King Leopold's Ghost

glitter, the second room was filled with wigs of different colours, the third room was filled with masks that looked like real faces, the fourth room had lots of books that were all about humans and the other nine rooms were filled with books all about ghosts which freaked me out. I walked back down to the first floor and saw Savannah cooking. “Savannah, what are you cooking?” I asked, but there was no reply. Is she deaf I wondered, but it couldn’t be she could hear me when I was just talking…

Documentarian Al Reinertahasaeffectivelyarecountedain “An Unreal Dream : The Michael Morton Story,” aashockinglyabadamiscarriageaofajustice. The pictureatakesaitsatitleafrom a 1923aquoteabyaJusticeaLearned Hand: “Our procedure has been always haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream.” ThisafineaDocumentaryaSpotlightaaudienceaaward-winneramakesatheanightmareaquiteareal. Indeed, theapicture’sastraightforwardastyleaofastorytellingais a perfectamatchaforaits…

Hamlet Reading Response #1 Hannah Woodside 1. Claudius’s aside confirms that what the ghost said to Hamlet is true. Claudius agrees with what Polonius says before him about how people use “devotion’s visage” (3.1.47) to hide their sins and he builds on that idea with a metaphor. He explains that the “harlot’s cheek” (3.1.51) is ugly in comparison to the “plastr’ing art” (3.1.51) used to make it beautiful. Here, Claudius comparing a woman’s use of makeup to his own use of “painted word” or…

In O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” decide whether the Grandmother or the Misfit is good and defend your answer with an example or two from the story. The Misfit was a complicated character, but he was good deep within his soul. He was wrongly accused of the crime of killing his father, although his father died from complications from the flu. Ultimately, the Misfit spent time in prison which gave birth to bitterness and made him question what was right and wrong. He claimed, "I was…

William Shakespeare is an English poet and playwright is most notably known for his tragedies which deal with the internal combat between familial obligations and emotions, the need to seek vengeance, and overpowering ambition he composed. However, he also produced numerous lines of prose and multitude of dramatic works that dealt with the enigmatic and dangerous human experience that shrouds the feeling of love. Shakespeare’s writings scrutinize the multiplicity of relationships that can derive…

Jared Coven ENC 1101-154357 7/10/15 Mostel Summary And Analysis (12 words) TITLE Shakespeare begins his work titled Sonnet 29 with the speaker in a rather depressed state. The speaker begins by stating that he feels down on his luck and feels like he has no friend’s and is therefore unpopular. The speaker also mentions Fortune, referring to Dame Fortune, the goddess of fate and fortune. The current state that the speaker is in is constantly saddening and even heaven refuses to pay any…

Life is living in a world of the unknown, filled with secrets, and never knowing what may happen along the way. The word “suspense” is a feeling of being anxious or scared, of having the lingering question of “what is next?” The film, The Village, is about a town of people living in the 1800’s, while in reality the year is 2004. The village is being cut off from the real world to protect all innocence and are being haunted by these creatures, “those we do not speak of.” Throughout the film, The…

Abstract: Girish Karnad has given the traditional tale a new meaning and significance highly relevant in the context of life today. He seems to have used myth with a view to expose the absurdity of life with all its elemental passions and conflicts, and also to show man’s eternal struggle to achieve perfection. Karnad, in his plays, tries to evolve a symbolic form out of tension between the archetypal and mythic experience and a living response to life and its values. The new dimension and…

Shakespeare, through his characters in King Lear, offers an ambiguous study on the theme of nature. Various definitions can be applied on the term “nature,” but the three most prominent are the structure of society, the cosmic order , or faith, and the innate impulses all humans inhabit. Lear begins his monologue by announcing that, “O, reason not the need: our basest beggars / Are in the poorest thing superfluous…” (Shakespeare 2.4 264-265) Lear was recently denied housing by Goneril and…

How does Arthur Miller build and maintain tension and conflict in the play? Arthur Miller builds and maintains tension and conflict throughout the play. In the beginning of the play tension is built between the relationship of Eddie and Beatrice. Beatrice warns Catherine about Eddie’s feelings towards her. This builds tension in the atmosphere as Catherine no longer feels safe around Eddie. Towards the end of Act One, growing conflict is sensed when Marco gives Eddie a clear warning by…