Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a play about Hamlet, the crown prince of Denmark who lost his father at a very young age. Hamlet’s mother married Hamlet’s uncle Claudius one month after Hamlet senior died. Hamlet did not want his uncle to be king so he started planning on how to get rid of him. … Read more
Othello is a tragic story about Othello, the Moor, who married Desdemona in what seemed to be a happy marriage. Othello’s friend Iago wants Othello to become so consumed with jealousy that Othello will kill Desdemona, allowing Iago to get Othello out of the way so Othello’s position as the Moor of Venice can be … Read more
The Bell Jar, the semi-autobiographical novel published by Sylvia Plath in 1963 under a pseudonym, is considered to be loosely based on her own experiences. The protagonist of The Bell Jar is Esther Greenwood, a young woman who has graduated from Smith College and won a prestigious summer internship at “Aunt” Emma’s fashion magazine. The … Read more
Internet technology has changed the way that we work, communicate, and express ourselves over the past 20 years. Internet history goes back much farther than many people realise, though. The Internet’s origins are in a project proposed by United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) in 1962 called “Net”. Net was designed … Read more
Leiningen Versus the Ants is a short story that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post on September 14, 1935. Leiningen himself is one of the main characters because he’s the protagonist and his personality best shows this. Leiningen is a plantation owner who has been driven from his home by hordes of ants. He says … Read more
Alcohol consumption is the act of ingesting alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic beverages are drinks that have ethanol in them, which is a psychoactive drug found in booze. It causes short-term effects to the drinker including impaired judgment, motor control, and reaction time. Drinking too much has long-term effects on the body, including liver diseases like cirrhosis … Read more
In Hip hop music, the DJ acts as a musician playing songs from his/her collection. Hip hop is composed of four elements: rapping, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti writing. Hip Hop stylizes text in ways that form poems and rhymes. The forces of creation have driven Hip hop for over 40 years now. Hip hop began … Read more
The Hobbit was first published on September 21, 1937 by George Allen & Unwin. It has 92 pages and is about 300 words long. The book has been translated into at least 38 languages since its publication including Latin, Greek, Urdu, Russian and even Chinese! The story didn’t originally include the poem “All that is … Read more
The absolutism of Louis XIV was the major power behind France’s success during his reign. Through his military strength and effective bureaucracy, Louis XIV successfully transformed France into the most powerful nation of Europe. The absolutism of Louis XIV sparked an era of French dominance that lasted more than a century after his death. The … Read more
Computer programming is all around us. Mobile phones are filled with apps that are software programs, however small they may seem. Anytime you use Google to search the internet, trillions of lines of code are being run by your web browser in the background to accomplish the task. Even on your home computer, most of … Read more
I Stand Here Ironing tells a story of a mother and daughter relationship. The story takes place in a kitchen, most likely the mother’s kitchen, where she is going through her daughter’s clothes. I think it is important to know who the protagonist of this story is because I feel it would make the reader … Read more
Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare about a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. He soon … Read more
Anthem is a dystopian, romantic fiction written in 1937 by Ayn Rand. Anthem takes place in an unspecified future time when mankind has entered another dark age. Technological advancement is now carefully planned and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. Anthem tells the story of how one man rediscovers the long-forgotten idea of individualism … Read more
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, was written in 1931. The Brave New World society is a satire on modern Western civilization. Brave New World is set in the year AF (After Ford) 632. Most of the people are clones with identical DNA. Thus, Brave New World reflects many criticisms of society made by Aldous … Read more
“The Merchant Of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare. The main character, Bassanio makes many choices throughout the play that revolve around his choice to marry Portia and marry for money rather than love. The theme in this play is greed. The reason why wealth is so prevalent in the play is that there … Read more
Immune to Reality, by Daniel Gilbert, is a book about the psychology of self-delusion. He describes himself as an experimental psychologist who studies happiness. This book is his first work of popular science, which contains some research done by him, along with stories he has heard from people all around him. The book starts with … Read more
Pygmalion, written by George Bernard Shaw, is set in London sometime after the Victorian era. Pygmalion tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor who studies phonetics and how to change spoken language. Pygmalion begins with an explanation of how speech changes across time (in the play’s cast, across class) and then focuses on an … Read more
