The Gates of Hell of Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno say: “Abandon all Hope ye Who Enter Here”. Dante awakens on the bottom of the hill and discovers that in order to get to Paradise he needs descend through Hell. Dante …
Nicholas G. Carr’s articles on technology are numerous. His writings include: Does it matter? Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google. Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is a great example of his …
The boy went to his local corner shop to buy the latest issue of Batman. The boy rushed straight into the store despite his best efforts to keep his excitement in check. He carefully scanned through the magazines and comics …
Franz Kafka wrote the stories “The Metamorphosis”, In The Penal Colony”, as well as “The Fasting Artist”. The protagonists are Gregor Samsa the officer and the fasting artist. These characters risk their lives to help others. But those who are …
Gustave Flaubert taught Guy De Maupassant how to write. Flaubert’s teaching principles said that the “writer must view everything to find an aspect of it that no other person has seen or expressed” and that this would give the reader …
Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ is about the stressful and difficult choices that we make in our lives. This poem was composed during World War One in 1915. The Poem, a narrative poem, is Frost’s most well-known poem. …
Despite being vital to each other, human government is not always in sync with military. Homer’s Iliad depicts this struggle very well. It shows the tension between military authority and political authority. Each hero demands superior honor by using their …
Fitzgerald’s sad novel, The Great Gatsby, tells the story of a protagonist who can’t afford to spend his millions on true happiness. Jay Gatsby’s story is about a man who lives a fabricated lifestyle, living the “American Dream.” Gatsby had …
Henry Fielding who wrote Tom Jones says in Chapter 1, “…”Human Nature” as a subject is often used but rarely expressed. Fielding attempts to show the characters of Tom Jones as well as the British Society’s temper and sensibilities through …
What if your physical reality was changed, but you still have the same reality? ? Franz Kafka’s novella, The Metamorphosis, is a story about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has transformed into an insect. Franz …