John Kenneth Galbraith

There are many iterations of the Hamlet story that have been filmed dating from 1907 up until the year 2009 yet only five of those many movies portray a good feeling and meaning for the“To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy. The five movies in mention are the Branagh, Gibson, Blockbuster, Olivier, and Doran’s versions. In the five movies the camera angle, actions of Hamlet, and the music do well at producing emotion in the viewer. But only one is superior to all. The Branagh version is the most…

Over the past few years, my interest in yoga has increased greatly since I discovered how useful it is to relieve stress and tension. As a former chronic stressor, yoga has taught me a lot about letting things go and how to really focus and tune into my body. It’s taught me to be in the moment as well as how to enjoy exercise without constantly having to push my body to fatigue and exhaustion. More recently, I’ve heard of a new form of yoga called aerial yoga which allows one to perform poses…

Mamie Phipps Clark, the woman who gave birth to the “doll test”, was born on April 18, 1917 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Mamie attended a segregated public elementary and also segregated, Langston High School. In 1934, she graduated high school. Despite the low opportunities for black students pursuing a higher education, she won scholarships to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Howard University in Washington DC. At Howard University, she earned her B.A and Masters in Psychology. Mamie…

The Hidden Deceit in Darkness In Shakespeare's Macbeth, ambition and greed highlight a person's drive to corruption and downfall. In the play, three scheming witches tell the main character, Macbeth, his prophecies of becoming thane of Cawdor, and, later king of Scotland. The witches’ ambiguous prophecies give Macbeth the confidence and motives to eliminate anybody who stands in the way of the fulfillment of the prophecies. Throughout the play, Macbeth loses all the qualities that had gained…

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has been going on for the almost a century. It initially started when the Zionist Jews immigrated to Palestine in hope of finding a land to create a Jewish state. As more and more Jews came to the area, fighting between the Jews and the native Palestinians broke out. The future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said, “As in Deir Yassin, so everywhere, we will attack and smite the enemy. God, God, Thou has chosen us for conquest.”…

It’s soon revealed in the play that he only plays the fool so that he can seem all the better when he redeems himself, though Feste’s character in Twelfth Night seems content to let the others continue to believe him a fool, with the exception of Viola who sees through his illusion: “[Feste] is wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well craves a kind of wit” (3.1.59). Viola and Feste’s confrontation magnifies the theme of illusion versus reality that appears in both Hamlet and Henry IV-…

Prometheus is the creator and protector of people. Frankenstein has had many adaptations since it was first published in 1818. Most have failed to stay true to the original novel. The closest adaptation that captures the essence of the novel is the 1994 Kenneth Branagh film. The protagonist Victor, seeks a way to create life artificially. One theme of the text is that human should not meddle with creation, if they do, they will be punished. In “Frankenstein: In a Better Light” by Lisa Nocks…

Staring leading actor Matt Damon, the 2012 film Promised Land follows two corporate sales partners Steve Butler and Sue Thomason of a natural gas company who experience life-changing events after arriving in a small town where his cooperation wants to drill underground through a process called fracking into the available resources. This drama film portrays everyday economic issues of how big cooperation’s and townspeople deal with conflicts within their community. Throughout this film, it…

Standard Oil Company was established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller in Ohio (Exxon). Not too long after, in 1879 Standard bought three-quarters of Vacuum Oil company, which later became Mobil (Exxon). Three years later in 1882, Rockefeller formed Standard Oil into a trust which included the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which later became Exxon, as well as Vacuum, and many others (Exxon). However, following a Supreme Court decision the company was split into 34 unrelated businesses in 1911…

During the time of Industrialization in the United States men fought for power and money. Primarily, men such as John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt was once known as the king of the railroads due to his sharp wit. However, Rockefeller started out poor and was an almost bankrupt oil industry. Vanderbilt yearning for more control over his competition, had decided to make a deal with Rockefeller so that he could transport oil and gain more profit. Then Rockefeller made a…