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O Brother Where Art Thou, is the comedic version of Homer’s Greek tragedy the Odyssey, The Odyssey tells the trials and tribulations of a Greek hero who was coming home from a long war that lasted ten years. The name of the war that lasted those long dreaded years was called, the “Trojan War”. “The Trojan War”, was an epic war that lasted ten years between two great nations, the Greeks and the Trojans. The war was started when Paris the son of Troy stolen Helen of Sparta away from her husband,…

Joanne Rowling, also known as J.K. Rowling, was born in Yute, United Kingdom in 1965 (“J. K.,” Contemporary). She is best known for writing the Harry Potter series (“J.K., Authors). She has a creative imagination and has been writing since she was a child (“J. K.,” Authors). She wrote her first book when she was six years old; it was about a rabbit named Rabbit and a giant bee named Miss Bee (“J. K.,” Encyclopedia). Soon after writing this story, she knew she wanted to be a writer (“J. K.,”…

The Animal Book Chapter 1: Animal characteristics Chapter 2: Body Parts Body plans refer to similarities in development, structure, and function among members of a particular group (phylum). At some point, members of that group share the same body plan during their development process. Which could be a possible explanation for shared structural plans that have been observed in the anatomy and embryology. Timing, pattern, and scale of development determine the organism's shape, and closely…

The 2004 movie, The Phantom of the Opera, is based off the original 1986 musical that was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The actual movie is also produced by Webber and is directed by Joel Schumacher. It was released in the United States in December of 2004 and has been a hit ever since. The musical is still very popular and is performed on stages across the world to this day. Each musical scene in The Phantom of the Opera is sung in opera, so one has to have a special talent to perform. Some…

Prior to the age of religious reformation and the Late Middle Ages, witchcraft did not hold such a negative connotation. In fact, it was divided into two – white magic and black magic. White magic was used by healers, wise men and women, as well as others who fit this category. Black magic, on the other hand, were practiced by those who sought to harm others, thus used their abilities for evil. It was this kind of magic that got a person labelled as a witch rather than the titles used for the…

her father, while Desdemona is the exact opposite. Othello was besotted by her at the start of the play. However, the shenanigans surrounding the whole plot result in Othello 's murderous attitude towards his wife. For instance, "cistern for foul toads / To knot and gender in," (4.2.63–64). Othello now sees Desdemona as a despicable creature. Emilia may not have known the magnitude of her role in the tragic death of Desdemona and Othello; evident when she confesses the truth about the…

Spirited Away is an animated Japanese film (anime), by Hayao Miyazaki, he “has made many famous films including; Laputa: The Castle in The Sky (1986) and Princess Mononoke (1997) and his excellent work has earned him the title of ‘Walt Disney of Japan’” (Dugdale). Even though the film maker decided to retire in 1997, he decided to create Spirited Away after noticing that young girls don’t have much to look out to in the media other that romance, he wanted to create a film “in which they could be…

His “Essay on Criticism” was published anonymously in 1711, and was furiously attacked in print by John Dennis, a famous literacy critic of the day whom Pope had satirized in the poem. Dennis then retaliated by referring to Pope as a “humped-back toad.” In 1714 he published a more complex version of The Rape of the Lock. Between 1715 and 1720, he, William Broome, and Elijah Fenton wrote his verse translation of Homer’s Iliad (his translation of the Odyssey) and which, published at intervals over…

Finding a date after a divorce could be bit challenging. Although there are a lot of people who bounce back easily after a divorce, there are so many people who find it hard to go back into the dating arena after a divorce. If you were a man who have been used to taking your wife on a date for years, asking another woman to go out with you may not really be so easy. To help you get back into dating after a divorce, you should make sure that you start taking some interest in your looks again. It…

In Timothy Findley’s The Wars, the lives of animals’ shape Robert Ross’s identity in the war by creating his sense of morality. This leads Robert to value dehumanization and reject faith in humanity. Valuing dehumanization is often counterintuitive because we typically see it as a negative thing. However, it can be portrayed as a positive. dehumanization in a positive sense can be used to describe the alternative, life-affirming value-system that Robert learns from animals. Traditionally Valuing…