First Things First

itself. Shakespeare is good for teaching moral values. I will discuss three Shakespearean plays, in order to prove to what extent each play is morality play, or maybe not. The plays I would like to examine are: Richard III, Henry IV, and Julius Caesar. First of all I want to define the morality…

Christopher Marlowe born in 1564, he was an english playwright, poet, translator of the elizabethan era. He was born to shoemaker John Marlowe. He was just two months older to his contemporary William Shakespeare. He was educated at King’s school Canterbury and at the Cambridge University. He was the foremost elizabethan tragedian of his day. Christopher Marlowe, he was the greatest dramatist of the medieval period. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was based on German Faustbuch. Marlowe’s…

The beginning of the twentieth century contained many themes of racism, ignorance and devious politics in Canadian history. While many of these themes although may be routed in the British Empire, Canadian discrimination and injustice are of its own creation. Hugh Johnston’s The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar tells a tale of how Canadians closed the door to Asian immigration and manipulated a system to which foreigners were not meant to succeed. In May of…

Whenever Ariel tries to claim his freedom, Prospero answers with reminding his supernatural servant that he freed him and that Ariel now owes him, and so creating a guilt complex. However, the guilt complex is not the only thing that keeps their relationship together, as Prospero sometimes actually acts as a friendly, maybe even fatherly figure towards Ariel: ‘Ariel: Do you love me, master? No? Prospero: Dearly, my delicate Ariel’(ll. 4.1.47-48) Although the distribution of…

Whitehouse intern Monica Lewinsky for several years throughout their marriage. This powerful determination to succeed, is what lead Hillary to run in the American presidential election herself in 2016 which, if had she won, would have allowed her to be the first woman to be an American president. This same determination to succeed is what led Lady Macbeth to sacrifice her feminine traits in order to kill King Malcom in the line “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and…

Over the past year I have become more socially aware of missing people. I started off following Missing Manitobans, Bear Clan and Winnipeg Police. It was incredibly eye opening to see how many people were going missing and some of the common traits, Indigenous and Female. Almost every time a white individual would go missing the post would be shared by numerous members of my friends and family, but when the individual was Indigenous than fewer people would share it. I brought this up to several…

In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, William Shakespeare makes effective use of scenery to illustrate the recurring themes and motifs expressed throughout his play. The two biggest contrasts employed within this literary work are those of Athens and the forest. Athens, during the day, expresses the rationality and stability that is not seen elsewhere expressed throughout “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. On the other hand, the forest, especially at night, expresses the more mystical and magical side of…

As the number of homeless people in the country keeps growing, we wonder what is being done or what has been done to improve this social issue. For most people, when they hear the word homeless they imagine a person that sleeps on a sidewalk, under a tent, or under a bridge. We often fail to realize that the definition of homelessness goes beyond what we imagine. According to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a homeless person or family is someone who lacks a fixed regular residence…

While it is evident that the Indian Residential school crisis was dealt with accordingly, it took the Canadian government 162 years to close the last Residential school and no apologies or retributions were made until 2007. Between those years, thousands of survivors struggled to fit back into society and had no support system to help them cope. Victims were tired of being ignored and years of legal campaigns to force the government and churches to recognize the injustices of the system led to a…

20 things I learned in my first year as a mom! 1. The first meal after childbirth seems so delicious that tears come to your eyes. Even if it is a chicken soup dish with three toasted rye, it seems like your fried pork! 2. Each passing day it seems and easier. After more and more difficult .... Once again easy ... difficult ... and so on! 3. You buy wonderful handmade toys for baby, of course non-toxic materials and organic cotton dolls, but the baby will want to play only with your i phone…