Suzanne Collins boldly sends a message about today's problems, including the dangers of the government and mass media in The Hunger Games trilogy. A point that stands out is that the socially constructed definitions of gender and feminism do not exist in the world of Panem in the same way they exist in our world today.

Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene uses symbols and characters to represent Henry VIII breaking from Rome and creating the new Church of England. John Milton uses the epic form to express the central Christian story of the Fall to reveal Satan’s deceits and Adam and Eve’s disobedience in Paradise Lost. Spenser and Milton use epistemologies to deceive both the readers and the characters through names and appearances.

Reading The Wide, Wide World helps people understand the differences between the centuries. Our technology revolution made life easier for all of us. The Wide, Wide World may not relate well to readers in the 21^st century, but Susan Warner perfectly portrayed life in the 19^th century.

Inspired by Emily Dickinson's "The Brain -- is wider than the sky," Michele Harvey writes her poem "Fight for Acceptance" by using one universal message and integrating elements seen in poetry during three different periods by three writers: Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes.

E.M. Forster's Howards End displays changes of the modern world and family from the 19th to the 20th century. The novel discusses the merge of two different families. Predominant characters Ruth Wilcox and Margaret Schlegel unify to become one person in their identities despite their differences.

After they meet, Romeo and Juliet only truly live at night. The families’ feud prevents the star-crossed lovers from living the life they want in daylight. Shakespeare makes the consequences of hating someone clear. Not every feud ends with death, but the emotional toll it can have on someone can be much the same. Romeo and Juliet is a play relatable to every generation because hatred never truly goes away. It can haunt all of us and destroy families like it destroyed the Capulets and Montagues.

Most of Germany and its surrounding countries laid in ruins when World War II ended in 1945 and it took years for countries to recover. Men, women, and children dealt with severe psychological disorders because of what Hitler put them through. The individual experiences of World War II caused psychological disorders, which then caused the gender role and family relationship controversies in postwar Germany.

Although the New World eventually became a success for the colonizing powers, the ethnocentrism in Virginia caused many failures including wars, misunderstandings, and human rights violations. The ethnocentrism that existed in the 1600s is vital in understanding how the United States was formed, and why the country turned out as it did.

The Great Pyramids, religion, and society give Ancient Egypt a greater reputation than other countries in Africa. Even today, historians and archaeologists cannot figure out exactly how the Egyptians did it. Everything about their country and their culture interests people around the world. Ancient Egypt is still an African civilization, but much of what makes Egypt unique sets it apart even from other Ancient African civilizations.