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The legendary Arthur Miller b.1915 has inspired and touched many with his famous writing pieces such as The Crucible (1953). Before venturing into the playwright profession, Miller majored in journalism in the University of Michigan in 1938, showing skills as a reporter and night editor for his school newspaper. Although Miller is mostly associated with…

When Bill Cosby returned to television in the mid 1980’s, many were skeptical in regards to the show being successful. Cosby’s previous television show in the 1970’s bombed and the comedian was relegated to (lucrative) TV commercials for years. Could Cosby carry a program? History shows the answer was yes and, in addition to being…

I had always thought that life never gave you more than you can handle; as a child my mother always told me that God was looking out; that he would keep you sane and safe. Its seems as though as I grew older; a series of events slowly deteriorated my faith in God, I had…

In many of Shakespeare’s plays the topic of love is often discussed in great detail, however the way that these emotions are often portrayed varies with the type of play. In many of Shakespeare’s tragedies, such as Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare depicts the love as passionate and usually has it end in a very dramatic…

“The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young man cub known as “the Frog”, who is a part of a highly unconventional society. Bagheera, a Panther, discovers an abandoned boat with baby Mowgli. Bagheera takes Mowgli to the wolf pack in the Indian Jungle. After ten years, Mowgli grows into…

The Thing in the Forest, a story that begins like a typical fairy tale, incorporates the elements of fantasy commonly associated with such tales. However, unlike traditional fairy tales, this story evolves into a realistic event that unfolded among children in a specific region and time period. As the girls approach, they both hear and…

In ‘Hamlet’ Literary Remains, Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes Hamlet as an intricate planner who’s thought process is slow and methodical. He describes Hamlet as someone having ‘Supercilious activities of the mind, which, unseated from its healthy relation, is constantly occupied with the world within, and abstracted from the world without…throwing a mist over all common-place…

The Odyssey and Star Wars are two great examples of epics. Both the stories fulfill the epic hero cycle to the fullest. In The Odyssey, Odysseus is the hero, he goes to Troy to fight a war and get lost at sea for 20 years. In Star Wars Luck is the hero, he gets introduced…

 William Butler Yeats’ poem Second Coming is a short two stanza poem that is political in nature and uses Biblical and mythological allusions to explain the author’s message. This paper would be a personal interpretation of the poem. The first noticeable thing about the poem is the capitalization of the first word of the first…

We soon learn the surnames of the warring clans, Caplet and Montague, and both patriarchs (as well as their respective ladies) appear in the flesh in the plays first scene. Although Table of the Capsules is the most aggressive character on the stage, Americium’s twice-spoken curse, “a plague a’ both houses! ” (Ill , I….