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Fun Home: A Literary Comparison Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel is formed by her contradictions and paradox between outward appearance and there meaning. The nature of Fun Home is written as a literary piece rather than an autobiography in which Bechdel recounts her life though other works of literature. Bechdel is able to compare her life to other works of writing by using allusions and symbolisms. Rather than describing her book as an autobiography, Bechdel considers her book a piece of…

Crucifix has been damaged. until reading this I to was very misinformed about the difference so to say that my views have slightly changed as to what the meaning of them are the inverted cross and the inverted crucifix. that it symbolizes a complete inversion of Christian teaching, glorifying all that Christianity holds as good. The inverted cross, then, would signify an embracing of all that is evil. Although through my own research of the bible I found no where saying that St. peter wanted to…

Humanity is no stranger to horror. The world is an indifferent host to all manner of life-shattering atrocities that leave man, woman, and child alike kneeling in the smoking rubble of their own lives. The human psyche tries to account for and categorize this suffering, to break it down and study the deeper meaning behind it. And while each individual may reach their own conclusions to the ever-present question of why catastrophe has been visited upon them, there is one query that troubles even…

In Shakespeare’s play Othello, the character Iago is a psychopath. This can be determined by the number of characteristics he shares with those who are clinically defined as psychopaths. Firstly, Iago is extremely manipulative, finding every way possible to use and twist people to his own advantage. He is also very selfish-helping and caring only about himself. Most importantly, Iago’s aptitude for insincere speech is his main asset, as he craftily uses it in every situation. To understand why…

them as the subservient wife. Dionysus changes this, taking the women as his worshipers, also known as his “Bacchae”. Their unabashed, newfound sexual freedom astounded the men. Euripides’s Bacchae and Detonne’s Dionysus at Large demonstrate the inversion of gender roles and how it effects the society that they live in while still managing to control the women. To…

Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s The Rights of Woman, composed in 1795, presents an ironic commentary on the discussion over gender roles during the period. Through the use of poetic structure and extended metaphor, Barbauld criticises both sides of the issue to argue for a natural partnership. Barbauld alludes to revolutionary conflict in France and the United States through the use of military imagery, in order to reject female usurpation. Barbauld suggests that women have their own “bright…

during the book as the story goes from fantasy and reality in clarifying the reasons for his death. The elements of the new novel are the withdrawal of the narrator, interior monologues, a stream of consciousness, multiple viewpoints, chronological inversion, fantastic distortion and multifaceted symbolism. The eyewitness account before Santiago 's death such as his murderers ' activities and what the victim was doing would be considered the multiple viewpoints, fantastic distortion, interior…

The debate on tax reforms is different in the United States and Europe. In first case, efficient taxation that would limit cost and distortions in capital inversion is concerned. Michael Gaetz analyzes the proposal to partially replace taxes about income of individuals and societies with a VAT based on the method of the credit. This latest tax revenue would allow an exemption for families with $100,000 of income, reducing the number of contributors and simplifying tax management.VAT should have…

preference of object choice. In the ancient world a person’s object choice was based on feelings of desire to have sex with either a man or a woman. More importantly, homosexuality was categorized through sexual inversions (Halperin, p. 15). Critics argue that the term sexual inversion was used to denote all abnormal gender behaviors, not just simply homosexual desires. In the 19th century, a person’s sexual preference was not directly associated with the cultural definition of sex-role, but it…

works in unison to make way for the ankle to co-ordinate movement occurring in three different planes; the movement occurs in the sagittal, frontal and transverse planes. The ankle movement in the planes result in plantar flexion, dorsi flexion, inversion, eversion and internal and external rotation. The coordination of these three joints along the said planes allow the ankle to move as one functional joint. (Hertel,…