Jessica Alexander's Chasing Chaos is a personal memoir of the author's time spent working as a humanitarian aid worker in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Haiti. It can be taken to be a strictly autobiographical narrative which tells the story of person's particular development, however it also contains several elements that...

Introduction Heroes in literature inevitably reflect the cultural and historical elements in place when they were created. If there is a “heroic” model, it is then nonetheless subject to a vast influence of interpretation going to the creation itself. In plain terms, different eras and cultures require different heroes to...

Phillis Wheatley’s work should be included in the anthology of African Literature in the Antebellum Era. Even though Wheatley’s work was mainly Spiritual, her poetry still retains the style and subject of the Antebellum Era. The Antebellum Era is widely considered the period of time prior the Civil War and...

Question 1: The reinterpretation of the main characters by director Francis Ford Coppola in Bram Stoker’s Dracula is most notable for the way in which it distinguishes the portrayal of Count Dracula from that in Nosferatu. While Count Orlock is a repulsive creature in every possible way, Gary Oldman’s Count...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West gives an interesting perspective on socialism and its potential dangers. Solzhenitsyn believed that Soviet Russia and the West had many similar issues, despite the fact that socialism and liberalism/libertarianism are different ideologies. In Warning to the West, Solzhenitsyn noted that while things were never...