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The odyssey is odysseus journey to home. And home is where family is. And key to every relationship is communication, and there are for sure some parts where there are unhealthy relationships. Those affectionate relationship with family and precious values worked for odysseus, that didn’t died in him and helped him made his journey to…

The Handmaid’s Tale is written in the extremes set in Cambridge, England. It follows a non-linear storyline, meaning the story is not in chronological order causing the plot points to be revealed through flashbacks. The first few chapters are dedicated to heavy descriptions of various settings and there are no definitive descriptions for the various…

The classic short story of “The Tell-Tale Heart”, written by one of the all time masters of horror, Edgar Allen Poe, has always been used as an excellent example of Gothic fiction. Edgar Allen Poe specialized in the art of gothic writing and wrote many stories that portrayed disturbing events and delved deeply into the…

Introduction Obama’s Affordable Care Act, signed into law in 2010, was a main focus of his election and the biggest shock to healthcare in years. As the foundation of the election for our first African American president, it is no surprise that the ACA had mixed responses from the public. That being said, there is…

Executive Summary No law, executive order or proclamation has been enacted or issued officially proclaiming any Filipino historical figure as a national hero. However, because of their significant roles in the process of nation building and contributions to history, there were laws enacted and proclamations issued honoring these heroes. Even Jose Racial, considered as the…

– Jose Rizal is the Ur-interpreter. He set the manner and schematics for the politicization of the work of Hidalgo and Luna in his brindis, the elegiac toast he gave during a big party at the Madrid’s Restaurante Ingles, immediately upon their oro/plata wins at the Universal Exposition in that city in 1884. 16 (If…

Prejudice is the judgment of a person based on their religion, race, gender, and a ton of other factors. Prejudice has been a problem in our society for a while and sadly a lot of our historical conflicts are due to prejudice of some kind. Due to Harper Lee’s perspective in 1960, To Kill A…

On the 50th Street subway station in New York, “Alice: The Way Out” by Liliana Porter, a collection of public art, incorporates various fundamental, nonsense characters of 1865’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. While visiting this site along with my best friend Eva Miles on our day off,…

  “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” have a similar overview of each story. There are other characteristics that set these stories apart from each other. These two stories are similar because they both have a plot to murder someone which is hidden from the reader. They are different in the way each…

Do you fear flying because you think you might die? Do you feel safer driving to your destination rather than flying? Have you heard about all the ways you can die in a flight like your inside being sucked out from flushing the toilet, someone opening the door while at cruising altitude, lightning striking the…