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  • Shakespeare’s Globe

    Shakespeare’s Globe

    Shakespeare's Globe William Shakespeare was born into a world of words that took him from cold, stone castles in Scotland to the bustling cities of Italy and the high seas of colonial change. An emblem of the Renaissance, the Bard of Avon was not only the conqueror of his own mind and pen, but also of the language of his own social, political, and religious reality. His theatre, the epic Globe, mirrors the stories of

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    Essay Length: 2,561 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Bred
  • Macbeth Shakespeare

    Macbeth Shakespeare

    Macbeth Summary Act I, Scene 1 The witches plan to meet after the battle, which we find is a rebellion in Scotland. They are summoned by their familiars and end with the theme of the play. Act I, Scene 2 The king and his thanes are at a camp and hear word of the battle from the bleeding sergeant. The sergeant had saved Malcolm earlier. He says that the battle was doubtful, with the rebel

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    Essay Length: 4,094 Words / 17 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Tennessee Williams Work - the Glass Menagerie

    Tennessee Williams Work - the Glass Menagerie

    Tennessee Williams work, The Glass Menagerie, he uses the idea of image versus reality. Williams writes the play carefully and constructs the stage directions to guide the performance of the play toward a less realistic interpretation. The play takes place in the thirties. The play consists of four actors. Amanda Wingfield is the mother of Tom and Laura and often digresses back to memories of her former days on the southern plantation farm and her

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    Essay Length: 777 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Artur
  • In Love with Shakespeare

    In Love with Shakespeare

    In love with Shakespeare Whether it is the 1500s or the new millennium, love is still essentially the same although with some differences in customs. Romeo and Juliet is the very epitome of love in Shakespeare’s time. Marriage in Shakespeare’s time mostly served as a union of two parties interested in acquiring property, money or political alliances. Few ever married for love. Most girls were married at 14 or 15. In Shakespeare's famous play, Romeo

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    Essay Length: 1,213 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Max
  • Stephen Williams Hawking

    Stephen Williams Hawking

    Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942. He studied physics at Oxford University, then completed his Ph.D at Cambridge University in the field of theoretical physics. In 1979 he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a position once held by Sir Isaac Newton. The British theoretical physicist is a leading figure in modern cosmology. While studying physics and mathematics at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Hawking learned

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    Essay Length: 350 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Monika
  • Introducing Shakespeare

    Introducing Shakespeare

    Introducing Shakespeare 1b). The concept of love in Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing is a complex idea as well as an impulsive act and can been seen among many of the characters. In particular, the relationships between the young lovers Claudio and Hero as well as the mature couple Benedick and Beatrice both demonstrate how uncomplicated it can be to fall in and out of love, the different ways that exist to fall

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    Essay Length: 3,407 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Shakespear History

    Shakespear History

    The Course Shakespeare, some critics suggest, invented the history play. When he stopped writing it, people lost interest. Part of a much larger revision of historical thinking in the Renaissance, the history play asks its audiences, then and now, to reconsider history in terms of CAUSE, ANACHRONISM, and EVIDENCE. Of these three, questions of cause may be the most palpable. Is history shaped by Providence or human machination? Think you know the answer? Shakespeare didn't.

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    Essay Length: 445 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Yan
  • William Blakes the Tyger

    William Blakes the Tyger

    The Tyger By William Blake William Blake's poem The Tyger is a poem that alludes to the darker side of creation. He suggests that maybe when God created the earth and Jesus that he may have also created evil, “Did he who made the lamb make thee?”(Blake 1). The poem begins with the speaker asking a fearsome tiger what kind of divine being could have created it: "What immortal hand or eye/ could frame they

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    Essay Length: 646 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Janna
  • Light in August by William Faulkner

    Light in August by William Faulkner

    Light in August, by William Faulkner, is a story of racial conflict in a Southern United States town. Faulkner’s work is very unique because its structure presents only gradual revelations of information and consists of three different but interconnected plot threads. In this way, the narrative plots are circular because they build frameworks around the other plots. One of these three narratives focuses on the enigmatic character Joe Christmas. One of the most interesting things

