Magnum opus

Immediately to “Black Theology and Black Power”, Cone writes and publishes “A Black Theology of Liberation”. There, he reflects his deep commitment to the black struggle for justice from the perspective of Christian theology, which helps African American to recognize that the gospel of Jesus is not only consistent with their struggle for liberation but has a meaning central to the twentieth century America. “Racism is a disease that perverts human sensitivity and distorts the intellect”. He…

he term Gentrification is coined together by a British Sociologist Ruth Glass to describe the movement of middle class families into urban areas causing the property value to increase and displacing the older settlers. In the past decades, gentrification have been defined and refined depending on the neighborhood 's economic, social and political context. According to Davidson and Less definition, a gentrified area should include investment in capital, social upgrading, displacement of older…

Published in 1954, William Golding’s magnum opus, Lord of the Flies, tells the tale of a group of boys who are stranded on a tropical island after the breakout of a nuclear war. Despite that the boys managed to establish a democratic society successfully, it slowly began to erode: order and reason gradually ebb and chaos and impulse begins to flow. One of the boys who are stranded is Piggy. Piggy, who has poor asthma, eyesight, and is overweight, acts to preserve order, but ultimately fails. He…

he has become one of the most respected and highly awarded journalists in the United States, serving as a voting member for the Pulitzer Prize board. He received his second Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2005 for what many consider his magnum opus, Ghost Wars. In which Coll attempted to create a more conclusive narrative and description of the events leading up to the September 11th attacks, focusing mostly on the actions of the CIA, Pakistani and Saudi intelligence; as those were the…

THEATRE OF THE ABSURD BY ALBERT CAMUS Background An existentialist philosopher Albert Camus, wrote an essay “The Myth of Sisyphus”. This essay was published in 1942. In this essay Camus described human existence and called it to be “without any purpose: absurd”. Other writers of that era related to his work and subscribed to his work. These writers than wrote their own thoughts on the subject and their writing were named as Theatre of Absurd. There was no such thing as an Absurdist crusade…

Aryabhatta is without doubt the Astronomer/Mathematician non-pareil of the Post Vedic/Post Epic era in the historical narrative, especially so since his magnum opus The Aryabhattium, which packs a lot of information in the terse aphoristic style characteristic, of that era, has survived intact from the mists of a distant past when he first developed his thesis. His work and the prior work in the Vedic area form an important sheet anchor for the entire chronology that follows, important by virtue…

past: the word broken is a necessity of the present” -Niccolo Maciavelli Deeply disturbing. Machiavelli and ‘his prince’ are seen as synonym for evil. Machiavelli was a 16th century Italian diplomat, historian, philosopher and play write. His magnum opus “The Prince” created shock among the people. It was something new for them. A man who was giving advices to princes to be cruel, cunning, ruthless and deceitful created a sense of fear among people and his work was received with much…

In an age where various forms of media play an undeniably crucial role in the dissemination of information to citizens, it was the philosophical prophecies of Marshall McLuhan that prove to still be pertinent in today’s use of media. The present usage of such terms as “media”, “global village” as well as “Age of Information” were all coined by Marshall McLuhan in his 1965 work Understanding Media (Lapham, x). In the information age we currently live in, McLuhan’s contributions to media and…

Regardless of the varied critical response, The Grapes of Wrath became a instant classic whose theme of strength in the face of suffering and unity among all people resonated with a national audience, and Steinbeck 's ideological stances in his magnum opus would prove to be far more lasting than his portrayal of the Dust Bowl. The Grapes of Wrath “is about the human quest for self-realization, as a group and as separate individuals”, and…

Alongside the many forms of adversity Sarah Grimké has to plow through in her lifelong fight for racial and gender equality in The Invention of wings, none have stood as more of a setback than her growing up in a South Carolinian plantation. Forced to own a slave as a child, named by whites as Hetty, Sarah makes a vow to the slave’s mother that she would find a way to free her daughter, and at the same time, Sarah learns of her extraordinary intelligence, which will clear her a spot amongst…