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In today’s educational system, the use of Shakespeare as reading material has begun to dwindle. This is mostly due to people believing that the themes and ideas portrayed throughout the Shakespearean work are old, outdated, unrelated to the modern world. However, one of the biggest stories in politics and media nowadays are the ideals of…

Shakespeare’s work is undoubtedly the most popular and well known literature of all time. The fact that his work remains popular today is interesting, as many of his themes tend to verge on old fashioned, some even verging on offensive, especially by today’s standards. Specifically, Shakespeare’s Othello provides a few questionable themes. The most prevalently…

Is Romeo and Juliet’s death a tragedy of two families or a tragedy of acity? In the following quote, W. H. Auden says, “The tragedy of Romeo andJuliet.is not simply a tragedy of two individuals, but the tragedy of a city. Everybody in the city is one way or another involved in and responsible for…

Discrimination happens when a man or woman experience negative or uncalled behavior for their race, belief, national starting point, incapacitated or past status, or other lawfully ensured qualities. I have been victimized race and gender. In my view, racism happens mostly to women and in my case, is a main consideration that bargains friendliness in…

In 1992, several Los Angeles riots surrounding a Los Angeles Police Department officer beating an African American man, Rodney King, affected Southern California citizens, including many students. In 1994, when Erin Gruwell started as the new ninth grade English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, many of her racially diverse students were still dealing with…

In Toni Morrison’s novel, Sula, many deaths has occurred which impacted society and their decision to how they want to handle each person’s death. The novel uses the duality of apathetic and sympathetic to compare society’s reaction to the different deaths that took place in the bottom land. Society was more drawn to a specific…

The common theme of revenge is portrayed throughout one of William Shakespeare’s most famous play’s known as Hamlet. In the story of Hamlet, there are multiple characters that could possibly take on the role of a villain, adding to many of the tragic and dramatic parts of the story. The most obvious evil character being…

Jack London’s To Build a Fire tells the story of a single man versus nature, set in the northern winter tundra of the Yukon. This man is alone in the wild, trying to survive all by himself. Conversely, Joyce Carol Oates Foxfire depicts a girl gang, forming out of necessity and sisterhood to defend its…

Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th, 1809. His mother and father died before he was 3 years old. In the year of 1827, Poe enlisted to be part of the United States Army. Poe had a gambling and a drinking addiction. He couldn’t control himself. In 1836, he marries a…

In the book Sula,Toni Morrison use the duality of light dark to criticize the choice to do with concepts of self identity and self determination. Each character in the novel, like each person, has a path for themselves and how their actions make them unique. The Duality of self identity and self determination.Self identity is…