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Hannibal Crossing the Alps
A visual, contextual, and subjective analysis of JMW Turner’s “Hannibal Crossing the Alps”.
Identifying a Psychopath
Ann Rule’s True Crime books clearly show how psychopaths come in many shapes and forms. The psychopath could be: a family man (Brad Cunningham; Dead By Sunset), female (Diane Downs; Small Sacrifices), middle class with no apparent signs of dysfunction.
Dreams: The Unconscious Wishes or Impulses
In Shakespeare’s play ‘Julius Caesar’, Caesar’s wife Calpurnia had dreamt that her husband would be killed the following day. President Abraham Lincoln had a dream shortly before he was assassinated and the structure of benzene was revealed in a dream to German chemist FA Keule. So what exactly are dreams? For many, it is the most dramatic aspect of sleep. They are usually some kind of jumbled but vivid images that fill our sleeping minds. To be more technical, they are cognitive events which occur during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep and are mostly vivid but disconnected. What are exactly these images and why do they occur?
First Encounter: Adam and the Arab Worker Boy
An analysis of the power relations that come into play when Adam and Na’im first meet in A. B. Yehoshua’s debut novel, The Lover.
From Words to Power: A Look Into Language and Mind Theory
Analysis on the importance of language and stories in Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie.
Tale of One, Tale of Many
How Night and Wave, two novels, exemplify the tragedy that is the Holocaust.
