William completed his Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in 2013. He current serves as a lecturer, tutor and freelance writer. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, walking his dog and parasailing.
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Salves were the lowest status and given almost no rights. Justice was an essential concept of the Roman judicial system, and the Twelve Tables played a pivotal role in ensuring that justice was upheld, and ensured the rights of all individuals, irrespective of their social status, while preventing the abuse of power by the rich…
Written at a time when feminism was not even a word, Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” is one of the first feminine literary works in history, and has been critical to the rise of feminism throughout history. The story tells us about a woman who had recently lost her husband and portrays the various…
Section 1The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. R v. OakesLower courts reference this case Sets precedent for whether or not judges should change the law…
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Justice is a piece of literature that highlights how Indigenous people create honest and truthful stories about themselves that include their faults, but on the contrary, colonized stories about them make them seem out of place. In particular, the author shines a light on how stories made about Indigenous…
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I eyed,Such seems your beauty still. Three winters coldHave from the forests shook three summers’ pride,Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn’dIn process of the seasons have I seen,Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn’d,Since first I saw…
My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming;I love not less, though less the show appear;That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming,The owner’s tongue doth publish every where.Our love was new, and then but in the spring,When I was wont to greet it with my lays;As Philomel in summer’s front doth sing,And stops his…
Mercury: Venus: Earth: Mars: Jupiter: Saturn: Uranus: Neptune: Bibliography 1815. “10 Interesting Facts About Mars.” Universe Today, 4 Apr. 2016, www.universetoday.com/14853/interesting-facts-about-planet-mars. Choi, Charles. “Planet Mercury: Facts About the Planet Closest to the Sun.” Space.Com, 14 Oct. 2017, www.space.com/36-mercury-the-suns-closest-planetary-neighbor.html. Mars.Nasa.Gov. “Mars Facts.” NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, mars.nasa.gov/all-about-mars/facts Accessed 13 May 2021. Matt Williams “Ten Interesting Facts…
“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to” (John Ed Pearce). Janice was forced to leave her birth mother’s house 35 years ago and left again intentionally last year due to her overwhelming emotions. After this, her mother Anne dies, and Janice refuses to mourn…
Canada’s military is said to be ironically sinking, caused by years of neglect and underfunding, the giant nation’s navy can no longer operate in global waters. The nation once had the 3rd best naval military in the world, then it dropped ranks to currently 23rd in the world. Even smaller nations can best this giant…
In the bildungsroman The House on Mango Street, there are many traumatic experiences to children, and childhood is seen as a time of tribulation and terror, at least through the eyes of Esperanza. Children, especially girls, are treated unfairly, and their key objective is to get married and move out of their mother’s houses. This…
Introduction The universe is built upon chemical reactions. There are simply so many chemical reactions that change how we live, from the nuclear reactions in the Sun, to photosynthesis and digestion. Although every chemical reaction known is important for human survival, there are many types of chemical reactions ranging from nuclear to combustion. A single…
A narrative point of view refers to what the narrator or character telling the story can see. Authors choose who is to tell the story by determining the point of view as the voice through which to tell a story. Events in a narrative can be told by characters who are involved in the narrative…
Louise Mallard in the Story of an Hour is a great example of a tragic hero, because of her strange reaction to being newly widowed. Louise’s reaction to Brently’s death is unusual compared to how a stereotypical widowed woman’s grief would be. This coordinates quite well with the time period and society that Louise lives…
A bildungsroman is a novel that focuses on a protagonist’s moral, intellectual, and spiritual growth. In contemporary literature, the coming-of-age stories can be equated with the bildungsroman theme as they often deal with the challenging transition to adulthood from childhood. Shelley’s is a nineteenth-century novel that depicts the theme of bildungsroman by tracing the outcome…
A bildungsroman is a novel that focuses on a protagonist’s moral, intellectual, and spiritual growth. In contemporary literature, the coming-of-age stories can be equated with the bildungsroman theme as they often deal with the challenging transition to adulthood from childhood. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte traces the intellectual, moral, and psychological development of a young woman…
Revenge is a significant part of being human and refers to the desire to inflict retribution or inflict harm and hurt on others for wrongs or injuries suffered at their hands. The theme of revenge is recurrent in many literary or artistic works and is mainly associated with grief, hatred, and anger, hence used by…
Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 and influenced Nigeria’s literary renaissance in the 1960s. As the title suggests, Things Fall Apart is about the tragic downfall of a community and culture as an indigenous way of life crumbles from being assailed by foreign forces they do not understand and are unprepared for. The novel’s first…
Chinua Achebe’s Dead Men’s Path is a short story published in 1953. Like Achebe’s other novel, Things Fall Apart, Dead Men’s Path confronts the clash between indigenous communities and colonialism. Michael Obi and his wife, Nancy, are enthusiastic about his posting as the new headmaster of Ndume Central School, a local school known for cultural backwardness and lack of progress.…
A narrative point of view refers to what the narrator or character telling the story can see. Authors choose who is to tell the story by determining the point of view as the voice through which to tell a story. Events in a narrative can be told by characters involved in the narrative or from…