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Ian Kershaw’s article “Hitler and the Germans” analyzes the approach used to assert Hitler’s position in German politics. The main theme of this article is the creation of the “Hitler myth” and its spread throughout German society. This critique will discuss Kershaw’s argument and how effective it was. Kershaw argues that Hitler’s personality was not the key to his success and neither was his own personal Weltanschauung. He believes that it would be more accurate to study the popular image of…

portraits of lady from the aristocratic class by famous male artists, the gaze is generally averted. Their eyes seem to look beyond to some invisible point, instead of making pictorial eye contact with the viewer. Downcast eyes and averted gaze could be read as an expression of virtue and a sign of chaste modesty (Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, 258). On the other hand, art historians have reassessed the representation of women by male artists of the Renaissance in the light of psychological…

In life, a person is bound to make a couple poor choices that they should have reconsidered, and in the book, Atonement by Ian McEwan, readers get to see what actions some characters take and what the consequence of those actions are. Atonement was published in the year, 2001, and took place during the 1930’s, World War II, and present day England; yet, the book was written in a modern way that made it easier for younger readers to connect to the book. The plot is about Briony Tallis, her older…

In Ian Urbina’s article, the connection between passwords utilized by people and how they can hold deep meanings delving into a persons’ emotions, thought processes, personal past experiences, and the very essence of who they are, is explored at length. Urbina runs a study to create his thesis that people primarily utilize “Keepsake” passwords through collecting people’s passwords (either current or past) and why those specific passwords were chosen, as a proof that there is a deep connection…

and ambition (Ramet). The shorthand and need to explain a topic clearly that he developed while being in the journalism trade influence his modern writing style and make it more concise and dense (Ramet). This clear style has allowed his works to be read by people from all walks of life and not exclusively by English scholars and the highly educated (Ramet). His experiences in journalism created the clear and straightforward prose he now uses today and has made his work much more marketable than…

Manliness is a trait that many people connect to those that are brave and vigorous. Showing your true feeling to others would strip this trait away. Using this information, William Shakespeare designed his characters to use manliness as a tool of manipulation rather than using it for the true meaning. In the tragedy Macbeth, Shakespeare demonstrates that the way characters view manliness has a great affect on their actions. Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth use manliness as a tool to kill, but Macduff…

a novel is extremely difficult. It takes countless hours of imagination and thoughts to do but in my opinion, Martin Campbell, director of Casino Royale (2006) made all the right decisions and pressed all the right buttons to successfully portray Ian Fleming 's 1953 novel version of Casino Royale. The famous book Casino Royale written by Fleming’s is his most famous and also paved the way for the rest of the coveted James Bond spy novel series that still continue today. Many wonder where…

The links between the mind, emotions, behavior, disease and death have been reflected in the lives of fictional characters over centuries (Martin 12). The relationship between these factors is referred to as “Supervenience” (Ludwig 9) and is demonstrated in various works in literature, in which the physical state of a character later leads to a psychological impact on the individual. While representing different cultural and literary movements, E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Sandman, and Franz Kafka’s The…

completely dead after death, the living mind of that human leaves behind a mental corpse of its own. Since the mind is invisible, so is this corpse as it floats freely in the atmosphere. This mental corpse proves to be useless without a human mind to “read” it; therefore, it makes contact with a young, living human, thereby passing along its information. A second alternative to reincarnation states that the dead may produce an earthbound spirit that shares a mind with a living person.…

After Robbie gives the wrong letter to Briony to pass it to her sister Cecilia, she opens it and reads the content of that letter, and she faces a problem in understanding an offensive term; thus, she goes back by the time and tries to remember if she heard this term once from her family members or in the stories she read, but it seems that the term has never passed through her ears, so she tries to understand it from the context of the letter. She tells Lola later about the letter to show her…