William the Conqueror

Somewhere over the rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow way up high There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. You may know this song from somewhere ‘‘over the rainbow’’. The wizard of oz! THe wizard of oz, is a movie which thousands of people have seen and loved, are so many sides of myself, ARe you ready to be swept of your feet and go on this delightful adventure we’re…. off to see the…

How language evolves through Pop Culture Introduction Shakespeare had immensly influenced the English language in the seventeenth century with his sonnets and plays but today it is Pop Culture that has a profound impact. As society evolves so does language. Language is changing as the way people use it changes and there is a reason we do not talk in Shakespearian English anymore. New words and phrases are constantly being coined while others are dying out. Changes in language have become so…

Introduction This paper is an attempt in tracing the change in Chekhov's art of characterization from 1886 to 1902 through his farce- vaudeville monodrama in one act, On the Injurious Effects of Tobacco. Chekhov wrote the first version of the play in 1886 and revised it multiple ties in the subsequent years. The final version of the monodrama is the most popular and well-known of all the published versions. The paper will also take into account the other nine one- act plays Chekhov wrote in…

4. Roger McGough (9th November 1937) Roger McGough is the second of the three authors featured in The Mersey Sound. Described by Carol Ann Duffy as "the patron saint of poetry", he is arguably the most famous of the Liverpool poets. His unpretentious yet subtle poems characteristically address everyday concerns through supple rhyme and dextrous wordplay. 4.1. Biographical notes and main works4 Born on the outskirts of Liverpool in 1937, Roger McGough studied Geography and French at the…

SUNSHINE OR NO SHINE “Don’t be sad when the sun goes down / You’ll wake up and I’m not around / We’ll still have the summer after all” says Lady Gaga in her song ‘Summerboy‘ while Joni Mitchell replies as “I get the urge for going / When the meadow grass is turning brown / Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in” in her song the ‘Urge for Going’. When it comes to the notion of holiday, I prefer summer to winter. Yet, both summer and winter vacations deserve to be compared and…

Glengarry Glen Ross is a play by David Mamet about the cutthroat job of a sales person, and the so-called manhood it takes to be in it. Later on this play was made into a movie with an added character to really put the pressure on them as a “man”. In this paper it will discuss the articles researched, the interview, and a compare and contrast of the play/film. The scholarly and sales techniques articles talked about in this essay will inform the paper by teaching the sales techniques and what it…

cannot agree, it is impossible to satisfy everyone within its’ needs. In the novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, the tribe of boys struggle to accomplish the necessary tasks in order to create civilization. Without universal agreement from the stubborn leaders of the group, the boys cannot survive or create a successful, well-working society. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph and Jack, the opposing leaders’, attempt to form a society that ultimately fails because…

Game of Thrones is a fantasy medieval television series based on the book A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. Similar to the books, the show has an overflow of gratuitous sex and violence especially when portraying women in positions of power. Heroes die, villains triumph, peasants and slaves suffer horribly but Martin does not shy away from the reality of starvation, rape, and murder that follow in the wake of war. The class stratification and brute injustice of the feudal society are…

Unaware readers become pawns in Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel, and literary game, Lolita. This journal of Humbert Humbert’s life illustrates the crazed pull of artistic perfection through the lense of a pedophile chasing a child. The “artist”, Humbert, narrates his corrupt life from an unfulfilled boyhood until poisoned adulthood in order to justify himself to a moral jury. His muse, Dolores (Lolita) Haze, is a tantalizing nymphet who is both the poison and the antidote for Humbert’s,…

of Tennesse William’s thirty notebooks that he has written in the duration of writing his plays, poems and other pieces. The thirty notebooks are the behind the scenes of Tennesse Williams as in what he felt or why did he deceide to write that play or name it that specific way. In these notebooks, it consists of Williams talking about his feelings about each of every piece he has ever written. When the author was given the notebooks, it was out of order with missing dates and the author had to…