A Formalist Guide to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Mikhail Bakhtin has provided an intricate insight to what a novel entails. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone fits into the form that Bakhtin has created. Using laughter, plot, setting, and character development, Harry Potter is able to connect with its audiences in […]
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
As stronger nations exercise their control over weaker ones, the United States try to prove their authority, power and control over weaker nations seeing them as unable to handle their own issues thereby, imposing their ideology on them. And if any of these weaker nations try to resist, then the wrath of the United States […]
In Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred
In Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred, Dana travels back in time and history to experience her own personal ancestors’ lives. As Dana is transported between her present time in 1976 and the mid-1800s, she sparks multiple relationships with her ancestors, which could permanently change the course of history. Several times throughout the novel, Dana mentions that […]
image with whole or specific parts of their
image is a term which comprises of an individual’s thoughts, feelings and judgments about their physical appearance. These feelings can be positive, negative or both and are influenced by individual and environmental factors. Body dissatisfaction develops when the individual feels displeased with whole or specific parts of their body. This is caused by several external […]