John Taylor Gatto

Through their works, composers often convey both their personal and cultural values, as they reveal the impact it has on the relationship between people and landscapes, which are explored through the diverse attitudes and behaviours of individuals. This notion is explored through Judith Wright’s poetry, South of my Days and For New England, which demonstrates how enduring cultural values have influenced and shaped an individual’s identity. Similarly, the 2010 documentary by Kevin McCloud,…

As humans, we tend to put ourselves in the spotlight of our own world. We use humanistic terms that give a place imagined borders. Don McKay’s “Otherwise than Place” is a lyrical essay that starts off with the narrator holding an introspective stone from the West Coast of Vancouver Island, he asks himself what the relation is between place and wilderness. As encouraged by Don McKay, it is a good meditative practice for humans to notice that we label things according to our occurrence to the land…

Within Manuel Aguirre’s “Gothic Fiction and Folk-Narrative Structure: The Case of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” and A. A. Markley’s “Mary Shelley's ‘New Gothic’: Character Doubling and Social Critique in the Short Fiction.” we see the reevaluation of the presence of the gothic in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Gothic as both a genre and a form of literary narration and Shelley’s usage and possible manipulation of is pondered over in both article. Manuel Aguirre argues that Shelley’s Frankenstein…

The Beauty and Justice of Geese Photography “The geese are coming! The geese are coming!” I shout as they fly across the blue sky of Regent’s park. The beautiful and majestic creatures swarm the lake where the park visitors feed them. In my periphery vision, I observe other swarms of ducks, pigeons, and other various birds that are also fed on the man-made concrete bank of the lake. Still, the geese remain my focus. Watching them captivates me and brings me out of myself. I am giddy with…

The nineteenth century in France was one of the most progressive and transformative eras for literature, science, medicine, architecture, and social and political change. Émile Zola made progressive moves in the second half of the nineteenth century in many ways. Zola was born in 1840, in Paris, he has spend most of his childhood in Aix-en-Provence. Zola lost his father at a young age, just like many of his characters that he would later write about in this novels. He was raised by his mother…

Romanticism in Game of Thrones What exactly is Romanticism? Romanticism was an artistic movement that began in the late 18th century where it emphasized intuition, appreciation of nature and self-expression. (“What is Romanticism?”). It began in Europe and spread to the United States where it was soon felt all over the world. (“Romanticism”). Romanticism played an important role in literature and the arts, but also affected religion, politics and philosophy. (Holman 24). The Romantic era, as it…

few times and evaluating the different components that Dr. Bolte Taylor used within her communication, the Linear Model of Communication was used during Dr. Bolte Taylor’s speech. The Linear Model of Communication applies to this speech as the channel is one way communication, the sender sends the…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797. At first sight it may just seem like an epic sea voyage told by an old sailor to a wedding guest, but underlying this is a Christian allegory that teaches us about wrong-doing, suffering and redemption. He uses many different literary techniques to portray these three points. These literary techniques are displayed differently throughout the course of…

Walt Whitman was a poet who lived throughout most of the nineteenth century and drew a wide following by disregarding “classic” conventions and using imagery that angered many. Whitman promoted himself greatly by writing anonymous reviews of his own work and sending his work to other prominent poets and writers for reviews and support. He worked in many areas of the newspaper business before becoming a nurse during the Civil War. He believed in transcendentalism. The theory that everything and…

The old english poem, “The Dream of the Rood” is a in which the author chose to write the story through the eyes of the cross. The author begins the poem by explaining in his “dream that moved me at night” (The Norton Anthology of English Literature 33) he “...espied the most splendid tree” (The Norton Anthology of English Literature 33). The author then begins speaking from the point of view of the cross. This can be seen as the author states “Yet I remember that I was cut down at the edge of…