Dante believed he had been empowered by God to write the Commedia thus he gave a conscious effort to stylise the Commedia to the Bible, furthermore, he greatly admired the classical poets such as Virgil and one can note immediately that Dante's idea of his epic journey was shaped from that of Virgil's in the "Aenied- The biblical content of this epic journey is highly potent, every canto of the inferno carries a range of diverse characters each with a function specific to the canto. ... Ultimately as Kevin Brownlie notes in his essay of "Dante and the classical poets- Dante's...

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An Einstein to his Profession: A Closer look at Sigmund Freud "Sigmund Freud, an Einstein to his profession" states Gayford. I don't think I could agree anymore with that statement made by him. He was a physiologist, medical doctor, and psychologist. He was the founder of psychoanalysis, the the...

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Interesting to note that a young Stalin, then the head of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities, wanted to deprive the Soviet Republics of their independence by turning them into republics within the RSFSR, but had his proposal rejected when Lenin opted for his own. ...

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Do Songs of Innocence and Experience need to be read together? Songs of Innocence and Experience are a series of poems on how we see the world at different stages of our lives. The fact that Blake himself described the collection of poems as shewing the contrary states of the human soul', must be...

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Mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings can characterize the Cold War by two sides and their allies. The Cold War shortly followed the conference held between the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, which took place at the Black Sea resort of Yalta between the 4th and 11th of February 1945. This event held great significance as it led to the Cold War. At Yalta, the Allied leaders, known as the Big Three, met to plan the last stages of the Second World War and agree to the subsequent territorial division of Europe. Notable postwar settlements were d...

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Conrad himself had personal experiences in Africa and states that the novel is "experience pushed a little (and only very little) beyond the actual facts of the case for the perfectly legitimate- (Conrad 11) in his notes. ...

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BIOGRAPHY According to Life Magazine and several other sources, Thomas Edison was "the most influential figure of the millennium." Contrary to what is sometimes assumed, Thomas Edison was not born into poverty in a backwoods mid-western village. He was born, on Feb. 11, 1847, to middle-class parents in the bustling port of Milan, Ohio: a community that, next to Odessa, Russia, was the largest wheat shipping center in the world. In 1854, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, which was also an up and coming shipping center. Not long after young Tom - who was called "Al" in his earliest...

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Plot Overview Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As h...

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