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Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles by John Smith, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare, seem to have one thing in common in that they all touch upon the aspect of life in the new world. While The Tempest alludes to the new world…

Pain suffering and death lie at the heart of the Christian story and for Christians the fundamental question with regards to PAS is what does life in Jesus Christ the one who hang on the cross, suffered and died a not so dignified death enable and require? Identifying with Christ in turn leads to questions…

The play “Oedipus the King” examines the theme of people’s lack of awareness and their inability to perceive obvious truths. This idea of “blindness” is explored through various characters in the play. Oedipus, upon finally discovering the truth, admits that he had been blind to it for a significant portion of his life. This realization…

Joe Louis Introduction      Within the chapters of African-American history, there are those individuals who stand out not only for what they did to advance African-Americans in a nation which had a sad tradition of discrimination, but for what they did as a credit to their nation overall, despite the lack of mutual respect.  This…

A. Write an essay (700-900 words) in which you analyse and interpret Doris Lessing’s short story “In the National Gallery”. To put interpretation into perspective, your essay must include a discussion of at least two of the other items listed below. One of these must be a text. In The National gallery is the title…

Sarny. a 12-year-old slave miss in the ante-bellum South. faces a comparatively hopeless life. Her main responsibilities at the plantation of Clel Waller are functioning at tabular array. ptyalizing baccy juice on roses to forestall bugs. and in secret conveying confidant messages between Waller’s married woman. Callie. and Dr. Chamberlaine. Then Nightjohn arrives. A former…

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” (Nelson Mandela’s speech while he was at the court). The first anti-apartheid and black president who fights for his country peace, love and equality in Africa was named Nelson Mandela. By the…

The drama of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. ‘The Knight of the Burning Pestle’ is a comedy that focused on the events and feelings of ordinary citizens in a metropolis. It fundamentally talks about the drama “The London Merchant” nevertheless with some remarks and reorganisation from two citizens. George and his married woman. Therefore. in…

Socrates thought that the soul is too simple to destroy; he thought that we are indestructible. Modern science disagrees with Socrates; the idea of the body-and-soul became the idea of the body-and-brain, psychology is the new soul; modern science has sees a correlation between consciousness and the brain. There are three main fields that try…

Negari, black queen of a former Atlantean colony deep in sixteenth-century Africa, is a wildly contradictory figure. I believe it’s not merely because she features in a story that appears to have been written in haste for the 1930s pulp market. A dying priest, described by himself as the last Atlantean, is biased in his…