... on its own (Straus 651). The theory that Kafka's novella, "The Metamorphosis" refers to the metamorphosis that occurs in Gregor's sister, Grete, can be supported by analyzing Kafka's biography and early life in Prague. Kafka was the eldest of six children, three of whom were his sisters named, Gabriele, Valerie, and Ottilie (Nervi, "Kafka's Life"). Kafka was ... ...

• Word Count: 3072
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abraham Zamicku (°1964, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an artist who works in a variety of media. With Plato's allegory of the cave in mind, Zamicku makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of American superabundance and marketing. His artworks are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, cliches and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain forma...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Story That Told a Greater One Woodstock immediately comes to mind; Jackie Robinson as the first African American Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers; Gandhi. All throughout history, there have been times in which a moment or event nearly summed up a generation: what happened during that time period, what the people were experiencing, the emotional state of a country, the impact of a single person all merely examples of stories that helped share a larger one. More often than not, an explanation is not even necessary. Nadine Gordimer may not be a household name here in the ...

• Word Count: 1018
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . Cather espouses is simple enough for the peasant to understand, and too complex for the wisest scholar. This book just baffles me: it's not a novel, per se, nor is it a biography--it's more like an etching of time and place; of ideas and people who travel through the arid, beautiful dreamscape of New Mexico. Ms. Cather wrote part of this novel ... ...

• Word Count: 7335
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to its value or inherent worth. The problem seems to be a common one where assessing values in history are concerned, in What is History? Carr asserts that history is "the biography of great men-, yet the definition for whom makes this category is surely subjective. It must be the same for literary works too, there is no necessity to ascribe to ... ...

• Word Count: 2215
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ray Bradbury A biography on an author known as Ray Bradbury. Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920. In his stories, Bradbury put together the intrigue of the changing technology ... ...

• Word Count: 357
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate