The First Session

William Shakespeare was a renowned poet, playwright and actor known for his spectacular works in the field of literature. He is considered to be the God of poems. Almost all of his works has been translated to hundreds of languages around the world. Till today his works are highly acclaimed off and his plays are still performed across the planet. Shakespeare produced most of his incredible works between 1589 and 1613. He started with comic and history related plays and then moved to tragedies.…

For most of the play it was just Macbeth working towards his own personal gain. There are few examples, the first is when was Macbeth at war, from what I read he seemed like a heroic guy. He fought off the Thane of Cawdor who attempted to succeed from Scotland. That was about it for Macbeth. Then towards the end of the play there were glimmers of heroism. There…

businesses where pho is frequently sold. In Vancouver, Vietnamese Canadians opened up a variety of Vietnamese stores and restaurants all through Surrey. In Montreal, next to the Jean-Talon metro station there is a project being promoted to build the first ever Vietnamville. Investment opportunities are open to Vietnamese…

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is considered an artistic stunning success and became has become one of the most performed and adapted plays in American theatrical history. The play was marvelously acclaimed for both critic and audience, it also won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, consolidating Arthur Miller’s career as a writer. The simple and tragic story of Willy Loman, as Miller points out “Salesman is absurdly simple. It’s about a salesman and it’s his…

Followed by a Body Shadow: Richard the Second, by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Richard the Second, published in 1595, suggests an interpretation of the value and essence of kingship. According to the German historian, Ernst Kantorowicz, kings have two bodies, the body political and the body natural, which allow him to exist on both a physical and a metaphysical level, and thus maintain a dual existence. In this essay, I will argue that the king has, in fact, three bodies - which can resolve…

The act was passed in hopes to relieve some of the French discontent towards the British and ensure citizen loyalty. It can be considered the first parliamentary statute to acknowledge the complexities of relations between the two dominate groups within Canada. The British used the Quebec Act to broaden their territorial borders of Quebec set out in the Royal Proclamation to the boundary of the…

Byzantium and the Muslims We have all heard about the Crusades, how two main religions went to war against each other in the name of God. But what were the Crusades really about? The Crusades was a time when two religions, Christianity and Islam, went to war against each other. This was a time when tension between the two religions as well as Judaism resulted in eight major Crusades between 1096 and 1291 and even a Children’s Crusade that ended in a catastrophe. According to Pope Urban II, he…

member of Organs Watch which is a humans right group which investigate the violation of human rights involved in organ trafficking. It is not a mystery that the people participating in illegal organ trade are rich caucasian individuals that belong to a first world country. Globalization adds competition to countries which establishes a type of economy that separates different classes of people. When applying the concept of organ trade to globalization, this shows that people with less money are…

The First Crusade brought about a new nature of war that was seen as a new way to salvation by many of the warriors who fought during this time. This holy war was fought in the name of God, and created in a sense, an ethical revolution that caused the idea of violence to be viewed much differently. Many of the Christian warriors believed that they would be placed in heaven for killing their enemies in the name of God, and viewed the slaughter of their adversaries as righteously just, adding to…

Homelessness: Why do so many refuse to help? According to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (2005) there are an estimated 100 million homeless individuals in the world. In the United States alone there are estimated over 600,000 Americans who suffer from homelessness on any given night according to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. More than one quarter of these individuals are children under the age of 18 (2014). Homelessness is an issue that has been…