The Novel of Courage and Cowardice Introduction In Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War, a depressing story about power and forced conformity within a school setting is told. Within this bastion of uniformity is a young man named Jerry who chooses to try and stand against the powers that are within the school. The novel shows…
What Is the Message of Nietzche’s Beyond Good and Evil to the Current Society? Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1886 masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil, provides a powerful assertion of individual morality that has potential implications for the modern world of the 21st century. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche rejects moral dogmatism, the assumption that there is…
NAFTA is a multilateral free trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. When it came into effect in 1994, it created the world’s largest free trade zone. It was intended to increase the international relations between these countries by eliminating most tariff and nontariff barriers to investment and trade. Like any other agreement,…
Is Israel penniless and defenseless without USA aid? In 2012, Gabi Ashkenazi, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, declared during a conference that the American tax-payers have contributed more to the Israeli budget dedicated to Defense than Israeli tax-payers, and that [Israel] must preserve ties with the United States. I believe this is a…
How Are Realism with Humanitarianism Combined in The Call of the Wild? Introduction The Call of the Wild has never been out of print since its first publishing. It is widely considered a children book. Still, for a keen reader, it is far more serious literature than a fairy tale: it is a story of…
What were the most historically significant results of The Treaty of Versailles? The Treaty of Versailles was a peace agreement signed by Allied forces and Germany at the end of World War I in France on June 28, 1919. The treaty was introduced because the Allies believed that Germany needed to further compensate for the…
THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY: ACCEPTED PROGRESS OR UNWELCOME CHANGE? While the unification of Germany in 1871 resulted in many positive changes in the country, not all members of German society were eager to embrace them. Rich landowners, capitalists and political leaders were vehemently opposed the industrial, political and social changes that threatened their status and…
What Is Significant about the Last Battle in Beowulf? Beowulf is a hero of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, which is known for his bravery, love for his people and willingness to die for it. In his time it was considered worthy to die in battle than to live a long and happy life. Therefore, Beowulf…
What was the reason of Pierre Gringoire’s decision to live with vagabonds in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo? Pierre Gringoire is a character, who is described as impatient and egotistical person. He is a playwright and a philosopher, who values himself very much and considers his life as the most important thing on…
How Does Murder on the Orient Express Differ from other Murder Mysteries? Abstract Murder on the Orient Express is a novel that is rightfully praised not only by the army of Agatha Christie’s admirers but also by literary critics. This novel, which is typically reserved, English, and typically detective, is nevertheless very different from other…
Tradition in One Hundred Years of Solitude Introduction In One Hundred Years of Solitude, tradition and culture are prominent aspects of the story’s narrative. The novel written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of a multi-generational family known as the Buendia family. The story’s partiarch, Jose Arcadio Buendia, founds a town called Macondo, which…
What Is the Role of the Framing Story of Heart of Darkness? While reading a certain literary work, we usually pay our attention not only to its plot, but also to its structure, and the writing techniques used by its author. In fact, the author’s writing is considered to be of no less importance than…
What Was the Role of Slavery and Slave Rebellions in Jamaica’s Past? What first comes across your mind when you think of the New World? Personally I think of the Caribbean and its flourishing coral islands with white shores, discovered by Christopher Columbus in 15th century and proclaimed Spanish colonies. Jamaica was one of those tropical islands in…
Why Jack London Chose to Tell a Story on Behalf of a Dog Abstract White Fang (1906) is an example of fiction that reflects Jack London’s naturalistic approach emanating from Darwinian evolutionary concepts. The novel can be seen as redemption from the effect The Call of the Wild had on author’s reputation, but it is undoubtedly…
Introduction In Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, the stability of power as integral to the value of a government is importantly posited. However is the author’s assertion correct? Can a government be judged solely on its ability to enable stability within the body that it governs or is more expected of it to be successful? Machiavelli…
What Country Was Most Responsible for Winning WW2? When the Second World War ended in May 1945 and Nazi Regime tumbled down, it was the rise of two winner fronts – the USSR and the United States. But which side gave more and became the most responsible for that victory? Different sources, both American and Soviet…
What role do these opposed pairs play in developing the novel’s themes? The hero of the novel Don Quixote lived for ideals. The issue of the novel is the contradiction between the chivalrous ideals of the main hero and reality, which is not ideal. At first sight the characters of the novel of Servantes look as…
What Is a Business Plan and Its Main Objective? Introduction When you decide to start your own business, it is necessary to understand how you will organize it. And that is the moment when you ask yourself “Do I need a business plan?” To give an answer, we need to understand fully what this definition…
What Is the Role of Female Characters in The King Lear? Shakespeare in his works repeatedly refers to the image of a woman who in his works is devoid of any extraordinary idealizations, she is not the sainted, and the image of her even assumes a certain negative connotation. The female characters in The King Lear (Shakespeare,…
Introduction Atheism is the absence of the belief in God. The atheistic ideas have a long history. The first atheists were found in the fifth century BC. There were some tribes in Africa with no evidence of worshiping or sacrifices. The oldest documents describing atheistic philosophies were traced in the Vedic Age of India and…
What is the author trying to convey by making Watson and Holmes call each other by their last names? Introduction Sherlock Holmes first appeared in 1887, coinciding with the late Victorian era in literature, and his adventures continued throughout the Edwardian era until 1927. The stories follow detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Doctor Watson,…
How the Internet Has Changed the Marketing of Entertainment Goods? Today we can say that the internet has changed every part of our life starting with buying and selling goods and services ending with the way we get entertainment. A lot of people spend more than a half of their free time surfing the internet…
How Do People Seriously Deny the Holocaust? The Holocaust is a systematic, state-supported destruction of nearly 6 million Jews and many other victims of the Germans and their collaborators during World War II. However, it seems to have appeared an indisputably terrifying historical period, nowadays it becomes easier to meet such a term as “Holocaust…
What’s So Great about Little Women? In Little Women, Louisa Alcott emphasized two crucial and essential parts of our life – the true meaning of family and the power of love. The main idea of the novel is that “into each life, some rain must fall.” Nothing is perfect in this world. Each of us…
What Are the Benefits of Having Franny Within the Novel? In the book The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, a girl named Susie is raped and murdered by a serial killer. The story follows Susie as she enters Heaven and later returns to Earth to watch over the people she knew in life. In the story,…
The Biggest Challenges I Faced While Growing Up Abstract There were many challenges to children who were born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s; many were the changes of roles in the household since most housewives stayed at home and raised children. Back then, children were very seldom left alone to tend to their younger siblings.…
By What Means Does Henry David Thoreau Teach Us to Open to Self-Discovery? Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) was an established writer and philosopher. He taught us many things, but perhaps his most accomplished idea was that of self-discovery. Self-discovery is an idea rooted in knowing oneself and taking that and the simplicities for…
William Zinnsser’s Simplicity is a straightforward criticism of the American style of writing for its tendency to be filled with unnecessary words. Zinnsser explains how clutter can make it difficult for the reader to understand the key points that the writer is trying to make. He also points out that not everyone knows how to write…
The Nature of Alex’s Relationship with His Parents and Its Role in the Novel A dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess depicts post-modern English society using satire and anti-ethical implications (Diez Cobos, 2003). The anti-ethical elements are available in family portrait and its nature, so as its members deviate the traditional family behavior…
Tesla’s Current Strategies in the Electric Vehicle Market Introduction There are over 1.3 billion cars on the road, of which 60 million are electric cars. The portion of electric vehicles (EV) to internal combustion vehicles is still comparatively small (Patton). However, with the introduction of new EV models, individuals’ interest in buying electric cars has…