A Passage from "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington
In the following writing piece, I chose a passage from my outside reading, Up From Slavery, and break it down by it's elements,...
"Waiting" by Ha Jin
Examining a passage from Furtively Mai Dong stretched out his hand, held Manna's shoulder, and pulled her closer so as to kiss her lips....
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Examing a passage from "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez She would not go to the funeral, for that is what she had...
Omeros Through a Postcolonial Lens
Omeros is an epic poem by Derek Walcott chronicling the trials of various residents of the island St. Lucia, as well as the island’s own...
H is For Hawk and the Mythological Lens
Helen Macdonald begins her book, H is for Hawk (a memoir published in 2014, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction), in search...
The Sixth Extinction through a Marxist Criticism Lens
The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert, is a nonfiction book that gives information on how the world is in the midst of its sixth...
Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery Through the Biographical Lens
Booker T. Washington born a slave on a farm in virginia during the mid 1850s. Washington lived with his mother and his two siblings....
A Historic Cultural Change Through China
Throughout the novel Waiting by Ha Jin, the Chinese culture is ever so changing through time. The main character Lin Kong is a doctor at...
"Omeros" by Derek Walcott
In the following passage, Derek Walcott uses the chopping down of trees as an allegory for how things change over time. Examining a...
Duke Orsino: Love Sick or Disorder?
Abstract This case study of Duke Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, will examine the mental state in which he is in. A panel of doctors, will...