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The Chinese Filipino Community has been part of the Philippine community since the early 1900’s. Philippines has become their home since the Spanish colonial era, which is, for many Chinese Filipino about 3 to 4 generations ago. Considering this fact, many Chinese Filipinos living in this country has been born and raised here, thus, making…

The legalized marriage of individuals with the same gender is drawing more attention these days. When asked, most people want to avoid the subject of homosexuality altogether or they have a very strong opinion on it. The debate over whether the United States should allow homosexual couples to marry legally is giving rise to a…

Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1A room in the castle. Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERNKING CLAUDIUS And can you, by no drift of circumstance,Get from him why he puts on this confusion,Grating so harshly all his days of quietWith turbulent and dangerous lunacy?ROSENCRANTZ He does confess he feels himself distracted;But from…

‘An Inspector Calls’ contains many elements which will create much dramatic interest for the audience as J. B. Priestly creates strong characters with opposing viewpoints, a mysterious inspector who begins to reveal their secrets and a sympathetic victim whose life has been affected by every member of the family in some way. The play is…

The First crusade was a holy war waged by Christians to regain control of the holy lands from the Muslims. This paper will talk about the first crusade. What empires were involved, who the leaders were and the reasons behind the bloody battles. People say these holy wars are terrible, and they were for everyone…

    By this definition, this would make Spenser’s The Faerie Queene reminiscent of the Greek legend of the labours of Heracles – all of the labours stand alone as discrete stories, as well as forming part of a larger whole. Dramatic and narrative form, and its relation to content, is not lessened by fragmentation….

The 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, proved to be one of the most exciting Olympic games of all time. World records fell in everyday of the 14-day event; in every sport ranging from shuttlecock to track and field, records fell like dominos. The most competitive sport in the 1988 Olympiad was the men’s 100-meter…

Nearly 16 million people in the United States–nearly one out of every 17 people–have diabetes. And about 1,800 new cases are diagnosed each day. Technically, this disease is known as “diabetes mellitus,” diabetes from the Greek for excessive urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and mellitus, from the Latin for honey–diabetic urine is filled with…

The third decade of the twentieth century brought on more explicit writers than ever before, but none were as expressive as Anne Sexton. Her style of writing, her works, the image that she created, and the crazy life that she led are all prime examples of this. Known as one of the most “confessional” poets…

Is everyone defeated or brought down from power at some time? Often, in a tragedy or drama, the main hero experiences a downfall. However, just as the downfall of a tragic hero varies, so do the causes of this downfall. Throughout the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, many factors contributed to the downfall of Macbeth…