Spirited Away

The Namesake is another immigration story, which was adapted a book titled the same name. It is about a middle class immigrant Asian Indian family living in New York. Although the movie tells the story of an Indian family’s struggle in the US, essentially their adjustment problems could be true for all the immigrant families regardless of ethnicity. For example, yearning, adaptation process of the new culture while protecting your own culture and generation gap might be universal fact for all…

Eliana Ritt Honorable or Heinous? Honorable, historical, and humble: these are all words that can be used to describe the Native Americans and their rich and fascinating culture. When we talk about Native Americans, we often talk about their struggles throughout history. Recently, there has been a new struggle with the Native Americans involving controversy of whether or not the mascots used for sports teams are offensive. Emotions and opinions tend to influence mankind more than reason,…

The renaissance, first recognized as rinascimento by Vasari, was a time of great creativity and invention in the world of art. Running from roughly the beginning of the 15th century to 1564, the renaissance knew many incredible artists that we know by name today, and others that helped develop the beauty of art that are less well known. From Cimabue and Giotto to Donatello and Michelangelo, this period was namely occurring in Florence with the perfect climate for an eruption of imaginative art…

The aim of the following chapter is to present nature in Thomas Hardy’s Return of the Native and Jude the Obscure as a driving force from which human beings are dependent. The focus will be also put on the intellectual ferment caused by the discoveries of that time which place human beings at the same level as animals and question the immortality of soul. The protagonists will be presented as individuals struggling for existence in a harsh world governed by passion and chance. In the course of…

Introduction Among all the famous contemporary children’s poets, Shel Silverstein is hailed as one of the most popular authors of children’s books in the twentieth century and is dubbed “Poet laureate of kids” by the critic Megan Rosenfeld. His poems are not only embraced by children but by people of all ages; one of the solid proof is that they have been translated into over 30 languages and some of them have been adopted for animations. In some of his reputed poems he depicted the alienation…

How Intersectionality is Reflected in the Media The media has just recently (in the past years) started picking up on queer and transgender representation. There are shows like Modern Family, Glee, and How to get Away with Murder that have gay couples as reoccurring cast; in these shows there are topics about common struggles in the LGBT+ community discussed. Although this is progression, there is not enough intersectionality portrayed within the media. Intersectionality is a huge determining…

forceful of weapons. Conversely, one could also interpret this fusion of verse and prose as literary devices, which aids intones for a character’s frame of mind or social ranks (The British Library). Shakespeare’s nuances underlie idioms that foster a spirited female who criticizes subordination by hyperboles and opposes her social abutments with flippant dialog. In The Taming of The Shrew, Shakespeare, marries lucid and figurative language, the deft rhetoric adorns Kate and Petruchio’s abundant…

George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell’s use of narration in his piece “Shooting an Elephant” works really well to depict the events that take place in the story, by allowing us to hear all of his thoughts and reasons to his actions, as his experiences as sub-divisional officer take place. Orwell allows us to fully understand the situation between Burma and British empire in a personal level by narrating daily events that helps us readers understand how life was, when this life…

Acceptance is something that many people long for and when an individual finds it they truly feel loved, appreciated, and wanted. The lives of individuals cannot be complete if they continuously refuse to move forward in life. Acceptance allows an individual to destroy the negative aspects of an uncomfortable situation; through that, one may also learn to love and allow others to love him or her. Love is a special bond that makes life more enjoyable because an individual is able to share the…

to help her understand the pain of enslaved mothers had to go through when they lost their child. The idea of the book came from when she lived in a slave state. Previously Stowe lived in Kentucky where she was acquainted with abolitionists and run away slaves who told her tales of appalling treatment there drive for freedom. A few months later, Stowe hired a small scaled servant girl. Later on she heard that the girls owner was looking for her. At that time due to the fugitive slave act the…