The Taming Of The Shrew is a play written by William Shakespeare. The published version of The Taming Of The Shrew was actually written after The Taming Of The Shrew, making the original name The Taming Of A Shrew. The work faced heavy criticism for portraying women as subservient to men, but it is now … Read more
Rip Van Winkle is a short story by Washington Irving about Rip Van Winkle, an old man who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later when he hears his name being called. Rip Van Winkle is written in the American vernacular of the late 18th century, unlike most British literature. … Read more
Disney is an American company that was founded in 1923 by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney. Their first creations were animated movies, which brought them great success. Since then, the Disney company has expanded to include theme parks, stores, television shows, music groups and many other entertainment mediums. The corporation made $35 billion in … Read more
Nelson Mandela is a man who needs no introduction. The iconic South African leader became an international figure at the age of 71 when he was elected president, four years after his release from prison where he had spent 27 years fighting for equal rights in South Africa. The Nelson Mandela Foundation managed to publish … Read more
Romeo and Juliet has been around for a long time; it is a story we all know and love. Romeo and Juliet die, but who is to blame? Some people may say Romeo because he kills Paris, or even Romeo himself. However, I believe Romeo did not deserve the blame at all. I think Romeo … Read more
Athletes get paid, this will allow them to generate more income by using their marketable skills that colleges are investing into during the time they receive payment creating more jobs for other Americans instead of cutting back on spending due to lack of resources. Athletes get paid then it will be okay if athletes don’t … Read more
Othello’s character is that of a well respected man, who begins his play with an air of perfection, but after the appearance of Iago, Othello appears weak and ignorant. Othello is believed to be one of Shakespeare’s most controversial characters; however there are many qualities about Othello that make him an admirable man. He begins … Read more
Aemilia Lanyer was a poet and the first published English woman author who came from a middle class family (though her father was considered as part of an old gentry-class group) Aemilia Lanyer used this poem as a way to show her interpretation of Eve’s role in the “Fall. ” Aemilia Lanyer’s poem “Eve’s Apology … Read more
Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare about a man who would stop at nothing to fulfill his royal destiny. Macbeth starts out as a strong and moral military leader, until he succumbs to his wife’s wishes and begins to kill anyone in his way. Macbeth strives for power at any cost, eventually leading … Read more
The book Gulliver’s Travels was written by Jonathan Swift, and it tells the story of Gulliver. Gulliver travels to different places like Lilliput (Land of small people), Laputa (a flying island), Brobdingnag (Land of Giants) and many more. Gulliver does research for his book at places like Venice, Turkey, Portugal, England, Barbados etc. Gullive is … Read more
Art is an important part of culture. Art includes music, singing, dancing, poetry, and sketching. Art makes the world more beautiful. Art can be classified in many different ways. Art can be classified by what is used to make it such as paint or clay. Art can also be categorized by the artistic technique used … Read more
Pride And Prejudice is a novel that was originally published in 1813. Pride And Prejudice follow the love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who are often said to be Pride and Prejudice’s main characters. The novel takes place in England in the 1800s. Pride And Prejudice was written by Jane Austen. Pride And … Read more
The play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare is a perfect example of the use of foreshadowing. Macbeth throughout the play is forced into acts he would not normally do because of his wife’s brief appearances and words. One event scattered with examples was Macbeth’s murder of King Duncan. After the encounter, Macbeth is filled with … Read more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, written by Ken Kesey in 1962, tells the story of a man who fought his way out against an oppressive society and as a result is labeled as insane. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is an intelligent and satirical novel about how we treat and mistreat people who … Read more
The Siddhartha novel by Hermann Hesse shows the Siddhartha’s different life stages through archetypes. Siddhartha is a young Brahmin who leaves his home to experience new things and eventually becomes a Buddha. All of Siddharta’s experiences can be compared to archetypes that are present in the novel Siddhartha. These archetypes are the shadow, the wise … Read more
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The work was first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine and is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, due to its depiction of a woman’s descent into mental illness. The story is written from the … Read more
The novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a story about Edna Pontellier’s struggle for freedom. Edna, who lived in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century, was trapped in the strict gender roles and societal expectations that plagued women during this era. The role of society dictated that she be devoted to … Read more
