It Was Written

(20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who got an award from the Nobel which is “Prize for Literature” in 1928 (Wikipedia). According to nobleprize.org, her father’s Family is came from Østerdalen and they were one of the first settler in Grytdalen in the Sollien valley of the river Atna. Undset’s father, Ingvald Martin Undset, got his doctorate in 1881 and married Charlotte Gyth of Kallundborg also in 1881. One year later Sigrid Undset was born and she was the eldest child of…

At times, the viewer is able to see the world as Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, or the witches would by manipulating where the angle was shot from. If Wright were to reproduce each line and move from the play as it was written, the chance of an image-oriented, cinematic approach (Wright). He instead manipulated the events and the action to fit a more fast-paced, criminally involved thriller film by updating, eliminating, and bringing…

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi was very interesting. You could really tell that he had a deep fascination with chemistry. He relates what happens in his life to the chemical elements. Each chapter of the book is named after a chemical element in the periodic table and he relates all of his life. He doesn’t seem to be able to separate his work life and personal life. It’s almost like the more he came to understand the periodic table and how to work with the elements he would also understand…

can face when it is adapted from a written piece. Whilst some critics will defend that film adaptation tend to vary several aspects of the story, others, may object there are techniques, which help to recreate and maintain the plot alive within audiovisual frameworks. This essay will discuss some of the difficulties of adapting War Horse and the different methods that were used in the pursuance of telling the story visually. War Horse is a children’s novel written by the British author Michael…

history, in particular, we use playwrights, like william shakespeare, and pieces of history, sojourner truth, to help explain and show how the world worked. Whether it be something small like love, or something big like equality for all learning. Written pieces of literature, like playwrights, are important and need to be taught in schools. When we learn about history we learn about how we have progressed in the world. This has two different uses. To help use as a guide on not repeating…

world, there are practically no definite facts about his life. When he was born. Where he was born. When he died. All answers to these questions are merely guess work and speculation, and often contradict each other. For example, may have been born around 1200 BC, because this fits the time period of the Trojan war which is what his works are about. Many other scholars believe that he was actually born around 750 BC, because this was the time period that the Greek historian Herodotus believed…

Why was the Alcatraz Proclamation written? The Alcatraz Proclamation was written because the Native Americans wanted their land back.Alcatraz had many conditions that fitted the “standards” for Indian reservations. Also it suited for mostly a Indian reservation. They didn’t have running water,no health facilities in operation,animals or farm land. They wanted to reclaim their land back because white settlers took it away from the Indians.Alcatraz and California was Native land first.The…

“A Teen Take on Ed Tech” was an article written by Soraya Shockley. This article is about using technology in education. Like everything, this article has its strengths and weaknesses. I felt that the organization, the clarity of the main points, and the focus made this a strong article, even though I felt that the inconsistency of the vocabulary weakened the article, overall I feel that Shockley has a well-written article. In Soraya Shockley’s article teens discuss their point of view, and the…

villain of the book had a chance to kill them. 13 teenagers who embark on a journey to finish something that they never started, demonstrates that when friends are connected they can accomplish anything. This book is similar to the book, “Sleeper” written by Eric Walters. During the book, 7 kids set out on a journey to find out the truth about their grandfather. Each child is sent to a different part of the world to gather clues and to find out secrets that were being kept from them. In the last…

The Poem was written with the approach from the fictional novel of the split-personalities of ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. The allusion to ‘Jekyll’ and ‘Hyde’ provided a reference point and context to the Poem. The inspiration of the Poem originated from the British grime artist Santan Dave's ‘JKL + HYD' single. In the single, he unveils the vulgar past experiences of his ‘dirty life', where he ‘lost every single man inside' of his ‘life'. Nonetheless, the constant world of fear…