Year Three

On the night of July 16th, 1918, the Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar Nicholas II; his wife Tsarina Alexandra, their five children, a physician and waitstaff, and the Grand Duchess Tatiana’s dog, Jemmy, were awoken from their beds and led to the basement of the House of Special Purpose, a Bolshevik military hold, and shot to death. One of the direct causes that led to the end of the Romanov dynasty during the Russian Revolution was the royal family’s association with the peasant and…

the salt mines of endoviour. She is an assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught. After a year of hard labour, in the middle of the night she is dragged before the crown prince who offers Celaena her freedom with one condition, she must act as his champion in a competition to fill the role of the royal assassin - if she can beat twenty three killers, warriors and thieves. But something evil dwells in the glass castle and when some of the other competitors wind…

childish but we see that he is truly manipulative. As soon as he meets Mark and he joins Facebook as and information guru, he convinces Mark to lower Eduardo’s shares to 0.03%. After getting Eduardo basically out of the company he celebrates by giving 19 year old students cocaine. When the police bust him at his intern’s college party he tries to lie to the cops about the cocaine being his. Showing that he is manipulative but also not very smart. Seeing as he obviously manipulated those teens…

films, including the count of monte cristo and the 1993 three disney film, the three musketeers. The discrimination Dumas experienced was usually subtle but aggravating. Dumas used his intelligence to counter bigoted occasions. A study in Alexandre Dumas reveals a rather arbitrary , yet educated and orderly persona of a man, and shows the way he embedded his thoughts into his writing, which distinguished him from other writers for hundreds of years.…

A word in every book, play, or conversation has the power to take on a different meaning based on context. In Macbeth, written by Shakespeare, a word worth tracing is “night.” In the play, “night” is a huge motif and symbolizes many things. Three major connections throughout are comparing light and dark, heaven and hell, and living versus dead. When comparing these ideas, Shakespeare uses the word “night,” almost as a code, to make connections that wouldn’t normally be made or expressed in…

play, Macbeth goes through a series of unnatural events leading him to become responsible for his own downfall at some points, which is why I don’t fully agree that Macbeth was responsible for his own downfall. In this essay I will talk about the three reasons that may have led him to this point. The following reasons are the evil and sinful behaviour, the temptation and greed brought on by his wife and the witches which links back to the witches’ prophecies and Lady Macbeth’s temptations…

preternatural creatures, and the persecution of witches and in Elizabethan England, Shakespeare included an abundance of supernatural elements into his works. The presence and significance of magic is most prevalent in Shakespeare’s play of Macbeth, with the Three Witches and their influencing, visionary powers of dark sorcery and the ostensibly mad Lady Macbeth. The witchery exhibited in Macbeth, (written around 1600–1606), is arguably a reflection of the societal climate of Europe at the time…

to acquire eminence and prestige. Firstly, Shakespeare mirrors his son through Hamnet to elucidate that all is disregarded in pursuit of power. It is important to note that William Shakespeare had three children (“William Shakespeare”). The first was named Susanna, who was born in 1583 (Smith). Two years after the birth of Susanna, Shakespeare was blessed with a set of twins named Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, who was Shakespeare’s only son, who died at the age of eleven, was one of the driving…

The story of Macbeth follows the story of Macbeth, a thane, a good noble soldier after he has won a battle and given more land by the king for his accomplishments. Three sisters predict that Macbeth will be king and tells him and he goes crazy wanting to know more but doesn’t get it. His corrupt wife convinces him to kill the king so he can be the king and they two can be rich and powerful. At first Macbeth is quite hesitant until he does kill the king and he is awarded kingship since he was the…

The article that I want to discuss today is the slave case that was published on January 29th, 2016 on The Daily Telegraph where a 75 year old communist cult leader, Aravindan Balakrishnan is sentenced to 23 years in prison for physically and mentally abusing his followers, one of which is his own daughter, for the last three decades. Over the past 30 years, Balakrishnan has been the leader of an underground communist group in Brixton, London. After being expelled of the Communist Group of…