Weimar Germany was a republic formed in 1919 after World War 1 it was the first democratic experience for German citizens. Weimar Germany ended in 1934 when Hitler becomes chancellor and obtains more power eventually naming himself the Fuhrer. The Wiemar republic had a difficult start between 1919 and 1923 since it suffered hyperinflation, political…
Prayer before Birth is a postmodern work, as seen in both its innovative structure, style, and themes. Readers can depict signs of postmodernism in every stanza; however, before one goes into details, the structure of the poem, as whole, is, on the one hand, very innovative, and, on the other hand, represents the core of…
Introduction: Basketball is an internationally known sport and is practiced by several different groups of people around several different areas in the world; in fact, it is one of the most popular sports in the world at the moment. To ensure a proper game of basketball, you need to have a good amount of elasticity…
Modernism as a literary movement emerged in France during the last quarter of the 19th century and remained an influential force right up until the Second World War throughout whole Europe and lasted approximately up to 1950. Modernism is also used as an umbrella term applied to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends…
“Literature adds to reality; it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides”. This quote expressed by renowned author C.S Lewis, explains the purpose of good literature is not purely to entertain, but also to enhance our everyday life through our actions, motives and thoughts. Literary classics…
In Shakespeare’s Henry V, Shakespeare gave Henry the role of a war hero while in history Henry was a great king. Shakespeare gives amazing qualities to his characters; he gave Henry, an ordinary king, the quality of a responsible leader. He also made the king a deeply religious hero. With all the qualities given to…
Craig Silvey’s critically acclaimed novel Jasper Jones could have been another cliché story about the budding relationship between Charlie and Eliza, but Silvey managed to tie romance, crime and coming of age all into one. It is a significant contributor to the engaging and relevant young adult fiction that is currently available. This novel deals…
It can be justified that the murder of Desdemona was her own fault, but there were also some other aspects like circumstances, vengeful malice of Iago, fate, free nature of Desdemona, lack of intermingling love between couple, Desdemona’s ambivalence tongue in depicting the character of Cassio, and Othello’s limited experience and inability in other spheres…
‘Journey of the Magi’ (written in 1927, published in 1931 in the collection Ariel) is at the crossroad of Eliot’s poetic career that relents to a new direction of penitential poetry quietly searching for spiritual peace by confirming his renewal of faith in Anglican Christianity. Between the publication of Ash Wednesday and Ariel, a short…
In the time of the Spanish American war, a lot of things were going on that could influence or fuel public opinion to go to war with Spain, there was an exaggerated form of journalism called yellow journalism which helped shape American opinion in this era, and often the paper promoted exaggerated stories, this journalism…
Jeannette Walls, the author of the novel The Glass Castle, writes about how hard life can be with scarce money and negligent parents. She grows up in a poverty-stricken town, left to fend for herself. Walls uses the story of her childhood hardships to indicate that perseverance and hard work can lead to success. Jeannette…
Research question: How will increasing the voltage (v) to 5v, 10v, 20v, 35v, and then 50v affect the amount of current (Amps) measured by an ammeter, keeping the resistance (ohms) at 12 ohms and the wire length of 10cm constant, in a series circuit to prove ohms law? Background information on Ohm’s law: Ohms law…
Variables is a central idea in research, in simple, a variable is a concept that varies. A variable is something that can change, such as ‘gender’ and are typically the focus of a study. Variables are those simplified portions of the complex phenomena that a researcher intend to study. The word variable is derived from…
According to several linguists, there is a certain kind of relationship between sense, Language, and a non-linguistic world of experiences, and the way we, humans, deal with them in our language. We use language to categories the objectives and items around us with the help of language. Language and the objects of the world are…
The poem deals with the theme suggested by Homer’s Odyssey. After the siege of Troy, Ulysses, the ablest and the Wisest of the Greek chieftains, passed through a long series of adventurous war for about a hundred years. Ulysses and his followers landed in a place apparently on the African coast. Alford Lord Tennyson, the…
International Drug Trafficking is rated in the top five of the most common crimes and top three for the serious impact it has on people and the economy positively and negatively. The sources that have used have been peer-reviewed and each of them explains the different kind of impact International Drug Trafficking offers not only…
Ron Rash’s novel, Above the Waterfall, uses the beauty of nature and poetry to make the reader feel connected with each character. Love, romance, past traumatic experiences, and the hard truth about methamphetamine addiction are all critical elements within the story. Rash who was born in Chester, South Carolina, and raised in Boiling Springs, North…
In the novel Lord of the Flies, the author uses many objects as symbols to illustrate themes. One of these objects is Piggy’s glasses. The glasses play an important role throughout the story as they demonstrate themes that are vital to it. The glasses represent intelligence and hope as well as help to foreshadow key…
This is a laboratory report which examines the oxidation of Magnesium and its percent yield. It is a very common lab report assignment for high school students across North America and the UK. The report will look to understand the percent yield of Magnesium Oxide (MgO) after heating varying amounts of Magnesium via a conventional…
Marriage for personal gains In the Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio states that he has “come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua.” (Act 1 Scene 2, lines 62-73) Petruchio married Katherina just because she was from a wealthy family. He doesn’t care if she’s ugly or mean-spirited, he just…