Chekhov Gymnasium

Deception Can Ruin You (An Analysis on Macbeth) “Actions speak louder than words and in the tragedy Macbeth, the actions of the central characters are screaming” (Drake). “Macbeth” is a tragic play produced by the well-known playwright William Shakespeare. This play began to spark multiple controversies over Shakespeare’s work. In 1606, this play was officially showed, and Shakespeare made some brave decisions regarding the scenes involved in the play. Although this is a well-known play, only few truly understand the true messages that are intervened inside of the play. Deception plays a huge part in this tragic play. “Macbeth” is written based on multiple events that take place and create obvious ways that deception is adapted. One main example of deception in “Macbeth” is when the characters drastically change into traitors. Not only were these men and women portraying traitor like qualities towards each other, but even to their country. “Yet despite his composed manner, Malcolm’s description of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is unflinchingly brutal” (Varney). Although it can be hard to tell who the traitors are now, especially at the beginning of the play, you can slowly witness them begin to take those steps towards acting as traitors. For example, the King states, “There’s no art To find the mind’s construction in the face” (Act 1, Scene 5). The king is implying that although some people may be incredibly quick to judge, we never truly know how a person is until their true…

Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov, directed by Rick Lombardo is the 2nd required performance for this semester and could not have been better. The Kennesaw State University production of Three Sisters was phenomenal and the undergraduate students who performed portrayed the Russian characters very well. I am usually not too impressed when it comes to plays performed by students but this production has me wanting to go to every Kennesaw State production. The women who played the three sisters;…

Meet Jozina Campbell. She’s a high achiever finishing her years in high school, and she joined the Gateway program for successful, college-bound African-American and Hispanic students. To Jozina, Gateway was an opportunity to seize—the first step onto the path that would take her to success. But it took up a lot of time from the things she enjoyed most, like her academics or her leadership roles in the community. The speakers at the program told Jozina everything she should do to get ready for…

Education For Everyone Education is something that everyone should be able to have. Knowledge is not something that should be for sale. Everyone should be able to have equal opportunity. This is why there should be no cost for receiving a college education. The general argument made by Carol Roth in the article “Free Community College Isn’t Free...and it’s a Bad Idea” is that saying that college will be free when it really won’t, and it will cause more problems and evidently not solve any…

The value of a college education has been scrutinized for years, in “Stop Scaring Students,” by Devorah Lieberman and “College Is a Waste of Time and Money,” by Caroline Bird, both authors give their detailed opinions on the value of college and give insight to both sides of the argument. College can be extremely rewarding for some students but they do not always take into consideration the hardships that occur in college, and in return tend to feel overwhelmed in debt and upset that they are…

Mississippi Literacy-Based Promotion Act The Mississippi Literacy-Based Promotion Act was passed during the 2013 legislative session. The Office of Elementary Education and Reading, a faction of the Mississippi Department of Education, is responsible for training K-3rd grade educators with research-based instructional strategies to help implement the Literacy-Based Promotion Act. The Mississippi Department of Education provides the purpose of the act: “The purpose of the Literacy-Based…

Over the decades, American culture’s opinion regarding secondary education has significantly altered. In the eyes of society, secondary education is not only encouraged, but necessary if one desires a successful and rewarding future. Secondary education is proven to be worthwhile regarding an individual’s prospective career, but the lessons that are learned outside of the syllabus are what makes an individual flourish in the real world. If students are considered more than wastebaskets for…

As immigration rates increase Hispanic and Latino students will continue to grow in population in today’s society, and “despite some progress over the past three decades, Hispanics continue to be underrepresented at all levels of higher education relative to their representation in the U.S. population” (Perna, Li, Walsh, Raible 146). The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) states that Hispanics “represented 14% of all high school graduates in 2004-2005, but received only 11% of…

Within universities and colleges all across America GPAs are at an all time high, grade averages are rising, and academic performance is at it 's peek; which we all possess the power to remedy. Few argue that this is a result of a smarter and more driven generation, but in all actuality it 's the direct result of grade inflation. Grade inflation is most commonly known as being awarded a higher grade for an assignment that would have received a lower grade in the past. Grade inflation is having a…

Education can be defined as the wise, hopeful and respectful cultivation of learning undertaken in the belief that all should have the chance to share in life (Smith 2015). Many individuals have various outlooks on what they think education really is. Often it is confused among the act of learning skills, schooling, ability to find work, and primary, secondary or university level education. “Students in the having mode must have but one aim; to hold onto what they have learned either by…