Christopher Hitchens

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a play about love, or more specifically, the forcefulness of love in the lives of both Romeo and Juliet. Despite the fast and rushed nature of their relationship, the romantic connection and bond between them dominated every other aspect of their individual and collective lives. At first sight, the reciprocated intense passion they shared nurtured into a strong, overpowering, and even violent force that superseded all other emotions and values. As the play…

Columbus Day should be changed to Indigenous Culture’s Day because we should not celebrate a genocide of an entire culture. It does not matter how “great” and “influential” he was, he wiped out an entire people. In 1451, Christopher Columbus (known in Italy as Cristoforo Colombo) was born in Genoa, Italy. He was born in a nice middle class family, whose father was a wool weaver. He was a normal man, until he started voyaging to Africa and the “New World”. What most people don’t realize is…

Albert Huang Mr. Robbins Period 5 3/14/15 Strength of the idea In the conversation defining the all-time greatest director in the movie industry, several names, may never be absent. Among those that legend isn’t a powerful enough word to describe their merits, one name has appeared like the transit of Venus. It’s never as magnificent as the darkness of an eclipse, but has attracted countless followers with its distinctive glamour. It’s always close by the orbit of our lives, but yet so far away…

a) Briefly explain, with reference to TWO of the factors listed below, how there came together in Europe in the early 16th century both the motivation and the means to explore and colonize land across the seas. Religion conflicts arose between the Protestants and the Catholics. The Catholics of Spain and Portugal, along with the Protestants of England and Holland, acquired a desire to spread their versions of Christianity to other people as a result of religious rivalries. Religion also…

conflict of Batman. In the film, the Joker says, “I don’t want to kill you. What would I do without you? … No.. You… You… compete me... To them, you’re just a freak, like me.” It tells that Batman is the man who created a devil incarnate, the Joker. Christopher Nolan made the moral philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche that says “… and he who would be a creator in good and evil, he must first be a destroyer and shatter values. Thus the highest evil belongs to the highest good” as a key theme of the…

young child, I thought that the world was flat based on what I was taught about Christopher Columbus and his theory in school. I was so “conditioned” with the same routine on the daily basis with my homelife with my family and school with my peers to the point I did not think there was more to life on this earth. In other words, I did not think “outside of the box”. Later I learned that the world was not flat when Christopher Columbus discovered the new land but what he did to the Indigenous…

Chris McCandless, a.k.a. Alex Supertramp, was a man who decided to abandon the usual materialistic lifestyle to search for the actual meaning of life while roaming in the margins of society and in nature. In 1992, he met his end after living alone for months in the wilderness of Alaska. A few years later, Jon Krakauer decided to tell his story through the book Into the Wild, which was written based on interviews with family members and people who Chris met through his voyage, as well as on a…

Christopher Marlowe’s poem entitled “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” and Sir Walter Raleigh’s poem entitled “The Nymph’s reply to the Shepherd” both pertain to romance, however, they both differ greatly in their viewpoints regarding it. Marlowe portrays an idealized and fantasized viewpoint of romance through the Shepherd in his poem. On the other hand, Raleigh portrays a cynical and realistic viewpoint of romance through the Nymph in his poem. Through the use of the Shepherd and the Nymph,…

New World, what happened to the colony, and how did it have an impact on the future of Europe, the Americas, and Western Africa must be explored. Europe’s first official permanent colony was the island of Hispaniola, which Portuguese explorer Christopher Columbus accidentally…

In Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 And The Final Solution Christopher Browning systematically searches through historical records to trace the actions of the Nazi police Battalion 101. This battalion consisted of older, middle-aged men who joined the police battalion to avoid conscription and the frontline, by all means these men were normal and respectable however, during the Final Solution they were turned into hardened killers. Browning evaluates the factors that these men…