Michael Ondaatje

From start to finish Iago moves the characters of Othello as though they were chessmen. He utilizes their individual goals and interests to spur them to whatever insidious arrangement he wants. His dexterous control of those characters go from persuading Roderigo to serve Cassio another glass of wine, to driving Othello to the conclusion that lone by slaughtering Desdemona might he be able to spare himself and humanity from her slippery demonstrations of treachery. In any case, for every…

During the sixteenth century, Shakespeare Wrote the play Othello, a love story that ended in tragedy and death because of the lies that the character Iago told. During that time period, it was customary for women to be housewives and were essentially at the bottom of the hierarchy since it was a male dominated society. The female’s roles played in these scenes were fundamentally just possessions who belonged to their husbands but yet they still loved their husbands unconditionally. One…

While he lived, he was offered a burial in Westminster Abbey with the Britain’s kings and queens and other honorable scientists. He turned this offer down so that he could be buried with his wife, Sarah, in full modesty. Michael Faraday lived an incredible life. He came from a very poor family with little formal education and grew up to become one of the greatest scientists to ever live. He made brilliant discoveries that changed electricity and technology forever. But, one…

The One and Only. Michael Jackson had his humble beginnings as a member of the band The Jackson 5, before he eventually began his solo career. His slick dance moves and voice like silk are two of the many attributes Michael had that many will never forget. From ballads like “Heal the World” and “Human Nature” to funky dance hits like “Thriller” and “Billie Jean,” Michael always knew how to work a crowd. He had the ability to put anyone who would…

Many people growing up have always associated success with money and power. Our society tends to spend a majority of their time focused on work tasks that will help them accomplish this state of wealth. You are considered successful by the amount of money you have, the kind of cars you drive, and the size of your house. Although this belief is strong throughout America today, you don 't need materialistic items to be successful. Success can differ depending on one 's standards. For example a…

What obstacles do the people who want to achieve the American Dream face? America, known as the land of the free, where everyone can have an equal opportunity at achieving the desired goal commonly referred to as “The American Dream.” Everyone has a different perspective of what successfully achieving the American Dream means, to some it may be becoming a millionaire and to others it could simply be to have a family. There are many things that can get in the way of someone achieving the American…

many major companies but, Disney would not be the way it is today without the brilliant savvy businessman, Michael Eisner. In 1984, Eisner took the position of Chairman and Chief Executive of the Disney Company. He worked for ABC three years’ prior before becoming the CEO at Disney, and was clever at making incredible deals which seemed to work in his favor. In the “Bio” article about Michael Eisner states that, he “transformed the company into $1.8 billion in enterprise value, and a global…

Marlowe’s treatment of Tamburlaine is different from other tragedies in the use of imaginative energy in the portrayal of Tamburlaine, the tyrannical protagonist. To state that Tamburlaine is an ambitious tyrant is somehow an understatement. Even when such labelling takes place on stage, as it does in the frequent invectives used against Tamburlaine by his enemies, there is a paradoxical sense of futility in the censure. It is not only the military invincibility of the protagonist that deviates…

In a duel of its semantic force and a stylistic vernacular of its times, the word-wright, William Shakespeare gives us a playhouse comedic tale where everyone does it all out of love. They lie, they cheat, they dominate, and they are formidably dominated. Memorable unruly characters and lasting theatrics, where the Bard releases piquant humor and mischief in The Taming of The Shrew (Shr.), c. 1593, one of his first comedies (The British Library). Aptly, the play satirizes mores of its Tudor…

Imagine that you are at the Olympic Games, swimming the 100-metre freestyle. It is your first time there and you are surrounded by the most prestigious swimmers in the world. Do you quit right away? No, this is what you have grown up on, what you were trained to do. In Hero by Perry Moore, it explores Metro City and it’s residents. In particular, Thom Green. In Metro City, superheroes are the talk of the town and are no longer pieces of the imagination. Thom is a sixteen-year-old boy who is…