Estates of the realm

English word, freoðuwebbe. While only used once in Beowulf in reference to Offa’s unnamed but “wicked” queen, the meaning is inherently clear after it is told that she was “adorned with gold to that young champion” and soon “use[d] well her life’s estate upon the royal throne.” Her being “adorned with gold” to Offa was a move to diminish the existing conflict through uniting the two sides by marriage, while mention of her life being “used well” indicates the positive result of the nuptial. The…

Obesity has become a serious problem in the last thirty years. When we think of obesity, we usually would just think of overweight people and our thought process would stop there. What most people don’t think about is what contributes to obesity. There is not just one cause, there are many, and they all coincide with each other. While people believe that it’s entirely the governments fault, others believe that it’s entirely our storefront’s fault. Some even believe that it isn’t even a public…

was a known daring individual and he considered that building inventories, expecting a value rise, and making benefits through that was useful for growth.During this period, Dhirubhai and his family used to remain in an one room flat at the Jaihind Estate in Bhuleshwar. Mumbai. In 1968, he moved to an up market condo at Altamount Road in South…

The French Queen 's Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe The French Queen 's Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe written by Erin A. Sadlack “attempts to broaden the understanding of women’s paths to power in the sixteenth century.” Sadlack’s a credibility stems from her PhD in Medieval and British Literature. She is a professor at the University of Maryland where she teaches courses in Medieval and…

Throughout human civilization, few people have shaped the history of their country so much as Robert the Bruce of Scotland. From the time he became an adult until his death, he fought - both diplomatically and militarily - to maintain the independence of the Scottish people. As he himself famously said, “we fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life” (Innes, 2). Over the course of his nearly fifty-five years,…

Johnson supports his argument that our understanding of meaning is debilitatingly limited without accounting for the embodied experience of the world by examining five ways that the body engages in it: biologically, ecologically, phenomenologically, socially and culturally. Positing that the body is actively intrinsic to all these areas of life, Johnson reveals through these levels of functioning the ways that it is ‘more than a lump of pulsating flesh” (275). As I made my own ‘conscious effort…

To compensate for his lack of exposure to romantic relationships, Sergey displays extremely dominating and pretentious behaviour in his interactions with Masha. Masha, aware that “Most of my former tastes and habits did not please him,” (Tolstoy, 11) practiced and refined skills just to appease Sergey’s haughty air. Instead of loving Masha for her soul and the person she was, Sergey pushes and pulls at her appearance, talents, and emotions. Masha describes Sergey as having “contempt” for her…

World History Honors WT Notebook Journal 1 Plato, a Greek philosopher and disciple of Socrates, wrote The Republic, which is a discussion between Socrates and Glaucon about the theory of forms and comparison of the cave to the Athenian democracy. The best republic, Plato advocated, is one in which Philosophers hold power and roles are defined by personality. Athenian democracy was a common hatred of both Plato and Socrates, their theory and belief of forms, their comparison of people in the…

the primitivistic, dark, bleak and violent environment of Wuthering Heights more than the bright, civilized and calm environment of Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff feels more comfortable in Wuthering Heights, and that is why despite acquiring both estates, he still prefers to live in Wuthering Heights, his natural inhabitance of primitivism. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte gives many references to violent and partially tamed dogs in the first chapters clearly, so that the readers can establish…

The (2006) movie Marie Antoinette depicts the lifestyle of the Queen of France and her ultimate fall through total disconnect from her subjects. This movie visually displays the decadent self-indulgence enjoyed by the French Monarchy at the expense of their people. One scene of Petit Trianon [Fig 12] demonstrates the Queen and her friends basking in a privileged idea of being “one with nature” as advocated by French Philosopher Rousseau. Most importantly is the scene showing class disconnections…