“My Last Duchess” is a poem written by Robert Browning and originally published in 1842. It is a dramatic monologue in which the speaker is the Duke of Ferrara addressing a silent listener. The poem can be interpreted based on multiple approaches, the richest of which is the psychoanalytic approach. The Duke appears to be…
There are many points in American history that have a great effect on America as a whole. But there are also some major turning points, these moments in history leave a large impact on the course of America. A major turning point in America is the Great Depression. The Great Depression made America realize it…
Frederick Douglass once said, “If there is no struggle there is no progress.” The desired life is only achievable through hard work and struggle. Henry David Thoreau and Adam Smith both agree that struggle is needed but disagree on who must struggle for this gain. Throughout history, different groups of people have had to suffer…
In mathematics we utilise quadratics and it can represent real life situations such as describing shapes, to show how a product is increasing or decreasing in sales. It has a U shaped curve known as a parabola, it can vary in the being of the parabola are proportional to changes in the square of that…
The A.V. Roe Canada CF-105 interceptor, commonly known as the Avro Arrow, was a top of the line Canadian jet under research and development. Initiated in 1955, the program was created to design and build a jet capable of defending Canada’s northern airspace from the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 bombers in the midst of the Cold…
In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the dystopian country of Oceania is controlled by the Party. Many citizens of the nation have no freedom of thought, speech or knowledge. The Party brainwashes people into thinking the same way as it and kills those who so much as disagree with it. In the film version…
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was an American inventor and engineer who is known as the father of scientific management (Mee, 2018). Scientific management is that kind of management which conducts a business or affairs by standards established by facts or truths gained through systematic observation, experiment, or reasoning (Robert, 2007). Taylor was all set to…
During 1591 and 1595, William Shakespeare wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet” set in thirteenth-century Verona. As one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays out of thirty-eight, it tells of the tragedy of two star-crossed lovers who meet and fall in love. However, as pure as their love is, in the end, everything goes wrong because…
Temporal relationships influence our perception of events. The protagonist of the story is a victim of such relationships. In Alice Munro’s “Deep Holes”, Kent is perceived as an individual who is unable to adjust to his self-ambience and life. This results in his neurotic growth, which is a strong understanding in the light of the…
What is Surrealism Surrealism, is an artistic movement stressing on the artists subconscious, where the artist focuses on their imagination, for imagery or to exploit unexpected juxtapositions. These juxtapositions are unexpected, because the appearance of the forms/subjects don’t look real, and oppose reality. In surrealist artworks, the subjects look like out their out of reality,…
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND THEORY When electrons travel through wires or other external circuits, they travel in a zigzag pattern that results in a collision between the electrons and the ions in the conductor, and this is known as resistance. The resistance of a wire causes difficulty for the flow of the electrical current of a…
The novel “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” by John Boyne portrays the innocent mind of a German boy called Bruno who relocates from an ideal wealth of life in Germany to a house next to the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz where his father has been chosen to work as a Nazi commander. Boyne produces…
Introduction and problem Sugar consumption is a serious problem globally. In our current food environment, it is too easy to eat too much sugar. Major sugar intake causes health problems such as obesity, diabetes, and tooth and gum problems. Obesity, a huge problem in our society, leads to diabetes, heart problems, cancer, and other diseases.…
Name Year Major Works Francisco Arcellana 1990 Frankie The Man Who Would Be Poe Death in a Factory Lina A Clown Remembers Divided by Two The Mats, The Other Woman, This Being the Third Poem This Poem is for Mathilda To Touch You and I Touched Her Edith L. Tiempo 1999 A Blade of Fern…
MARTHA DANDRIDGE CUSTIS WASHINGTON was born into a world of elite social custom and privilege in the 1730s. Little did she know that she would marry twice, give birth to four children — losing two of them to illness in childhood — and bear witness to the Revolution and the creation of a new nation.…
Act 5 Scene Summaries Characters Themes Motifs Scene 1 Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, acting out washing her hands Lady Macbeth: This is the moment we see all of the fears and conscience finally catch up to Lady Macbeth. The moment that she finds out about the murder of Macduff’s wife and children, and that of Banquo,…
Act 4 Scene Summaries Characters Themes Motifs Scene 1 Macbeth visits the Witches and is given three new prophecies: 1) to beware of Macduff; 2) that no man who is born of woman can harm Macbeth; 3) he is safe until Burnham Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill. Hecate is the goddess of the witches and…
Scene Summaries Characters Themes Motifs Scene 1: Banquo thinks about the prophecy when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth enter to invite him to the banquet that night. He goes riding with his son, Fleance and Macbeth thinks about his fear of Banquo. Some men arrive whom Macbeth sends off to murder Banquo. Banquo’s suspicion rises…
Act 2 Scene Summaries Characters Themes Motifs Scene 1 Macbeth hallucinates, seeing a dagger in front of him. Banquo and Macbeth grow more fearful and suspicious of each other. Macbeth goes as far as to test Banquo’s trust in the statement ‘If you shall cleave to my consent, when ‘tis, it shall make honor for…
Act 1 Scene Summaries Characters Themes Motifs Scene 1: Three Witches get together and start plotting. There are 3 witches. I learned that they’re somehow related to darkness from the introduction mentioning thunder, lightning etc. Evil and Darkness Scene 2: Duncan hears that Macbeth and Banquo have won them the…