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The topic of slaughterhouses is not typically a conversation people want to have, but with nine billion animals being slaughtered every year, it is something that needs to be talked about. One of the largest environmental concerns associated with slaughterhouses is wastewater and water contamination. The United States alone has 32 slaughterhouses responsible for dumping…

Hamlet and Chris McCandless prove themselves to be very similar in a variety of ways throughout the course of their respective journeys. Although these characters are clearly from different time periods and experience different challenges, they are still similar in many ways. The similarities that can be seen between these two characters can help us…

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1600), the most prominent motive to be learned is to how revenge is deadly. The theme of death is indefinitely recurring throughout the entire tragedy, from the opening scene with the ominous ghost to the bloodbath of the final scene. Ultimately, Hamlet becomes obsessed with revenge and death…

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a well-known historical play by Shakespeare that leaves open questions to the audience to mediate and argue over. Over time, this play has been analyzed many times. In the play, it is made obvious that the main character Hamlet is mentally unstable. Is easy to see that the main character…

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….

When Romeo enters the tomb and sees Juliet pale body he quickly runs over to her and starts crying. As he cries over Juliet body the dripping tears from his face fell on Juliet face and caused her to open her eyes. Romeos tears of sadness quickly turn into tears of joy. Juliet wiped the…

  “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” have a similar overview of each story. There are other characteristics that set these stories apart from each other. These two stories are similar because they both have a plot to murder someone which is hidden from the reader. They are different in the way each…

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…

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…

Black people come in all different shades, and because we look different we get discriminated against differently. Colorism is the racist belief that light skinned is good and dark skinned is bad. This goes all the way back to slavery days when the white man used to separate us by color placing the light skinned…