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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…

In his book, The Storytelling Animal, Johnathan Gottschall conveys the idea that stories have not only been beneficial for the development of humanity and civilization but also completely necessary for our continued survival. “The storytelling mind is a crucial evolutionary adaptation,” he writes. “It allows us to experience our lives as coherent, orderly, and meaningful….

These days most theater goers would pay one hundred dollars to see an exceptionalperformance of Romeo and Juliet , but as we go back to the year 1599, people crowdedthe doors of The Globe to pay a penny or less to see plays done by Shakespeare and manyothers. The Globe not only played (no pun…

Kate Chopin’s, The Story of an Hour, is captivating tale telling the story of all the different conflicting emotions and revelations a human can experience given a grave situation. Although short in length this story does not lack depth and is charged with ominous overtones. The Story of an Hour speaks true the dilemma women…

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…

Washington Irving once wrote in his short story Philip of Pokanoket : An Indian Memoir: “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.” Washington Irving was one of those great minds. Irving, author of many great short stories, such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle,…

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,…

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…

Into The Wild, traditionally a book written by Jon Krakauer, was produced into a movie based on a true story and directed by Sean Penn. Fresh out of college, pressured to move on to law school by his parents, protagonist Christopher McCandless, later re-names himself Alexander Supertramp and ventures out on his own with few…

In the eighty-two lines that consist of Satan’s famous soliloquy in Book IV (lines 32 to 113) of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, one is given a great deal to think about. Obviously, first and foremost, one gets a deeper look at the character of the “tragic hero” of Milton’s epic, who is consumed by his…