In Shakespeare’s Henry V, Shakespeare gave Henry the role of a war hero while in history Henry was a great king. Shakespeare gives amazing qualities to his characters; he gave Henry, an ordinary king, the quality of a responsible leader. He also made the king deeply religious hero. With all the qualities given to Henry…
Craig Silvey’s critically acclaimed novel Jasper Jones could have been another cliché story about the budding relationship between Charlie and Eliza, but Silvey managed to tie romance, crime and coming of age all into one. It is a significant contributor to the engaging and relevant young adult fiction that is currently available. This novel deals…
It can be justified that the murder of Desdemona was her own fault, but there were also some other aspects like circumstances, vengeful malice of Iago, fate, free nature of Desdemona, lack of intermingling love between couple, Desdemona’s ambivalence tongue in depicting the character of Cassio, and Othello’s limited experience and inability in other…
‘Journey of the Magi’ (written in 1927, published in 1931 in the collection Ariel) is at the crossroad of Eliot’s poetic career that relents to a new direction of penitential poetry quietly searching for spiritual peace by confirming his renewal of faith in Anglican Christianity. Between the publication of Ash Wednesday and Ariel, a short…
In the time of the Spanish American war, a lot of things were going on that could influence or fuel public opinion to go to war the Spain, there was an exaggerated form of journalism called yellow journalism which helped shape American opinion in this era, and often the paper promoted exaggerated stories, this journalism…
Jeannette Walls, the author of the novel The Glass Castle, writes about how hard life can be with scarce money and negligent parents. She grows up in a poverty-stricken town, left to fend for herself. Walls uses the story of her childhood hardships to indicate that perseverance and hard work can lead to success. Jeannette…
Research question: How will increasing the voltage (v) to 5v, 10v, 20v, 35v, and then 50v affect the amount of current (Amps) measured by an ammeter, keeping the resistance (ohms) at 12 ohms and the wire length of 10cm constant, in a series circuit to prove ohms law? Background information on Ohm’s law: Ohms law…
Variables is a central idea in research, in simple, a variable is a concept that varies. A variable is something that can change, such as ‘gender’ and are typically the focus of a study. Variables are those simplified portions of the complex phenomena that a researcher intend to study. The word variable is derived from…
According to several linguists, there is a certain kind of relationship between sense, Language and non-linguistic world of experiences, and the way we, humans, deal with them in our language. We use language to categories the objectives and items around us by the help of language. Language and the objects of the world are interrelated,…
The poem deals with the theme suggested by Homer’s Odyssey. After the siege of Troy, Ulysses, the ablest and the Wisest of the Greek chieftains, passed through a long series of adventurous war for about a hundred years. Ulysses and his followers landed in a place apparently on the African coast. Alford Lord Tennyson, the…
International Drug Trafficking is rated in the top five of the most common crimes and top three for the serious impact it has on people and the economy positively and negatively. The sources that have used have been peer reviewed and each of them explain the different kind of impact International Drug Trafficking offers not…
Ron Rash’s novel, Above the Waterfall, uses the beauty of nature and poetry to make the reader feel connected with each character. Love, romance, past traumatic experiences, and the hard truth about methamphetamine addiction are all critical elements within the story. Rash who was born in Chester, South Carolina and raised in Boiling Springs, North…
In the novel Lord of the Flies, the author uses many objects as symbols to illustrate themes. One of these objects is Piggy’s glasses. The glasses play an important role throughout the story as they demonstrate themes that are vital to it. The glasses represent intelligence and hope as well as help to foreshadow key…
This is a laboratory report which examines the oxidation of Magnesium and its percent yield. It is a very common lab report assignment for high school students across North America and the UK. The report will look to understand the percent yield of Magnesium Oxide (MgO) after heating varying amounts of Magnesium via a conventional…
Marriage for personal gains In the Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio states that he has “come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua.” (Act 1 Scene 2, lines 62-73) Petruchio married Katherina just because she was from a wealthy family. He doesn’t care if she’s ugly or mean-spirited, he just…
In Joseph Conrad’s gripping novella Heart of Darkness, the author takes the time to break down the detail and the structure in which the main character, Marlow, is telling his story. Conrad digs far deeper than the surface to show both the literal events of the story and the symbolic meaning of these events along…
Just weeks ago on September 28th, Japan’s governmental health and science ministries officially drafted national guidelines on human gene-editing and manipulation experiments, particularly within embryos (Cyranoski, 2018). Before then, Japan’s stance on genetic experiments had remained neutral. Now it is joining an increasing list of countries who support this genetic innovation. One of the…
“Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks” (Lee 259). In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, many of the characters are subjected to cruel and unfair discrimination. Harper Lee was 89 years old when she passed away in 2016, and in her lifetime only published one other novel besides To Kill…
Stearic acid is known as Octadecanoic acid, one of the common long-chain fatty acids being a very useful saturated fatty acid present as a combined form and a major component in products such as cocoa and shea butter, and various plant and animal fats. Having 18-carbon as its backbone, the chemical formula of stearic acid…
Background Info After World War II, in September 1945, Japan suffered major loss to the country’s economy and population including nearly 3 million war dead and the loss of a quarter of the national wealth. It was a miracle that Japan was able to rapidly stabilize financially to the point where they became the second…
