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underclass continues to multiply in inner-city neighborhoods (White 28). For one thing, Wilson notes, the reason for the w...

5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes...

is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

rocks carefully and diligently (University of California/Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology). While examining the rocks, Smith had ...

news item which it is likely that the vast majority of those in the audience will recognize. For example, recent news stories of c...

weak compared to the others and his struggle to retain orderliness proves difficult. Similarly, order and democracy within the hum...

is a spiritual reality, possessing an eternal life but a delicate constitution: it cannot be scrapped and recast as if it were a m...

verbal appearance and actual reality that Othello addresses throughout the play, wavering back and forth as a means by which to es...

abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...

In this case the termination was traceable solely to "corporate politics", politics revolving around conflicts over who would ulti...

is considered to be especially significant in regards to the documentation of American history and despite having been written in ...

of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...

will be. And, as a ruler he has obligations. Ophelia is likely not ignorant of such conditions considering she has grown up in a h...

forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

a wondrous season. In this poem Keats also brings sounds into play in a very powerful manner that speaks to us of nature and of...

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

to speak a plainer and more emphatic language. This, then, is at the heart of the divide between humanists, such as Wordsworth, a...

the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...

Clearly, this excerpt from The Prelude, reveals Wordworths quest for self-exploration. This is the story of a journey - not just ...

the aftermath of the actual attacks. The men, women, and children on the planes who had to die with such knowing horror of their ...

enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...