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Recently I attended a Lil Wayne concert and his music and performance captured my attention and gave me a greater appreciation for poetry. At the concert I noticed an overwhelming amount of marks on his body that did not seem to be cuts or bruises. Once I took a closer look I noticed his body…

Bill Womack is used to being a “first.” As a person of color in the largely white profession of child psychiatry, he’s accustomed to breaking new ground. Still, he wasn’t quite prepared for the overwhelming isolation he felt when he joined the board of directors at Seattle’s A Contemporary Theatre in 1987. “I had no…

The Tone in MindThe imagination is the readers most important tool on the path to enjoying a good book. One can only hinder their enjoyment of the story by disregarding the vivid images created by the mind. Nothing can compare to a landscape so exquisite that it would make a cinematographer jealous, or a prison…

Indian nationalism was not a simple unification of Indians against colonial rule. There were many complexities involved in forming an organization that sought to speak on behalf of the people, and many of these challenges were posed to the Indian National Congress because their leadership consisted of the Hindu elite. In 1885, the Indian National…

Analysis on ending – was Turgenev trying to depict the novel as optimistic or pessimistic? I would like to show how the novel, Fathers and Sons is more optimistic than pessimistic, through the way in which nature is often seen to depict hope, or signs of love and romanticism in a good light. The first…

On April 21st, 2015, the American University of Sharjahs’ College of Arts and Sciences Performing Arts Program presented Mary Zimmerman’s finest theatrical adaptation play “The Arabian Nights” in the Arts Rotunda. This play was edited and directed by Professor Anthony Tassa, who dedicated two months of rehearsals with the cast to make this performance as…

Emily Dickinson”s Because I could not stop for death and I heard a fly buzz when I died, are remarkable masterpieces that exercises thought between the known and the unknown. Critics call Emily Dickinsons poems masterpieces with strange haunting powers. In Dickinson”s poems Because I could not stop for death and I heard a fly…

In the movie “The Name of the Rose?,” monks who run the Abbey recognize that knowledge can be a very dangerous thing to possess. They say that the truth is different from what the ruling authority says is the truth. Then such knowledge can become part of a revolution in thinking that destroys everything that…

Task: To identify the ways in which Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel, “The Hound of the Baskervilles” can be considered a piece of gothic literature. Gothic literature is a mysterious and grotesque style of fiction writing, often based on legends and myths. The gothic style of literature deals with eerie events and sombre settings. Gothic stories are…

Chance in PhilosophyBoethius’ “The Consolation of Philosophy” demonstrates many thoughts and ideas that Boethius had while he was imprisoned at Ravenna. Boethius wrote of his “conversations” with lady Philosophy, who came to help cure him during his sentence. Throughout the book, she explained (or reminded) Boethius of many things such as the nature of power…