Ghost College Essays Samples For Students

The 1990 film entitled ‘Ghost’ starred by Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze and directed by Jerry Zucker was among the most popular depiction of the afterlife in modern media. In the film, Swayze, who played the part of Sam Wheat, Molly Jensen’s (Demi Moore) lover was killed yet remained on earth as a ghost. It was quite intriguing how Swayze’s character was able to co-exist between two different realms, enabling him to actively participate in its events. For some reason, the notion of afterlife in pop culture is that dead people or their souls still remain on ...

What Hamlet Is Asking Himself

The soliloquy begins with the question to be or not to be. For any character playing the part, it is the most vital question. It does not simply mean whether the character should commit suicide or continue to live in a certain way. The basis of the question is still open to interpretation. The self-dialogue shows the dilemma that face Hamlet when deciding whether to end his life or continue with his miserable existence. He also has the dilemma of whether or not to kill his father’s killer and commit murder, or let the situation remain as it was ...

Discuss Act 1 in a brief paragraph

In act 1, Hamlet’s dead father appears to the two watchmen Bernardo and Marcellus and Hamlet’s friend Horatio. Bernardo and Marcellus had on the previous night seen the ghost of the late King Hamlet and thus decide to alert Horatio believing that the ghost wants to deliver a warning message. They summon Horatio who does not believe in ghosts and witchcraft, but who would probably deliver the news to Hamlet. Horatio sees the ghost and fails in his attempt to speak to it. He thus resolves to have Hamlet meet it concluding that the ghost would not refuse ...

Hamlet is one of the most memorable characters created by the stalwart playwright, William Shakespeare. The playwright, however, never clearly explains whether Hamlet goes insane in the course of the play. In the beginning he says that he would pretend to be mad to carry out his retaliation without much impediment. His “antic disposition” was aimed to avenge his father’s death.
But, as the play progresses, the audience and readers are left wondering if the protagonist has become insane. He is really shaken as he comes to meet the ghost of his father. Also, during the Closet ...

While Hamlet is one of the most celebrated plays of the literary stalwart, William Shakespeare, it has been adapted in films all over the world owing to it aesthetic quintessence and relevance. One such adaptation of this play is the 1990 film, Hamlet, which stars Mel Gibson. However, there are several differences between the original play and the cinematic adaptation. Delving deep into the two works of art makes the deviations crystal clear to one and all.
The director of the film, Franco Zeffirelli, opts to make certain changes in the film. This is done in an endeavor ...

Jacques Derrida was obsessed with the dead, especially in regards to how their symbolic value was affected by the living. Throughout his exploration of ‘hauntology,’ which was basically a fascination with the idea of the ghost as something being both existent and nonexistent. This is mostly related to history, where the past is what we use to define the present, which is conditional upon the existence of the past. Connecting this idea of hauntology to deconstruction, hauntology then becomes a tool of deconstruction – a specific lens you can use to break down the ideas of Western thinking. Culturally, the idea of ghosts ...

Both "Victor Hugo's Ted Talk" and Bruno Latour make a case, in their own respective manners, about the significance of the agency of acting in art and architecture. Hugo, with his 19th-century assertion that "Architecture is information", could have landed himself a spot as a TED speaker. Latour, using the metaphor of acting, argues that actors in any given scenario exhibit more complex agencies than social theorists, with a limited metaphysical vocabulary, can possibly describe.
Latour propounds his Actor-Network Theory (ANT), stating that once an actor, or "actant", invents a technology such as the computer as a result of his thinking, that technology, in ...

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In-Depth News Analysis on the Country’s Current Political State

Introduction
The prince and his companions are up until midnight. He is waiting for the ghost to appear. As they were talking, Horatio, Marcellus and Hamlet they have observed the loud noise coming from the King’s drinking party. Horatio asked if it was a custom of their country. The prince answered yes and added that he would not like to practice it for other countries will mock the Danes, and will call them drunkards. The discussion will look at the political state of Denmark from the lenses of ...

