The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The book was authored by Junot Diaz, a Dominican-American writer. The author created a story through the characters as they went about their daily lives in New Jersey or in the Washington Heights. Throughout the narrative, Diaz, treated the challenges of poverty, immigration, and legacy of Trujillo autocracy in the Dominican Republic. The narrative describes the plight of immigrants in the United States. A good example of the characters extensively used by Diaz is Oscar de Leon. He is an intellectually inclined person despite being obese. His mum is tyrannical and severe and does not live with his father. Every person battle with poverty, drug abuse and crime. The book describes the life of Oscar since his tender age. A practical historical figure, the autocrat of the Dominican Republic since 1930 up to the time he was assassinated in 1961, Rafael Trujillo, is also an essential character in the narrative. More heartache results from the dictator’s actions throughout the book, either indirectly, as his censorship hinders the honesty of other characters regarding their…
Conceptual Art Conceptualism, also described as conceptual art, is a form of skill in which the ideas and concepts involved in the work are take superiority over technical, traditional aesthetic, and material concerns. Various works of conceptual art that are sometimes referred to as installations are constructed and developed by one following the set of written instructions (Kosuth, 2019). In conceptual art, the concept or the artist’s idea is the most significant aspect of the work. When an artist uses the conceptual technique of creating art, all the decisions and planning are made beforehand, and the execution is considered as a perfunctory affair. The idea or concept is perceived as the machine that makes the art. Some examples of conceptual art include Marcel Duchamp’s “Readymade” and John Cage’s composition. This prompt will evaluate whether these examples can be described as art. After looking closely at these two examples, it is right to say that they are art. They belong to the category of conceptual art. This is because the concepts or ideas behind these two examples are more significant…
Do we have a moral obligation to value and respect human life? Introduction Respect for life principle postulate that all living things are accorded moral status and on that basis should not be harmed or killed without good reason or rather without a valid justification.[1] The principle suggests that living things are moral agents who have moral responsibilities to protect other living things from harm. Moral agents, of course, have continued to harm and kill all the time all the living beings. When they harm or kill, do they feel guilty about it? What are their grounds for harming or killing? Thereby failing to respect and value something that is alive? These fundamental questions have left scholars groping for answers both in real-time and more specifically over time. The respect for life principle as advanced by warren seems to suggest that there is no wrongdoing to those who failed to protect life when there are morally good reasons that support the act. The principle, at the same time, fails to explain what constitutes sufficient grounds to harm or kill another…
1990’s Immigration on Class on Gender Illegal immigration in the U.S. has been there for several decades. As seen in The Tortilla Curtain, immigrants faced several challenges, especially the low class who could not afford standard life. T.C Boyles describes the challenges these immigrants faced and the reasons why society did not accept them. Although gender and class are seen in the book as factors that affected how the immigrants stayed in foreign lands, there still opposing opinions regarding the same. Different people could relate the immigrants to varying viewpoints, and as a result, there have been opposing views concerning the immigration of the Mexicans. It is, therefore, crucial to carry out research that investigates the link between the theme of gender and class, as seen in Tortilla and Curtain and the historical events, laws, and cultural trends concerning immigration in the 1990s. The book has clearly shown the societal class as one aspect that can be used to view the issues of the immigrants in the United States. People of a low class are associated with threats to society,…
The New Criticism theory The New Criticism is an American critical theory that stresses the importance of reading written text, as an independent and complete work of art. It emphasizes on reading literary works as a complete art. In the past decades, there were different ways of analyzing critical texts, such as considering the primacy of the literary scripts. New Criticism is different from other schools of criticism, such as impressionist criticism, human movement, the Marxists, and the naturalists. The advancement of this theory later established criticism as a discipline on its own. Different from traditional literary criticism, the New Criticism theory purports that literary texts are complete in and of themselves. Criticism helps to maintain and advance in language and poetry, mostly used to study poetry works and other genres in literature. The structure and meaning of literary works are closely tied, and they have to be read closely to get out the literal and contextual meaning. The New Criticism insists on four major doctrines including formalism, a close reading of texts, the contextual weight of literary works, and…
