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What exactly is poetry? Poetry is one of the oldest means of remembering and maintaining history. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to give a precise definition of poetry, but this doesn’t necessarily matter as we can have a perfect understanding of what something is without being able to define it. Poetry itself is…
In the realm of science, forensic dentistry is fast expanding its space. Forensic odontology is a specialized field of dentistry that analyses dental evidence in the interest of justice. It has been established as an indispensable science in medico-legal matters and identifying the mutilated, unknown dead person. Various methods have been developed to determine age, sex,…
What was the Night of Long Knives? The Night of Long Knives, also known as the Röhm Putsch, was the purge of the SA leadership and other political opponents from 30 June 1934 to 2 July 1934. It was a turning point for the German government. Hitler launched the Night of Long Knives to consolidate…
Simon Armitage uses imagery that relates to guilt and sorrowfulness to explore grief in the two poems, the Parting shot and Remains. In Parting shot, for example, the soldier has survivor’s guilt which relates to him having grief for his friend who died on the battlefield, he also goes to his dead friend’s funeral, which…
A central problem of politics is how to obtain and hold onto power. The Christian contemporary belief was that true power comes from those who are merciful, peaceful, generous, and tolerant; in other words, a good politician is a good Christian. In contrast, Machiavelli argued that an effective ruler needs to know how to be…
Introduction Glucose → Ethanol + Carbon dioxide In the absence of oxygen, enzymes from microorganisms break down sugars through the chemical process called fermentation. Because they possess distinctive sets of metabolic genes, microorganisms like bacteria and fungi can develop enzymes that can break down various kinds of sugar compounds. Therefore, the flavor of fermented food…
A movie so influential that a syndrome has been named after it. The Truman syndrome entails those afflicted with the disorder to believe their lives are reality television shows. The Truman show came out in 1998, starring Truman Burbank, the protagonist of the story who is unaware that his everyday life is being televised continuously…
Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations was written during great social change. The novel appealed to the middle and working classes of the Victorian Era and was highly critical of the class system and social inequality. Pip represents the social change of the time, constantly wanting to better themselves. Pip was very much content with life as…
Homelessness in America has a history dating back to the 1870s, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which is a part of the US National Library of Medicine and reports on biomedical and genomic information. The crisis surged in the 1980s as a result of high unemployment, a lack of affordable housing,…
Introduction: Acid rain has an acidity of around 4, which is 1000 times more acidic than normal rain. When humans burn fossil fuels, sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) are released into the atmosphere. Those air pollutants react with water, oxygen, and other substances to form airborne sulfuric and nitric acid. Winds may spread…
Whose woods these are, I think I know. 1 His house is in the village, though; 2 He will not see me stopping here 3 To watch woods fill up with snow. 4 My little horse must think it queer 5 To stop without a farmhouse near 6 Between the woods and frozen lake, 7…
In the story, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Vern, Phileas Fogg, an eccentric Englishman gentleman, must travel around the world in eighty days. This is the result of his making a bet with the members of the Reform Club. As the story advances, Phileas Fogg is faced with the difficult task of traveling around…
In the novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Vern, Phileas Fogg is in conflict with time in a man versus nature conflict. Phileas Fogg is a very precise and honorable Englishman who made a bet that he could circumnavigate the world in eighty days. He is in a conflict with time, trying to…
Wilfred Owens, a former soldier in WW1, defies the perception of war in his poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by unraveling a sample of the horror that comes from warfare, on and off the battlefield, to denounce the ‘old lie’, that is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Owens’s poem contrasts the expectations…
In Greek Legend, Antigone is the daughter born of the inadvertent relationship between Jocasta and her son Oedipus. The tragedy by Sophocles is narratively anteceded by Oedipus at Colonus and Oedipus Rex and forms the third installment of the Oedipus trilogy. Over the years, there have been multiple adaptations of Antigone, including musical compositions, stage,…
Gina Berriault’s story The Stone Boy prompts readers to consider how much parental involvement influences a child’s actions and behavior. The story tells of how 9-year-old Arnold accidentally kills his older brother Eugene but decides to pick peas for an hour instead of informing his parents about the incident. His family, relatives, the sheriff, and the callers…
Many novels about the middle class in the nineteenth century are mainly about the struggles of common citizens and the struggles of the lower class. Precisely, the novels feature the struggles of the lower citizens’ efforts to gain upward mobility, which gave rise to the social realism subgenre. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Sense and…
The Adventure of Crooked Man is among Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories about Sherlock Holmes. The short story is the twentieth of the Sherlock Holmes stories, written for the Strand Magazine edition, after The Adventure of the Reigate Squire. The story was later republished and included in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes omnibus in 1893.…
Outline the main causes of unemployment in Australia and discuss its impact on the economy Unemployment is the situation where individuals want to work, however, are unable to find a job. Many causes disable Australians from seeing and being accepted for adequate work, in addition to the many impacts on the individual people and the…
The Tell Tale Heart is among Poe’s most famous short stories. It provides a dark and bleak exposition by an unnamed character who narrates how he successfully murders and their ultimate delirious confession from guilt’s torment. The narrator’s motiveless action arouses the readers’ curiosity about the storyteller’s mental state and the relationship with the old man…