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Othello Tragic Hero

It becomes prominent to individuals that human beings are far from representatives of moral perfection. A pattern of trivial lies can be observed within human evolution and civilization. While these lies may be harmless and sometimes beneficial depending on the given situation, they also have the potential to inflict colossal damage; especially if these lies […]

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer is a book that consists of tales told by twenty nine pilgrims on a journey to Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine located in Canterbury. The Wife of Bath does not show the qualities as a feminist, instead, she is an anti-feminist who only does acts to benefit herself. During […]

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The Canterbury Tales Paper

Every “Abril” in fourteenth century England, everyone from the aristocrats to the peasant class, excluding the royals and serfs, was required by the Church to make a pilgrimage to a holy destination. In Georffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, rife with satire, thirty pilgrims journey together to Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury, England. To begin […]

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The Book “Animal Farm” and a Little About Joseph Stalin’S Use of Labor

I think that the book Animal Farm should be read and talked about in school. In the book Animal Farm they teach some key lessons that are still useful in today’s culture. Communism is discussed throughout the book teaching others the thought some have on the Russian revolution. Animal Farm shows the power that someone […]

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Review of The Book of Outliers

If you want to become successful study successful people, if you want to become extremely successful then study extremely successful people. This is the basis I got from the book Outliers by Malcom Gladwell. In the beginning of the book Malcolm Gladwell starts off with the story of a small town named Roseto in Pennsylvania […]

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Ready Player One Book Review

The novel Ready Player One is set in the future in the year 2044 and is a science fiction novel. In the book, the world is experiencing global warming, overpopulation, and many other types of social and economic problems. To escape these problems a man by the name of James Halliday creates a free virtual […]

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Ideological Analysis of Ready Player One

Ideology is identified as a body of ideas that reflect the social need of a group, class, or even just one individual. The time frame of which these ideas manifest do not take away from their importance or impact. Ready Player One is a prime example of a film that presents us with ways of […]

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Review of in Cold Blood

In Truman Capote’s true crime novel “In Cold Blood”, it recalls the gruesome murders of the members of the clutter family, a much loved family that were huge members of their tight knit community in Holcomb, Kansas. The book begins from the family’s perspective and gives us insight to the lives they lived. It showed […]

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In Cold Blood: a Discussion of Perry Smith

“You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it,” said Ninette De Valois. Everyone is nurtured in a different way, so the outcome of everyone’s life is different. Perry Smith’s life from In Cold Blood was more influenced by “nurture,” so it was not how it could have been if had not been […]

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The Picture of Dorian Gray: an Artfully Aesthetic Affair

Hook? Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray was a revolutionary work during the time of its publication in the 1800s (1800’s?) for its progressive views while going against the social norms of the Victorian era as well as its support for the aestheticism movement. It made various statements that are prime for analysis and […]

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Art and Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray

In a person’s life, people have many who influence their lives, whether it may be shaping the way an individual speaks, the way they act, or think. However the person’s ability to break down these influences is through their psychological processes, the way in which an individual’s basic psychological functions work together in order to […]

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Book Report of “Outliers: The Story of Success”

Throughout Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell insists that success isn’t just based on spectacular talent, or innate abilities alone. Instead, Malcolm introduces that success is based on opportunity, timing, dedication, and just a twinge of luck. Throughout his studies, Malcolm introduces the idea of a paradigm. A paradigm is known as an outline […]

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