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are Two Sides to Every Story” Some authors use re-storying as a technique to offer a balanced perspective of a certain event or time period. Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” provides an alternative narrative for post-colonialism in opposition to Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” Conrad’s book is primarily characterized by bold racist analogies and by explicating the evils of Africa. By writing “Things Fall Apart” through a different perspective, Achebe gives an opposite bias and message.…

It was a cold day with light flurries, but my pipe and the weather seemed to have a calming effect on me. I couldn’t help thinking about the Roman soldiers. Being a soldier in a foreign land prompted evil behavior, but that was war. I was glad to be away from Nam and all the trapping of war: the killing, the bullying of women and children. I was thinking about my mistreatment of the Vietnamese women when I realized that I had reached the sidewalk in front of our house. My aunt and uncle were…

The party, Big Brother, from George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” may resemble Soviet Union’s dictator, Joseph Stalin, to readers. Stalin ruled over the Soviet Union in the mid-1920s, until his death in the 1950s. He was notorious for the power he had held over his people, as well as, all of his ruthless assassinations. The government in Orwell’s novel, Big Brother, watches its people through telescreens, listens to its people’s conversations and thoughts, and controls what the people know about the…

Many times in the past history has repeated itself, and it will always repeat itself. In the 1950’s the Senator of Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy began trials and investigations to expose communists in Hollywood. All hearings were a result of false accusations, just like in The Crucible when people who had no connection with witches or any association with witchcraft were being falsely accused of preforming it. The book and the history from the 1950’s have many parallels, John Proctor can be seen as…

Communications about media ethics and responsible journalism. In Good Night, and Good Luck the newsman Edward R. Murrow and his news team must decide whether to pursue investigating claims by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin or to focus on less controversial news. Eventually they choose to go after Senator Joseph McCarthy and his senate committees which investigated Americans of being suspected communists. The committee oftentimes would ignore due process and guidelines set by the U.S…

Sisters of St Joseph today are a vigorous group of women working in Australia, New Zealand, East Timor, Ireland, Peru and Brazil and follow in Mary’s footsteps doing a wide variety of works, revealing to all the hospitable heart of God. The Sisters affirm the increasing…

In 1949 Joseph Campbell published, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. His book explains what he called the hero’s journey or monomyth. The hero’s journey is the pattern of archetypal stories of heros in all genres. It tells the tale of a hero who goes through certain steps and accomplishes great feats to become who they are. The hero’s journey is used in drama, myths, storytelling, etc. In fact it has been used long before Joseph Campbell gave it a name. In the novel Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott…

religious mass. New styles of music began to evolve such as the concerto, sonata and the symphony, these new styles were created to dazzle and impress the audience. The Classical Era was dominated by the unbelievable talents of three composers. Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven, each composer influenced the world of music for generations to come. The Classical period was a time where the most important stylistic advances…

The heart is engulfed in darkness, once the mind becomes corrupted. This idea creates Joseph Conrad’s 104 page novella, Heart of Darkness. In Heart of Darkness, Conrad illustrates colonial power twists a man’s heart. Conrad uses characterization to demonstrate how the greedy power can darken the heart. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad takes place in the Congo of Africa. The protagonist is Charlie Marlow, an English seaman, who enters the Congo on a steamboat in search of a man named Kurtz.…

In the book Heart of Darkness, a sailor named Marlow describes his past journey through the Congo during the Industrial Era, focusing especially on how the natives were treated by the Europeans. In the passage from Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad portrays Marlow’s experience as he travels to Kurtz as dangerous and chaotic through syntax and aggressive-like diction. This demonstrates how people often feel overwhelmed when an intense stressor is presented to them. Conrad utilizes complex syntax…