The origin of the universe?The origin of free will?The origin of space?Or simply the appearance of something out of nothing,with no causal before,likes a probability that transforms into an unpredictable particle actu...
Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Marlowe’s The Tragedy of Dr.Faustus are important dramatic works of the English Renaissance.Despite the distance between their periods of creation,Shakespeare and Marlowe share the same bac...
The Great Gatsby,the masterpiece by F.Scott Fitzgerald,outlines the protagonist Gatsby’go-go American Dream:its bud,strive,achievement and disappearance.Fantastic and dazzling as the dream is,this paper manages to di...
The short story A Clean, Well-lighted Place develops through the dialogue between a young waiter and an elder one. The idea of "nada", which means nothingness, runs through the whole story. In this essay, the author d...
John Hoyer Updik e(March 18,1932-January 27,2009)was an American novelist,poet,short story writer,art critic,and literary critic.As a prolific writer of the period after World War Two,he has written a lot in his long-...
Samuel Beckett is a master of the Theatre of Absurd.His plays,such as Waiting for Godot(1954)and Endgame(1958),project the irrationalism,helplessness,and absurdity of life in dramatic forms that reject realistic setti...
Standing out as a master of literature that crosses the 19thand the 20thcenturies, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) distinguishes himself in the English literature with his distinctive local color, modernistic thoughts, depic...
This paper considers a theory and practices of Japanese manabi (学) as an alternative concept of learning in the era of post-globalization. Although the term manabi is widely used as the translation of learning and ...