Essays about Culture

Superman and Me is a memoir written by Sherman Alexie, published originally in the Los Angeles Times. Alexie is a young Native American who narrates how, in spite of having grown up on a Spokane Indian Reservation, he learned to read at an early age by looking through Superman comics. He tells how he continued…

The benefit of narratives is gaining perspectives from a good short story. Some writers use narrative to tell the audience a story or reflect on past events. It can be motivational, educational, or solely for entertainment. In writing a good narratives, the fundamental purpose is to captivate the audience and keep them engaged as the…

One of the primary components to any society is the following of unspoken rules by its members. While this can lead to unity within the communities, some groups can be persecuted and oppressed by these rules. In these situations, the only way one can gain freedom is to reject society completely and return to nature….

Imagine a world where a government has total control over its citizens; a world where the government can do whatever they please to their citizens, and they have little or no chance of rebellion. This frightening world exists in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron. In The Hunger Games, citizens are…

I had Suzanne Collins’ novel fresh in my mind when I put The Hunger Games into the player. I could remember the key phrases and actions that signified the end of the first two acts in the novel as well as several more events that happened within each of the sections. I had watched the…

In 2015, one has to wonder just how many tales of a dystopian future can be told. In each of the works we’ve read for the class, it’s the same set-up: a war sometime before the novel destroyed civilization as we know it and a group of people felt it best to cast off those…

A nation is a concept that differs on a universal scale. The celebrated films, Under the Same Moon and The Hunger Games, dive into the notion of “…an imagined community that is both sovereign and limited.” (Anderson 103) Both films portray a nation as a community with a durable tie of pedigree and an indestructible…

Prior to this past year, my writing process has been very simple. I would just write without doing anything special; there was little to no editing process, and there was definitely no revision process. By taking this class (English 1010), I became more aware of my writing process, and the necessity of having one. In…

The modern world and their development owe a lot to Europe foe they played a significant role in the process of formation that led to the new modern societies. Modernity developed from the 18‘“ century and began from a group of key thinker in Europe who recognized the need to enlighten the world and reorganize…

I partially agree with Locke’s position on laws dealing with articles of faith My problem arises when he says “m those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of a God Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist” (Locke, 435)…