Shakespeare’s plays still relevant today?” The answer to that question is yes. One of the main reasons that William Shakespeare’s plays are still relevant today is because they show that things that were problems back then‚ are also problems in today’s times. Some examples of that are‚ how people sometimes make poor decisions when in love‚ how a relationship can cause conflict‚ and finally‚ how love still forms no matter the obstacle. The first point of how Shakespeare’s plays are still relevant‚ is how love
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William Shakespeare is still relevant to modern students today as his poetry & particularly his plays‚ they are still among the greatest ever and always will be. His work will always be unmatched in the history of the English language. Even though Shakespeare’s sonnets were written over four-hundred years ago‚ they are still relevant today because all of the ideas and issues that Shakespeare addresses in his sonnets are still relevant to people today. Shakespeare had a very good understanding of
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Gulliver’s Travels is still relevant today because it presents a variety of social critiques and condemnations of branches of human activity that still exist today. I believe the goal in Swift’s novel was to create something to achieve just that goal‚ or the goal of timelessness. It should already be a mediocre testament to this claim that students are required to read portions of Gulliver’s Travels during their high school senior year. Swift makes a very relevant analogy between English society
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the field. It seems in almost every area Athens can be judged‚ they dominate nearly every other city-state that can be studied. Athens‚ while having a different view of democracy than we have today‚ is still considered a democratic state. Despite the fact that only free men could vote‚ there was still a vote‚ which meant the people were better represented in the courts of Athens than most other areas of the time. The democracy of Athens was impactful in forming the Ancient Greek world as we know it
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Compare and Contrast Gandhi and Dr. King There exist societal paths which differ based on time and place. These paths may have similar topography and may frequently converge‚ but each creates a separate journey. The belief in passive resistance is defined through the life choices of two great emancipators: Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. Passive resistance is a means of bringing about the end to legally executed injustice‚ specifically through peaceful resistance. Scholars have
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Mockingbird Essay All we have to do is look around us and we can see that these things do still exist. Even though we are not as racist as before prejudice events still happen. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about all different kinds of stereotypes. It uses a young girl’s perspective to show how these stereotypes were so abundant‚ and how terrible they were. To Kill a Mockingbird is very much still relevant today. Society does not take everyone in for who they are but they judge people if they don’t
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Throughout history there have been many influential people who advocate for peace. such as thoreau an American writer in early American history. There was Martin luther king jr. a man who doesn’t need an introduction. Same as the second man Gandhi doesn’t need an introduction. Each of these men change a way a nation thinks. Thoreau came first leading the way for Gandhi and King. Thoreau is the one that inspired the other two with his papers about how we should view life and the way we treat
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Lizeth Garcia Ms. Jacober American Literature December 5‚ 2016 Title Fahrenheit 451 is still relevant in today’s world because human beings are still being brainwashed everyday‚ even if they don’t realize it‚ it happens to them all the time from just watching television to learning in school. For example back then when you wanted to find the answers to anything you were required to research it in books till you found the answers and now you can simply type your questions online and millions
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‘The Outsiders’ to give a voice to the harsh reality for teenagers all over the world. Hinton clearly utilises language features such as dialogue‚ symbolism and characters in a way to specifically explore the issues with finding identity which is still relevant in today’s society. ‘The Outsiders’ novel features two main social classes‚ Socs and Greasers. Socs are born into wealthy families and seem to have it all but Greasers struggle in more ways than just financially. In ‘The Outsiders’ dialogue is
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The Gospel of Matthew is the first of the three Synoptic Gospels of the New Testament‚ with the other two being Mark and Luke. Mark is believed to have been the first of the three written‚ as Matthew and Luke tend to use much of the content that was written in Mark’s gospel. However‚ “it seems that there is a literary relationship between the writers‚ although no one knows exactly who copied from whom and whether or not any of them relied on another common source.” (Roberts‚ 2002‚ p. 124). Matthews
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