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The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare has been influential for many years. It may be a play made for enjoyment, but it actually holds many truths of the human nature within it. The story takes a simple emotion and turns it into a conflict involving great tragic endings.Othello explores the themes of how strong jealousy can become, how manipulation can be created even by most honest people, and how betrayal is seen even in loved ones. The play begins with Iago’s…

The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical sports drama film. It was written and directed by John Lee Hancock, and based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. The storyline features Michael Oher, an offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Ravens and the Tennessee Titans, and currently is signed with the Carolina Panthers in the NFL. The film follows Oher from his disadvantaged childhood, through his years at a prestigious Memphis, Tennessee high…

Jealousy is certainly a monstrous force in Othello. Rodrigo is jealous of anyone he thinks might be with Desdemona. He wants to be with her and is jealous when he hears the lie from Iago that she is in love with Cassio. This jealousy gets him to fight Cassio. Jealousy is Othello’s tragic flaw. When Iago insinuates that there may be something more than friendship between Desdemona and Cassio (due to his own jealousy of Othello appointing Cassio as his lieutenant and possibly sleeping with his…

“Flowers for Algernon” Argumentative Essay Charlie Gordon should not have had the surgery. Charlie Gordon, a mentally impaired man is a given hope by a surgery that was supposed to “fix” Charlie. The operation ended up backfiring with extremely devastating results. After the surgery societies problems became a reality for Charlie. Another thing that occurred to Charlie due to the operation was that Charlie ultimately turned into a human experiment! Furthermore, Charlie as a genius was…

inspirational movie and it is based on a true story of the main character, Michael Oher. Michael Oher is not one of the ordinary, normal black person. He has been given a name known as “Big Mike” for his physical appearance. Michael has had a rough childhood past that left him traumatic image glued into his mind. He has been physically taken away by his drug abuser mother when he was a child and ever since then, Michael has been living in and out of foster homes staying at different families in…

Ideas and opinions differ from person to person, as does the interpretation of colors. There are those individuals that see the word in black and white, a wide variety of colors , or live in a world of a single shade of hue. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous work, The Scarlet Letter, is a world, complete with countless colors. Some that do recur quite a bit, is black and red/scarlet. Hawthorne continuously affiliates the color black with Roger Chillingworth, a man who develops from a kind scholar to…

theme be brought out, and express the theme of the book. For example, Michael Oher in “The Blind Side” isn’t just an ordinary young boy, he is a troubled child. This helps bring out the themes in the book, and show what the book is truly about. The blind The book “The Blind Side” has many themes, but its main…

The Life of Jimi Hendrix James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career lasted only four years, he is regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in American history. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame regards him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock. He was born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a…

Emily Morua Edwardo Pedregon English 4 April 20, 2016 Morua i Final Draft Basketball was invented by a physical education instructor named Dr. James Naismith in the early 1890s. He was challenged to come up with a new game that was able to be played indoors due to the cold weather. Back in the days before the actual basketball was invented, they would play with a soccer ball. The basket didn’t have a hole on the bottom of the rim just yet. So what they had to do was, climb up to the top of…

What makes a villain terrifying? Well, he must be evil, manipulative, hateful, and lacks a conscience. Sometimes the audience sympathizes with the villains in the film, but the villains on this list were impossible to like. Number One: Bane Movie: The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Actor: Tom Hardy If I had to choose the best villain voice of all time, it would go to Bane. Bane was powerful, evil and masterful in his attack on Batman. He was the evil twin of Robin Hood; he stole from the rich and…