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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Author: John Steinbeck John Steinbeck played an important role in American Literature. His books and novels‚ even today‚ inspire young minds like ours. John wrote about his life growing up in the 1920’s. His novels were about the people and the truth about the way people acted back then. Many people despised him because he told the truth in his writing. John Steinbeck was born on February 27th‚ 1902 in Salinas‚ California. John was the only son of three daughters. For the most part John lived
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Athens When one thinks of Ancient Greece‚ often one thinks of Athens. One of the two most notable states of Ancient Greece‚ Athens paved the road for history as we know it today. From Solon to Pericles‚ the people and government of Athens are some of the sires of the way we view government in the modern world. Why is this a problem? This is due to the fact that Athens had a large impact on the Greek world‚ laid the foundations of modern democracy‚ and consequently made the blueprints for the American
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climate greatly contributing to this. The novel 1984 was written in 1944‚ by Orwell as a prediction of how the world is going to be like in the year 1984. The novel is about a character named Wiston‚ who lives in a society whose government controls every aspects and every instant of their citizens lives; including their thoughts. Although the year 1984‚ never became like the daunting reality portrayed in the novel; many still believe this prediction is still relevant and probable in today’s world.
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Is Racism still alive today? Does the world we live in today still contribute to racism? Is it alright to see a neighbor being bashed for their physical appearance? Racism has been a huge controversial issue ever since the 1600’s. Slavery a massive benefactor that produced racism to be born. The human mind sees only what the person wants to see or believe‚ so they automatically think they are at the “top of the food chain”. Thus‚ creating a world of different preferences especially in the color
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The book‚ ‘The Giver’‚ by Lois Lowry is a novel depicting a society where standards and rules are everything. Citizens of the community aren’t allowed to pick a single thing on their own: from the clothes they wear‚ to the assignments (jobs) they will work they rest of their lives. The community has been blindsided for years‚ and is highly unaware of the the pick-n-choose world they are missing out on. Consider that our current government had announced they were planning on recreating a population
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Racism Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. "Nine out of ten people in society today believe that racism does not exist and is something that affects millions of people everyday" (Hutchinson 5). Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our schools‚ workforces‚ and anywhere else where social lives are occurring. It is obvious that racism is bad as it was many decades ago‚ but it sure has not gone away. Racism very much exists and it is about time that people
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less than half of the world population is totally free today? One of these few nations is the U.S‚ which is one of the freest countries in the world. But is it really? Connection… The world had many issues in the medieval ages until they had the enlightenment which claimed that people were all equal and had natural rights… until they turned right around and committed countless atrocities to other “uncivilized” countries in imperialism. Even today‚ we are severely missing in these freedoms that were
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Mrs. Sawyer 22 March 2016 Plot: When writing Travels with Charley John Steinbeck was nearing the end of his career and was feeling “out of touch” with America during the 1960’s. In reaction to this he starts a trek across America as sort of a spiritual journey with his poodle companion Charley. The novel reads like travel fiction or a travelogue and is considered a novel due to many parts of the book being fictionalized yet still based on events that occurred on Steinbeck’s journey. Through this
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The novel Medea by Euripides is a ancient Greek tragedy based on the myth of Jason and Medea. The hole story is centered on Medea’s actions and even more so on the theme of betrayal. When Jason leaves Princess Medea for another Princess named Corinth‚ Medea becomes vengeful. She enacts her revenge by killing Jason’s mistress and‚ her own children. After all this she leaves to go to Athens Greece. The main focus is on women killing their own children; a term for killing your own child is called maternal
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