… book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." -James Bryce* In 1945, a novel was published that would forever change the way society views itself. The book, entitled The Catcher in the Rye, would propel a man named Jerome David Salinger…

… Toni Morrison doesn’t make any exceptions to this idea. In her novel Beloved, Toni Morrison uses trees to symbolize comfort, protection and peace. While Toni Morrison uses tree imagery as a message of serenity and comfort, she uses her characters’…

… exploitation that was evident from the middle of the fifteenth century. In fact, slavery was a conventional practice during the early days of the Roman Empire as the Greeks were often enslaved. During the late eighteenth century to the middle of the…

… the world has seen, but he is also one of the most controversial. He has influenced twentieth century thought more than almost any other thinker. In his numerous works, Nietzsche constantly criticizes and restructures the…

… uses in the “Apology” and the “Crito”. In the “Apology “, Socrates was defending himself and trying to prove his innocence. In the “Crito “, Socrates was telling his beliefs in the whole truth. You will see that he speaks differently on one…

… Each one changed the way that teachers taught; the way schools were run and what they learned. To this day, something new and exciting happens all the time. In 1647 the Old Deluder Satan Act enacted in Massachusetts, requiring establishment…

… credible, if somewhat tongue-in-cheek, novel of a possible future America. Replete with biblical references and peppered with traumatic glimpses of the underlying cruelty of the despotic regime of Gilead, the novel presents the effect of the utter…

… pattern of industry in the UK? Traditional industrial location factors were, in the words of Karl Marx: ‘Land, Labour, Capital and Raw materials’, and these greatly influenced industrial location in the UK up until the 70’s: Land, referring…

… alienated long before his transformation into a dung-beetle, the job that gave him no satisfaction and the family that exploited him kept him isolated from himself and society. Kafka uses Gregor to exorcize his opinions against the capitalist society…

… Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” (reprinted in Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 7th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1998] 174) is a story of self-realization, regret, and irony. On her deathbed, a memory of sixty…