Books Essays

The Cinderella story is a story that is well known around the world. While the Cinderella story has been generalized to be about a mistreated stepdaughter who becomes a princess these stories reflect the culture of each country they are set in. Cinderella is a story that tells us how …

The world as we know it is an interesting place and continues to change as humanity advances. We make such an impact on this world and in many ways this impact can be inherently negative. Pollution, deforestation, exploitation, and other habits we humans have are just some ways that we …

In ‘The Metamorphosis’ by Kafka, Gregor who is a traveling salesman that supports has an abrupt transformation which turns him into a bug. Because Gregor is the exclusive provider of the family, this transformation deprived them of their sole source of income. While their father can work, he elects not …

The famous novel The Metamorphosis (1916) by Franz Kafka is highly contested as a novel open for a myriad of kind of interpretation. The classic tale of a man, Gregor Samsa, waking up to find himself in the form of an insect leaves some obvious question marks in terms of …

Silkworms are adorable, furry moths. However, they can not fly, only hop. This is because of mankind. Humans have bred only the weakest ones over and over so that the silkworms wouldn’t fly. Why would we not want to let them fly? Well, we need to maintain them for more …

Zophobas morio is the scientific name for super worms. The stage Z. morio go through is called metamorphosis, they go from an egg to a darkling beetle. My hypothesis stated that the Z. morio would choose the bananas over the coffee beans. During the experiment, I placed six mealworms in …

Metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka, is a story about a man’s unexpected transformation into a bug and the spiritual and physical encounters that come with that transformation. Kafka was born into an upper-middle-class family in Prague, in 1883. ( His family was Jewish and while he did attend synagogue a …

When asked “What do you want out of life,” the majority of people will say their goal is to be happy. This is a simple answer, but with a deep, foggy meaning. Many people want to be the epitome of happiness, but what exactly is happiness? Happiness by definition is …

Axolotl, zoological name is Ambystoma Mexicanum which is a family of Salamander mainly related to the type of tiger salamander. But it is generally known to everyone by the name as “walking fish”, originally it is an amphibian. This amphibian was resided in several lakes. Axolotls are different from other …

In today’s society there are constant arguments debating the sanity of one’s mind when they have committed a crime to decide their fate. There are similar arguments for the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, where an unnamed narrator has committed a murder to a man that …