First Sergeant

from the Elizabethan era. This is due to the fact that the play touches on many topics that are still relevant today. For instance, one of the most prevalent themes in this is the idea of mental health and inner turmoil. This idea can be scene in the first Act in which Hamlet states how he wishes “ that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,/ Or that the Everlasting had not fixed/ His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!” (1.2.129-32) This line shows how Hamlet…

Like a piece of history, William Shakespeare maintains his significance through to the end of time. William Shakespeare is relevant in classrooms today and should not be taken out of the curriculum; ultimately, english students need to be aware of William Shakespeare's influence on the history of their language. Firstly, Shakespeare's plays have the ability to appeal to a wide range of people in any given environment. Samuel Johnson, an English writer, poet, essayist, and literary critic,…

Pope Urban II’s request against the Muslims in the Holy Land. The first Crusade reached its goal capturing the people of Jerusalem in 1099 and the Christians set up many Latin Christian states to regain control over their land. Justice as practitioners of faith, developments in secular Europe, and Papal encouragement to fight Muslims were three major factors behind the crusades. The first major factor talked about who caused the first blood that ignited the many years of warfare…

philosopher and inventor. His travels also took him to many locations that Shakespeare’s plays were set in. Because Bacon was so high up in social order, he wanted to conceal his identity because being a playwright could easily end a career in politics. The first notion made about Bacon writing Shakespeare’s plays was made by Delia Bacon. She said that they also needed to stay anonymous because they were “a little clique of disappointed and defeated politicians who undertook to organize a…

The narrators in Beth Cuthand’s “Four Songs for the Fifth Generation” both relate to cultural shock due to the great depressions that development that brought similar drastic changes in the 1930s. First Nation family moved to a town after receiving voting rights in the 1960s, which led to experiencing racism from non-natives. Canada has many emotional past history stories because of new cultural and identity that causes distress among the two narrators family moving away from their original…

Have the modern adaptations of ‘Taming of the Shrew’ and other works of Shakespeare proved that Shakespeare still has a place in modern society? Introduction William Shakespeare is well known man for his work such as Taming of The Shrew, and other plays. But does he still have place in the society after many years later? He certainly still does since many students are required to learn about his life and carrier. And his influence in the entertainment industry and the language and how people…

From 1095 to the end of the Middle Ages, the call to the Holy Land echoed across Europe as enthusiastic preachers lectured crowds upon wooden platforms, exercising all the tricks of the orator’s trade by coaxing, threatening, and promising in order to rouse up revenge upon there enemy. Preaching was the most effective way to reach the illiterate masses. Although the clergy and nobles of Europe were used to receiving letters begging aid for the Holy Land, for the most part the emotions and hopes…

Louis Riel is possibly the most significant and definitely the most controversial Metis leader throughout all of Canada’s history. He was a leader, a rebel, the father of Manitoba, a politician, a defender of the Metis people and their culture, and so much more. Louis Riel was a Metis man born on October 22, 1844 in the Red River Settlement, and died on November 16, 1885 in Regina. Throughout his complex life, Riel accomplished much, despite his failures, and never broke faith or loyalty to his…

proposed an emergency meeting regarding the issue of Aboriginal child welfare in an effort to to find strategies to merge Indigenous children back into Indigenous communities. The goal of the meeting is to unite stakeholders (such as Indigenous leaders- First Nations, Metis and Inuit) and child and family services agencies in order to create cohesive resolutions as a team. - The over-representation of Indigenous children within the child welfare system is due to the intergenerational remnants of…

I, like many before me, consider William Shakespeare to be the best playwright the human race has seen. Yes, there is a language barrier that needs to be overcome to fully appreciate the text. But if the time is taken to understand his work then even his most misogynistic plays can be related to and applied to the modern world. This can be directly applied to his work Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare wrote this play in the late 16th century in England, specifically some time between 1590 and…