“In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilling to handle its ...

Centuries ago, white settlers arrived at the area that would become modern day Cape Town, making their first contact with Southern Africa. Today, the city emulates its past role by continuing to host foreigners. Cape Town ...

This thesis is about the modern process of “dating” or hooking up, the way technology is at the center of it, the exhaustion it creates, and the sadness for a loss of innocence/loss of simpler times/ loss of a better way ...

According to scholar Roberta Seelinger Trites, death is “the defining factor that distinguishes [young adult literature] both from children's and adult literature.” Death is pertinent to all young adult readers, not just ...

A full-length play about firsts, faith, and pornography.

Pride and Prejudice has captivated audiences for nearly two centuries and its adaptations have given insight to Austen's social commentary in each generation. When The Lizzie Bennet Diaries premiered in 2012, the Bennet ...

As a young middle schooler growing up in Jefferson City, Missouri I had the opportunity to watch a performer whose specialty was keeping several china plates spinning on poles simultaneously. The performer would rush to ...

Most of the criticism on the writings of Hawthorne focus on his family, religion, and class. Each of these themes has a direct connection to Hawthorne's life: his ancestors were involved in the Salem Witch Trials, something ...

World War II created a noticeable cultural shift across the globe, the effects of which are still being felt today. What needs to be addressed is that an entire ocean separated one of the major contributors to the war—the ...