First Sergeant

In Ben Jonson’s life, he was a playwright, a poet, an actor, and a critic of literary works. Some of his stories are humours, a type of story that became common when his own works made it well known. In these humours, the characters each have two “humours” or key personality traits. Born in London, Ben Jonson’s family raised him a Protestant. He attended the children's school of St. Martin’s Lane. Before jonson was born, his father died and his mother remarried. Later in Jonson’s life, he…

The earlies writings concerning Christians and violence’s is from Augustus of Hippo from the fourth century C.E. that easys the notion of a just war on to humanity. I argue that the first crusade of Pope Urban II was not act out of character of Christianity and it was the currents events that are the cause for the first crusade, and the reason why the people of Christendom went on the crusade was for god not so much money. The motive for Pope Urban the Second for his call upon the faithful…

A great way to better understand audiences is to analyze the ways in which they are represented in the news. Throughout the semester, some “audience in the news” examples that were presented to COMM 3P18 can definitely be used to further understand both the theories of uses and gratifications and public opinion and audience citizenship. These theories can also be examined through analyzing a recent article from the guardian, titled “CBC’s racist comment sections spark debate on Canada’s…

A Writer’s Greatest Tool Shakespeare is the most commonly known playwright in our world today. By High School, every student in the United States has heard of and most likely read one of his plays. Shakespeare has become part of the culture in America, as well as most of the world and that is a wonderful and interesting thing. One man in the 16th century wrote plays about topics that are still interesting and in some ways still prevalent. Shakespeare worked on his writing, improving on every…

Residential schooling was an act of cultural genocide because people were not murdered, but the Indigenous culture was. Children who were forced to attend residential schools had their tongues stabbed if they spoke their native language. A residential school survivor says. “ I remember getting my tongue pulled out and pinched if I spoke my native tongue”. This was an act of cultural genocide because children were punished for speaking their native language, consequently, it was gradually removed…

pilgrims began spreading throughout Europe, even though there has been evidence that these stories were marketing, they enraged the Christians and affected the public opinion of the Turks throughout the community. In 1095 Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade to regain the Holy Land. He did this during his most famous speech at the Council of Clermont he encouraged Christians to take up the cross and fight for a cause that would not only get them rewarded spiritually but also materially. In…

The best case of a perfect despot was a Roman citizen called Cincinnatus. Amid an extreme military crisis, the Roman Senate called Cincinnatus from his farm to fill in as leader and to lead the Roman armed force. At the point when Cincinnatus ventured down from the dictatorship and came back to his farm just 15 days after he effectively vanquished Rome's foes, the republican leaders continued to control Rome. Concerning the law and citizenship, the Romans adopted an interesting strategy to the…

In many ways, Macbeth's ambitions to gain power and also to keep power tested him mentally and physically. One could buy into the notion that Macbeth failed most of the tests that he faced. The first test starts to develop when the witches approach Macbeth. The second witch says, ‘All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor’ (p.36) and the third witch proclaims, ‘All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter’ (p.36). The predictions from…

William Shakespeare is regarded as one of the most influential and most important writers to ever have lived (Delahoyde). 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…

residential schools. The Schools made many dehumanized actions towards aboriginal people that acts were extremely painful to many of the Canadian First Nations. The inhumane treatment demonstrated in the CBC news, “For Residential School Survivors, the Hurt Comes Back”, causes me to reflect on the inhuman actions of the Canadian government towards the First Nation children. The acts of abominable abuse that children…