William the Conqueror

Dirty Dares Are you wishing for loads of fun tonight? Well, you can have all the fun with a game of truth and dare whether it is with your lover, spouse, or crush, you can take the relationship between the two of you to a whole different naughty level. Did you ever feel like asking the other person a naughty question, but felt too shy to ask it, thinking what the other would have thought about you? Here is your chance to do it!! We have compiled a list of all the possible dirty dares that a…

Kings Richard, John and Henry were highly different men. Richard was popular and celebrated, and his reign did not bear many difficulties to him since his interest lay on crusading. John was deceitful and callous, but he was a fair judge. And Henry was spineless and powerless through most of his reign. Though visibly different, all of them were faulty kings in their own ways. Richard became King of England after his father's death in 1189. Though remembered in history as a crusader who had done…

How do you find hope? How do you see through all the darkness into the light? How do you look at all the horrible events that are going on around you and still find a way to smile? Hope is the feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. In the book, Salt to the Sea, Ruta Sepetys explores the idea of hope through her characters, their journeys through life, and their experiences with love, courage, and grief. No matter how hard of a time a certain character is having, they…

One of the most time honored pieces of literature is the tale of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. The entire story is based around two young lovers but was it really love that they feel or is it something else? Love is a mystical word because it is a noun that is used to describe itself. Everyone experiences and has felt it so why is it so hard to define if every human knows what it is? There are so many components that all come together to form a different feeling each time.…

At the start go the play, Macbeth is shown to be a very loyal and honourable soldier to his country. The king, Duncan, and his men describe him with such qualities when they talk about his success in fighting the rebels. However, when Macbeth is finally introduced, he first appears talking to the witches, which share three predictions with him. Their predictions include him being the Thane of Cawdor, which later comes true, and becoming the king of Scotland. These predictions are the first thing…

returns home disguised as a beggar she tests odysseus and the two finally are finally reunited.in the odyssey the suitors try to marry penelope but penelope declines there offer because she is brave. In the painting Penelope and the Suitors, John William Waterhouse uses the myth of the Odyssey to show that people will do anything to gain power, while in the poem “Penelope”, Dorothy Parker uses the same scene to show that most people appreciate and notice only the adventurous and heroic bravery…

In the fictional novel for young adults, The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, the main character, Percy Jackson, finds out that the life he has known is all a lie. He learns that he is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. He also finds out that Zeus, the god of the skies, has accused him of stealing his most precious weapon, a lightning bolt. Throughout the book, Percy goes on an exciting journey to find the true culprit of the crime he has been accused of, and stop a civil war between…

came to the botanical aspects, so much so that a professor teaching botany would take his students to see Ophelia because the representations of the flowers were so close to nature (The Story of Ophelia). The concept of this painting was born out of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Hamlet, the title character’s love interest, Ophelia tragically commits suicide, and she is discovered floating in a river: here is a willow grows askant the brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.…

William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy love story of two teenagers amid the traditional feud of the Capulet and the Montague families. The play ends with the untimely demise of Romeo and Juliet and leaves the audience in doubt about the actual cause of their deaths. Throughout the play we see characters that directly and indirectly oppose Romeo and Juliet’s love. On the surface we see how a series of immature decisions made by Romeo and Juliet lead them to kill themselves,…

1) Thesis Statement The mistakes and lessons learned from Hamlet, Agamemnon and “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” are very similar in the sense that all three have the character who take wrongful actions which eventually lead to life ending consequences, triggering feelings of pity from the audience. Body Paragraph 1 Watching or reading any of these plays incites pity towards some characters. This pity develops as the audience gets a better understanding of the character as he/she further…