Popular Music Final Project Critical Playlist Introduction Music is a universal artwork that can influence anyone, regardless of location, race, and ethnicity. Just like poems and other works of literature, music serves to express ideas, comfort, criticism, or exalt some activities, phenomena, or personalities. Thus, music is a kind of communication made by an individual of the band to the world. Various artists have always yearned to gain the glory of being the best, but despite the choices and preferences of the listeners, the composition may be ambiguous. Ambiguity means that listeners will have to struggle to depict the exact message. The love for the hip hops music escalates my love for Kanye West. Indeed, Kanye West has been for inspiration in the field of hip hop music. The paper will entail the discussion of popular music, particularly, from Kanye West, as a communicative medium. Kanye West and his Success in Hip hop Father Stretch My Hands Part 1 Music can be used to express the position of a person through serving as an ‘honesty signal.’ Since his 2004, Kanye…
How Do I make Billion Dollars in New Delhi Life has shown me numerous colors when I came to my sense of maturity. I am a person from a rural area close to Delhi. Coming from a low-income family, it has been tough for all time in every aspect. Every day became a challenge where my parents keep working at different places to make a healthy living and strive hard to make both ends meet. By seeing them, I felt many times to start earning, which is not possible for me at that time. With small savings and earning as I too keep working in spare time made us move to this city, which is a dream city for many of us, New Delhi. The twist in life: After entering the city, we struggled for shelter and one-time bread and butter. I reached 18, which made me more confident and started supporting my parents, who took care of me these many days and years. I began to keep working in the cleaning department of small hotels. I came to know…
Good Omen Page 204 “I’m not rebelling against anything,” said Adam in a reasonable tone of voice. “I‘m pointin’ out things. It seems to me you can’t blame people for pointin’ out things. It seems to me it’d be a lot better not to start fightin’ and jus’ see what people do. If you stop messin’ them about, they might start thinkin’ properly an’ they might stop messin’ the world around. I’m not sayin’ they would, ” he added conscientiously, “but they might.” The above statement was from Adam conversing with Beelzebub after an argument had ensued with the opposing group. Beelzebub is trying to instil that Adam is liable to ensure he achieves destruction through using his powers. On the other hand, Adam is concerned about how he will perform a successful stoppage towards destruction. In the process, he is destructed in his thoughts until he realizes, Beelzebub is determined in this pursuit. The sentences indicate an individual who has resolved on ensuring that despite the destiny he holds, he will not use it against the world. At…
Hypocrisy in The Fall Generally, life is regulated by specific values and morals, such as sincerity, which requires one to speak and act truthfully according to their feelings, thoughts, and desires. Hypocrisy is acting contrary to this virtue, where one pretends to have standards, opinions, beliefs, thoughts, ideals, qualities, and feelings which they do not possess as a means of concealing their motives and feelings. The Fall by Albert Camus is written in the second person, where Jean-Baptiste Clamence narrates his fall from Paris (Eden) and his hypocrisy story while in exile in Amsterdam (bourgeois hell). Clamence, who in his former life, was a lawyer, struggles to decipher the meaning of life though he considers himself to be an ‘intelligent man.’ According to Camus, “we all have some degree of hypocrisy and that we use it mostly for our survival” (Clamus 5). Mainly, this is no individual that is perfect on earth. All persons have at one time made a mistake with some earning more than others as every human has their imperfections. At one point, everyone has done a…
compare contrast essay 1,000 word, error-free, grammatically correct, MLA formatted, formal compare contrast essay (pt by pt) on the use of symbols, figurative language, and speaker and how the elements inform theme. YOU MAY NOT use theme as an element as you need to discuss how these elements work to define a common theme between 2 songs. No errors (every error past 2 is minus 5 points. If you have 5 errors, then -15 points). You must integrate the song evidence(both songs) seamlessly as we discussed all semester. You will cite the lyrics (song writer) instead of author page this time. Must have a works cited page that is error free. Any errors in works cited ＝0 points for works cited page. You will cite two songs. See how to with all the MLA resources I gave you. Lyrics are cited in essay with / and we will go over in class.[unique_solution] If your thesis statement and topic sentences are weak and in the wrong place you will have difficulty in logic and will lose most of the essay points.…