Shooting Stars

Set phasers to rhetorical analysis of Star Trek fandom. Star Trek, while it started as a television series in 1966, has grown into a massive universe that has captivated millions across the world. Fans of Star Trek, better known as “Trekkies”, are devoted fans of the series who love it not only for its space action and adventure, but also for its themes and lessons about life and the world. There is heated debate among Trekkies concerning the origin of the term. It is said that an editor named…

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst (Heinlein 32).” These are the words spoken by a philosophy teacher in the book Starship Troopers, words that can be applied to the setting of the book and the real world. Whenever Starship Troopers gets philosophical, the book gets very interesting to read as it usually results in a debate between the teacher and a student, giving two sides of an…

after he had been shot. Among Miller were three others who died after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a chaotic protesting group of students on Kent State University. The shooting that occurred on May 4, 1970 will forever be known as the Kent State Massacre (Thomas and Hensley). Several incidents led up to the shooting, however, the Ohio National Guard should not have opened fire on the students protesting on the campus of Kent State University. The students were protesting the United…

Often referred to as “star-crossed lovers” it is arguable that what Romeo and Juliet faced was fate. An intertextual link to A Midsummer Night’s Dream can be found in the theme of free will as it opens up discussion as to whether the chaos in the forest was avoidable. The influence…

relationship between Romeo and Juliet to explore the ideas of change and impermanence. From feuding families, the two adolescents are banned from fraternizing with each other. However, the conflicts between their two families does not stop them from becoming star-crossed lovers. Over the course of their relationship, both characters constantly change affinities and feelings, depicting how evanescent love can be and how emotions and relationships can change in the blink of an eye. The constant…

The story of Romeo and Juliet can be considered the most known tragic love stories known to humanity. Not only do the two protagonists commit suicide, the causes of why the whole story leading up to their deaths is disputed from around the globe. My opinion is that the ages of the characters, particularly Romeo caused this immense tragedy. His age caused him to develop many flaws, his idea of love, his imaturaty, and his impulsivenes. Romeo's idea of love was way too dramatic. From the first…

illiam Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a play about two star-crossed lovers who suffer a grisly fate, of happy never after. It is a story of rivalry, in the ancient Greek society and the tragic romances therein created. The existent rules of this highly patriarchal society prohibit these two lovers from being together. They are nevertheless determined to do everything in their power to be together, and by this, they go against the society. It is…

“Love” in Fahrenheit 451, Romeo and Juliet and The Artwork Demonstration of humanity: love. Love is part of the life and we accept it unwittingly. There are types of love in life. Most of the time people assume love is a feeling between two different sex, but also there are many other types of love other than “romance love”. My artwork is about that. I included several types of love and respresentative pictures which belong different types of love. We love everything around us. For example we…

To begin with, both stories are based on a tragedy that came between their love. The main characters are the ones who end up dead. I’m talking about the story about Romeo and Juliet which is not alike to Pyramus and Thisbe, but there are some similarities. Let me start off with the differences. In your own perspective, you can tell me if there mostly alike or not alike. Romeo and Juliet didn’t know each other, they didn’t talk about each other before, didn’t communicate, and didn’t…

As a young man or woman, love is a new concept that is often mixed up with attraction. People who experience the phenomena of “love at first sight” only find each other attractive. In the movie Romeo and Juliet, Romeo talks about how he has never seen a girl as beautiful as Juliet when he first lays eyes upon her. This means that he had found her beautiful and doesn’t necessarily love her. As a teenager, love is such a new abstraction and point of curiosity that teens do foolish things just to…