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The epic poem, Beowulf, depicts the most heroic man of the Anglo-Saxon times. The hero, Beowulf, was an outstanding warrior with all the extraordinary values required by a hero. He was able to use his super-human physical strength and courage to put his people before himself. He encountered terrifying monsters and the most ferocious of…

It was a week before Christmas day in the year 1776. The wind was cold and hard as it brushed past my face. I felt a chill run through my spine, but for the glowing sun, the cold would have been unbearable. “Why won’t God give me a break? “, I thought. I was thinking…

Everyone is talking about the new CPU-Flaws Spectre and Meltdown. ButI think the most people doesn’t really know what it is in detail and how itcould affect their daily lives. Crypto is booming these days and many non-tech savvy persons are in the market, too. Therefore, I wrote a shortsummary regarding to the technical details…

1. Loss of Control: “Failed attempts to control my use a. many many times I attempted to control my drinking over my drinking career of some 20+ years. The ones which stick out in my mind are:b. Many holidays Christmas in particular, my wife’s family would serve alcohol and I would be half in the…

Neville Brody is an internationally known British graphic designer and typographer, who is best known for his work on magazines, most notably ‘The Face. ‘ This magazine transformed the way in which designers and readers approach typography and layout. In addition to his magazine work, he designed record covers for such independent record companies as…

Between 1844-6, William Henry Fox Talbot used the title The Pencil of Nature for his set of published prints which featured images of botanical specimens, photograms, still life and landscapes. Photography was very young at the time of the Pencil of Nature; this set being the first published photographically illustrated book. Talbot first investigated the…

The Gulf WarIn the early morning of August the second1990, Saddam Hussein and a fleet of tanks as well as 100,000 thousand troopsinvaded neighboring Kuwait with out provocation or warning. Iraq also hadsurface-to-surface missiles to take complete control of Kuwait; this alltook place just hours after Saddam Hussein had assured neighboring countriesthat there would under…

On paper, Julia McKenzie and Stephen Sondheim couldn’t seem a less likely couple. She’s the archetypal English suburbanite who lists “cooking and gardening” as her hobbies in Who’s Who. He’s the quintessential New York cosmopolite, an overtly brilliant wit and lover of puzzles whose musicals have transformed the American theatre. And yet mutual admiration societies…

The so-called monster in Frankenstein demonstrates, through his problems with understanding and being understood by the world, the importance and power of language on the one hand and of outward appearance on the other. As this essay will show, the novel shows these two factors to have very different functions indeed. First, let us look…

I am comparing the two plays ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Little Malcolm And His Struggle Against The Eunuchs’. Arthur Miller wrote ‘The Crucible’ in 1953, at the time of McCarthyism. ‘Little Malcolm’ was written by David Halliwell in 1964. ‘The Crucible’ was set before it was written; however ‘Little Malcolm’ was set around the time it…