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Caribbean islands, especially Trinidad and Tobago, are famed for their diverse culture and abilities to co-exist harmoniously. How these islands become diverse however, lies in a history plagued by the disquieting and despotic terrors of slavery. Despite being abolished however, another predicament arose in the form of an absence of a permanent labour force, as without the slaves there was no one left to work the sugar cane fields. With an issue that threatened to single-handedly send the…

Elizabeth Browning’s “The Cry of the Children” utilizes contrasting dark and light imagery in order to present the struggles child laborers went through during the Victorian Era. Browning’s use of dark and light imagery is similar to her Romantic counterpart William Blake in “The Chimney Sweepers”, however, Browning’s tone is overwhelmingly exasperated, while Blake’s is childishly sarcastic. Browning’s difference in tone coupled with her use of dark and light imagery paint a vivid image…

3.1 Appellations translation The appellations in the imperial palace are special titles of ancient history and only are used in the palace. Empresses in the Palace depict a story of ancient women in the palace where happened. There are many special appellations, which are different from foreign countries that don’t have the word than can express the same meaning. Therefore, the special appellations must be translated by using a variety of translation strategies. Table 1: culture-loaded words…

Kingdom Come, written by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, depicts the end of times in the DC Comic Universe at the hands of the Metahumans and “superheroes.” I will be analyzing the scene just after the conclusion of Chapter One, where Superman and other heroes are depicted flying inside the burning torch of the Statue of Liberty, in a silhouette of black and red flames. In this scene the reader sees Superman at the lead, accompanied, presumably, by other heroes of the Justice League, flying through…

Throughout American history we as citizens have been able to possess and purchase firearms. Consequently, with the ownership of firearms just like the ownership of anything else, it is abused. Through this abuse there has been only one irrational reaction and that would be stricter gun control laws. However, the government, ill-advised on what to do about it imposes stricter and stricter laws but what they do not realize is that they are taking them away from those who are truly responsible…

Introduction Madagascar is a breath-taking tropical island found in the Indian Ocean. It is known for its pristine beaches and stunning views along side a fusion different cultures. With its main influences being Asian and African culture, Malagasy culture has developed its own, unique blend of flavors, ideas, and practices. For instance, fady is used to describe something that is taboo, and an example of this would be foreigner visiting ancestral grave sites. There are many customs and…

Fisher used the statement “We have killed each other with our ignorance, our prejudice, and our silence,” to elaborate on the detriment the nation has caused through the shroud of silence. This would evoke emotion out of audience due to a person not really knowing the situation at hand when they judge someone based off their illness and the ignorance of the nation for not thinking they contract a disease due to their…

The Lottery Plot June 27 arrived in the form of a bright morning; sunlight bringing out the vivid colors of the flowers and the grass, and heralding in a day of longstanding tradition in a rural town. On this morning, the annual lottery was to be held. Townspeople gathered together, socializing, sharing stories, remarking on the day’s work and last year’s lottery as children played and gathered stones into a pile. They took time each year to participate in this time-honored tradition, but not…

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of his most popular plays, and with good reason. The play is known as one of Shakespeare’s tragedies, but it is set apart from his others. The villains in his other tragedies are ruthless and immoral; Macbeth is known as a tragic hero. Shakespeare develops Macbeth in the play through the characters Macbeth comes into contact with, strange and powerful supernatural forces, and a constant guilt that never goes away from one bad decision. The play begins with…

Facing the growing intellectual embrace of objective values and truth in his time regarding matters of how one should live, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard recognized a crisis in the (then) modern conception of selfhood. Similar to the way in which the Greeks speculated about the “good life” (E.g. the way Aristotle associated his idea of eudaimonia with the attainment of the highest form of human rationality), a collective desire for certainty and objective truth amongst his contemporaries…