Seduction

Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is packed with symbols. Most prevalent is that of bulls and bullfighting in Pamplona. Hemingway uses the bullfights as more than just setting or plot, but to illuminate the internal workings of the characters’ behaviours and attitudes towards sexuality and each other. Combined with the ways bullfighting parallels the characters’ lives and knowledge of Hemingway’s real life inspirations in writing the novel, closely observing the use of bullfighting serves to…

specific positioning to serve as a lucid expression of the descending entrapment of her life’s decisions. Emma’s positioning refers to any bodily movement, expression or posture. These positionings reveal her various feelings of fear, desperation, seduction, and insecurity. These feelings appear through decisions she makes, situations in which she places herself, and directions she leads her life which reveal the downward spiral. Emma’s physical actions and postures depict inward fear as her…

Trickery is used to fuel the plots and test the main character in both works. Much Ado has scenes of trickery and seduction that create conflict in the plot. One example of trickery is the plot device of overhearing. Shakespeare develops comic situations from misinformation being overheard during the play. The audience would be aware of it but the characters would not…

I define leadership as the ability to influence others to accomplish commonly agreed upon goals. I have held several leadership roles throughout my academic career, but rarely analyzed my strengths and weaknesses. Through Dr. Courtright’s course “Leadership in Organizations,” I became aware of mistakes I have made while leading and may continue building a quality leadership methodology. In this essay, I will identify my key leadership strengths and weaknesses. I will also divulge my plans…

The Common Man The galvanizing President Abraham Lincoln once stated, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power”. Benjamin Black’s novel, The Black Eyed Blonde, presents various characters pursuing, fighting, and demanding power in different facets of their lives. The protagonist, Philip Marlowe, is a private detective who takes on the case of a mysterious and wealthy femme fatale. While Marlowe ventures curiously into the mystery of the…

musical contest among the Muses and the Sirens. The Muses represent the highest beauty, song, and artistry of men. Holding in the Muses hands are the instruments of song suspended in mid usage. Underfoot are the Sirens, representing death through seduction, are being defeated by the Muses. It is with the…

Al Young was born on may, 15, 2005, in Ocean Spring, Mississippi, he is a American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor, he is currently 78 years old, on May, 15, 2005 he was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, politician, and former professional bodybuilder. Al Young grew up in the rural South of villages and small towns, and in urban, industrial…

In contrast to the tradition of post-mortem photography, Serrano's modern interpretation in The Morgue illustrates emotional tragedies experienced by the subject that are portrayed through grotesque trauma. It is evident from the nature of Andres Serrano’s work that he has a profound interest in, or perhaps obsession with, life, death and mortality. There is a tension between his photographic directness and a theatrically baroque stylization of his provocative themes that are characteristic of…

Until the 20th century, women’s role in the American political sphere was greatly restrained by lack of suffrage. Nearing the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century, women were able to exert a minor influence on the politics of the developing nation through their image as, “trusted repositories of America’s treasured revolutionary ‘virtue’,” (Cogan 398). Through an analysis of “The Reynolds Affair and the Politics of Character” by Jacob Katz Cogan and “One…

Famous paintings such as Paolo de Mattei’s Triumph of the Immaculate and Judith Beheading the Holofernes by Caravaggio are timeless masterpieces that have made their historical impact through the generations by portraying Biblical scenes in a detailed form to show Christianity's influence in the fine arts at the time. These two paintings captured my interest with the artists’ captivating symbolism and brilliant choice of colors. Of course there are countless works from this era with similar…