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowski brothers. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality perceived by humans is actually the Matrix: an illusion created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an … Read more
These two novels, The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter both take place in 17th-century America. However, their plots are very different. Comparing the main characters to one another would be like comparing apples to oranges because they were written by different authors for completely different purposes. However, there are some similarities between the stories that … Read more
Marc Antony was Julius Caesar’s best friend and right hand man, but after Julius’ assassination he changed from a respected Roman leader to what the Roman citizens considered as an “Abuse of Power. ” The Roman believed that Marc Antony had ten times the power he should have had as one man. Julius Caesar had … Read more
Pride and Prejudice is a book filled with many manners, morals, and characters. All of which contribute their own unique quirks to the story. One such character that is not as appreciated as she should be is Elizabeth Bennet. She does not go through any type of physical transformation throughout Pride and Prejudice, but she … Read more
A Raisin in the Sun, an award winning film based on a play written by Lorraine Hansberry, is considered to be one of the greatest American films ever made. A film about the Younger family and their struggle within Chicago’s South Side society. Their mother had recently died leaving them with $10,000 life insurance(which they … Read more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is one of the most well-known French novels ever written. Les Miserables Themes are also commonly taught in many secondary schools, especially in USA high schools. Les Miserables Les Miserables Themes include love, perspective, God, redemption and justice. Les Misérables can be seen as a novel that challenges the reader … Read more
The book Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx is about two men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, who meet each other at a rodeo job in 1963. At that time, both of them are young men raised on ranches in Wyoming. They fell in love but their story was cut short by society’s judgment towards … Read more
Antigone, written by Sophocles, is a tragedy that follows Antigone as she struggles with her family loyalty and the values of society: Antigone wants to honor and obey the laws of God and of The play begins in Thebes where Antigone is surrounded by her extended family. Antigones’ father, Oedipus, is a man who had … Read more
The Great Gatsby is a book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in 1925. The story takes place during the roaring twenties: The time after World War I that represents an era of new self-confidence and libido. You can see through The Great Gatsby how Jay Gatsby, the protagonist, lives his dream to be … Read more
Dolphins are cetaceans, which means they are mammals that have to come up for air. Dolphins are very intelligent animals. Scientists have found that Dolphins really are as smart as three-year-old humans! Dolphins use tools. Dolphins have been known to pick up sponges by their beaks, so they can protect themselves from sharp objects on … Read more
Walt Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, and international icon. Disney is famous for its influence in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. Walt Disney helped to make motion pictures what they are today with creations such as Mickey Mouse. After being involved in business and … Read more
Othello, the protagonist of Othello by William Shakespeare, is a tragic hero with both good and bad qualities. Othello’s most noticeable strength is his passion for Desdemona. Othello has physical strength from being a moor, but also mental strength from being well educated in military matters and language. Othello’s weakness is his suspicious nature and … Read more
Stephen Vincent Benet’s short story, The Devil and Tom Walker, is a literary work that follows the dealings of two old time acquaintances – Mr. Scratch and Tom Walker. Stephen Vincent Benet has an Alice-in-Wonderlandish setting as he focuses on the devil as a central character as he meets up with Tom Walker who was … Read more
The Shadow Throne is a book by Jennifer A. Nielsen, The plot takes place in a kingdom known as The Land or The North. The main characters are named Malachiasz and The Watcher. Malachiasz is an orphan taken care of by The King’s Captain of the Royal Guard, The Watcher watches over The King to … Read more
Both Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary were adapted for film. Anna Karenina was an American movie that came out in 1935, starring Greta Garbo as Anna and Fredric March as Vronsky. Anna Karenina was later remade in 2012, starring Keira Knightley as Anna and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Vronsky. Madame Bovary was released in 1949, directed … Read more
The Old Man and The Sea is one of Hemingway’s most renowned pieces. The story focuses on an old Cuban fisherman, who has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish due to poor catch conditions. The novel details the one day that the old man finally manages to land a large marlin after fighting it … Read more