Venus Williams

Philip Pullman is one of the greatest British writers . He was known as children books writers. Northern lights, is one of the most important books in Philip Pullman's trilogy " Dark Materials". I my essay I will write about Northern lights and Lyra growing up in the novel.(Northern lights, Pullman,1995) Pullman’s works have an oral feel which, coupled with humor, verbal dexterity and skillful view setting, makes them perfect for reading. The lead part is often taken by powerful girls, such as…

According to John Steinbeck, the author of The Grapes of Wrath and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.” People often choose to ignore what they know so that they can continue acting in a way that they know is bad idea. Despite the fact that they are aware of their malicious actions, they choose to ignore the truth of their situation in order to act in a way that is convenient or profitable for them. In…

Once Gone is a book about an FBI investigator, by the name of Riley Paige, who is taking a break from her job since the last investigation about a serial killer had her traumatized. Now that she actually has the time to take a break there is another serial killer on the loose who is killing women and leaving their bodies all over a town in the state of Virginia. It’s cases like these that I wouldn’t be able to be an FBI investigator because I cant stand to see people bleeding. Since the last…

Lesko. In the novel Lord of the flies by William Golding, it tells us a story of a group of school boys getting their plane shot down in world war || and invading a tropical island. Without any adults or rules, most of the young boys slipped into the scary abyss of savagery. They had to figure out the ways of a good government. That’s when they discovered the conch shell. The conch shell represents civilization, law, and order throughout the book. William Golding has a theory on sustainable…

The scene is filled with vivid life. William describes a farmer plowing his fields normally when the young Icarus falls and dies. As the reader reaches the end of the story, the reader joins and feels the pain of Icarus as he falls from sky and faces his death. No one pays attention to the falling…

The romantic movement that thrived in the early nineteenth century was made up of artists, writers, musicians, and others who made a plea to the intellectual culture of the time to free human emotion and expression of personality (Perry et al. 505). Though the emphasis on individuality created complexities among different romantics in what romanticism truly could be define as, it ultimately "exalted imagination, intuition, and feelings" (Perry et al. 506), and emphasized humans "innate love of…

investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Verona Unit. The darkest story to have come out of Verona, as recently as the 1400’s, is the story of Romeo and Juliet, credited by the mastermind of literary time William Shakespeare. As of suddenly, new evidence has sprouted from the Unit of the infamous death of Juliet Capulet, a thirteen-year-old girl who secretly married a boy named Romeo Montague—a member of Juliet’s enemy family. Research shows Juliet’s…

Thesis Statement Most of our actions are governed by non-conscious parts of the brain, giving logical reasoning a very limited and ineffective authority over how we decide and what we do. The sub-conscious, or the unconscious always has a stronger control over the self, and trying to resist its authority would only lead to frustration and disillusionment. In Shakespeare’s iconic character Hamlet, this dilemma between the reasoning of the conscious and the overriding intuitive powers of the…

The ending of Sophocles' Electra is perhaps one of the most interesting endings of the Greek tragic plays, as it is incredibly dramatic yet at the same time somewhat anticlimactic. The play ends fittingly dramatically with murder, although it never actually occurs on stage; thus, the anticlimax. Although Electra is a Greek tragedy, it does not end in utterly tragic circumstance, nor does it finish in a blaze of glory. The ending is generally interpreted in one of two ways; 'light' or 'dark',…

While the most popular adaptation of Thirty-Nine Steps is Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film, it has been put on stage countless times, with each director adding their own version of the classic piece. While originally adapted by Patrick Barlow, the show directed by Jon Halpin is simply an outstanding version, using many of the elements and themes of epic theatre, mainly around character transformation and set. Firstly there’s the scene of “The Car Scene”. This scene really shows the theme of epic…