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The all about the big world we live in exclusive News today. Last night in Scotland, chaos erupted at the Macbeths castle during what was supposed to be a peaceful celebration banquet. Macbeth’s behavior was strange and uncharacteristic. A guest at the party, Lennox, said he had never seen Macbeth act in such distraught manner…

In the early twentieth century, two short stories titled “Paul’s Case” and “Metamorphosis” were written within a ten-year period. When examining these stories, it is evident that they share a common viewpoint and revolve around the recurring themes of alienation and money. Both stories are written in third person with a limited perspective. Both Cather’s…

In classical drama, plays followed the three unities of place, time and action. Each unity had its own set of specific rules. Othello follows these unities more closely than many of Shakespeare’s plays though the play does contain an interesting trick involving time. This “double time” as it has come to be called occurs when…

Picking Apples and Existential Crises In Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking”, the speaker falls asleep after a day’s work picking apples. The speaker starts by discussing his apple-picking adventures. Fatigued from picking apples, he reflects on the morning and enters a dream-like state. He then ponders over his exhaustion and sleep before the poem concludes. At…

Frank Addante got his motivation to work from financing his college life in the first years. He worked on his own, sold and installed car alarms and automatic starters. From this time on he continued to earn money through ad-hoc jobs to make his way through college, but he was always conscious for good ideas,…

Taylor Easter will discuss the purpose of hunting to an audience with diverse opinions. The intent is to present both arguments for allowing and prohibiting hunting. I. Introduction a. Should animals be saved or consumed? While we wouldn’t want to eat Bugs Bunny, we readily consume cows and chickens raised on farms. Are animals seen…

In the Romantic Era, women thought to not make rational decisions and instead go by their emotions. Jane Austen uses her writing in Persuasion and many other novels to prove that society is wrong and women can and do make rational decisions. For example, Anne in Persuasion, she starts as a meek girl who is…

Okonkwo, the protagonist of Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, is one of the greatest examples of a tragic hero. A tragic hero, in literature, is a character who makes a judgement error or has a fatal flaw that, when combined with fate and external forces, leads to their suffering and defeat. A tragic hero…

Many people lost their jobs during the Great Depression. This loss caused many people to move out west in search of jobs and greater economic stability. In The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family moved out west to California from Oklahoma. This is the most obvious comparison between The Grapes of Wrath and the Great…

Author because years after his death his novels and quotes from his writing collection is still being read, though and passed around from generation to generation. I assume that Mark Twain lived a pretty successful life being that his novels and writings are so famous. Mark Twain has many quotes still being spread across the…