Narrative
Essays

The situations of two protagonists who face a common dilemma—racial prejudice—are addressed by their clever and resilient use of education as lever of change. The constructs of critical pedagogy, structural violence, and cultural violence lend a framework to the analysis that is deepened by the socio-political perspectives. Critical pedagogy, in particular, is germane to the exploration of these two works by Hughes and Douglass, in that, what Freire has contended, he has also demonstrated. That is, education and literacy are platforms for changing social structure in so much as they enable people to alter their perspectives as dramatically as twisting a kaleidoscope.

Mary Oliver is an American poet who explores an individual's relationship with nature through her work. Oliver's poetry has been described as "an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization for too much flurry…

Basquiat -- Portraits in Cinema and in Print

According to some social scientists, empiricism is the only truly scientific basis for social science research. This assertion is made with the purpose of understanding that empiricism does not rely on reason as its…

What kind of an impression does a person make upon others? Is it intentional? Is it natural? Is it engineered for the benefit of those who might be watching? Why? Those are the salient questions that Erving Goffman's…

¶ … Culture: Literary Imagination and Cultural Identity

War is always the same. And it is always changing. The basic goals of warfare -- to capture territory and resources, to reduce the enemy's ability to fight through whatever means necessary, including the killing off of…

Important Contributions of the Romantic Period

Who is Yellow Woman? Unfortunately for the fussy reader who prefers everything in a narrative to be neat and orderly and clear-cut, this is a question that has many different answers.

¶ … catalog of earthly wonders, only a few exist in that realm of unsubstantiated rumor upheld by the broadest variety of source. The Lost Continent is, truly, one of these wonders - a city made of both earth and sea,…