Everyman

The Commedia used improvised dialogue and satire to relate to issues of the era and was a common form of theater for nearly two hundred years, paving the way for modern theater and satire performances. Much of everyday life in the Medieval Age centered around religion, since the Church was also the ruling entity and defined what would constitute proper social conformity. Because of its satire and comical performances, the Commedia appealed to all classes. It was also used to convey political…

The day I met Emmaline Kent will forever be engrained in my mind. If only I knew then what I know now things might be different. Maybe then I would have known not to fall for this seemingly vapid and spoiled girl. It’s funny to recall how much I hated her back then. Still, even without the knowledge that one day this girl would be my world I managed to memorize everything about that day. Flint had always been my home. I had never even step foot outside of it. I never wanted to either. I had…

Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell,” emphasizes the role that dreams play in the narrator’s life, by showing the strength that they lend to him while he suffers in hell. Brooks uses the themes of hunger and insecurity as well as the imagery of “bread” and “honey” to represent the vital, essential need for dreams. This traditional sonnet is included in the sonnet sequence, “Gay Chaps at the Bar,” that introduces the narrators as young soldiers recently…

This paper will examine the purpose of the state by looking at two-political thinkers John Locke and Karl Marx. The ideas of Locke’s theories are about the “good of the government” meaning that people need a government to rule over them and enforce laws that will be followed by everyone. However, this concept was not shared by Marx as he was aware of the injustice of the government, which is to only protect the (bourgeoisie) who are the capitalist and oppress the (proletarians) who are the…

Humans, animals, objects: any one of these topics, along with anything else that something might see, hear, or smell, suit a compare and contrast argument. Compare and contrasts identify how ideas, people, or things share likenesses and differences. In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, one of the main characters, Charles Darnay, attempts to escape his life as a French nobleman during the eighteenth century French Revolution. Darnay’s heritage as a French aristocrat puts his life, as well…

Henrik Ibsen’s, A Doll’s House, explores common situations that women faced in the Victorian Era. Ibsen wrote and established his play in the Victorian time of history, when women struggled against the world which viewed females as inferior to men and limited as to what they can do. Males were dominating and highly respected during this era. On the contrary, females were expected to put men on a pedestal and had no other option but to live up to societal expectations to men. Three female…

Taken In school, when my teacher had asked the class if anyone has a person that they idolize in their life because of something that they have done to that person or another person. I decided to ask my dad to come in and tell the story. The story about how I was taken. Taken away from everything, my friends, my family, my house, and almost my life. On May 24, 2008, my dad came to school with me. “Hello everyone, the person I chose to come in today is my father, Apollo. He is my idol. Not just…

a weekend or a less busy day and if you were to go to work say on a Friday morning there would be a lot of traffic, which would mean taking a longer time to reach work and, as some famous critics have put it. An example of deductive reasoning is: Everyman man is mortal and Jimmy in a man. Therefore Jimmy is mortal. This statement now follows a logical format and one can see the reasoning behind the statement. The use of reason varies between different WOKs as reason may be more important and…

There are criminals and peasants, artists and intellectuals, even former government officials and officers. In this, it becomes apparent that writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is not only writing about the Gulags, but also offering readers a way to experience different aspects of Stalin’s the Soviet Union through his telling of the prison camps. This paper will explore a few of these characters, including Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, Alyosha the Baptist, Fetiukov the scrounger, Captain Buinovsku, and…

The Tiananmen Massacre is not only one of the most influential events of all time but also one of the most censored. In April of 1989, over one hundred thousand students protested political reform in Beijing, China. As time went on, the protest grew exponentially as the students were joined by middle-class workers and peasants. By June, Tiananmen Square was flooded with millions of people; doctors, journalist, farmers, even soldiers were there. The only group not present were the political…