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In between Quezon and Laguna was Mount Makiling, which belonged to the mysterious Maria Makiling. People wondered if she was a fairy or a mortal woman. Some people, who encountered her in the forest, lost their way home or turned into bubbles and completely disappeared. A servant could not believe her eyes when she saw…

Throughout the drama. the difference between Creon and Antigone is vividly shown. By the terminal of the drama. Antigone. it is apparent that a sum of five characters have lost their lives. This is due to the characters’ failure to take where their trueness and duty should stand. therefore making struggle. The chief character of…

            Nathaniel Hawthorne published the short story “Young Goodman Brown” in 1835, more than a hundred years after the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Despite the distance, the fictional text by Hawthorne about one man’s diabolic dream relates closely to the historical event which claimed many lives in that particular history of New England….

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller Throughout Sophocles’ Oedipus the King the metaphors of sight and blindness are exercised frequently. It is understood that the references to eyesight correspond to wisdom, knowledge, and truth while, comparably, the indication of blindness is a suggestion of futility….

Some aspects of Aristotle’s theory of slavery Slavery — natural or conventional? Aristole’s theory of slavery is found in Book I, Chapters iii through vii of the Politics. and in Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle raises the question of whether slavery is natural or conventional. He asserts that the former is the case….

B.C early civilizations started in the river valleys of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India. These civilizations made a big impact on later civilizations. They also made lasting and important contributions to humankind. The first civilization is the Sumarians. (doc 1). The Sumarians lived in Southern Mesopotamia which is the land where the Tigris and Eurphrates rivers…

Everett’s statement ‘European cinema is not a monolith, but a series of expressions of different ways of questioning and portraying itself and the world’ (Everett, 5) demonstrates that the whole European cinema can hardly be defined since not only the gap between Central Europe and Western Europe but also the notable national identities create various…

Why did the expansion of slavery become the most divisive political issue in the 1840s and 1850s? After the depression of 1837 in the South and the Indian removal, Americans had expanded their territory further in the West by the 1840s. The expansion in the land inspired the expansion of slavery. In the 1840s and…

                        Political thought during the 16th century centered on the concept of the modern state, which replaced the idea of ‘two cities’, which dominated the Medieval Period. In the middle of the 1400s, the Middle Ages focused on the establishment of a modern republic within the Italian city state. However, support for the concept declined…

This essay aims to analyze the reasons for the concentration of industrialization in western Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s. It will explore this topic by examining the postcolonial era from the 1920s to the 1960s, taking into account how rural fundamentalism influenced social and economic policies. Furthermore, it will assess the impact of poverty,…