Chameleon

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a celebrated revenge tragedy which reflects the values and ideas of Renaissance Humanist era. The play depicts complexity through its interactions with themes such as revenge, verisimilitude, and madness. Also, the play’s structure, form, language, content are integrated together in order to create a text speaks in different ways. The play touches on the elaborate and every chasing forms of the human condition. Questioning basic human nature about life, death and…

From films about childhood dreams, to wizards, to evil spirits, the fantasy genre has taken audiences into worlds they never could have imagined. Fantasy genre films use creativity, magic, and unrealistic circumstances to take one’s mind beyond its limits. “Fantasy is a fluid genre that allows crossover with horror, science fiction, comedy, holiday films, and more” (Goodyknootz & Jacobs, 2014). The feature-length film “Big” starring Tom Hanks is a textbook example of a fantasy genre film. While…

Begin”, which is all about the things she does while in the tower, in the movie only reinforces the stereotype. Another way of promoting heteronormativity, is by having both Rapunzel’s and Flynn’s sidekicks not be human. Rapunzel’s sidekick is a chameleon, and Flynn’s sidekick is a horse. This makes it so there can be no insinuation to same-sex relationships between the characters. An additional way is by having the only couples that are seen in the movie be in a heterosexual relationship. The…

establishment for her to run, which was tantamount to an anointment as the true successor of President Barack Obama. However, there were those of us who felt that Clinton represented the past, the politics of triangulation, and the character of a chameleon -- someone who would say whatever to achieve her poorly masked goal of sitting in the Oval Office as President of the United States. The DNC shared this goal of seeing Mrs. Clinton in the Oval Office, which is now evident from the Wikileaks…

Broken Thumb I was outside on a nice spring day with my dad and brother my, Kevin. It was about 9:00 in the year 2010. We were all in our backyard having a catch before my baseball game which was in the afternoon. When I went deep for a pass Kevin was defending me. While jumping up for the football, my thumb got stabbed by the point of the ball. I luckily caught it but my thumb started to ache in pain but, I didn’t think anything of it. After our catch my mom drove me to the game, she was also…

Being allowed to adopt pets at a young age was not to claim that I was responsible but rather spoiled. My first month caring for another living being was the most enriching experience in my life. I was taught values that my seven-year-old brain struggled to understand. Pets are difficult to care for, so most would assume that we begged for this privilege. In reality, my mother was the animal-lover who heard about a local hamster breeder. I wish someone guided us inexperienced hamster owners…

reptile…...in addition in honor of this dragons great power I create smaller serpents called snakes and a special kind of snake I will name it the python” there was a great light and the new creatures scattered across the earth snakes, lizards ,chameleons, alligators and even more. The souls of the gods that had been devoured scattered across the land infusing amongst every creature that had been created. Evil Virtue and Bravery also wanting to be with their fellow gods, their family spread…

Considering the recent presidential election, the idea of changing one’s hair to fit the paradigms of society coincides with Muslim women’s struggle with wearing their hijabs in the modern world. Similar to Harris-Perry’s idea that stereotyping makes black women conform to the “crooked room,” the fear of being shipped away has women, Muslim Americans questioning whether they should continue wearing their hijabs. Both, the black women in Harris-Perry’s book and Islamic women are perpetually in a…

Homer once stated “what he greatly thought, he nobly dared”. These words eloquently written in Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, capture how Odysseus’ personality traits and attributes positively affect the hero status he has earned. His courage, wisdom, and intelligence drive his quest to return home to be reunited with his wife Penelope, and son Telemachus. Over the span of twenty years, Odysseus, pushed to the limits physically through battle, uses his will and perseverance to come out a hero.…

I’ve always loved reading, and throughout elementary school I would read obsessively. I made sure to read any chance I got. I’d read on the subway on the way from school and back, in class during free time, while walking down the street with my book in one hand and my father’s fingers in the other, and at home before bed. My favorite books (which I still have copies of in my bookcase) were The Trumpet of the Swan, Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Witches…