… work of literature that has been the topic of much controversy among literary critics. Some of the passages found in this novella can be interpreted to have different meanings. One critic, Wayne Booth, identifies two types of readers: the "straight…

… and My Grandmother enable us to understand the relationships described in the poems? In ‘Long Distance’, the rhyming pattern is abab cdcd efef, but in stanza four it changes. The rhyme pattern then changes to ghhg. The slowing down of the pace…

… ancient people made up myths. Myths are stories about the things, which people believed in, that contain a supernatural element. I read one story introduction to mythology named How Mythology Works. Also I read another book that tells us about…

… book where you either are asked to “just accept it” or you ask your reader to do so. It goes without saying that this rule must ring true with moviemakers and their audiences. Such was the case with director Paul Verhoeven, who is renowned as a sci-fi…

… become the babysitter of millions of children, and the scapegoat for their parents. It riddles academic studies with the “how” when something goes a-rye. How could this happen to a child? How can we stop this from happening? How could the television…

… characters, narration, and dialogue. Physical objects many times plays an important part in the plot of the story. Significant objects in stories can be very simple objects, but have a nonliteral meaning that is important to the plot. "The Things…

… Criminal Law Harm Reduction as defined on the “About the Harm Reduction Training Institute” web page, is an approach that aims to reduce the negative consequences of drug use through utilizing a full spectrum of strategies from safer drug use to moderat…

… Pudd’nhead Wilson, Mark Twain takes the different types of irony- verbal, situational, and dramatic- and uses them as an escape. He tries to explain the life of African- Americans through the satire of Caucasians. Set in antebellum Missouri,…

… Eyre, Charlotte Bronte portrays the theme of pride brilliantly through several characters and significant situations. During the 19th century, the people who openly expressed their feelings of pride were those in the upper elite classes for they were…

… great work of English literature, Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.” To do so one must first understand what is meant by satire. It is a trenchant use of wit, irony or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly. “A Modest Proposal” is just…