Leave of absence

Women are not anymore to suffer under the hands of patriarchal society. Moreover, women have become capable enough to create a world for them like how Meera and other female characters create a world of their own after the absence of their husbands. Nair was born in Shornur in the state of Kerala. She has written many novels and Lessons in Forgetting is one among them which has been taken for the movie adaptation and Nair has also written the dialogues and the screenplay which…

your bills and to not get fired. Once employees finish the assignments they are given, they are handed even more without any recognition, which leads them having little to no goals for themselves. The stress they receive from work unfortunately never leaves them. The film follows the main character outside of work and he still does not seem happy because of his exhaustion he gains. Lastly, the higher management abuses their power by constantly assigning new tasks to their employees and not…

“Shiloh” MY TITLE In the beginning of the short story, “Shiloh”, author Bobbie Ann Mason projects the love story of Leroy and Norma Jean and the struggles they endured during their marriage, while Norma Jean is home and Leroy is out on the road driving his eighteen wheeler. After Leroy was injured and returned home, Norma Jean seems to be try to obtain the manlier role in the relationship by the way she is perceiving her body and working out all the time. Leroy is showing a more feminine side by…

Antigone: a tragic tale “There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; no wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, and proud men in old age learn to be wise.” This quote is one that is representative of many tragic tales, in which a great lesson is learned too late for it to be put into use. Tragedies are known to be found frequently in Greek plays. One of the most famous Greek playwrights, Sophocles, still has surviving texts that remain in print today. Sophocles…

Undoubtedly, glory propels most individuals to commit many foreign acts specifically in the hopes of attaining its brilliance. “To An Athlete Dying Young,” an A.E. Housmann poem, narrates the short life and long death of an unnamed runner whose race wins thrust him to the reverence and respect of his peers. Throughout the poem, Housmann reverberates the theory of short-lived glory. Specifically, Housmann declares that the the recognized character makes the right decision to die on earth where…

by Pat Carr, we can see the major impact of war both personally and physically. Even though there may be one force that comes out on the top, no one truly wins in war. We can see, in today's society, the toll it takes on one when a family member leaves for war. Saranell the only daughter of Ian Birdsong, who is off fighting…

a fire - has the power to bring about a greater love. The couplet also has an important message and a warning to it. He tells us that it is important that we love beyond all measures and make the most of our youth. He warns us that we will have to leave our youth before long so appreciate it, as we wont be young forever. The natural world has always been an important subject for Shakespearian poetry. In Sonnet ‘73’, nature was a dominant theme and occupied a very prominent role. Aside from…

Senseless Crime in Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska” Through the use of first-person narrative, Bruce Springsteen’s song “Nebraska” recounts the crimes of a murderer leading up to his impending execution. Inspired by the murders of Charles Weather and Caril Anne Fugate (Anonymous), Springsteen positions himself as Charles Weather and his audience as the auditors of the song, allowing them to garner an insight into the perspective of the criminal. The song itself takes on the lyric form of a…

Absence of team work • Absence of synergy amongst the staff of Hardwood hills was indeed apparent from the behavior of the staff and the way the activities being executed. The entire team of hardwood hills were seemed busy in blowing their own horns. Risk management…

The Existence of Happiness Happiness is a hard thing to come by these days. Everyone seems to be worrying about what they’re doing wrong instead of appreciating the right. For some it’s their job, and for others it’s the way that they present themselves to their peers. In the novel Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, he says “Man only likes to count his troubles: he doesn’t calculate his happiness.” I agree with what Dostoyevsky is saying. We are all different people with…