Culture Essays

Throughout the spring semester, we have studied multiple empires and periods of time in the ancient world. Finally, we reached the point in time where historically Jesus was born, ministered, and was brutally killed. Although he was gone (in Heaven) the gospel was not. But what caused for there to …

The history of the nation of Macedonia (formally known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia “FYROM”) is not widely known to most individuals. Macedonia is situated in the Balkan Peninsula of southeast Europe, situated between Albania, Bulgaria, and Greece. Throughout recent history, Macedonia has found itself in the middle …

A building is said to be functional as it provides shelter, control, and instruction and can demonstrate dominion over a lesser-sized architectural structure. In 1964, the New York Times declared “ Architecture is the ART of how to waste space” (pearce). So can a celebrated building be a work of …

In this study, The Glass Mountain, novel of American postmodern writer Donald Barthelme will be explained by analyzing with postmodern elements such as fragmentation, metafiction, pastiche and black humor in the story of the novel. Here, only techniques that will be realized including postmodern strategies will be analyzed. In this …

A state of disillusion. After the first World War, Americans found it difficult to buy into the american dream because of how horrific the event was handled. Disillusionment is everywhere, but a prominent example of disillusionment is in the memory play, The Glass Menagerie. A memory play is a play …

Boston’s Mapparium has a great significance because it is where the two completely people go out to on a date. The story “Sexy” written by Jhumpa Lahiri focuses entirely on two people: a married man, Dev(Bengali) and a twenty two years old girl, Miranda(American) who went to see the Boston’s …

Famous held a proverbial belief about competition, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” His belief has become adopted into a countless number of young minds, instilling a fallacious idea that success is the purpose of life, and a failure to succeed is a failure to live. Personally, I disagree …

There are various words that can be used to, however, perseverance is the most suitable to express both the pain and prosperity of their past. In saying that, this word goes beyond the simple definition as we know it; perseverance flows through their veins bolder and more priceless than the …

Before we can begin discussing, we must first know what the book is about. Most of the novel takes place in Umuofia, a group of nine villages located on the lower Niger. Umuofia is a strong clan, experienced in war and contains a great population. These people have proud traditions …

Ford describes the representation of feminism and women’s social status in our society. She mentions how women can make a decision, take an action, and move forward. Instead of repeating about how women should be treated in society, Ford takes all the negative aspects and converts them into women empowerment. …