Shakespeare… Is he Still Really Relevant? Mackenzie Lighton William Shakespeare... Seriously! Why are we still learning about him? Is he still all that relevant? Everyone says that we should leave the past behind and look into the future‚ but don’t you think that’s a bit hard when you’re stuck in class‚ listening to facts about a dead guy and his life‚ who lived 400 years ago! Well‚ it’s my job to convince you otherwise. So why don’t you leave your attitude behind and open your mind to learn a few
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Does Prejudice Still Exist Today? Cultural Diversity Does racism and prejudice still exist today? Officially there is no racism in the United States in the sense that all kinds of racial discriminations are prohibited by law. But racism still exists to some extent in the hearts of the people. In general‚ there is a reduction in the prejudices people have about others based on their race or other similar social background. But these prejudices have not completely died down. A large portion of
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Question 8 Alexis Austin To Kill A 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
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Mary Karr’s poem "Still Memory" is her recollection of a childhood memory as experienced through a dream. It explores the issues of her past memory wondering the presence of change in her life‚ both through her parents and setting‚ but also through time itself. This theme of change is explored through inquiring her parent’s death‚ "not dead‚" and "not yet born each into a small urn of ash‚" dramatizes her views of how she see’s her parents alive‚ giving a sense that as she looks back on this memory
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Brayan Martinez Professor Licklider Still Life with Skull and a Writing Quill This painting was called Skull Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill. It was created by Pieter Claesz in the year of 1628. This was actually one of the earliest pieces of his career in painting these stills. He was an artist that gave extraordinary presence to familiar things. In this painting there’s a big skull that you can’t miss in the middle of everything. This skull looks to be like 100 years old. It
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is alive and thriving. The divide is due to various factors that make up the American Dream. There are different ways people look at the subject‚ which would explain the divide between the opposing sides. In order to determine if the American Dream still exists we must consider the benefits from the Dream‚ the people who are eligible to obtain it‚ and the factors that make up the American Dream. Many people believe that the benefits of the American Dream are values or rights. “The American Dream is
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Invisible‚ Maya Angelou‚ an American poet’s‚“Still I Rise” poem displays how white oppressors opinions towards the black race is irrelevant to her. She writes “You may trod me in the very dirt But still‚ like dust‚ I’ll rise” (Angelou 1.3-1.4). Here‚ dirt and dust are parallels; the dirt being negative can be turned into a positive‚ being the dust. In 1978‚ people of color were not as confident because even though slavery abolished‚ society would still treat African Americans poorly due to their skin
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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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SUBJECT: ILLEGITIMATE CHILD TITLE: ILLEGITIMATE CHILD: Still a product of love If you’re an illegitimate child your life is shattered as your identity‚ your heart is broken as your home. You always seek for something yet you fail to find what’s your looking for. A vagabond that travels from place to place never finding rest‚ a bird that flies from one distant land to another never ever finding its own nest to lay. Yes – I am a child out of wedlock‚ try as I may‚ it is one
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Poetry has been used throughout the centuries‚ but is it still relevant in today’s society? some major aspects of poems are relevant today such as; subject matters‚ structure‚ rhythm‚ rhyme and the desire for expression of one’s own self in a written form. There are also aspects which may not be of relevance in modern society these are; form‚ language style and emotional complexity. The subject matters that nineteenth century poets wrote about are relatable to today’s people. The sonnet ’Summer
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