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I think of my life and memories as an ocean: serene and still or rough and rigid. But in the end it’s always beautiful and breath-taking. Some of my memories warm me up from the inside. But they also tear me apart. Unfortunately, the memories that teared me apart are the best I can remember….

The play Translations was written by Brian Friel an Irish playwright and a founder of the ‘Field Day Theatre Company’ who, for their first production, presented ‘Translations’ in 1980. The popularity of the play was so that productions were the staged regularly within England and Ireland through out the 1980’s but what was it that…

When people accept an ideal to live by it can be a glorious and noble thing unless they become so obsessed with the ideal that it becomes a yolk and they are unable to realize their dream. This is especially true for Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman. In this play Miller portrays a…

Filed under: Culture During the PEN International Voices Festival last night, author and former PEN American Center president Francine Prose met with four writers to discuss the relationship between novels and films in a panel titled Adaptation: From Page to Screen. Each panelist has had one of their novels turned into a movie: French writer…

Ever since I was a little girl my dream job was to be a fashion designer. Over the years, I lost that passion like a candle burning out. Soon after high school was over, I had no idea what I wanted to be or what to even pursue in life. I still decide to go…

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne uses diction and symbolism to show the negative effects of stifling conformity verses the positive empowerment found in embarrassing one’s own truth. He tries to impress upon his readers that an outsider whether from another physical location, or simply someone who thinks and acts outside that society’s definition of acceptable…

It has been almost eight years since the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and there are still questions of whether a lesson was learned. We hear story after story about the mistakes of corporations and how the responsible parties avoid conflict and slander by using the show a…

Once Oliver had made that fateful mistake of asking for more food at supper, he was immediately beaten and ordered to instant confinement. A reward was then offered to anyone who took Oliver from the parish. From this evidence so far, it is clear to see that children in particular suffered heavily to suit the…

Jan van Eyck was “one of the greatest and most influential Flemish painters of altarpieces and portraits of the 1400″s” Hayes. van Eyck”s paintings often include objects with hidden symbolic meaning. There are several different interpretations of the symbolic meaning concerning his portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his second bride often referred to as “The…

Nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and the system of alliances were fourmain factors that pressed the great powers towards this explosive war. “(Clock Magazine, 1915 Aug. 17). Although Francis Ferdinand wasassassinated and sparked the beginning of the war, this however was not themain cause. The four major roles that played in the cause of World War Iwere…