Goodbye Earl

positions of power. Despite his intellect, Edmund, appears quite blind to his potential; Edmund had many opportunities for the time, he was able to grow up as a noble man, and had a good career ahead of him. While he would not have been able to become the Earl of Gloucester, he would have been better off than a large portion of the population. All of…

Earl of Spencer’s Eulogy for Diana: A Different Approach Six days after the untimely death of Diana, Princess of Wales the Earl of Spencer delivered a heartfelt eulogy to pay tribute to his sister. A eulogy can be defined as speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died (Eulogy, n.d.). The Earl used this eulogy not only to praise his deceased sister’s attributes but to call out those whom he felt had victimized his sister through her…

A short bittersweet life. A difficult lovelorn life. A misunderstood talent in life. John Keats did not have a perfect life. His short life contained abundant misery until he died. From the death of his parents, leaving his career of an apothecary-surgeon in order to pursue poetry, to caring for his dying brother, and falling in love. When he caught tuberculosis in July of 1820 many of the sonnets he wrote contained his recognition of mortality. The sonnet “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” tells the…

King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray supposedly. James Earl Ray was a petty thief that had an arrest record stemming from 1949 until 1968. James Earl Ray was sentenced to the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1960 to serve a twenty year sentence. He had a rap sheet for petty crimes but was he capable of murdering someone? James escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967 and was on the loose for over eleven months. The story was told that James Earl Ray traveled to Memphis, TN on…

I decided to tell her goodbye and before I left I quickly made her a small bowl of her favorite soup, and packed my stuff and headed out the door. Although we lived in the luxury rich part of london there were dead bodies everywhere. Everybody just got used to walking down the…

The Elgin Marbles are part of one of the longest cultural rows in Europe. They are comprised of sculptures, inscriptions and architectural features. Lord Elgin who was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (which Athens was a part of) acquired the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens between 1801 and 1805. The Greeks have demanded that they be returned to their homeland and displayed in Athens. The Greek government claims that the Elgin marbles were taken illegally during the country's Turkish…

Hamlet William Shakespeare is known for pieces of brilliant writing. Shakespeare's works, including 37 plays and 154 sonnets are world renown. Many question the authorship of these works. In Shakespeare: Beyond Doubt, “William Shakespeare of Stratford could not possibly have written the plays and poems ascribed to him, for a number of reasons. One was that he apparently did not have an education and experience necessary for their composition, having never attended university, and never…

ONE morning in the mid year of 1999, 47 individuals were captured in the Texas Panhandle town of Tulia and accused of managing cocaine. From the begin, the arraignments ought to have seemed suspicious. The majority of those captured were dark; in truth they spoke to one in each five dark grown-ups in Tulia. Is it safe to say that it was truly dependable that such a noteworthy extent of a little group were merchants? What's more, who were they managing to? They were blamed for managing in…

To Be or Not to Be: Is Shakespeare the True Author? Before this project, I had always thought that Shakespeare was a real person, and the true author of all the works under the name. I only learned for the first time this year that there is even speculation that Shakespeare is not the true author. I was honestly really surprised because Shakespeare is such a well - known author. Going into this project, I had no idea which side I was on, mostly because I knew nothing about the Anti-…

Phonies, or a fake people are those with multiple identities. These people act different in public and private, or in different groups of people. Phonies have been criticized in literature for hundreds of years, but one of the most notable times, and possible the first time it was criticized was in Shakespeare's Othello. Shakespeare uses characters in Othello, such as Iago, Othello and Desdemona, to show how the worst of people usually have an extreme difference in their identities, while the…