In the graphic novel, the art work is black and white with green shades acting as go between. While the mixture of green, black and white seem a little out of the ordinary, one realizes that adding the green to black and white creates a sense of depth thus heightening his gothic experiment. Perhaps one of the biggest strengths of the book is its fascinating exploration of the minds of young people in the post modern world. Some of the challenges that young people go through demonstrated in the book include anxiety, pursuit of independence and freedom, insecurity, friendship and love ...

5 most painful facts of life that Hamlet has to face
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a story that is full of grief and agony. The protagonist in the story Hamlet endures suffering due to the ill will and intentions of various characters in the story. In the light of this, this paper explains five of the most painful facts that Hamlet has to face within the plot of the story.
First of all; Hamlet suffers from the loss of his father. His father, King Hamlet, is killed by his brother Claudius who is malicious about the successes of ...

Death is one of the most fascinating and complex issues facing humanity, and each culture has their own perspective on it – its role in Japanese literature, in particular, showcases the pervasiveness and normalcy with which death is treated in Japanese culture. Death plays a significant role in Tsuruya Nanboku's Yotsuya Ghost Stories and The Straw Sandal; both plays show a world that is plagued by death, where people kill without remorse, where death haunts people in the form of spirits, and no matter what you do, you cannot escape it.
Death is something that is normal according to Nanboku; throughout ...

Introduction

William Shakespeare is a great play writer. In the film, he has described dark side of the cruelty of society and human nature. Particularly this renowned play bases its discussion on revenge or simply avenge. This play dramatizes the avenge that Prince Hamlet exacts on Claudius who is his uncle for murdering his brother, King Hamlet and who is Prince Hamlet’s father. This is as evidenced by the below quote when Hamlet is very distressed after his father’s death. Basically this play vividly portrays feigned and true madness, from the overwhelming grief to the seething rage. Therefore, the ...

Question 1: Plot

Look carefully at each act of the drama. What is the function of each? What important event or situation is developed in each act by Shapespeare?
Each act or scene or act of drama when intergrated in a play or drama plays a major roe in the build up of the play. It is therefore imperative to note that the playwright uses each part to build up the major theme he or she intends to communicate to the reader or audience. It is for this reason tha it can be said that Shakespeare in his play Hamlet, uses all the ...

The character of Hamlet in William Shakespeare’s play of the same name is one of the more complex and interesting characters in the western canon – in attempting to take revenge on his uncle Claudius for his alleged murder of Hamlet’s father, the young prince feigns insanity in order to get the man’s guard down and keep him off balance until finding the right time to strike. However, the question remains – by the end of the play, just how much is Hamlet pretending to be insane? Is it really an act, or has Hamlet really taken on ...

"The Piano Lesson" By August Wilson

Set in Pittsburg in 1936, the play “The Piano Lesson” revolves around the contradictory standpoints of two siblings, Willie and Bernice as they fight over one of their family’s most prized possession, the piano (Wilson 23). Boy Willie is so determined to sell the piano and use the proceeds from the piano sale to purchase a piece of land from the Sutters, a white family who had murdered Boy Willie’s father. Bernice refuses to listen to the proposition to sell the Piano. She reminds her brother Willie that money what the piano costs is impossible to be bought with ...

Introduction

Heroes are people who dedicate their lives to other things that are bigger than them. Heroes are people who are distinguished because of their courage and capability, and people admire them because they have noble qualities and superior deeds. Heroes also perform heroic acts that are praised by others. In the book, the Woman Worrier there are certain heroic characters that have been analyzed by the author. The author presents different women such as mothers, aunts and women worriers in different qualities and style and he also brings out their weaknesses clearly. The discussion below is a detailed argument about ...

When reading Homer’s Iliad, one of the most important parts of the plot has to do with waiting for Achilles to decide whether or not he will enter the fray on the side of the Achaians. Agamemnon had angered Achilles before the war had even begun, by taking Achilles’ mistress Briseis from him. Agamemnon had had to surrender his own mistress (Khriseis) in order to undo a curse from Apollo, and he had demanded Achilles’ in return. When the Achaians arrive near Troy, while the rest of the warriors headed for the city, Achilles waited in his tent; all ...

