John Taylor Gatto

All writers contribute to their chosen genres, either by adopting generic conventions or by exploring these conventions and adapting them to create new aspect of their genre, or even a new genre altogether. Mary Shelley and William Shakespeare exemplify these ideas of adoption and adaptation. Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is a classically gothic novel, it incorporates the supernatural with the realistic to create a horrific plot with deep psychological characters who’s actions question…

The Scientific management theory was created by Frederick Taylor, developed in the early 20th century. He believed that labour and productivity was greatly inefficient because the majority of the labour pool functioned according to the “rules of thumb’. He proposed to replace the traditional “rule of thumb” by factual scientific knowledge. Taylor’s theory was a great improvement in the traditional approach to the management process. In the modern-day workplace with elevated level of…

In the eighteenth century, romanticism bloomed from men’s love towards nature. To capture its beauty, romanticists often wrote novels stressing emotions and portraying nature as a pure soul. While nature represented an innocent girl, science imitated a reaper that violates nature’s boundaries. Romantic novels then recorded the battles between logic and feelings. These novels, for example, Frankenstein, a Gothic novel written by Mary Shelley, exposes the unethicality of knowledge by describing…

William Morris was an English painter, designer fabrics and furniture, book designer, a developer of typographic fonts, poet and socialist. He was behind the concept of synthesis, the key concept of the new art. Morris was the founder of the "Arts and Crafts Movement," which took shape as an artistic style in the second half of the 19th century. All participants in the movement united in the belief that artistically designed human environment - pleasing to the eye of the building, artfully…

1.2 Influences on Nietzsche Nietzsche as a young philologist had some people whom he loved and idolized. These people influenced his thought pattern, behaviour and charism. In the world Nietzsche lived in, one could observe, think, and express his thoughts freely; a tradition which was passed onto him first during his youthful age by German culture with its humanistic schools, its patriotic traditions and its poets. At the age of twenty-five, Nietzsche left Germany for good and was viewing it…

Rip Van Winkle, a short story by Washington Irving, displays elements of the American Romanticism, as the author depicts the natural landscape associated with fantasy. The supernatural is a very prevalent theme in Romantic literature, and so is the love for the natural landscape, in opposition to the modern life in the city. These elements help isolate Rip Van Winkle from society, in a way that when he returns from his fantastic 20-year sleep, he becomes “the local storyteller, demonstrating the…

In the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley often will allude to personal experiences that have happened in her own life. She takes the events of her own life and reflects them through Victor, the monster, and other events in the novel. Examples of this include the deaths of innocent people in the novel, influence of parents, abandonment of a loved one, and how the creation of the novel, Frankenstein, is very similar to Victor’s creation of the creature (Shelley 43). Mary Shelley’s life is death…

In the essay, The Calypso Borealis, John Muir uses very intense descriptions and changes the tone of his essay using words to show readers how nature gives him peace, but at the same time it gave him a hard time. “The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snow flower.” In this paragraph, John uses the word “purity” which has a peaceful and spiritual connotation. It also shows how the feeling of the first encounter with flower will stay with him for a long…

of Jill’s life pre-stroke all the way through her eight year in recovery In 1996 and at age 37, Taylor had a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere that had debilitating effects on her perception, movement, coordination, thought processes…

The way that William Wordsworth wrote changed people 's thinking and revolutionized the romanticism of literature. William Wordsworth began writing poetry at a very young age. At the age of 16 Wordsworth composed a poem entitled The Pog: An Idyllium. (Wu, 1). When his mother died, he was sent to a grammar school which helped improve his poetry skills. His enthusiasm for the French Revolution took him to France again in 1791, where he had an affair with Annette Vallon, who bore him an…