Metropolis

While Bob is the quintessential metropolitan type, his opposite, Charlotte, represents a rejection of the stereotypes of the metropolis. While she is impacted by the city and has the same blasé appearance as Bob, she is troubled by the city whereas Bob accepts it. This is represented by her characters reason for being in Tokyo and also her uncertain direction in life. While Bob…

When immigrants from around the world began to make their journey to America, they mostly came to reside in the metropolis area of New York City. They saw a city with opportunity and once they arrived, they began to group together with other immigrants. This created a large concentration of immigrants in certain small places of the city. As more and more immigrants…

Achieving freedom from colonization resulted in new forms of dependency as the system of colonization was set on lasting subjection. Bill Ashcroft et al indicate that “all post-colonial societies are still subject in one way or another to overt or subtle forms of neo-colonial domination, and independence hasn’t solved this problem” (Ashcroft, 1). In neo-colonial system, the states seem to have formal independence and reserve the right of having control over their dealings but at the same time…

This part presents the theories and conceptual issues as well as the empirical reviews that drive the study. With respect to the theories, cultural theory of poverty, the entitlement theory and human capital theory form the theoretical framework of the study; thus, laying the foundation for this research. The combination of these theories was necessary because each one of them alone is insufficient in explaining beneficiaries’ utilisation of social cash transfers. They, therefore, complemented…

Shop windows, eyes of the city, is another way to show the motif of a double-ganger. Their hypnotic effect on Hans Beckert is shown in the scene 00:52:10 – 00:53:24 when we see him in a frame of the reflections on a glass and secondly the camera shows his view and his angle of reality: a girl Immediately actor’s acting explains the dramatic change in Beckert’s body language explained the condition of his mind. Sounds of the city immediately disappear and Beckert faces with his hidden nature.…

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 starts off with one sentence: “It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 3). The following paragraph describes the transformations that takes place as books are burned at the hands of our protagonist, Guy Montag. Books are turned black as they are spewed with kerosene and are engulfed in flames of black, red, and yellow. This opening connects to the story’s overall theme of change. The first significant change in Montag’s life is when he meets his neighbor…

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is one of the most famous stories of European imperialism in Africa and the horrors that came with it. The novella shows the dehumanization of the Africans by the Europeans and how the Europeans are going insane in the Congo The main character, Marlow, is searching for the elusive Mr. Kurtz. While traveling in the Congo, most of the people he meets compliment Mr. Kurtz one way or another. There are many people jealous of the success because Mr. Kurtz is known…

INTRODUCTION. The Age of Innocence is one of the most famous novels of Edith Warton since it won the Pulitzer in 1921. It is placed in 1870 old New York. It explores its society, its conventionalisms and its rigid system in which everything has an order and a purpose. We are introduced to a love triangle which will show us a society that fears scandals more than feelings. Trough the three main characters, Edith Wharton portrays a society she knows well, and that eventually would have to flee.…

“The Atlantic Slave Trade” by Klein Herbert is a synthesis made to educate readers with extensive scholarly research from the past quarter century on the Atlantic Slave trade. This book was written to close the gap between popular understanding about the slave trade and scholarly knowledge. The Book systematically organized the Atlantic slave trade in eight chapters starting from “Slavery in Western Development” to “The End of the Slave Trade”. In the following review of Klein Herbert’s work…

Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. He was the fourth child that his parents are Klara and Alois Hitler had. Adolf had a wife named Eva Bruan that he married in 1945, which also happens to be there year of death. They were married for about 40 hours until they both decided to commit suicide. In Hitler’s early years he never got along with his Father, Alois. Alois died suddenly in 1903. Hitler’s mother, Klara, then allowed him to drop out of school. Adolf…