Sinister Six

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness doesn’t feature many women throughout the work, and those that are featured are either deemed unimportant or are belittled by the narrator. The word, “woman” appears in the novel seven times, six if you exclude the description of a painting. Throughout these few descriptions of women, Marlow either marginalizes European women or eroticizes the native women of the Congo. Through these narrations, Heart of Darkness illustrates the natural oppression of women in…

On April 22, I, along with the cast of CSI’s production of Romeo and Juliet, made our way to Twin Falls High School’s Roper Auditorium to see the very anticipated Thoroughly Modern Millie performed by the Bruin High Players (BHP), written by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan, directed by James Haycock. I was ecstatic to see how the show had turned out, having worked with the cast before. I couldn't wait to see if the tap lessons that the cast had started taking months before the production had…

Tiziano Vecellio, better known as Titian, painted Venus and Adonis in about 1554; during a period known as the High Renaissance. Venus and Adonis is a workshop copy of one of Titian’s earlier paintings of the same name, created as a part of a six-piece series commissioned by King Phillip II of Spain. Titian called the paintings in this series ‘poesie’, or poems, because each illustrates a mythological story inspired by ‘Metamorphoses’ by the Roman poet Ovid. Titian’s other works in this series…

Christie, interestingly presents irony in a chilling and twisted style. Agatha beautifully incorporates irony in the death of Anthony, Dr. Armstrong, Wargrave. Those three men are part of the 10 unsuspecting victims, invited to the disturbing and the sinister Indian Island by their cryptic host. All the guests are drawn together by a crime they so desperately try to forget. During the first evening, a gramophone mysteriously starts to play revealing the heinous crimes they committed. It doesn't…

Specifically, discrimination can be seen when characters speak about Boo Radley, who is depicted as psychotic, much like an antagonist. One is able to see this when Jem, Scout’s brother, is describing him to their friend, Dill: “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained – if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across…

origination of Sanctuary> The Seven came together with one shared goal: a direct infiltration of the primal realm to rend its energies into an empty vessel. Upon their first step within the plane of primals, there began a small and yet subtle sinister change in each and every one of them. Hayliel, a resplendent Paladin of the Ancients began to emit the aura of Vengeance. The choking primal energies coursing through the air set Mersoth who infused the very blood of dragons into his veins,…

1970’s, illegal drug use in the 1980’s. The 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, no one will ever forget the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9-11. Now in 2015 we face Cyber Terrorism, the threats looming in the near future are more sinister and sophisticated. The most perilous now is the advancement of weapons of mass obliteration.…

reporters such as John Hart, James S. Doyle, and Martin Agronsky on CBS's “Face The Nation” aforementioned interview pushed repeatedly that Stokely define the meaning of Black Power; and no matter how wisely he explained, the media understood it as sinister. However, Stokely Carmichael sometimes gave the term an extreme meaning. On one occasion, speaking to African American crowd Stokely stated that “When you talk of 'Black Power,' you talk of building a movement that will smash everything…

A plethora of factors that contribute to the development of substance abuse, physiological, chemical, and mental and emotionally are some of the factors to assess when examining the topic of substance abuse. This paper examines one dynamic responsible for substance abuse in individuals; nature vs nurture is a quandary that has challenged the addiction theorists. This paper will explore the nurture aspect responsible for developing addiction. Additionally, this paper will delve into the causes…

In act two, scene three, Iago has just seen another piece of his plot against Othello fall into place. After arranging Cassio 's termination, Iago has the gall to give the other man advice on how to re-enter Othello 's good graces. Iago utilizes misogynistic and racist imagery and attempts to trap the audience in his web of deception. This scene holds great importance to the narrative of Othello because, once again, Shakespeare forces the audience into Iago’s perspective without offering any…