Honour

Shakespeare’s Tragedy Macbeth creates a story that expands on the ideas of Aristotle’s belief of a tragic hero. As Aristotle states, a tragic hero is someone who doesn’t truly become a hero without having flaws that often result in their death or their painful awakening to their character’s mistakes. Shakespeare’s Macbeth introduces Macbeth as the main character as well as the tragic hero during the playwrights acts. Throughout the play, the main character Macbeth undergoes multiple phases of…

assumes this facade as reality and strays from the proper path to being the next in line heir to the throne which can be seen through his abuse of power and authority on others with little or none, thus contradicting his mentality in restoring his honour. Therefore the manipulation of the views of Hal by Shakespeare contradicts the mentality from the beginning of the play as he assumes the…

During my trip to Ohio, I was also able to view a dress rehearsal of Handel’s Messiah performed by Heidelburg College choir in Tiffin, Ohio. This has always been one of my favorite musical pieces to see performed. I enjoy both instrumental and vocal performances, specifically pieces with a cappela. Heiedleberg college is a Christian institution which only adds to the dynamics of the piece. The conductor began performance by indicating the original performance date of April 1742 in Dublin,…

Life for the Japanese Americans became very hard following Executive Order No. 9066. Once the war ended, the Japanese returned to their homes and faced housing, employment, and racial discriminations. Overnight, the life of the Japanese Americans changed significantly when over one hundred and ten thousand people had to leave their homes and move to detention camps. The reasoning behind them having to go to detention camps was because of racial prejudice and war hysteria. After living in…

In terms of maintaining order and conformity, Calvin specifies the crimes and faults that are to be avoided by authority figures and members of the congregation as a key feature of his ordinances. It is clear that Calvin holds high standards as to the way in which a Christian is to conduct his or herself both publicly and privately. Calvin associates certain wrong doings with different suiting punishments. Calvin identifies many offenses but the most striking include blasphemies, contradiction…

Even as a child, I wanted to make a difference in the world by improving the lives of others around me. This ideology motivated me to push myself to do better. In school, I strived to be an excellent student. For the last four years, I maintained honour roll as well as receiving subject proficiency in various courses. I finished my grade twelve year with a 95.7 percent average.…

“The Clerk’s Prologue and Tale” is story about a king named Walter who pushes his wife’s loyalty and tests her with a series of terrible wishes. It is through Walter’s actions that the reader is able to examine sovereignty within the marriage of the king and his wife, Griselda. Sovereignty is the state in of having supreme authority over something or someone. A power that Walter has over defenseless Griselda. Griselda “if one should speak… fostered in dire poverty was she, no lust luxurious in…

the United States of America. Gilead uses the Bible to justify a misogynistic, hierarchical and racist society. Offred, the narrator, is a woman forced to become the “Handmaid” of a Gileadean Commander, Fred. Handmaids are supposedly a position of honour for fertile women; in reality, they are sex slaves, allowing only the leaders of Gilead to reproduce. In the novel, education is limited to the elite. Women and minorities are forbidden from writing and text is scarce. The deprivation of…

Reactionary terrorists involved in activities known as white terror were like opposing attacks towards the activities of the revolutionary terrorists. The collective efforts to oppose the French Revolution in 1795 was considered counter-revolutionary in nature. The First White Terror was primarily one of the first attacks demonstrating reactionary terrorism. This attack was lodged by a majority of people whose relatives had been victims of the Great Terror or those whose lives were threatened by…

rising action, three spirits one at a time show Scrooge his past, present, and future Christmases. It is not until the third spirit shows Scrooge his future, when he realizes that he must change his way of life, for as he tells the last spirit,“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the…