Catherine Linton

Niccolo Machiavelli influences rulers and leaders throughout history such as Otto Von Bismarck, King Henry VIII, and Adolf Hitler. In Machiavelli's book The Prince he gives political advice on how to ruler and govern their land and to gain power. He says it's better to be cruel than merciful and that it's better to be stingy than generous. Bismarck, Henry VIII, and Hitler follow his advice on how to be a good ruler. Niccolo Machiavelli was a diplomat and writer who was born on May 3, 1469 and…

27 million…27 million! people were helped in 2015, and 30 thousand annually! This is not luck the salvation army has reached out to all corners of the world, from Iowa to Taiwan and everything in between. Before you donate to any other charity consider this. The salvation army has a very wide variety of different causes you can put your money to, and the salvation army is not hard to find. Which means no matter where you are at there is a good chance you can hear someone ringing a bell this…

Queen Elizabeth I Imagine if as a child, your birth was the most disappointing thing of your father’s life, your mother got executed and you had to live with your stepmother and her husband. This all happened to Queen Elizabeth I in her life and a lot more. She grew up in a very difficult family and she ended up living with her stepmother after her father and mother died. Her father wanted a son instead of a daughter so she was a huge dissapointment. Queen Elizabeth I shows her importance in her…

don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!” (Bronte 59). This means that Heathcliff desires to exact revenge on Hindley for abusing him. These vengeful feelings intercedes with his adulation for Catherine Earnshaw. Revenge eventually utterly consumes Heathcliff’s life. At the end of the novel, Heathcliff’s vindictiveness has finally caught up to him, and he is enervated. “It is a poor conclusion, is it not… An absurd termination to my violent…

Baited and Lured Aristophanes said, “Hunger knows no friend but its feeder” (BrainyQuote). In “Saint Marie (1934): Marie Lazarre,” from the novel Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, begins with Marie Lazarre following the Nuns up the hill to the Sacred Heart Convent where she will become a protégé, not for the intentions of salvation, but to prevent Sister Leopolda from getting into heaven. In this story brimmed with layers of irony, Erdrich uses fishing and baiting imagery to demonstrate the…

Do you agree with the view expressed in source three that the diplomatic situation was the main reason for Henry’s failure to obtain an annulment of his marriage to Catherine by 1529? It is obvious that there is more than one reason behind Henry’s failure to obtain an annulment of his marriage to Catherine by 1529. It is however possible to identify that the diplomatic situation did not help his case in getting an annulment and was most certainly a hindrance. The diplomatic status was of great…

Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy – Once King Henry VIII went forward with his marriage to Anne Boleyn and declared his previous marriage to Catherine of Aragon as annulled in spite of Pope Clement VII’s refusal to allow such an act, Henry VIII was excommunicated. The Act of Supremacy is Henry VIII’s response that was drafted a year after his excommunication in 1534. Parliament passed the act and thereby stated that the King of England is the “sovereign lord” over England and all in its domain,…

Hamlet is a revenge tragedy play written by Williams Shakespeare. The play is all about revenge; many characters are seeking revenge of other characters with different reason and motives. In every revenge tragedy, there should be a ghost that asks for revenge. The three major themes that most of the characters are involved in are revenge, madness and spying. The three themes are related to each other, while revenge was the reason behind madness and madness was the reason behind spying. To make…

One’s cravings for love can cause them to act out of their character and perform rash and violent acts. The loss of a true love can drive a person mad, leave them empty, and even make them go to violent ends to ease the pain they feel. Toni Morrison explores these concepts in her novel, Song of Solomon. Through the actions of her characters, Morrison analyzes the extremes that a person will go to when they have experienced a deficit of love and affection. Morrison personifies this concept in…

Jane Eyre by charlotte Bronte corresponds to the literary genre called Bildungsroman. It relates to the educative events of the journey life takes from childhood to adulthood. The passage studied in this essay is also classed as Gothic genre which features supernatural element like the voice of Mr Rochester Jane recalls clearly hearing out of an unlikely place. In this novel we see Jane growing up in adversary environments passing through a lot of obstacles which she must surmount to survive.…