World Lit

19th Century - All Empires. Introduction: The Modern Era Continual expansion overseas led Western civilization and Western imperial powers to stand astride the globe.

One out of every four human beings on Earth was once a subject of the British crown. The few non-European states left with sovereignty, such as China, Japan, or the Ottoman Empire, were either verging on collapse or in the throes of massive social and economic change as they strived to adapt to flood tide of Western ideas and technology. In the years since 1750 Western power and Western thought seemed supreme upon the world stage. Then, in less than a hundred years, everything changed. Old empires crumbled into revolution or disappeared entirely, while new great powers hewed their way onto the international scene.

The Huns - All Empires. Arrival of the Huns In 376 A.D. the barbarians Huns north of the Danube turned to their civilized rival, the Romans, and begged for protection.

For a far more barbaric tribe was coming. Perhaps no other people have struck greater fear in the west than the Huns. Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin. Madame Valmonde had not seen Desiree and the baby for four weeks.

When she reached L'Abri she shuddered at the first sight of it, as she always did. It was a sad looking place, which for many years had not known the gentle presence of a mistress, old Monsieur Aubigny having married and buried his wife in France, and she having loved her own land too well ever to leave it. The roof came down steep and black like a cowl, reaching out beyond the wide galleries that encircled the yellow stuccoed house.

Big, solemn oaks grew close to it, and their thick-leaved, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall. Young Aubigny's rule was a strict one, too, and under it his negroes had forgotten how to be gay, as they had been during the old master's easy-going and indulgent lifetime. How to Write a Thesis Statement for a Compare Contrast Essay. Writing the Comparison. Writing the Comparison/Contrast Paper I.

A comparison/contrast paper explains the similarities and differences between subjects to make a point about how the two compare or contrast in some significant way. A. To compare subjects is to look for similarities; to contrast subjects is to look for differences. Coming of Age in Mississippi. The Epic of Gilgamesh: Plot Overview. The epic’s prelude offers a general introduction to Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, who was two-thirds god and one-third man.

He built magnificent ziggurats, or temple towers, surrounded his city with high walls, and laid out its orchards and fields. Jose Rizal [Noli Me Tangere] Spain, to Rizal, was a venue for realizing his dreams.

He finished his studies in Madrid and this to him was the realization of the bigger part of his ambition. His vision broadened while he was in Spain to the point of awakening in him an understanding of human nature, sparking in him the realization that his people needed him. It must have been this sentiment that prompted him to pursue, during the re-organizational meeting of the Circulo-Hispano-Filipino, to be one of its activities, the publication of a book to which all the members would contribute papers on the various aspects and conditions of Philippines life.

"My proposal on the book," he wrote on January 2, 1884, "was unanimously approved. But afterwards difficulties and objections were raised which seemed to me rather odd, and a number of gentlemen stood up and refused to discuss the matter any further. "Fortunately," writes one of Rizal’s biographers, the anthology, if we may call it that, was never written. Dubliners Literature Guide. By James Joyce Page 1 of 4 Dubliners, by James Joyce, is a good reading choice for advanced level 12th-grade students.

As his first published work of fiction, Dubliners stands by itself both as an important piece of writing and as a forerunner of the experimental style that Joyce would use so effectively in his later works. The fact that in Dubliners Joyce uses a more traditionally structured style makes the novel more accessible than his other works to advanced high school readers. The central theme of paralysis due to the effects of outside forces and individual moral decay will be attractive to older adolescents who are struggling to find their places in a world where they are continually buffeted by outside forces and their own uncertainties.

Students who not long ago were playing childhood games and undergoing childhood crushes will identify easily with the characters in the three stories in section one. In Search for a Book Title: Rizal’s and Correggio’s Noli me Tángere. Part 2. POSTED: Thursday, January 20th, 2011 In Search for a Book Title: Rizal’s and Correggio’s Noli me Tángere.

Part 2. Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio Noli me Tángere, 1534. Panel transferred to canvas, 130 by 103 cm. Prado Museum, Cat. (To find Correggio at Prado Museum, you must go to the ground floor and look for the 16th century Italian Renaissance painters.) Correggio’s Noli me Tángere’s canvas is deeply poetic. In his novel, Rizal was beginning to express Correggio’s romantic and mannerist style in his writing (mannerist: meaning greater depth in spiritual insight) in terms of dignity and realism.

The Epic of Gilgamesh: Plot Overview. Lit2Go: MP3 Stories and Poems.