William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has been celebrated as one of the best plays ever written, and its popularity is proven by the fact that the play is still being enacted, centuries after being presented to the public for the first time. Partially, its universal appeal is explained by the fact that the play tackles issues that are still relevant for the contemporary audiences, such as betrayal, revenge and love, among many others. The play’s universality is so great that director Michael Almereyda was able to adapt it to the screen by changing the setting of the story to ...

Toni Morrison uses the literal mode of magical realism in Beloved as a decolonizing agent for the post-colonial context as narrated in the story. Morrison uses both magic and realism to narrate the experiences and life of African Americans during the post-colonial period. It focuses on the experience of ex-slaves trying to rebuild their lives in the United States after being freed from slavery. Morrison also uses the narrative as a way of addressing some of the silent experiences about the African Americans under the slavery of the white man. Sethe, the protagonist in the story is from the ...

In today’s digital age of filmmaking, traditional filmmaking has been eclipsed by computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital film recording, and all manner of other filmmaking tools used to bring the impossible to life. With digital cinema, production styles have become innovated and advanced to a turning point, in which the future of cinema is in a state of flux – does digital cinema overtake traditional filmmaking, or can it be used to underline unique thematic content and as a valuable tool for filmmakers? Perhaps the most apropos way to examine digital cinema and its applications to film is to explore how they are ...

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Interpretation of Themes in ‘Hamlet’
The play Hamlet remains William Shakespeare’s most popular play on stage and off-stage. As a play, “Hamlet portrays the doubts and fears of a conflicted prince whose dead father places the most burdensome of obligations on him: to avenge the king’s murder at the hand of his brother and Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, who also marries the widowed queen, Gertrude” (652). Hamlet portrays the Prince’s unpretentious character as he attempts to find the truth about his father’s death and seek revenge. The Prince is weak and indecisive, and yet he also ...

Guillermo Del Toro’s Spanish horror-fantasy film The Devil’s Backbone is a unique ghost story for its time, given the film’s setting during the Spanish Civil War and the morally ambiguous nature of the ghosts found in the film. In telling the story of a small orphanage in rural Spain in the early 1930s, haunted by a small boy named Santi whose death provides one of the central mysteries, The Devil’s Backbone mixes the high fantasy of fairy tales with the gritty despair of one of Spain’s most tumultuous historical periods. As evidenced in the ...

This paper is going to examine how the author has gone about to explore the subject at hand which is the existence of ghosts in ancient Chinese belief systems. Within it will be detailed arguments that the author, Mu-Chou Poo, makes and make an informed decision whether he has successively examined the merits and the shortcomings of the sources he uses for information. This work will be divided into paragraphs that summarize the main points concerning the topic at hand and examine whether the author has indeed studied both sides of the historical sources.
Mo-Chou Poo is a revered ...

This paper is going to examine how the author has gone about to explore the subject at hand which is the existence of ghosts in ancient Chinese belief systems. Within it will be detailed arguments that the author, Mu-Chou Poo, makes and make an informed decision whether he has successively examined the merits and the shortcomings of the sources he uses for information. This work will be divided into paragraphs that summarize the main points concerning the topic at hand and examine whether the author has truly studied both sides of the historical sources.
Mo-Chou Poo is a revered ...

After seeing the pamphlet on “Ghostblasters,” a business dedicated to remove ghost from the home through a scientific process, it was important to explore how legitimate this claim is. Typically, there is not even proof of ghosts as an actual reality, but rather a myth to frighten young children. Here, there is business advertising and collecting money from individuals who seek their services believing there has been an “ectoplasmic” removal of the ghost materials. Not only has the proof of ghosts been inconclusive from a scientific point, but the possibility to remove something that has not even been proven ...

