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A hero is an evolution of character brought on by experiences and demands encountered by a person. In Cervantes story, “Don Quixote”, the main character imagines himself as an instant hero regardless of the fact that a true hero is a product of their environment, not their mind. In Don Quixote’s fantasies, he wants to become a legend in his own time. Quixote’s private world of fantasies, which he has created from his library, is interlaced with the world of reality that he encounters. At many…

Cycle of Violence in City of God City of God is a film by Fernaldo Mereilles and Katia Lund. The film is narrated by a young boy named Rocket and focused on the stories of the local gang leaders in Rio de Janeiro. Rocket observes countless acts of violence to and from the people of the City of God. Although the plot is driven by numerous individual acts of violence, the film illustrates a cycle of violence throughout the generations. Violence causes death, which incites revenge. Almost…

Jardim Gramacho Introduction The Jardim Gramacho dump. One of the Earth’s largest open-air landfills, seaside dump located on the, once beautiful, Guanabara Bay, Brazil. Only 35km from the world-famous Copacabana beach. Since the unofficial opening in the late 1970’s the landfill continued to grow and at one of the dumps largest state, it spread over 321 acres of land, also the equivalent of 244 American football fields. Jardim Gramacho is home to seagulls, vultures and homes to people. This…

In Rihanna’s song “Diamonds,” she sings “Shine bright like a diamond,” this line relates to the big, shiny diamond in the book, All the Light We Cannot See. The Sea of Flames is a cursed diamond and it is is said in the story, “...if you hold it you cannot die, but the people around you die within a month. Or maybe it’s a year”(Doerr 50). The diamond described in the book is a big blue diamond with flames of red in the center. The diamond was cursed by the Goddess of Earth because it was a gift…

World Literature has many things to offer as a college class. For instance, a student has the opportunity to obtain knowledge of different authors and their culture as well as the impact their works had on literature, however, some works has bigger impacts than others and therefore are critical to be taught in a World Literature course. If I were a World Literature instructor, The Iliad, The Prince and Don Quixote would be the three works that I would have to include into my curriculum. These…

There are many effects prejudices have on both historical and modern societies. These prejudices are apparent in Price of Love and La Traviata, where the female protagonists are each harshly judged by society for their professions. Montaigne thoroughly addressed such prejudices and decoded societal perceptions of “barbarous” acts. Modern societies as a whole, however, are often quick to place judgements without offering resolutions. In both Price of Love and La Traviata, the female protagonists…

Existentialism is a philosophy that the choices individual makes should be responsible for it and should accept their own act without consent of other people. Its beliefs are centred on the idea of finding the meaning of life through different choices and situations. In the view of existentialist, this world is meaningless and absurd. It is the way that let external factor affect us that determine who we are. As individuals we have freedom to make our own choices and that’s what life's all…

Throughout the poem “Alone” by Maya Angelou, the speaker implies that no one can last long in the world with no one on his or her side. The poem starts off as the speaker yearns for a home where she can quench her thirst and where food is always offered, then soon realises that she and everyone who is on their own cannot live with joy for long, since time will soon leave that joy behind. Even the rich, who have all the wealth in the world, cannot survive alone, as happiness is an emotion…

Phonies, or a fake people are those with multiple identities. These people act different in public and private, or in different groups of people. Phonies have been criticized in literature for hundreds of years, but one of the most notable times, and possible the first time it was criticized was in Shakespeare's Othello. Shakespeare uses characters in Othello, such as Iago, Othello and Desdemona, to show how the worst of people usually have an extreme difference in their identities, while the…

The plot is unexpectedly very much complex and dramatic. The author prefers a family with many friends and associates, she tries within its limited range in order to make it as difficult as possible and she is not pleased with plainly writing two or four characters in isolation. There is clearly an initial situation in the plot because the Bennets have five daughter, none of them is married, no money and a very overly pushy mother who is keen to marry them off to a wealthy man. Then comes…