Sith

An individual’s character is not solely reflected by his or her own thoughts and actions, but also through the temperament of others who surround them. In the Shakespearean play Hamlet; William Shakespeare uses secondary characters, such as Fortinbras, Laertes and Claudius, to enhance certain traits of the protagonist, Hamlet, to demonstrate that all quests for revenge are “foul and [are the] most unnatural [form of] murder” (Shakespeare, 1.5.25). Fortinbras is a motivated, unequivocal Norwegian…

Due to the virtual absence of women in literary history before 1500, feminist historians and literary critics often turn to Chaucer to satisfy the hunger for valid representations of women. Christened “evir (God wait) all womanis frend” by Chaucerian Gavin Douglas, he appears to be the perfect candidate; however, this urge to fill the gap distorts the way we interpret Chaucer’s female characters. Read as a sign of Chaucer’s empathy with women, or at the very least, his understanding of a female…

Clint and my addictive hobby was star wars. Yes, we were fifth-grade nerds, but we were highly skilled with are plastic lightsabers and constantly beat the crap out of each other with them. We loved to go outside and use our imagination to beat the Sith “if you don 't know what that is you had no childhood”. I normally was Darth Vader and he was Obi-Wan Kenobi. We use to slap the air and then run to his trampoline and pretend to fly off. His dad owned a place there called the little red barn and…

Passion is a powerful force. It can be like a poisonous drug that overtakes your life, or paradoxically it the elixir or ambrosia which gives your life a purpose and ultimately leads to self-actualization. The dictionary defines passion as “a strong and barely controllable emotion.” This definition allows one to concur that passion is one of the deadliest emotions as when it is aroused it can lead the person on the deadliest and most turbulent ride of his or her life. This is akin to a deadly…