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    Essay Length: 595 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Anna
  • William Faulkner

    William Faulkner

    "A Rose For Emily" William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily" is a remarkable story of suspense told out of chronological order with the use of foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a literary device in which the author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story. The way that Faulkner told the story built suspense and kept his readers on the edge of what really did happen. Throughout the story, Faulkner's use of foreshadowing

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    Essay Length: 1,132 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Witchcraft from Within: Hippy’s, Murder and Shakespeare

    Witchcraft from Within: Hippy’s, Murder and Shakespeare

    Witchcraft from Within: Hippies, Murder, and Shakespeare Predictions of the future do not come from fried-chicken-eating pot-smoking deadbeats out of the ‘70s. Even in the mixed up world of a fast-food adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth conjured up by writer/director Billy Morissette , every man has free will and chooses his own destiny. Morissette ’s version equates fast food to royalty, imparting the entrepreneurial spirit of assistant manager Joe “Mac” McBeth onto the monarchical ambitions of

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    Essay Length: 1,742 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Ezra Pound & William Carlos Williams: Theories on the Nature of Poetry

    Ezra Pound & William Carlos Williams: Theories on the Nature of Poetry

    Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams both comment in a theoretic way on the nature of poetry. Outline briefly their theories. Then discuss the implications their theories have for the writing and reading of poetry, and support your argument with a number of specific examples from their poems. I have structured this essay so that the first part deals entirely with the theories and poetry of Ezra Pound and the second, entirely with the theories

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    Essay Length: 3,516 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Max
  • Symbolism in William Blakes "the Rose"

    Symbolism in William Blakes "the Rose"

    In William Blake’s poem, “A Poison Tree”, Blake presents a story of developing anger, and the consequences of this anger if left unexpressed. Blake employs many metaphors to get the story across, some of which pertain to certain biblical imagery. The title of the poem itself uses “Tree” as a metaphor for growth or development. Thus, the poem is about a poisonous growth, which in this case, is anger. The first 4 lines of the

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    Essay Length: 288 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Max
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    William Golding explores the vulnerability of society in a way that can be read on many different levels. A less detailed look at the book, Lord of the Flies, is a simple fable about boys stranded on an island. Another way to comprehend the book is as a statement about mans inner savage and reverting to a primitive state without societies boundaries. By examining the Lord of the Flies further, it is revealed that many

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    Essay Length: 434 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Sir William Wallace (c1270-1305)

    Sir William Wallace (c1270-1305)

    William Wallace (c1270-1305) William Wallace has come to be known as one of Scotland's many heroes and the undeniable leader of the Scottish resistance forces dying for their freedom from English Rule at the end of the 13th century. Most accounts of Wallace have been passed down through the generations by word of mouth, making Wallace somewhat of a Scottish folk hero. Most accounts are merely tentative, and in part due to his success in

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    Essay Length: 450 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • William Cullen Bryant and Bill Bryson Explore Britain

    William Cullen Bryant and Bill Bryson Explore Britain

    William Cullen Bryant and Bill Bryson explore Britain The urge to travel to Europe, to visit Britain and face the heritage of founding fathers has been present in the US history and, more importantly psyche, for quite a long time. For romantic poets, essayists and painters, the journey to England was frequently a rite of passage undertaken to face, tame and explore the history of their ancestors. Examples of this movement remain in the works

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    Essay Length: 1,144 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Janna
  • Shakespeare’s Macbeth

    Shakespeare’s Macbeth

    After killing his king, Macbeth is quite traumatised saying that the blood on his hands is 'a sorry sight', but Lady Macbeth is less worried now and says that Macbeth is being foolish. She tells him to go back and cover the guards with blood, but Macbeth won't even think about what he just did, let alone go back to the scene of the murder. So Lady Macbeth goes herself because the guards must look

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    Essay Length: 498 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Janna
  • The Truth and a Lengthy Excuse: An Essay on Winthrop Jordan and Eric Williams

