World War III

No one would ever imagine an alien invasion in today’s society. The thought of the idea is simply preposterous. However, The War of the World's by H.G. Wells is about that very idea. The book introduces a small town in England, a ways from London, in which a cylindrical object falls from the sky and buries itself in the ground. The movie, War of the World's directed by Steven Spielberg, naturally differs from the book. The film starts off with a man in modern day New York, divorced with two kids…

As of year 2015, there were 120 residents in Kamehameha Nursing Home who suffered physical injuries because of falls. This is an alarming rate as the number of falls tremendously increased. Because of the alarming increased rate of fall in Kamehameha Nursing Home, needs assessments were conducted to identify risk factors and ways to address it. The aims of the needs assessment were: a. Determining the causes of falls b. Determining the effects of falls to the residents of Kamehameha Nursing…

Burial practices in the Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings was the hidden burial ground of many Ancient Egyptians pharaohs who remain undisturbed in their afterlife for thousands of years. From the detailed examination of the archaeological remains of the Valley of the Kings, it can be revealed that archaeological evidence had several symbolic meanings to the pharaohs as it showcases Egyptian beliefs, revealed how materialistic pharaohs were in life and death and the significance of…

the intertextual connections between texts, audiences are provided with heightened understanding of humanity’s changing contexts in shaping the values and societal paradigms that transcend in time. Within William Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Richard III” (1591), Shakespeare’s depiction of the Machiavellian political endeavour regarding Richard’s personal ambition in the pursuit of authority as a product of his deformed vessel of his corporeality, reflects upon the prevalent deterministic…

Tragic love stories have fascinated humans since ancient times. They conquered the hearts of many and opened the ways for more love stories. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – to October 1400) is one of the most famous English authors of the middle ages. Chaucer is considered the father of English literature and thrilled the mass with his literary works. His most famous works include the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Yet, again a tragic love story that is still widely popular in the 21st…

Look at the way people dress. Listen to the words of music. Look closely at the plot in movies. We do not often know that some of these are often influenced by the most famous writer and playmaker, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare has influenced quite a bit of today's modern culture through tragic, comical, and love filled writings and plays he wrote in the Renaissance period. We often see remakes of his romantic play, Romeo and Juliet, or his tragic play, Macbeth. Movies such as The Lion King…

There are many iterations of the Hamlet story that have been filmed dating from 1907 up until the year 2009 yet only five of those many movies portray a good feeling and meaning for the“To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy. The five movies in mention are the Branagh, Gibson, Blockbuster, Olivier, and Doran’s versions. In the five movies the camera angle, actions of Hamlet, and the music do well at producing emotion in the viewer. But only one is superior to all. The Branagh version is the most…

so he called a meeting with the high-ranking chiefs. “Even though he loved and respected Kamehameha, he named his son, Kiwalao, as the right one to take his place” (Rayson 1). Kamehameha was given the chance to take care of Kūka’ilimoku, the family war god. That honor of taking care of Kūka’ilimoku was only given to high-rank chiefs. The young chief was given a valuable treasure which was a magic conch shell. The legend about the shell went way back to the past where no one knew who discovered…

The original text of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, has not changed significantly over the years. The text has been reprinted into a multitude of facsimiles, all retaining the same style of writing and speaking used in the original copy. The original play of Hamlet has been adapted over the years in film, to make an iconic and historic play more relatable to its audiences. These adaptations retain the combination of verse and prose used in the original version of Hamlet. This shows that Hamlet…

this sculpture is granite and paint. This statue was one of a pair that stood on either....Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahri. The pose, with both hands open and resting on the front of the kilt, is a devotional....Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senwosret III who lived some three hundred years before Hatshepsut. I think the subject of this piece is to show how powerful Hatshepsut is as the ruler of Egypt. This paper will employ a close analysis of the Ancient Egyptian Art sculpture, "Hatshepsut in…