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researchers, we still know little to nothing about Shakespeare’s personal life. However, nearly all of his writings have been kept intact and luckily we have them to study and analyse. (Document 2) It is believed that he attended King Edward VI Grammar School, where he learned the Latin language and grammar. (Document 5) He wrote in all genres and they all portrayed his creativity and intelligence. Logically speaking, Shakespeare had to have been an extremely intelligent man to have produced…

deals with the idea of conscience and moral contemplation, spurred by the Christian notions of sin. Hamlet is hesitant to enact any kind of revenge on his uncle because of his conscience. He is unsure if revenge is truly a moral form of justice. At first, he is severely afflicted by his father’s instructions to punish Claudius. He knows that revenge defies his beliefs as a Christian; however, he also feels a deep obligation to perform the duty bestowed upon him (Lawlor…

Fate and Free Will Life is like a game of cards. The hand one is dealt is determinism; the way one plays it is free will. In William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Macbeth is told he will be king one day. He then has to decide if he has to make his own fate by killing the king, or let nature take its course. It is Macbeth’s own free will to kill the king, showing that fate could be permitted but it’s one’s free will on how it shall be reached. The problem of fate and free will is also seen in…

Thomas King's The Inconvenient Indian provides a harrowing and sarcastic but ultimately very real, look at the history of Indigenous peoples in North America from the time of first contact to the present. King details the relationship between non-Indigenous peoples and Indigneous peoples, establishing a subversion of history in which this relationship has continuously exploited and dominated over Indigneous people. At times a deeply personal account on his own conflicted activism, and at other…

identity, cultural oppression, and colonized experience by the novel of M.G.Vassanji’s “In- Between the World of Vikram Lall”. In Canadian Literature. M.G.Vassanji’s characters are the representatives of the Canadians. In the novel, Vikram Lall is the first person narrator and his sister, are predominant characters. It is full of flashbacks, incidents in Kenya. Kenyans resorted to violence only after peaceful demands for moderate land reform were ignored. The “In-Betweenness’s” of the title is…

Canadian aboriginals have experienced an increase in racial discrimination as racial tensions have become amplified in Canada from the persisting effects of the relocation of the indigenous people in 1953. This paper will explore the lasting effects of forced relocation the indigenous people in regards to the Blauner Hypothesis and the deconstruction of the productive family unit. More then 40% of indigenous people are unemployed and experience much higher rates of suicide, alcoholism, and drug…

that in lieu of the great expenses, learning multiple languages does not “pay off” as multilingual people are reported to only earn 2% more than monolinguals (R. L. G., 2014). However, there are many more evidences that support learning languages. First of all, there are more and more means and applications being developed to help people learn languages at little to no cost, such as Duolingo and Rosetta. As for the seemingly marginal financial bonus, 2% might not seem much in $30,000 but for a…

The English poet from Stratford-upon-Avon has at least 37 plays attributed to his name, all highly esteemed by the international literature community. His plays, due to the amazing amount of mundane arguments he tackled, are commonly proposed by school teachers all over the world as reading material for young students, making them foundation for the education of millions all over the world. The writer was born just towards the end of the era now known as the Renaissance, in 1564. A time of…

With the increase of diversity in American schools, teachers feel unprepared and find it difficult to teach students of different cultural background in the classroom who are not English proficient. In order for these students to succeed, teachers need to understand the students’ background knowledge and cultural experience. Teachers can build from what the students are familiar with and slowly introducing them to the unknown making it easier for them to comprehend and process the meaning of the…

Shakespeare is considered as genius dramatist in the history of English literature. He is believed, by universal consent to be the greatest author of England and holds a central position in the Elizabethan drama. Shakespeare is believed to mostly self-school as because of his adverse circumstances. He mainly derived education from Nature and his own experiences. He is well known for his tragedies, which he wrote in his third period of dramatic career, from 1601 to 1609 like ‘Julius Ceasar’…