Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

William Cuthbert Faulkner is more than a famous Mississippi writer. He is a renowned figure, not only for Southern writers, but for writers throughout the world. Faulkner drew the scenes and characters for his novels and short stories from observations made during his childhood and adult life in his hometown, Oxford, Mississippi. During what is generally considered his period of greatest artistic achievement, a span of forty years, from 1929 to 1942, Faulkner accomplished more than most writers accomplish

Sojourner Truth especially was a strong advocate for equal rights around the 1850's, not only just for blacks, but for women as well.      Sojourner Truth is well known for her famous "ain't I a Woman?" speech at the 1851 women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Their Sojourner Truth spoke of the injustices of our society, within which women as well as Black-Americans were at the back end. No formal record of the speech

When looking at the attention that both Frankenstein and Persuasion have acquired over the years, it may be difficult from an outside perspective to assume that they have much connection at all. Frankenstein has been long praised as one of the original Gothic horror novels in which still has a constant resurgence of recreations and adaptations almost two hundred years after its publication. On the other hand, Persuasion is thought to follow a love affair and highlight the plight of women in society

A theme is a hidden message that an author projects. This message creates a purpose for their work and it is what makes it fascinating to read or watch. Many authors such as James Agee, use powerful descriptions to portray their themes. James Agee was an American journalist, novelist, poet and screenwriter who began his career in the 1930’s. His childhood and adult lifestyle greatly influenced his writings. He grew up with religion being a big part of his life and this impacted his writing career

Inferno, into the mountains of Purgatory and in the ever lasting spirits of Heaven called the Paradiso. But my main focus on this essay is what in Dante’s life inspired him to write like he did, particularly his Inferno. Questions and history may lead us to believe that was it was his love, war or political view that shaped him as an artist. There is a gap in his history with some unknowns for the simplest things like what was his birth date. But some metaphors from his Divine Comedy may answer these

This essay will try to be about photography books and the photographers who created them. I will try to explain on their importance in history and why they are so important to all photographers, as a whole idea and individually, as inspiration. The Pencil of Nature was written by Henry Fox Talbot it was originally published in six installments between 1844 and 1846. It included 24 calotype prints, each one was pasted in by hand These helped illustrate some of the possible

“A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.” Here is the classic English translation of the first two lines of Martin Luther's famous hymn “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.“ Indeed, it is famous among Christians who unashamedly identify themselves with the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, which until today continually inspires them to appreciate their roots in the ancient paths (Jeremiah 6:16) of biblical Christianity over

the nineteenth century” (Showalter, Ch. Harriet Beecher Stowe). Famous for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe published ten novels during her writing career. Stowe began writing in the 1830’s to support her family of seven children and husband, Calvin Stowe. Stowe wrote with a comedic tone, yet, she also had intentions of writing for a purpose of the weakening of human ethics and the troubles of servitude. She was a very bright,

my seer! Tell us: of what consists your qualification? Where were you when the Great Bitch, that Sphinx who sang her deadly puzzles outside this city and who needed the art of a genuine seer to answer those puzzles, where were you then? Why did you not save the city then? Where were your gods then? Where were your birds? It was I! Yes I, Oedipus, who knew nothing of such things who shut that monster’s mouth; not by magic or by signs of birds but by my own brain. So! Here you are, now! Intending to

Othello: the General and His Fall         The noble Othello in the Shakespearean play of that name has no one to blame but himself; his suicide results. Is his downfall resulting from his naivete and gullibility? Let us study and expose this famous character in this essay.   Francis Ferguson in “Two Worldviews Echo Each Other” describes how Othello carries out Iago’s plan of destruction:   Othello moves to kill Desdemona (Act V, scene 2) with that “icy current and compulsive