John Goodman

The book begins with a modernist architect, Le Corbusier, visiting New York City. Le Corbusier marveled both the city and the musical culture of African-Americans. He believed, “jazz is an event representing the forces of today” (p. 3). The forces of today are the industrialization and mass production of American society. He even goes on to state that American society is a “machine for living” (p. 3). Le Corbusier believed jazz reflected and contained chaotic yet continuous rhythmic flow that…

because of its poetic elements and chosen words. Through these elements, poems are usually difficult to comprehend. However, understanding poems can be entertaining and captivating because of the romantic structures and powerful emotions. One example is John Donne’s “Batter my heart, Three-Personed God.” This holy sonnet explores the emotions of the speaker as he talks to the three-personed God, which is the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. He wants to feel these three important personas in his…

time. Although Hawthorne is often recognized for his successful novel, The Scarlet Letter, he became noticed for his excellence in short stories. One of the most commonly mentioned is “Young Goodman Brown” published in 1835, fifteen years earlier than The Scarlet Letter. Blending isolation and sin, “Young Goodman Brown” displays a theme of sin and felt the isolation from others after confessing the sin. Hawthorne’s writings show characteristics of the Transcendentalist period as he often writes…

and thus the symbolic meaning of the birthmark ties into the theme of society’s obsession with attaining the ideal. Theme B: Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne In “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses various symbolisms, diction and foreshadowing to expose a theme of duality within men. The story starts inauspiciously for Goodman Brown as he journeys into the deep, dark forest of colonial New England to meet the Devil because he doubts the purity around him, even of…

would take, Mississippi would take a baby step in the right direction as well. What really motivated the participants however probably was the same thing that started on the first day of Freedom Summer: Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman. They disappeared on the first night, that fact alone scared the rest of volunteers, and Freedom Summer took on more of a meaning, it was a way to avenge the assumable deaths of the three volunteers. Once their bodies were found and an…

Benny Goodman, a.k.a. The “King of Swing” was born on May 30th, 1909, to russian immigrants David and Dora Goodman. They and all of their kids subsided in the dazzling town of Chicago, Illinois! He was a regular child prodigy, beginning on the stage at age 12 and performing even before then. His family had a little less than average amount of money, and being the ninth of eleven children, his father decided to send him to the Kehillah Jacob Synagogue, later known as the ‘Hull House.’ There he…

universality of evil in mankind. In “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Hawthorne uses symbols and setting to teach morals that the presence of sin is undeniable in man’s fallen state. A peek into Hawthorne’s personal life sheds light on the themes and subject matter he chose for his literature. Born in 19th century Massachusetts, Limited by America’s lack of history, Hawthorne turned to something more personal as an inspiration. John Hathorne, his great-great-grandfather,…

Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett) Waiting for Godot is a play about two men seeking for hope and salvation, Vladimir and Estragon. In a country road (Beckett,1) with a single tree on a hill, they patiently waited aimlessly for someone whose arrival is uncertain, Godot. This play falls under tragedy and comedy. Tragic, in a sense that they are hoping for a day that Godot might come but all that is happening to them are just repeated incidence of the past days, and comedy because there are…

In “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Ernest Hemingway describes the main character accepting death with no way of escaping an infection while traveling in the safari. Harry Street is hesitant to find help and wants to peacefully pass time in a graceful manner. The man blames his wife for his own mistakes, but realizes that he is at fault for his stubbornness to what is happening to him. Ernest Hemingway portrays the woman’s importance as a significant motivation to encourage Harry to never admit…

To a child, a forest is a place where they can explore and let their imagination run free without parental interference, but the Puritan culture of the 1600s portrayed the forest as the devils playground where people go, only to bring evil back to their supposed perfect society. Nathaniel Hawthorne displays the clash between these conflicting perspectives in his book The Scarlet Letter (1850). The story is set in seventeenth-century Boston that is surrounded by wilderness, as most American…