The Poetic Principle

Those principles are centered on the community from which the genre emerged. The purpose of Hip-Hop was to cultivate a culture driven by the youth rooted in African oral traditions. Hip-Hop also serves as a vocal representation for the undermined group in society

INTRODUCTION I’m convinced that what happens in my plays could happen anywhere, at any time, in any place, although the events may seem unfamiliar at first glance. If you press me for a definition, I’d say that what goes in my plays is realistic, but what I’m doing is not realism” (Pinter, Harold Pinter: Plays, 2 ix) Widely acknowledged as one of the great post-war generation dramatists, Harold Pinter’s fame rests on not only his popular dramas but also on his political activism which is rooted in

his life for it. Gatsby is blinded by the illusions that stand between him and happiness. Gatsby perceives Daisy to be his happiness, but Daisy is not. Fitzgerald examines the American Dream by autopsy, through the reflective narrator. Though the principles of the idealistic dream still exist, highlighted by Gatsby's ambition and drive to improve himself, the morality behind the dream has been substituted by money, resulting in decadence, corruption and distinct class divisions between people. Fitzgerald

A prominent element in regards to oral traditions surviving the testament of time is the simplicity, directness, and concision that such traditions tend to be composed of. This makes it appear as though these early simple teaching can have an endless stream of commentary stem from a small assortment of simple words. Certainly such phrases and sayings by highly revered Islamic revolutionists Imam Ali and Jalal al-din Rumi tend to be simple in design much like these oral traditions, but a careful

In the early eighteenth-century, a letter from Peter the Great’s court was sent to Russian publishers declaring that all material must be printed with the intention to maintain “The glory of the great sovereign and his tsardom and for the general usefulness and profit of the nation” (The Cambridge History of Russia). The effects of this proclamation reverberated throughout Russia for centuries and laid the foundation for future rulers such as Catherine the Great and later Alexander III to fortify

The Mystery of Time and Power Relations in The Great Gatsby The array of topics identified by scholars within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is extensive. They range from a critique of capitalism, a story of love and illusive romance, an homage to the Jazz Age to the “quintessential vision of the American Dream” (Langman 31). Despite the validity of these perspectives, however, a close-reading of the linguistic structure of the text provides room for an alternative approach: Fitzgerald utilizes

Introduction The question of whether or not Confucianism is a religion has been explored by many writers. Its religious status has been controversial in intellectual circles since the controversy of the Chinese rites of 17th century. There have been several attempts to define the religious character of Confucianism. The arguments by Matteo Ricci that the church should accommodate ancestor worship by Christians of Chinese origin because he considered it veneration and not a true worship was the beginning

Post Modern attributes of the de young museum: History: The Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 damaged the old de Young museum building located in Golden Gate Park and uncovered severe seismic flaws in the building and hence a comprehensive plan to rebuild the building in stages was overtaken to make the de Young museum up to date. In January 1999 the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron were chosen to rebuild the De young museum, due to their willingness to engage in an extended process of architectural

Sidney defends the worth of poetry by presenting us with a long defense written to William Ponsonby, a very popular publisher of the Elizabethan era. Sidney breaks his argument down into eight sections, each one arguing another point as to why poetry is worthy and should not be thought of as sub-par literature. His arguments are thorough, leaving no gaps between thoughts, and very persuasive in both content and style. I believe his argument is both successful and thorough, covering everything that

The Mystery of Time and Power Relations in The Great Gatsby The array of topics identified by scholars within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is extensive. They range from a critique of capitalism, a story of love and illusive romance, an homage to the Jazz Age to the “quintessential vision of the American Dream” (Langman 31). Despite the validity of these perspectives, however, a close-reading of the linguistic structure of the text provides room for an alternative approach: Fitzgerald utilizes