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Like most of you today, my feelings are really overwhelming. I know, you guys are as excited about this event as I am so excited to speak before you today. Not so long ago, I was seating exactly where you are right now and hearing an inspirational talk from a guest speaker back then. Yes,…

Effect of Music on Teenagers Every teenager who listens to music interprets the lyrics in a different way. Some people take out a deeper meaning from the lyrics, even going to the point of saying that music “saves their lives”. Music holds a powerful effect on an individual because it can stimulate and provoke multiple…

‘Romeo and Juliet’ was set in the 16th century in a city called Verona, in northern Italy. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage “star-cross’d lovers”. In the play there are two families, the Capulets and the Montagues, they were at a kind of bitter war with each other, but…

Holding on and Letting Go Letting go is very difficult for everyone. Especially if you have to let go of something or someone who has been a very big part of your life. In the poems “Bringing the Dolls” and “Old Crystals”, Merle Alunan, used symbolism and imagery to concretize the difficulties of letting go….

Today, many novels, and plays are being transformed into movies. Movies such as Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings not only brought millions of dollars to the box office, but also helped the audience see how the director changed the novel/play into his own movie. Director Gary Sinse transformed The Crucible, written by…

It was the summer of 1972 when Spring Hill, a Washington, D. C. , suburb, got its first taste of an increasingly violent, insecure modern world. The quiet residential area, whose inhabitants traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one another”s cookout, was rocked by the news that 12-year-old Boyd Ellison had…

Metaphysical poetry was originally a style of poetry to describe the poet John Donne”s work, but then later extended to a school of 17th century poets. The verse deals with the use of philosophy to explain the human drama in the universe. Their poetic style and method is what linked the poets together. Here, the…

By the end of ‘A Christmas Carol ‘Scrooge has undergone great changes; with close reference to – and quotation from – several very different sections of the text, discuss the variety if ways in which Dickens presents the story. Throughout the whole story in the Christmas Carol, it shows the writer Charles Dickens had deeply…

“A Rose for Emily” and “A House of Flesh” – these two are two contrasting short stories written by two different writers from two different times. “A Rose for Emily” is written by William Faulkner (published in 1931) and the plot is set in an American city during the later part of the 19th and…

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was certainly not the average play of its day. In fact, its publication induced outrage in many people. But what was it that made this play so controversial? Ibsen dared to openly question the values of the rigid Victorian way of life that dominated Western Europe at the time. In…