… stems from examining the everyday occurances of people within that community. For Joseph Addison, England is no exception. Throughout his diary (fictional) in The Spectator, Addison is able to use detail, repetition, and tone to characterize clearly…

… 1868, the fifteen-year old Emperor Meiji, as he was posthumously known, moved from Kyoto to Edo. The move marked the beginning of Japan's efforts to modernize its political and social institutions, to develop…

… my family lived in the country. We lived about halfway along a small street, and directly across the road from us, an elderly couple lived, and at the back of their house was a huge garden, filled with lots of trees and flowers, and a fishpond. All…

… Some high-fashion designers are self-employed and design for individual clients. Other high-fashion designers cater to specialty stores or high-fashion department stores. These designers create original garments, as well as those that follow established…

… 280”, are different in many ways, but they also have a lot in common. First, they both are modern poems, so we cannot find rhymes or clear meter in them. Almost all contemporary poetry does not have rhymes. This style has even a name - “free-verse”…

… what the color of water is? I guess not. It’s one of those things one never thinks about, and never contemplates. It’s one of the things that just exist and we accept. We accept that water in fact has no color. Then why do we continually need to pigeonho…

… It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the green-and-white house. They are very happy.” (7) Throughout The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses a version of the classic…

… the stories read today, symbolism is used to give the story or specific characters a special or hidden meaning. One of the most popular items used as a symbol are animals. Because they alive and have some ability to have feelings, they give a more…

… who is in love with her professor named Peter. Peter cares about her, but does not do the necessary things to show that this is a serious relationship. The reader can see that the character of the female narrator does not stick up for herself in many…

… Jacobean tragedies that William Shakespeare created with notable tragic protagonists. According to Aristotle a tragic protagonist is a nobleman or person from high honor who contributes to his own degeneration and illustrates a flaw or weakness in…