Velina Hasu Houston is American award-winning playwriter, editor, poet, essayist and an author. Houston has produced, published and presented many works that are focused on shifting identity boundaries regarding culture, ethnicity and gender. Her works also do embrace a transnational way of viewing identity basing on her American and Japanese...
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Those winter Sundays as written by Hayden is one of the most heart- wrenching domestic masterpiece which was among the best of his discovery and a definition. The poem discovers the synchronicity of the sound that was embodied in the reconciliation spirit in the poem. His tribute to the foster...
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James Hurst explore in his short story, Scarlet Ibis, the relationship between two brothers, the narrator and Doodle. The Brother narrates the sequences that occurs from birth to death of Doodle whom he shares most of their childhood time together. He is only six when Doodle is born, and already...
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The novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a book written by Stephen Chbosky an American writer and it was first published in 1999. The story revolves around through a series of letters that Charlie writes to several unnamed friends. Importantly, the letters are chronicles of Charlie’s triumphs, tabulations,...
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There is a summer day festival and the narrator explains the joy witnessed in the city of Omelas. Every person; the women, children, men, even the horses, are all happy. The lives of the people seem pretty complicated, it is not very simple; they are ordinary men like those in...
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In The Matrix, the concept of reality is deconstructed by positing that the world, at least Neo’s world, was nothing more than a deliberate illusion projected by machines. In the movie, the ‘human experience’ was nothing more than a mass-simulation of society projected in consciousness, which was run by the...
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Edgar Allan Poe: A Renowned Author Edgar Allan Poe is a renowned author born on 19th January 1809 and later died in October 1849. He died early, but he had already made an impact not only in the American literature but also in the world literature. Many of Poe’s short stories...
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The Problem of Cloning and its Connection with Humanity The problem of cloning people has received its huge popularity recently, and has led to creation of numerous pieces of literature, which touch the problem of cloning and depict the life of cloned people in usual society. It should be noted that...
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In a study of fashion Among the historic and valuable methodologies is interpreting the existing objects since they provide a unique or distinct insight about the historical development of fashion culture. Jules Prown's Methodology Jules Prown came up with a specific methodology of studying fashion through description, speculation, and deduction. Prown used this...
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In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray: The centrality and importance of beauty is evident. The author uses varied text, direct and implied, to expose the aesthetics of beauty, commonly reminiscent in the Victorian era. The perverse reference to beauty and aesthetics can be visualized from the lush descriptions of...
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The novel ‘A Christmas Carol' was written during the Victorian period when a great division existed between the poor and the rich. In chapter one Dickens applies personification and rule of three to define Scrooge’s attitudes towards the poor people. The phrase,” cold, bleak, biting weather” has been used to...
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Bram Stoker and "Dracula" Bram Stoker, an Irish novelist, wrote the gothic horror novel "Dracula" in 1897. This book was the first leading piece of vampire fiction, and it set the standard for all vampire-centric novels. The novel is written in epistolary style, which means that it is told from the...
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