… into two groups--the sciences and the arts. The sciences include mathematics, geography, chemistry, physics, and so on. Among the arts are drawing, painting, modelling, needlework, drama, music, literature. The purpose of education is to fit us for…

… was considered to be prestigious and was the central aim of the English novel. Wilde uses the concept of marriage in The Importance of Being Earnest as a paradox. The characters are disinterested, some repulsed, by the concept of marriage yet it…

… their life and they are unable to overcome it by themselves. However, not everybody believes their life is directed by fate already. In the story The Outcasts of Poker Flat, John Oakhurst is a gambler and he doesn't believe fate. "He was too much…

… Adams Date: First published in 1980 with Pan Books Place: London Summary 'The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy' is the first novel in a series of books based on the radio series of the same name, also written by Douglas Adams. It is followed…

… Mark Latham announced "Australian troops would be pulled out of Iraq by Christmas". The Government, and John Howard in particular, are using this announcement by Latham to demonstrate that he does not have a grasp of the situation in Iraq, is weak…

… constructions for the sake of its entertainment. From primitive pictorial murals to a modern day action movie, these constructs have allowed people to construct simulated realities that occupy the mind. With audio and visual entertainment technologies…

… Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants," with final impressions. Upon reading "Hills" the first time, I imagined the setting, the characters but had a hard time with the purpose. It felt like I was snooping in on someones conversation trying…

… so that we could see Emily the way her mother (narrator) saw her. Through her reverie, we feel the mother's pain that her daughter felt ugly as a child. We ache with the knowledge that she had to send Emily to the daycare with the "evil teacher"…

… Allen Poe and Dylan Thomas; however, two poets can have opposite writing styles. Most of Poe's poems are all focused on the depression of death. Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," was written during the period of his father's…

… question, you must firstly clarify your understanding of a tragedy. The dictionary would describe it as being 'A dram of elevated theme and diction and with fatal or disastrous conclusion' but could be described simply as a sad event. The question,…