La Rochefoucauld

Cinthia Arias “Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”(Francois de La Rochefoucauld).Othello was a general in charge of Venice, Italy. He was a soldier who came from Africa, with a reputation of being a military hero. Othello chose a young and less experienced soldier to be second in command, Michael Cassio. Jealous, Iago believed that he was more qualified for the second in command position and so he…

If poets use language as musicians use musical instruments, Swift’s works would be a soundtrack of unpleasant, dissonant noises. Jonathon Swift, the premier satirist in English literature, does not poeticize the human experience with romance and beauty. He litters his poems, Description of a City Shower and The Lady’s Dressing Room, with filthy imagery and grotesque satire. The unconventionality of Swift’s poetry may be explained using his Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift. He begins this poem on…

Shadow is the part that people want to hide and deny. It is also the dark side that we cannot accept and face. It is often hidden in the subconscious so that sometimes they forgot the shadow or unable it detects its existence. However, it brings a significant impact by surrounding in people thought every day and dominated one's life. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams depicts Blanche DuBois as someone who relies on a phony world of dreaming and imagination in order to find a good…

High school is both daunting and menacing. Walking into the school on the first day, most underclassmen are too nervous to look into how teachers act and react to the students. As you go through the year, you start to figure out which teachers like sports, which ones are funny, and which ones do not allow being in the hall without a pass. My first day of seventh grade went as bad as any other middle schooler with the bad luck of going to a junior high attached to the high school. I had walked…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…