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Beowulf ventures out far and wide to help those in need. He helps the Danes when he hears they are being threatened by Grendel, and later, Grendel’s mom. Beowulf trusts he is the most grounded man around, and he goes up against any test. Beowulf’s pride gives him the valor to go up against the…

The last ten years have been the age of superheroes and their magnificence on screen. Audiences witnessed their lives, the hard times they have been through, the villains they have fought against and their achievements. Gladys L. Knight says; …examples of female toughness epitomize the current trend wherein women are depicted as tough as nails…

Would you kill if it means a way of surviving? In the book The Hunger Games it tells us a story about a nation in North America called Panem, which is surrounded by twelve districts. There is a class inequality between districts. The higher the district, the lower the poverty. Every year the Capitol forces…

While the course of true love will seldom run smoothly, yet the path can be fraught with unknown perils. Rarely does one realize what rewards and enticements the future will unfold. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is noted for popularizing the literary style of magic realism which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary situations. In…

In the book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, the author, Jared Diamond, starts his prologue by first posing a question to his readers: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo … but we black people had little cargo of our own?”(Diamond 14). Later revealing that this is the exact question he received…

Lady Macbeth’s character changes a lot during the course of the play. The character at the beginning is so different to the one presented in her final scene would not even be recognised as the same person. The play accurately depicts the progression of Lady Macbeth from a dominating, confident, ruthless killer, to a weak,…

“A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality…never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. Thus Kino’s future was real, but, having set it up, other forces were set up to destroy it.” (Steinbeck 29). A historical fiction novella written by John Steinbeck: The Pearl, tells an intriguing story of a poor fisherman,…

While researching Robert E. Howard’s involvement with The Lone Scouts of America and preparing the collection of material by Herbert Klatt, I’m sure there were items that went undiscovered, but the only frustrating thing was an item that I knew existed but that I couldn’t find copies of. In his December 21, 1925 letter to…

Jared Diamond, an evolutionary biologist and biogeographer who has worked extensively in New Guinea, rejects racially oriented explanations for differential human development. He agrees that the explication for European success is biological, but believes that intelligence had nothing to do with the differential development of societies. Geography had everything to do with it. Differences among…

The book ‘On Liberty’ was “published in 1859 and was known as John Stuart Mill’s finest and most controversial book” (Austin, 2000). In his classic work Mill (1859) sets out to “investigate the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual”. In ‘On Libery’, it was emphasized…