The movie The Best Intentions by Ingmar Bergman and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai by Jim Jarmusch both involve complex relationships between characters with a code of honor such as Ghost Dog and Henrik Bergman, and other characters that try to influence the lives of these two men. Henrik becomes a Priest, while Ghost Dog follows the Samurai way. The Bergman film is semi-autobiographical and is based upon his parents’ marriage. Ghost Dog is completely fictional. Jarmusch tries to explore the balance of crime under the context of an eye for an eye. Bergman displays the struggles between social ...

Many people use deception to either cover up their deeds or to try to uncover the deeds of others. As one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Hamlet is a play that has many deception themes throughout its story. Three forms of deception can be seen in Hamlet that is the fear of some of the characters that they are being deceived by others, the act of deceiving others, and the outcome of the deception. In the play, many of the characters such as Claudius, Hamlet, and Polonius all used various forms of deception to either hide information from others ...

Crisis in Denmark is an article written by William Shakespeare in the 1590s. The play is set in the kingdom of Denmark, whose King is Claudius. He killed his brother King Hamlet and was engaged to his brother’s wife Gertrude, the queen of Denmark. Gertrude had a son known as Prince Hamlet, who is eager to revenge his father’s death (King Hamlet). Back in his mind, he knows his uncle Claudius is the course of his father’s death after his father appeared to him as a ghost, also seen earlier by Bernardo, Marcellus, and Horatio Hamlets’ ...

A young Prince is haunted by the spirit of his murdered father. The son has hardly slept or eaten since he heard the news. Stunned with grief he will not be counseled by his lover, family, friends or ministers of the military or the court. He prowls the castle nightly, a somnambulant lost in the coma of his will’s paralysis. At last the smoldering embers of revenge burst into flame and he wakes to restore justice and order to his world. His decision is swift and unequivocal: War on Denmark!
This, of course, is Prince Fortinbras whose quest ...

Native Americans from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

Native Americans from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
The issues that Native Americans have faced since 1865 are largely related to a struggle for survival and relevance in a modern age. Although scholars present considerable differences in estimate of the number of Native Americans present in North America at the time of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in 1492, ranging anywhere from 100 million (Schapp, 2010, p. 367) to 900,000 (Hoxie, 1996, p. 500) people, scholars agree that there was a great decline in Native American population lasting until the 20th century. Factors influencing the decline of the Native population ...

With the evolvement of the society, increase of our Planet’s population and accessibility of gained information the number of times the news about occurred serial killings escalates. It is logical to assume that the general number of active serial killers increases with time at least due to the statistical approach to the question. Based on the conducted research this work will explain what makes a serial killer kill on the example of a fictional character form a popular TV show Dexter Morgan. In order to understand the serial killer’s actions the paper will examine all of the ...

Dali's Bio

Salvador Dali, also known as Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech is a reputable Spanish and he is perhaps well known for his artistic works such as the Persistence of Memory and the painting of melting clocks. On May 11, 1904, Dali was born in Figueres, Spain. Since his early age, he has been encouraged to practice the art and in the 1920s, he decided to travel to Paris where he interacted with reputable artists such as Miro, Magritte, and Picasso (Ranker, Sec.1). The interaction with these artists influenced him to develop his initial Surrealist phase. However, he was ...

Introduction

The World Bewitched (1965) was written by Bekker to outline theological and philosophical viewpoints that challenged the notion that ghosts, devils, and angels had an influence on historical events, as well as nature.The story was written at a time when Christianity was being perfected in England and the rest of Europe. During this time, The World Bewitched (1965) was written, Bekker served as a minister in Amsterdam. Protestants needed a philosophical and theological approach to accentuate the assumption that God was the ruler of the world. The need to project God as the authority while discrediting the influence of ...

Shakespeare’s “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, shows the major character Hamlet moving between sanity and insanity. Hamlet continues to captivate readers across the centuries. He is mysterious and there is more to his character than the other characters know. He becomes mad when it suits his purpose, and takes on an “antic disposition" (ActI.SceneV.Line171). Similarly, he acts sane when he wants to, and is quite logical in his reasoning. Centuries ago Shakespeare wrote of the social issues that existed in his society. Today, the themes in Shakespeare’s works remain common in the society. The deception of his uncle ...

