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Tomorrow we celebrate the Day of the Dead–a ceremony where a society pays homage to those who have passed, and planted their seeds in the lives of others. Our ancestors influence us and the lessons they have passed down throughout generations; however, not all lessons were the same. All were influenced by their time period…

An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that something dangerous Is likely to cause Pain or threat to one’s self. This emotion just described is fear. Edgar Allan Poe captured the imagination of people around the world with his eerie, perplexing, distressing, and unsettling poems and stories. He had a life full struggles including neglect, death, and alcoholism….

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a well-known play by Shakespeare that leaves open questions to the audience to mediate and argue over. Over years, this play has been analyzed many times. In the play, it is made obvious that the main character Hamlet is mentally unstable. It is easy to see that the main character,…

A woman’s role in our society has been viewed differently by different perspectives across the world. While women in today’s society enjoy relative equality, women in the past were viewed as inferior to men, solely useful for bearing children and maintaining the home. In Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, women are seen as overly emotional, not constant…

“Jane Austen’s use of dialogue has long been regarded as one of her most significant creative achievements. She uses conversations to show the ways in which her characters are behaving” (Pride and Prejudice and the Art of Conversation). Jane Austen is an English novelist who lived in the eighteenth century and has created famous works…

The way society functions throughout history have been heavily influenced by The Odyssey, and more recently To Kill A Mockingbird. The Odyssey, by Homer, is about a man named Odysseus who is returning home to Ithaca after fighting heroically in the Trojan War. This epic poem tells the journey that took place as he was…

The American migration crisis is homemade. The United States has made a practice to pass policies that retain American interests irrespective of the effects on other nations. For decades, these very policies have affected Central American states and damaged their way of life both directly and indirectly through many means. One nation of particular focus…

Pecos Bill is probably the most famous American tall tale character. A tall tale is a story that can be true or invented but is anyway hard to believe. Pecos Bill is a story about the adventures of a cowboy who was raised by coyotes. With time, this boy understood that he is not an animal…

Passionately recommended by a majority, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is deemed credible, intricate, and intellectual by readers of all professions. In fact, not only is Hamlet said to be Shakespeare’s greatest work, but it is often titled the greatest playwright of all time as well. Intermittently, however, do people recognize the fundamental flaws of the play….

There are many interpretations possible, because Steinbeck chose to leave it that way. The meaning depends on two things, what the writer meant and what the reader understands. In comparing this chapter to the rest of the book, I see that the land turtle could symbolize many things: nature, the Joads, family, the working man….