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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles born September 4, 1981 in the heart of the deep south Houston, Texas. Beyoncé first captured the music industry by being the lead vocalist of the R&B group Destiny’s Child, where she later established a solo career. She has become one of the music industries top-selling artist, with an array of awards and sold-out tours under her belt. Knowles is an all around performer, also being starred in several films, with one of her most famous being Dream Girls. Knowles has…

Sir Thomas More described utopia as an ideal humanist island, where there is freedom and harmony within the community. Peter Weir in his film, The Truman Show, presented his version of utopia, a town called Seahaven. This essay will analyze the film as a critique of consumerism. The name of the city itself is, as Smicek points out, an anagram of, “as heaven,” that seems to, “replicate a saccharine of 1950 's American suburbia” (33). The main character, Truman, lives in the, “pastiche of…

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1928 to Vivian Baxter and Bailey Johnson. When her parents divorce, Angelou and her brother were sent to live with their grandmother, Annie Henderson, in Stamps,Arkansas. Angelou’s grandmother, who she called “Momma,” was the stable force in Angelou’s early life. Annie Henderson was a strong religious woman who made sure that the family went to church every Sunday. Religion and spiritual music were important in the Johnson…

Their views are easily misrepresented, dismissed as overly conservative, particularly with surnames like Christian. For starters, they don’t want to ban all drugs, medical or otherwise. In fact, Mr Christian’s core message is of concern, rather than restraint. Concern that a startling number of politicians are ignorant to medicinal cannabis’ legal…

Naming of place and setting in Villette- Sarcasm and Authorial Commentary Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Villette’ makes a conscious and dramatic departure from her creative norm when considering the names given to both character and place within the novel. The underlying significance of the French language, the naming of place and of character will be discussed in this essay. Indeed, Dunbar argues quite clearly that Villette is ‘almost entirely unremarked’ (1960) in this particular method, likely because…

A symbol in literature contains several layers of meaning. It expresses an idea, clarifies meaning, or enlarges literal meaning. In the “Namesake”, the symbol and idea of immigrant culture is clearly evident in the novel especially among the characters, the themes, and overall flow of the novel. The characters, settings, and issues faced by the characters in the novel provide examples of immigrant culture including problems faced by immigrants such as adjusting to a new country. The “Namesake”…

must face Lord Voldemort as himself (Tom Riddle) rather than a face guiding another like in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Tom Riddle, who Harry has communicated with before via diary, reveals that his Muggle-name “Tom Marvolo Riddle” is a surname for his most intimate self, Lord Voldemort (Rowling 314). Shocked and in disbelief, “Harry’s brain seemed to have jammed. He stared numbly at Riddle, at the orphaned boy who had grown up to murder Harry’s own parents, and so many others…”…

creature’s void of not having a family. The creature learns vital values and morals from the family, as well as how to speak and understand the French language. The creature examines the old man, in the group of cottagers, later finding out that their surname is De Lacey. The creature notices the old man was blind and that he could finally withhold a conversation with someone who would not shriek at his mere appearance. However this idea quickly spoiled when the other cottagers arrived and beat…

ocuments contrived for specific cultural audiences might not be suitable for different audiences, unless we make appropriate alterations to contextualize the material for the new audience. This process, otherwise known as the internationalization, is a very difficult task because symbolism and meaning vary significantly across cultures. Changing the wording or a symbol can be extremely difficult, as meaning is not always transferrable. This is true in many fields however, I want to focus on the…

Wilde uses extensive examples of art surpassing reality to show that life as it is depicted in art is morally superior to "real" life because art is a purified reflection of reality that exhibits only reality 's most beautiful characteristics. Once Dorian has fallen in love with beautiful young actress Sibyl Vane, he proclaims that “the only thing worth loving is an actress” (Wilde 51). He dislikes most other women because there is no art to them, but an actress lives her art when she performs…