Life Essays

One of the first reports of the use of fasting as a treatment for obesity was published 75 years ago (Folin & Denis, 1915) with subsequent studies appearing in medical journals through the 1960’s (Bloom, 1959; Duncan et al, 1963; Duncan et al, 1962; Drenick et al, 1964; Norbury, 1964; …

Without question, Beloved is a powerful chronicle of the social and historical elements of motherhood under slavery. At the same time, it also reaches into deeper, more mythic levels of maternal experience. Beloved is very much a novel of transformation, one that is closely linked with the female blood-transformation mysteries …

Introduction:             Sandra Cisneros was an American and a Mexican author. She was the only girl in a family of seven, something which led to her much loneliness. This drove her to the hobby of reading as well as frequent movements between Chicago and Mexican city. She started writing back …

Basic Facts;             James McNeill Whistler, (1834-1903) heavily influenced by Japanese artists, created aesthetic paintings controversial to the European audiences, but greatly appreciated by Americans. He spent most of his life in London, still considered an American artist. When he moved to Paris, he attended Navy based West Point Academy. …

More often than not, great pieces of literature are usually reflections of the authors’ life and the era they lived in.  The literary pieces serve as mirrors to the struggles and triumphs that their respective authors have gone through.  After all, the best material that an author can write about …

The function of humor in Woody Allen’s films is argued by many critics. This essay will focus on the comments of Ray Carney, Sam Girgus and Nancy Pogel. Carney argues that, “Comedy is the wound through which serious meaning bleeds out of Allen’s work.” (Carney, 14). He argues that there …

Introduction:             Fashion today is often related to the identity of people wearing a certain kind of style of clothing. Yes, there is more to fashion today than just simply referring to the clothes people wear. At times some people take fashion as a certain basis for prestige and social …

Hollywood as a factory of dreams often makes individuals face the harsh reality as well. At the time of the Great Depression, a number of Americans tried their luck in Hollywood in order to acquire fame and capital, but the demand in actors was tiny, comparing to the proposition. Nathanael …

What does it mean – a Beauty? As for the art products – this could be an attitude of  artist to a life. But does the Beauty exist outside of artist, in the nature or it appears only  with the artists creation? And if it is so, what criteria do …

The youth of today would rather go to movies than watch theater stage productions.  But when our professor required us to go to a theater, I was not hesitant. I had been to Broadway once and I was excited to go there again. I chose to see Phantom of the …