Today's Date:
January 12, 2025
A History of the Modern Olympic Games
The Olympic Games have an extensive history, but the modern epoch of this worldwide sporting event is marked as having been initiated in 1890 (Roche 92-93) and it is this period that this history of the modern Olympic Games begins. →
Analysis and Summary of “In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone” by Randell Jones
“In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone” offers reader some startling insight into the life of the historical figure Daniel Boone and draws upon a number of sources to relate another side of American history. Writing a book about a well-known →
Summary and Analysis – Peltier, Pine Ridge, and “The Spirit of Crazy Horse” by Peter Matthiessen
The controversial text about the Leonard Peltier case, The Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen is not simply a non-fiction work offering details about the government-led violent events that occurred during the infamous shootout and conflicts between the F.B.I, United States government, AIM →
Relevance of the Westphalian System to the Modern World By Sasha Safonova
The Westphalian system of sovereign states was established in 1648 as part of the Peace of Westphalia. There were three core points to the treaty: The principle of state sovereignty; The principle of (legal) equality of states; The principle of →
The “Black for Life” Theory and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
In his historical consideration of the literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, essayist Thadious M. Davis does the reader a profound service by situating the phenomenon and its writers within a situational and socio-historical framework. Davis examines the lives →
Three Views of the Model Citizen: Socrates, Antigone, and Oedipus
One of the subjects that will always preoccupy the literary imagination is what it means to be a good, productive, and moral member assisting in the construction of a meaningful society. This theme can be traced across the entire span →
The Blues as Poetry : Ellison, “Crazy Blues” and “Down-Hearted Blues”
Perhaps there is no better definition of the blues than the one that has been offered by the writer Ralph Ellison, who said, “The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details… of a brutal experience alive in one’s →
Literary Analysis of “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison : History and Slavery
Unlike so many works in the American literature that deal directly with the legacy of slavery and the years of deeply-imbedded racism that followed, the general storyline of Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye does not engage directly with such events but →
Violence, Coping and Contemporary Poetry
In his poem “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” Adam Zagajewski juxtaposes intense images of violence, such as “the executioners sing[ing] joyfully” (l. 11), with simple but equally powerful images of beautiful objects and moments of positive connection between people. →
The Purpose of a Poetry Anthology, An Analysis by Example
So many excellent anthologies of poetry were published in the second half of the 20th century, and continue to be published into this century. Anthologies, collections of poems by numerous authors pulled together under a single cover, are attractive to readers →
