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This is bit of a lightweight post. It does address a point that arose – not too seriously, and not for the first time ever – on the Robert E. Howard Readers Facebook group, though. And REH seems to have considered it himself in a couple of his stories, at any rate to the point…

The play Henry V was written by William Shakespeare, and was designed to make it enjoyable to Elizabeth | who was the queen at the time. Queen Elizabeth | would enjoy a play with a victorious king and leader, so if the queen enjoyed it the rest of England would, so William Shakespeare would make…

Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894. He received his B.A. in 1915 and his M.A. in 1916, both from Harvard. During the First World War, Cummings worked as an ambulance driver in France, but was interned in a prison camp by the French authorities (an experience recounted in his novel, The…

Fitzgerald’s novel is set during the 1920s, an period of American history known as the “Roaring Twenties” and the “Age of Wonderful Nonsense. ” America had emerged from the First World War as an economic giant, resulting in a general increase in wealth in the population. Pretty soon, Americans indulged in extravagances like never before…

Slim is always in terms of dignity and majesty. When he first comes into the bunkhouse, he moves “with a majesty achieved only by royalty and master craftsmen. He was a jerk-line skinner, the prince of the ranch, capable of driving ten, sixteen, even twenty mules with a single line to the leaders. ” Slim…

“In all things that are purely social we can be separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”- Booker T. Washington. Booker T. Washington was a civil rights activist, orator, former slave, and the head of Tuskegee University. He fought for equal rights and tried to abolish…

Romeo and Juliet is a calamity about two star crossed lovers whose love can non apart them from their two feuding households. In this essay I will province who or what are responsible for their deceases, the chief subject of the narrative is hatred and destiny. First I must present the two households because their…

Revenge is the act of seeking retribution against someone for their wrongdoing. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth is driven by a desire to retaliate against Arthur Dimmesdale for his betrayal with Hester Prynne, Chillingworth’s wife. Consumed by his thirst for revenge, Chillingworth’s life becomes entirely centered around his vengeful mission. Throughout…

I’ve learnt the importance to listen and accept others’ different point of views and to control my emotion feelings. This is really applicable to my work. Co-operative brand: Duffy and Shellfishes The Disney Bear The Story of Duffy and Shellfishes-The Disney Bear: One day, Mackey Mouse was getting ready to set sail on a long…

The play I have been studying is The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. It is a drama that takes place in the late 1590s and involves two cities, Venice and Belmont. The central theme revolves around usury and centers on the relationship between Antonio, a Christian merchant from Venice, and Shylock, a wealthy Jewish…