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Guy FawkesFawkes Guy, was one of the greatest conspiratorin the Gunpowder Plot. Fawkes, pronounced fawks Guy, English conspirator,born in York. A protestant by birth, he became a Roman Catholic after themarriage of his widowed mother to a man of Catholic background and sympathies(Miller578). In 1593 he enlisted in the Spanish Army in Flanders and in…

The Persian Gulf WarThe war in the Persian Gulf was a war of religious favor, cruel leadership, and greed. Desert Storm or more commonly known ass The Golf War was the same type of war that had accrued in this area for many years except for one fact. In Operation Desert Storm, it was a…

Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes Basil”s life change drastically by having him paint a portrait of Dorian Gray and express too much of himself in it, which, in Wilde”s mind, is a troublesome obstacle to circumvent. Wilde believes that the artist should not portray any of himself in his work,…

Most people have experienced a series of events that impacted their lives dramatically. In the movie, “Central Station,” Josue is a 9 year-old orphaned boy, who is in search of his father. Dora is a retired school teacher, turned letter writer. Dora joins Josue in his journey. Dora and Josue experience a series of influential…

Shakespeares Macbeth is an exemplary form of Aristotles definition of tragedy. Macbeth, on par with Oedipus and Medea, begins the play on a noble pedestal, but, before the eyes of the viewers, loses the battle with his destiny, and degrades from a hero to a butcher by its denouement. This is not all there is…

MUNICH: Politics were mostly absent both on and off the stage at Theater der Welt, Germany’s biennial international festival of performance, held this year in Munich. Home of sunny weather, green parks, packed beergardens and well-heeled bank employees, Munich appears mostly secluded from the racial violence, the recession and the reunification tension between Ossis and…

In the story of The Three Skeleton Key written by George G. Toudouze it shows many petrifying experiences happening to the characters. Itchoua is a brave, strong Basque who visited an island just off the coast of Guiana for a couple of months. During his visit on the island, Itchoua and his friends faced many…

‘Captain Murderer’ is a farcical fairytale-like story that is packed full of predictable out comes and unreal characters. ‘Lamb to the slaughter’ is true to life, which is the reason why they are so different. It has a very real plot and believable realistic characters. ‘Lamb to the slaughter’ is a post war piece written…

In “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe takes us on a trip into themind of a mad man. The story relates a horrible revenge made even more horribleby the fact that the vengeance is being taken when no real offense had beengiven. This concept sets the mood for true evil. The plot of the…

Western world convention dictates, primarily through religious teachings, that a marriage should be comprised of one male and one female. Polygamy is legal in some countries, under Islamic law, and in some African nations. Based upon their religious and cultural foundations, the system of polygamist marriages has stood successfully for centuries in those countries. In…