First Things First

Some say it is hard to find your true self. That one can only find sanity after they have gone insane. In Shakespeare’s King Lear many of the characters, Lear included, find they fall into insanity due to circumstances that were unkind and unfortunate. The only way for Lear to realize who he truly was, was for him to enter a state of insanity, and emerge from it with knowledge of self. Through this new found sanity he sees truth in the world. Madness is a state being mentally ill, especially…

Graham Baker’s adaptation of Beowulf: the unheroic hero. The epic poem, Beowulf, has been the source of inspiration to an incredible amount of artistic pieces: films, novels, songs, comic books, video games and operas. Due to the nature of the poem, every adaptation that has ever been made is different from the other, but most of them respect the epic hero prototype. Even though Baker fills the gaps of indeterminacy in a weird and twisted way, what the film brings up as interesting is that his…

maturity, a refreshing humour which makes the operatic main plot seem absurdly unreal." It is clear that Beatrice and Benedick are in love from the first we see of them; it is not simply through the Prince's intervention that the seeds of love are sown between them. When Beatrice is informed that Don Pedro and his party are coming to Messina, her first thought is for her 'Senior Mountanto'. Within four spoken lines of his arrival Benedick is quarrelling with his 'Lady Disdain'. From the very…

All three researches come to show that bilingualism is a good thing and denies all negative implications previously tied to it. They oppose the view that we will be confused by continuous contact with more than one language and that we will be harmed and cause delays in development. All the studies up to now reveal…

In Obasan, Joy Kogawa highlights the emotional trauma that came with the decision by the Canadian government under Prime Minister Mackenzie King to intern immigrants of Japanese ancestry, even if they held Canadian citizenship. Kogawa is able to convey her points with the usage of flashbacks to the period between 1941 and 1949, when the interment took place while the main setting of the story takes place in 1972. Therefore, the fact that the main storyline takes place in 1972 and the book’s 1981…

put this more into perspective, we only need to look as far as the texts that I have been analysing in school of late – William Shakespeare’s dramatic play, ‘King Henry IV, Part 1’ and the RSC’s play within a play production. In the play’s very first scene, the audience are introduced to King Henry speaking about how his son, the next in line, is “riot[ous] and dishonor[able]”. Particularly, in comparison to his glorified namesake, Harry Percy, he is no good. At this point…

While we do have these characters in The Crucible and 12 Angry Men we also have one character in each play arguing for justice, to stop the execution of innocent people. In 12 Angry Men, we have Juror #8 who changes the other jurors minds slowly, the first change of voting happens when the foreman tallies the votes from the second vote. He says “ Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty. Please. Six guilty. Guilty, Guilty, Guilty. Not guilty. Guilty.” (Rose 26) Juror #8 was able to…

Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian leadership is a biography by R. David Edmunds. It is about Tecumseh, and his life as a Shawnee warrior. Tecumseh was born in Old Piqua, and in his younger years he joined Mohawk chief Joseph Brant. He joined him because Tecumseh was against whites settling in the United States. Tecumseh was five feet and ten inches which was slightly taller than average. He was also very muscular, and overall a nearly perfect image of a warrior. Another great skill he had was he…

restraints. I on the other hand believe that there is no such thing as normal. I will be discussing the effects that dominant groups, cultural and gender norms have on the term “normal”. Dominant groups are those of the majority, and they hold a higher social status, power and privileges; than those of subordinate groups. The dominant group in the United States are those who are men, Caucasian, middle-upper class, from the United States or first world country, of European descent, heterosexual,…

A significant proportion of the world devoted to research based in bilingual people. In the few past decade’s childrens in the world exposed to multiple languages. These people have to communicate and proceed using different system than monolingual speakers. Some previous studies have been reported same advantages and disadvantages on bilingualism. Therefore some advantages for example are, the creativity and the quicker solving mathematical problem for some researchers. Also being bilingual…