Heroes
Essays

The strength of Emerson's work has always been in its absolute honesty and dedication to communicating in words, the actions we need to take in life in order to be truly alive. While his ideas have not always been…

In what is now the country of Iraq, part of the great "Fertile Crescent" between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates, and where Hammurabi created his famous legal codes, ancient Babylon was the home of the epic story of…

On December 27, 1963, the London Times reported, "The social phenomenon of Beatlemania, which finds expression in handbags, balloons and other articles bearing the likeness of the loved ones, or in the hysterical…

Love as a Commodity in the novels of Nathanael West and James Cain

Irmscher, Christoph. Longfellow Redux. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press,

The history of tobacco product advertising does not provide a particularly flattering image of corporate America. Early in the 20th century, the primary methodology of tobacco product advertisers was Aristotle's…

Virgil's hero in the Aeneid is, in many ways, modeled upon the Homeric ideal of the hero, as embodied by persons such as Odysseus and Achilles. However, there are also fundamental differences that may initially detract…

The idea of loss can be handled differently according to the perspective. It can make one dwell forever, or allow one to move on easier. Don Quixote and Candide are both tales that have lived despite the passage of time. They both contain lessons that can still apply today and use satire as its preferred way of expression.

Foucault's theory of the history of prisons is one that is founded on the idea that in order for society to control delinquents they needed to be isolated in prisons. This not only isolated them from the rest of society but gave them a chance to be rehabilitated at the same time. This idea lead to the prison system as we know it.

Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in an international context