Heir apparent

In contemporary heterosexual relationships, a question that constantly plagues women is why are fuckbois the worst? Well, despite the fact that fuckboi is entirely a contemporary word, the fundamental concept of a fuckboi is congruous to Japanese Premodern literature because regardless of time and culture, there are always men constructing their sense of their masculinity around their belief in their unearned sense of entitlement and superiority that somehow sanctions their authority over the…

Alexander Pope once said, “To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves” (BrainyQuote). In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the novel’s primary antagonist, Heathcliff, spends the majority of his life being angry. Heathcliff, an orphan adopted by the Earnshaws, a family of the gentry class in British society, falls in love with their daughter, Catherine. Therefore, Catherine’s eventual decision to marry Edgar Linton because of his social status, instead of her childhood lover…

Ramiro Quezada Professor Buhanan Humanities 5 December 2017 Beyond Human Scale While The Fire of Rome (see fig. 1) denotes a clash of two elite forces, community and natural elements, the painting also serves as an introduction for Hubert’s redshifted career. Hubert received influence that drastically shifted his career when he resided in Rome from 1754 to 1766. In this time, Hubert developed a relationship with Panini and more importantly, Piranesi that consequently advanced Hubert’s…

Boudica: The Celtic Warrior Queen In society today, many women still feel the need to silence their opinions due to the historical pretense that women are not to speak out against others, particularly men. This stereotype helps show off the women that did speak out in a way that eventually benefited their own lives. The novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, showcases the personalities of the Bennet sisters and their journey to an ultimate goal, marriage. The two characters that stand out…

Throughout human civilization, few people have shaped the history of their country so much as Robert the Bruce of Scotland. From the time he became an adult until his death, he fought - both diplomatically and militarily - to maintain the independence of the Scottish people. As he himself famously said, “we fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life” (Innes, 2). Over the course of his nearly fifty-five years,…

able to raise bands of "minutemen", soldiers who pledged to be ready for battle on short notice, and his boycott of tea imported by the British East India Company eventually led to the Boston Tea Party. In April 1775 as the British intent became apparent, Hancock and Samuel Adams slipped away from Boston to elude capture, staying in the Hancock-Clarke House in Lexington, Massachusetts (which can still be seen to this day). There Paul Revere supposedly roused them about midnight before the…

Introduction Set in the English countryside in a county roughly thirty miles from London, the novel opens with the Bennet family in Longbourn and their five unmarried daughters, but the Novel centres on Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter of the five daughters of Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet is desperate to see them married as she was their mother. The family itself is not as rich as those they interact with because they have no son, five daughters. Mrs. Bennet, she is concerned with finding…

public school certainly takes its toll on young adults in America. Despite what most people believe, the intense pressure schools put on students doesn’t just start in college. “The nervous breakdowns, panic attacks, burnouts, and depression are also apparent in many younger students” (Kaur). In schools, students feel a range of academic pressure from both parents and teachers. Whether they strive to get that A+ or can barely make a C-, students can feel the pressure to strive for perfection on…

the Onin War was over, like so many wars before, who shall succeed Yoshimasa, his brother Yoshimi (1439 - 1491) and his son Yoshihisa (1465 - 1489), each with different Shogo and noble clans supporting them. The two leading families fighting over the heir were the Yamana who supported Yoshimi, and the Hosokawa who threw support with Yoshihisa. What caused this dispute to spiral into the destruction of the city was the other Shugo and whom they allied with. The Shugo of this period all held…

Bunch, Justin Hist. 121 Fall 2014 Prof Zarinebaf Cultural Transference via Mongol Means In the early 13th century many settled civilizations from Europe to Asia were shaken and sundered by a group of people who were previously unheard of. A group of people not unlike the nomad tribes of the Middle East led by the Prophet Muhammad, a group of people not unlike the Saxons and later Vikings of continental Europe who brought about the destruction of the Roman Empire many years prior. For like…