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The Prince, Machiavelli’s Economy of Violence Machiavelli was an Italian historian, statesman, and political philosopher, whose amoral, but influential writings on power building have turned his name into a synonym for cunning and duplicity. I personally feel he is a genius. Niccolo Machiavelli was born on May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy. He eventually became…

In 1936, regular readers of Weird Tales must have thought Robert E. Howard was having a good year. In the first seven months, Howard had serials or stories in six issues, of which two were voted the best story in their issues, and in July he had the cover, illustrated by Margaret Brundage. Even in…

Animals are often forced to fight to the death, and if they are seriously wounded, left to die by their owners. B. Animal fighting rings have close ties to criminal organizations and attract illegal activities to the communities where they are located. (“4 tied”, 2013) . Animal hoarding is another form of abuse. It often…

The Story of an Hour is a narrative of a adult female who, through the mistakenly reported decease of her hubby, experienced true freedom. Both tragic and dry, the narrative trades with the boundaries imposed on adult females by society in the 19th century. The writer Kate Chopin, like the character in her narrative, had…

Some themes in the novel can also be applied to society as a whole, highlighting their significance. Gatsby represents the idealistic state of society during the time of publication, where wealth, greed, and recklessness were central to an ideal life. This theme adds two layers of meaning to the novel’s title. Firstly, it suggests that…

The play Macbeth depicts evil as a potent and ruinous force that inflicts harm upon both its adopters and their victims. Both the main character, Macbeth, and his wife Lady Macbeth are entangled in the clutches of this malevolence. Evil compels individuals to partake in unnatural and harmful deeds. Macbeth’s tragic flaw, his insatiable greed,…

The SupernatualThere was a strong role of a supernatural force in Macbeth. The witches supposedly had a power to see the future. Or perhaps they had the power to change the future. Then there was the three ghosts that predicted the future. And of course the bloody dagger that appears to Macbeth before is going…

Aphrodite’s Affection Advice Hello, this is the most exquisite goddess of love and beauty, here to do my beloved job of creating love. So, this week we have advice for the lovely queen of the gods as she requested, but as she would rather not have her true name revealed, she asked to be called…

When an individual is put into a new environment, conflict will transpire. In Willian Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of youngboys get stranded on a deserted island due to an airplane accident. Thereare three very noticable conflicts in the story. There is man versus man,man versus nature and finally, man versus himself….

I normally try to supply a defintion, cognizing that the definition is little more than a simplified starting point for this elusive and resistless genre. I developed this one collaboratively with my co-worker at TCC, Stan Barger, who team-taught English 112 with me several summers: Poetry is the concentrated, rhythmic, verbal look of observations, perceptual…