Portia

of all of the hatred. The hope is what kept people alive in the Holocaust. Hope was always hiding in the shadows like Boo Radley. Junior always had a little bit of hope, even when Rowdy turned against him. Hope kept Bassanio on the prize ahead, Portia. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior really had a hard life. His dad was a heavy drinker, to the point of not…

Carson McCullers and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers, the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was born on the 19th of February in 1917. Initially she had the dream of becoming a concert pianist. Due to her teacher and good friend, Mrs. Mary Tucker, moving away she eventually decided against it. This is what lead to her writing career (Tyrkus and Bronski). Her novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was her first to be published in 1940. The novel is set in the 1930’s and…

William Shakespeare’s plays cover a variety of genres, each offering timeless perspectives that cause them to be performed generation after generation. Only one of these plays is often refused to be performed, on account of its potential antisemitism. Few of Shakespeare’s characters have the infamy of Shylock from the play The Merchant of Venice. Shylock is a Jewish character written as a stereotype: a secretive Jewish merchant running illegal money lending schemes in the city of Venice. Shylock…

Brutus based his speech on why he had killed Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony based his speech on how good of a person Julius Caesar was. Mark Antony was explaining how Caesar was a generous man and not a tyrant like Brutus was making him seem like he was. Brutus said that Julius Caesar was starting to become a tyrant and take control of everything and not share the power he held with the senate, but he knew that what he was saying was not true at all. Mark Antony decided to hold a conference and…

Reigning over England in 1599 along with counsellors and ministers was Queen Elizabeth. Childless at the age of sixty-six, she governed the nation from London. In spite of the fact that her reign was clearly coming to an end she refused to choose a successor to take over her kingdom. Shakespeare was aware of who was part of his audience and knowing that Queen Elizabeth was very fond of theatre he attempted to entertain her but also, belonging to the English population himself, he too feared a…

Proxy Voting refers to the process by which one person or entity votes on behalf of another. Since the majority of shareholders do not attend the annual and special meetings at which voting occurs, corporations provide shareholders with the option to cast a proxy vote. Davis Selected Advisers, L.P. (“DSA”) votes on behalf of its clients in matters of corporate governance through the proxy voting process, with a focus on the investment implications of each issue. DSA has established proxy…

Sexism started early when the first civilizations were established, during this time men owned everything. Men owned all wealth, livestock, and the family including the wife and children. This included taking charge in powering jobs that resulted in important decisions influenced by men. This made systems that were extremely unjust towards women. Sexism has been an accepted part of life that should be changed as sexism was seen in Shakespeare’s writing The Merchant of Venice 400 years ago, and…

Ever since we can remember, most of us have lied, only partially told the truth, or tried to hide ourselves from society. While some actions of this manner are more notable than others, and while sometimes this may occur in the form of other emotions, such as arrogance and ego, humans still have a tendency to mask themselves, or use facade. Another form of facade is when people wish to hide their flaws, so that the general public would view them as someone greatly admired that they would be…

caved in and agreed to join the conspiracy. Also, the part in the play when Portia convinced Brutus to tell her his plan and what is happening, is another example of this theme. “Think you I am no stronger than my sex, being so fathered and so husbanded? Tell me your counsels; I will not disclose’em. I have made strong proof of my consistency, giving myself a voluntary wound here in my thigh” (2.1.296-302). Here, Portia told Brutus he needs to tell her what is going on, she even stabbed herself…

to control the lives of his kids. Copeland gives choices their paths for them, and this reflects his desire for reform. Dr. copeland is single minded, and this distances him from the ones he loves. Portia, however, openly doubts her father’s tactics. Her father wants full purity, but she does not. Portia knows she has white blood in her, so trying to be pure black is impossible. This further explained McCullers’ ideas of racial mixing, and not race being purely of…