English monarchs

Everyone has faced situations where we don´t know how to act and respond, so we stop, take a deep breath and start thinking “What would Super-someone have done in my situation?” Nearly every one of us has had someone we look up to, it can be a friend, a family member or someone famous, and these figures are important as their actions inspire us and it has a great impact in our lives. For me is no exception as I have also faced this situations, and I will share who is that person I think about,…

three main reasons are for the goal to create a more dramatic style of writing to make it more exciting than what actually happened based on the sources, to creating a more complex characterization of Macbeth; and to please the beliefs of reigning monarch, King James the First. And, Shakespeare's alterations work to convey the emotion showed in many of his works, that there is a divine right of kings, and that to take over the throne is a crime against all of humanity. The play Macbeth is based…

Scotland, and Ireland written by Raphael Holinshed and originally published in 1577. Furthermore, Shakespeare’s ‘patrons were Queen Elizabeth and King James I’ (Brown: 1); King James I was especially relevant to the composition of Macbeth as ‘the new monarch it should be remembered was a descendant of Banquo’ (Brown: 21). Macbeth accounts the story of Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, a Scottish General of the King army who receives the prophecy of The Three Witches, the Weird Sisters, that he…

produce a male heir. The Pope refused this annulment so Henry responds with a series of laws that stole church land and money. He would then support the English Parliament by passing the Act of Supremacy which made Henry become head of the Anglicans. He would then be granted his annulment marrying his second wife Anne Boleyn. Another major English monarch named Elizabeth I would become Queen. She wanted to become involved with the kingdom. She made compromises that Catholics and Protestants…

The lesson called Home Grown Caterpillars is a lesson about the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly (life cycle process) while creating a three dimensional piece of art to express idea, experience, or story. The story associated with this lesson is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The art piece is a replica of the caterpillar during a butterfly’s life cycle made out of grass seed, soil, stockings, pipe cleaners, and googly eyes. This lesson would be considered an art enhanced lesson…

Shakespeare's Ideal Ruler What do William Shakespeare, an English playwright; Sun Tzu, a Chinese general; and Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian writer, have in common, despite all three being from different times and cultures? Their overlapping views of what makes an ideal ruler, of course. In their books The Art of War and The Prince, Sun Tzu and Machiavelli respectively both expand upon the traits of a model leader in great detail, but of the many qualities they list, there are three that…

In the fall of 1957, Edward Allassi sits near the window of his powder blue bedroom, resting from complete exhaustion. His foot rests by the curved, cabriole leg on a fauteuil chair - a piece from the Rococo period. Gazing down the long drive of his grand French villa, to the large cast iron entrance gates, with their art Deco detail Edward is engrossed in thoughts of his youth. He stares at the lamp posts decorated with lion’s heads, recalling the day the lion’s heads were installed. He…

language. Languages differ from each other, the most important way of reading and grammar. Learning a new language like a child at the beginning of learning to speak. According the essay “Literacy: A Lineage”, by Melanie Luken, who was a French and English major at the Ohio State University “Studying a foreign language can, at times, be just like learning how to read and write as a child”(135). This statement made me wonder is it possible to be adults and children have the same capacity to learn…

right, but instead north or south. This interested many scientists and brought about several studies. The most curious of which was done by showing one native English speaker and one native Guugu Yimithirr speaker a room facing south, and then showing them both a room across the hall that had the exact same layout but was facing north. The English speaker saw the rooms as identical, but the Guugu Yimithirr speaker saw the room as entirely different. Their languages made them see the same…

compulsory enrollment in armed forces which had once tore apart the nation of Canada back in 1917. The after math of was that the conscription crisis of 1944 in Canada, which was an unnecessary action that created bitter disputes between the French & English citizens, which reduced the war effort and also tested the Governments decision-making from preventing another civil disorder within the nation. Also the Conscripts weren’t needed overseas due the large amounts of active volunteers in the…