William II of England

others for their labor, land, and ideas. These groups of people are referred to as “the other”, they are often targets of xenophobia and hate. The other can be people with common identifiers: gender, race, class, etc. The writers James McBride & William Shakespeare in The Color of Water and Hamlet shed light upon how othering is normalized within society through heavy emphasis on their characters' flaws. A primary example of how deep othering is nested within our society is the expectation of…

whereas the Divine Right of Kings protected at least the institution if not monarch. The Social Contract protected neither. According to many a serious breach of a nation’s social contract by the monarch, entitled the ‘people’, to revisit the terms completely. In all three Revolutions, the Crown fought for its ancestral rights and privileges, it lost every time. The crowns victorious opponents regarded these offensives, as attacks on the Social Contract by the Monarchy. With the ‘contracts’ null…

Double agents. The British needed to get the German spies out of their agencies before they transmitted anymore of their secret information. “As World War I broke out in 1914, both the SIS and MI5 mobilized to discover any German spies working in England. Most active spies were captured quickly.” (Goodman 39). While engaged in this war, spies were also secretly used in enemy countries. During World War I spies were used to prevent certain countries from becoming either allies or just neutral…

William Golding is a world-renowned novelist. Golding was born and raised in Cornwall, England from September 19, 1911 to June 19, 1993 when he passed away. Golding followed his father’s footsteps as an educator and went to college for English Literature. He became an English and Philosophy teacher. All the unruly schoolboys inspired William Golding; they acted just as he did when he was younger. Golding once stated while describing himself as a child, “I enjoyed hurting people.” When World War…

exile in England and won the Presidency in a landslide victory. Immediately, Napoleon set to work at home, working on the infrastructure…

During World War II, Bristol, England had many shipped city children to the country in the hopes of keeping them safe from the bombing raids. After the traumatic events during World War II, many of the children develop changed personalities. For example, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, starts with a group of English boys isolated on an island due to their plane crash away from the bombing raids. Ralph, the main character, leads the group of boys to become a civilized society. However, the…

William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, is a tragedy focusing on the character Hamlet, who is summoned to attend the wedding of his uncle to his mother and forced to avenge his father’s murder by killing King Claudius, his uncle. This task weighs heavily on his mental state and leads to further conflict. As with most tragedies, death is inevitable, and in this scenario, quite common. Death comes to all, from the sweet and misfortunate Ophelia to the sinister King Claudius. Hamlet is not immune from…

About the New Religion Movements (NRM), it t can be said that there is no definition considered correct. The definition best accepted by Bryan Wilson is that a NRM is new from the moment it became visible in its present form since World War II and is religious from the time that, in addition to offering theological statements about nature and existence of supernatural beings, also proposes answers to some "existential" questions to which religions try to respond, such as: Who am I? God exists?…

for service to sail to Liverpool, England across the Atlantic Ocean. There was also a warning from the Imperial German Embassy that Great Britain and Germany are still in a state of war and that any ships with the British Flag in the waters adjacent to the British Isles are…

Frowning, he tried again.” (Lord of the Flies by William Golding) It is clear here that the boy William Golding describes here is having a hard time collecting his thoughts. The elusive tone describes something that is just that, difficult to grasp, just as this maze of thoughts was. As he writes, the boy was “lost” and had a…