Essays on Literature

The Adoption of Technologies in Language Teaching The adoption of technologies for the goal of teaching languages has advanced significantly. The use of computers in schools and the adoption of personal tablet technologies in classrooms are two examples of how software and hardware advancements have produced useful tools that improve the...

Barbara Ransby penned the first piece, "Columbus and the Making of Historical Myth," in 1992. The major argument of the essay paints Christopher Columbus as a bad guy who shouldn't be honored for the social injustices he brought to the American Indians. The article claims that history textbooks omit the...

The two stories, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," look at the dynamics of human encounters, behavior, and judgment. The stories look at the distinctive characteristics of the characters' actions both inside and outside of their professional positions. While Young Goldman Brown explains the dynamics of...

This essay offers a useful comparison of online search engines and library databases. The precise words used in both searches were entered into a search engine to conduct this analysis on the subject of "Privacy and security on the internet." Based on accuracy, authority, impartiality, and currency, the results were...

The imagery of four works of art that are depicted on pages 357, 411, 433, and 572 of the book Art: A Brief History will be examined in this essay. Based on where they came from and the circumstances of their use, all four have allegorical and historical significance. I...

The Famished Road by Ben Okri is a book that must always be discussed by referring to its title because the road serves as the book's primary symbol. There was a waterway at the start. The waterway turned into a road, and the road split off to reach the entire...

Shakespeare's portrayal of gender inequality in A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare's drama A Midsummer Night's Dream is a text that illustrates inequality. The degree of control that males have over women is undeniable given how little attention they receive in a variety of social contexts. Even though such incidents might be...

The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who is credited with founding structural anthropology, made the claim that human beings tend to group together either physical or social objects, which explains the dichotomous nature of academic models of society. These models include local-cosmopolitan ones (Merton), folk-urban ones (Redfield), universalist ones (Parsons), and...

Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R.) Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R. ), written by the Czech author Karel Capek, is one of the earliest tales to address the topic of robots. It is a utopian story of a society in which humanoid robots are developed to help humans. The robots end up, through no...

Consider what you have learned about nonfiction writing as you respond to the questions below. Nonfiction is written about real people, events, and occurrences. Literary nonfiction and instructive nonfiction are the two categories of nonfiction. Notably, the writer of a biography or autobiography emphasizes the fascinating and meaningful aspects of the...

Anthropology Anthropology is the study of the various facets of human existence in both the past and the present. There are four subcategories of anthropology that can be distinguished: cultural anthropology, social anthropology, language anthropology, and physical anthropology. Social and Cultural Anthropology The study of social and cultural standards and values is known...

In the colonial discourse of tribal cannibalism and savagery as portrayed in Juan Jose Saer s work The Witness, Said s model of Orientalism has a significant influence. In various discourses (religious, anthropological, scientific, historical, etc.) about prehistoric societies, the post-Enlightenment European narrative of cannibalism and savagery is exhibited. The...