Country Essays

         Contained herein is an analysis of the depiction of Virgin Mary in Colonial Latin America, the scope period being 16-19th century. The analysis will specifically use the 1720 Virgin of the Mountain of Potosí painting to explain the significance of her presence. As a devotional image, …

Linda Richards the first trained nurse of America received her training in several stages. Her first training was under Doc Currier, her family doctor, the nurse-training program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, at the King’s College Hospital and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in Scotland. (Richards, L. …

The island nation of Japan has always intrigued me because of the way it has surged after its destruction during the Second World War. Japanese to me have always been hard working and very technology focused added to that, company focused and sincere to their jobs. The social culture in …

As the twentieth century began in America, the appalling practice of lynching continued to be rampant in every state. Ida B. Wells began her essay, “Lynch Laws in America,” with the observation: “Our country’s national crime is lynching” (Wells 1).  She went on to note that lynching was not only …

In “Good Country People,” Flannery O’Connor writes a story that compares and contrast different ways of living one’s life. Through the story O’Connor shows that an unnatural decision to chose atheism and nihilism over a common sense approach of accepting life and living it to the best of one’s ability …

            The American civil war forever changed face of the nation and the way different groups interacted with each other. In the attempt to understand these effects, concurrent sections of this essay shall highlight on plights of several groups involved in the production process, including: factory workers and owners, plantation …

The story of the Iliad is predicated on the act of the God Apollo who has sent a plague against the Greeks in retaliation for the abduction of Chryseis (Astynome). These basic themes of the abduction and enslavement of women as primary motivators for struggle and conquest demonstrate the ancient …

Introduction Very few “superstar” athletes have managed to emerge from the shelter of their brute strength, athletic skills, and competitive spirit to become other persons for others — bigger, better, and deeper in society’s stature and standing.             One of such a privileged few is Muhammad Ali — diplomat, peacemaker, …

            The 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent reunification of the city was a historical occasion that changed the region and the world for ever. In the attempt to understand the significance of this occasion, subsequent sections of this paper will provide various issues touching on Berlin …

Bernard Edelman’s Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam anthologises a broad range of experiences of and attitudes to the Vietnam War from those who were ‘humping the boonies’, ‘the rear-echelon types’ in administration compounds and the photographers who documented the action. We read commentary on the pressures and atrocities of …