    The Truth and a Lengthy Excuse: An Essay on Winthrop Jordan and Eric Williams

    The Truth and A Lengthy Excuse An essay on Eric Williams and Winthrop Jordan In Eric Williams’ essay, “Capitalism and Slavery”, the first thing he stresses is that racism came from slavery, not the other way around. Of course I was immediately put off by this statement after reading Winthrop Jordan’s “White over Black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812”, which has quite the opposite idea stated in it.  Fortunately, Eric Williams’ essay nearly tears

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    Essay Length: 984 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Shakespeare

    Shakespeare

    Out of all the examples of Shakespeare’s animal imagery, it is perhaps that of "making the beast with two backs" that engenders the feelings of most disgust on a character, or indeed, an audience. The reference comes from Othello, where Iago tries to think of the very worst scenario he can possibly paint to a man considering his wifes fidelity, or otherwise. Iago refers also to a "black ram tupping" earlier in the play, and

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    Essay Length: 330 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Sir William Wallace

    Sir William Wallace

    When the king of Scotland died without an heir to the throne the nephew of the king also the king of England nicknamed Edward the Longshanks (Edward I) took the throne for himself and complete control of Scotland. William WallWhen the king of Scotland died without an heir to the throne the nephew of the king also the king of England nicknamed Edward the Longshanks (Edward I) took the throne for himself and complete control

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Suppression of the Other and Self-Enlightenment in William Wordsworth’s Resolution and Independence

    The Suppression of the Other and Self-Enlightenment in William Wordsworth’s Resolution and Independence

    My response to William Wordsworth’s Resolution and Independence focuses upon the precept that Wordsworth’s narrator uses the tale of the Leech Gatherer as a means to achieve ‘resolution’ to his own internal crisis. This is highlighted by, in my opinion, the narrator not so much paying attention to the Leech Gatherer’s tale, yet instead his pre-occupation with what he wants to interpret from the tale in order to satisfy his needs. I further argue that

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    Essay Length: 355 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Yan
  • Role of the Foll in Shakespeare’s "king Lear"

    Role of the Foll in Shakespeare’s "king Lear"

    Alison Dew Explore the role of the fool in King Lear. In Elizabethan times, the role of a fool, or court jester, was to professionally entertain others, specifically the king. In essence, fools were hired to make mistakes. Fools may have been mentally retarded youths kept for the court’s amusement, or more often they were singing, dancing stand up comedians. In William Shakespeare’s King Lear the fool plays many important roles. When Cordelia, Lear’s only

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    Essay Length: 407 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Shakespeare?s 10 Things

    Shakespeare?s 10 Things

    1. Betrayal and revenge 2. Metaphors of death-King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Othello 3. Humor- A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It 4. Pastoral settings- Ling Lear, A midnight Summer's Dream 5. Madness and insanity- Othello, Midnight Summer?s Dream, King Lear 6. Reversal- the main character falls from a high place 7. Letters- King Lear, Merchant of Venice 8. Things are not as they appear- King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night?s Dream 9.

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    Essay Length: 1,198 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Victor
  • William Henry Gates III

    William Henry Gates III

    William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington ) is the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft. He is also the founder of Corbis, a digital image archiving company. He was the second child and only son of William Henry Gates Jr., a successful Seattle attorney, and Mary Maxwell, a former schoolteacher. Kristi is his older sister and is his tax accountant, and Libby, his younger sister,

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    Essay Length: 562 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Top
  • Shakespeare's Tragedy - Macbeth

    Shakespeare's Tragedy - Macbeth

    In Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth, the characters and the roles they play are critical to its plot and theme, and therefore many of Shakespeare's characters are well developed and complex. Two of these characters are the protagonist, Macbeth, and his wife, Lady Macbeth. They play interesting roles in the tragedy, and over the course of the play, their relationship changes and their roles are essentially switched. At the beginning of the play, they treat each other

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    Essay Length: 719 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Edward

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