Trivial Pursuit

Obscene America: An Analyzation of Howl In 1955, beat writer Allen Ginsberg produced a free-verse poem titled Howl. Ginsberg’s Howl is a poem that embodies the conditions of America, specifically how Ginsberg viewed them to be. Being a beat writer, Ginsberg was completely aware of the unjust and superficial ideals America was projecting. Not only, but Ginsberg’s poem was completely uncensored, real, and raw while addressing these issues. For instance, his poem was so uncensored, real, and raw…

Have you ever found yourself saying, “something just doesn’t feel right!” or to some degree along those lines? The book “Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking” by Malcolm Gladwell starts out with a similar feeling. Blink opens with the introduction of “The Statute That Didn’t Look Right”, September 1983 an art dealer named Gianfranco entered the Getty Museum located in California. With him he had a brilliantly preserved piece of work that measured near seven feet tall, with a price tag…

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is a book about a man named Siddhartha who travels through Ancient India searching for enlightenment. He is born the son of a Brahmin and considered a learned man at a young age. Throughout the book, Siddhartha constantly searches for enlightenment in different places and different forms. First, he searches for it by letting go of all worldly connections. Next, he looks for it by learning about physical love and attachment. Lastly, Siddhartha searches for and finds…

assessment, training to all other process. In another word, an inclusive corporate culture promotes creative decisions and reduces employee conflicts (Combs and Luthans,2007, cited by Monaghan,2010, p53). Now with the rapid development of the economy, the pursuit of equality in employment become intense. For the minority, long neglected realities also require their voices to be…

experienced these hindrances firsthand, brings to light the struggle African Americans face daily to overcome these systematic barriers in her works. Through symbolism and contrasting perspectives that follow eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove’s desperate pursuit of blue eyes, Morrison’s The Bluest Eye analyzes the way in which race affects social status and calls for action against white superiority in society. By demonstrating the decline in Pecola’s mental state, Morrison…

William Wordsworth was a prolific writer and nature lover. As the bulk of his poetry is concerned he has four periods; the early period, the period of gloom, the glorious decade, and the period of decline. Wordsworth poetic life began in the early period. The poems of the Gloom period marks the poet’s tortured state of mind. His state of mind was clearly reflected in the remarkable poem, Guilt and Sorrow. It reveals the story of cruel wrongs suffered by an innocent woman as a result of war.…

Plato's Symposium focuses on a group of intellectual men each giving a speech in praise of the god of love. Taking turns each man gives his definition of love and some of the speeches concern themselves with how love interacts with nature. One of the more influential speeches was given by Socrates in the narrative of a woman named Diotima. This speech is more focused on a definition of love, one different from what most people consider, and how it can be used to reach immortality, an ascent to…

"Coleridge was also fascinated by the figure of Iago, and his assessment of the play's enigmatic villain as a "passionless character, all will in intellect" influenced readings of the play for decades (1:49). Indeed, Coleridge's claim that Iago's final soliloquy is best understood as "the motive-hunting of motiveless malignity" (1:49) remains one of the most quoted assessments of Iago to this day. Noting that Othello shares a number of features with traditional morality plays, Spivak argues that…

Of the thirty-seven plays he wrote, William Shakespeare’s tragedies are his most popular and enduring works. The majority of his tragedies have had incredible impact and are studied more often in schools. Shakespeare’s tragedies often feature characters built around archetypes and his most famous tragedy, Hamlet, is no exception. Hamlet makes use of archetypes like the tragic hero, the villain, the suppliant, and the foil in order to create characters that are familiar while also building upon…

Benefits of Video Games in Education Video games have been around for decades now, and there has been a ton of research done on how they affect the users playing them and what kind of impact they have on people of all ages; developmentally and psychologically. Learning through video games is something that could be very beneficial to students, because they are exciting and challenging, and would bring a new and fresh approach to learning in the classroom. Video games are made to be fun and…