed it to be a “mild bump” (2010, Allida Black; June Hopkins), in no case, worse than the recession after World War I, but to their surprise’s number rapidly worsened, and the stock market fell dramatically 12.8% (2010, Allida Black; June Hopkins).By…

John Steinbeck’s theme in Of Mice And Mice is dealing with attempting to overcome loneliness, he uses the lack of and presence of friendship to reveal the theme. He uses the friendship of Lennie Small and George Milton to show the loneliness within friendship. In contrast, with the relationship between a man and dog to reveal loneliness in a man who has nothing but an old companion. The relationship between Curley’s wife and other men on the ranch is another relationship the author used. The…