Coronation

There are many things that are socially constructed in today’s society nation-wide because of the influence of the Western ideas. One of that being the idea of how an individual’s weight can define whether they are “fat” or “overweight”. Both of these correlating with the idea of not being healthy and that they may be obese. “Fat” and “overweight” is a scientific way to describe the mass weight of the individual, but has been commonly used negatively that now these terms are seen more as a…

Every now and then, people are faced with a problem in which they have to decide whether to do one thing or the other. Sometimes the answer is easy and simple, but there are other times when it is not as easy. In the stories of Gilgamesh, Rama, and Noah, every single one of these people had to make a tough call, maybe one that is harder to make than the other. They all had other choices and they could have easily followed any one of these choices but they did not. It was their duty, their…

Reality vs. Myth Sir Thomas Malory was influenced by the knights in his time to write Arthur becomes King. Sir Malory was born in Warwickshire, England, sometime around 1405. As a young man, Malory was a fairly wealthy landowner. He became a knight in 1442 and served in Parliament in 1445. He became involved in crime and allied himself politically with people and groups who opposed the royal government. He spent several years in prison for his crimes and political alle-giances while in prison…

There are theories such as: Sociological This theory is one of the main causes of crime and it focuses on the crime being committed because of the social pressure and society. Individual’s behaviour is learned and maintained with punishments or rewards for instance if a young individual is growing up in a bad environment and someone tells the individual to do something bad and then rewards him the individual thinks that it is right to do that. One of the enduring and influential attempts to…

The Spell of Ambition It could be argued that love and ambition are essential to achieve one's desires. However, how far can one go? In this essay I will analyze the role of ambition in the relationship between the two epic protagonists, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. Moreover, I will focus on the changes they go through, as a couple and individuals, as the drama progresses. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth shows his first signs of ambition after getting the witches' prophecy.…

her hard work of labour was worth it. “She got it from her old man,” Dunstan boasted while walking towards Salem to get a better look with arms crossed. “Dunstan!” Una responded. “Salem huh? I love it,” I agreed. It had been 10 months since my coronation of being the ruler of Stormhold and that whole witch crisis, Yvaine was getting nightmares of the witch cutting her flesh out and getting her heart, because the Witches wanted a Star’s heart and eat it to be…

At the end of the nineteenth century, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia reluctantly took command of an empire overflowing with revolutionaries seeking change in response to hardships. His shy personality, coupled with his lack of political education, made him unfit to handle the war-torn chaos that would soon darken Russian skies. Nicholas’ series of unfortunate, unprepared and uninformed decisions began with his marriage and would ultimately lead to the demise of his imperial family’s…

Nicholas Romanov II’s Failures as a Leader Introduction For over three hundred years, Russia was ruled by the Romanov dynasty. In 1917, that monarchy ended with Nicholas II, the last tsar. Nicholas II’s father, Tsar Alexander III died in 1894 when Nicholas II was only twenty-six years old. Nicholas inherited the role as supreme autocrat of Russia, which contained one sixth of the world’s land mass and over a hundred and thirty million people (Nilsen). When Nicholas II’s reign started, millions…

Although the historical record is scarce, there is no doubt the Magyars who inhabited the Carpathian basin in the 10th century bore little resemblance to Christians living in Western Europe. Rather, as Muslim, Byzantine, and Western chroniclers noted, they resembled some of the nomadic tribes who had previously pillaged Europe such as the Huns and Avars. Regino, Abbot of Prüm, wrote of the Magyars that, “They spend all their time on horseback; they travel, rest, think and talk on their horses;…

awake, he calls out for his sister, saying, “Ho, Nan, I say! Bet!” (Twain 82). He considers this a happy dream even though he is still a pauper in the dream, showing he’d rather be poor and with his family than rich and without. During the king’s coronation, Tom’s mother recognizes him as her son and runs up to him, kissing him crying, “Oh, my child, my darling!” (Twain 187). After seeing his mother hurt from him denying who she was Tom admits “his grandeurs were stricken clueless; they seemed…