Narrative
Essays

¶ … memoirist's commitment to the truth of absolute importance?

Casement (1998) describes Jung's idea of the 'personal myth' -- or the specific meaning that a person attributes to his or her own life, depicting the originality of that person's character in an overall context.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria was a favorite subject of art during the late Renaissance. The painting of Saint Catherine to which this analysis will refer is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The situations of two protagonists who face a common dilemma—racial prejudice—are addressed by their clever and resilient use of education as lever of change. The constructs of critical pedagogy, structural violence, and cultural violence lend a framework to the analysis that is deepened by the socio-political perspectives. Critical pedagogy, in particular, is germane to the exploration of these two works by Hughes and Douglass, in that, what Freire has contended, he has also demonstrated. That is, education and literacy are platforms for changing social structure in so much as they enable people to alter their perspectives as dramatically as twisting a kaleidoscope.

Mary Oliver is an American poet who explores an individual's relationship with nature through her work. Oliver's poetry has been described as "an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization for too much flurry…

Basquiat -- Portraits in Cinema and in Print

According to some social scientists, empiricism is the only truly scientific basis for social science research. This assertion is made with the purpose of understanding that empiricism does not rely on reason as its…

What kind of an impression does a person make upon others? Is it intentional? Is it natural? Is it engineered for the benefit of those who might be watching? Why? Those are the salient questions that Erving Goffman's…

¶ … Culture: Literary Imagination and Cultural Identity

War is always the same. And it is always changing. The basic goals of warfare -- to capture territory and resources, to reduce the enemy's ability to fight through whatever means necessary, including the killing off of…