Interjections

The population of Elizabethan England experienced an unprecedented increase in social mobility during the period in which Shakespeare composed his plays. Twelfth Night reflects this fluidity between classes as Shakespeare reduces knights to fools and elevates supposed servants to the status of worthy suitors. In Act 3, Scene 1, Shakespeare inverts the social statuses of the Countess Olivia and the servant Cesario in order to explore the theme of deception. From the outset of the play,…

Termites inside houses are dreaded by the people living there. People often fear that their house will be taken over by millions of termites that can alter the infrastructure of the building no matter what the severity of what is done. The relentlessness of termites causes for altercations and can destroy the house. But termites do not grow strong on their own, they require a source, a victim, and help from other factors. Like termites, ISIS has come into Syria and Iraq and acted in ways that…

There was a lot of change that occurred throughout the period of the early twentieth century, bringing it hurtling into the modern era, and there were many poets who chose to interact with this change and the events that helped shaped such change and explore it through their work. We will look at 3 examples of poems that approach the new era of modernity in different ways, ranging from the modern and graphic subject of D.H. Lawrence’s Tortoise Shout, to the melancholic tone representing many…

Literary Meaning of Song 2:8-17 Verse 8. The passage begins with an interjection hinnē (Look!), an excited call by the young woman to the daughters of Jerusalem (as well as to her audience and readers) to focus on the present moment about the man whom she loves (and probably about to marry for the young man in this passage has not yet called her bride as he does in 4:8.9.10.11.12; 5:1. She invites the audience/readers to partner with her—to watch and listen with her as she awaits her beloved…

Immanuel Kant was arguably the greatest classical liberalist theorist, influencing the majority of works in the period of Enlightenment, most notably of those on epistemology, with a lasting effect on philosophies that came after his own. Kant’s idea for perpetual peace came in the form of an essay, titled ‘The Perpetual Peace’, detailing a prophetic discourse of eternal, universal peace that was investable and conceivable, before his time and subsequently after (Friedrich 1947, p.10). Kant’s…

Who we are as a person can be defined as our personality, but where do we attain our unique traits? How we were raised and our environment might be overseeing factors, but it’s also as simple as the order in which we were born. the use of the differing personalities of Biff and Happy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, defines the inevitable affects of the birth order theory. As the characters of the two brothers develop, the differences between birth orders are also…

Teamwork, one of the most important aspects of engineering, can often times be a struggle, due to contrasting ideas. When these personalities are feuding, progress is minimal, however, when each team member utilizes his or her personal traits to form a dependable, single unit, then a team’s performance will be far greater than that of what any individual can do. In my engineering team, great potential exist in each distinct skillset and every style of interaction has its pros and cons. Therefore…

In this stanza, Keats introduces The Beadsman, the minor and sympathetic characters of the story who is the well-wisher of Madeline and wants to see her happy after getting her true love. He is shown here as one of the frozen creatures on this bitter and cold night, with his frozen fingers and breath. He is unaware of his surrounding and also the freezing cold but he is determined to say his prayers to the “sweet Virgin” (9). Somewhere he represents himself the ideas of holiness, martyrdom and…

In Luis Alberto Urrea’s novel, “The Devil’s highway,” he uses a passage that describes the migrants’ digression towards death as they travel across the Yuma desert to create an uncomfortable, and sympathetic feeling from the audience. Throughout the book, Urrea uses imagery to describe the harsh conditions of the desert, and the high risk that comes along with attempting to cross it. The passage goes into detail about the unavoidable stages of hyperthermia and how each of these effects the body.…

Response Paper “The Debate Over Free Will” In chapter nine of the book Problems from Philosophy by James and Stuart Rachels, the authors discuss the debate over free will. The idea of humans having free will is the main argument in this chapter. The authors noted that the more we learn about the human behavior, the less likely it seems that we are free. Though different groups have the same meaning for free will, the goal of this chapter is to determine if we have free will or not. The…