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Hamlet Insane or Antic Disposition?
Is Hamlet mad? This is a question which has plagued the minds of generations of readers and critics, and one that have drawn various analysis and theories. Hamlet’s sanity is not just an academic debate, but one which is contemplated by every reader/viewer of the play when he replays the play again and again in his mind. His being insane or otherwise, affects the perceptions of the reader in many significant ways. It will explain many things like why Claudius refuses to accept in his mind that Hamlet is mad, but yet publicly ...

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" Hamlet is a coarse and barbarous play.One might think the product is a work of a drunken savage's imagination."—Voltaire <http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-quotes-about.htm>
After being considered to be Shakespeare's well-known, most popular and most loved play for some time, many persons would tend to disagree with Voltaire's quote. It can be assumed that Hamlet has retained its popularity for a decent period of time because it deals with very topical and interesting issues. As it relates specifically to Act 1, Scene 2, many critics dispute the significance of this scene to the overall development of the ...

Introduction

Colonialism refers to the practice of domination of one race upon another through conquests. Colonization refers to the European settlers taking lands by force from non-European people. The word colonialism has frequently been associated with the description of European settlement in North America, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Canada and places which were under the subjugation of European settlers. German scholar Jurgen Osterhammel described colonialism as "a relationship of domination between an indigenous majority and a minority of foreign invaders" (Nielsen & Robyn, 2003). Though colonizing states like New Zeland, Australia, Canada and the United States vary in their cultures, economies, histories, legal ...

Introduction

Oral literature in many societies has been a vehicle for preserving culture and memories. Traditionally, from the lips of an adroit narrator to the ears of keen listeners and eventually to their hearts, oral literature has played a major role in the traditional African set-up. Africa has acquired a unique place in world literature due to outstanding use of storytelling technique in their written literature. Africans have valued great storytellers and stories since time immemorial.
Most of Africa literature is deeply rooted in oral traditions. Although ancient writings also exist in African literature, storytelling and oral literature takes a special place (Courlander ...

Shakespeare coined the line, “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” Discuss the importance of reality and appearances in Hamlet.
The opening two scenes of Hamlet signal Shakespeare’s preoccupation with appearance and reality. In the opening scene, Horatio, Marcellus and Barnardo are at pains to stress that the ghost they have seen looks like the old king, but may not be. In the second scene Gertrude asks Hamlet why his grief for his father “seems so particular with thee”? (1, 2, 75). Hamlet’s reply – “Seems madam? Nay it is; ...

Lady Macbeth is an interesting character, no matter how she is staged, or how she is read. The changes in the way she reacts – going from a seemingly confident woman who herself urges her husband to shore up his courage in the face of what he has to do, to someone who wavers more and more, until finally she kills herself – are a challenge to stage in a realistic manner.
The weird sisters are said to be the three fates which appear in Greek and Roman mythology, though how much they are so is up for debate. There is ...

1. Topic: Media Ethics in Movies.
2. Title: Crafty Sensationalism: How much should movies invent?
3. Claim: Some movie genres have always been controversial and have faced the ire of realists who questions the sensationalism. Movies such as Ghost in the Shell present a sensationalized version of our world, which leaves its audience with an imaginative world which is far from reality and might never exist. The impact is seen in children, as they do not have the developed mind to understand it is fictional. They fear possibilities of the events happening in the real world. Such level of ...

Hamlet is a play written by Willian Shakespear which deals with loss and revenge, religion and love. Prince Hamlet is a tragic hero who dies, but fulfills his mission which is to avenge his father who was killed by his brother, Claudius. Instead of looking forward to a bright future with Ophelia, Hamlet engages himself in a mission full of acting, deception and hypocrisy. The final result is the tragedy which ends with the death of all of the main characters. Hamlet is a tragic hero who is successful in realizing his goals and who dies due to being ...

GMO is genetically modified organism. It has become very wide spread in our world. However, not all the people are aware of what GMO is and what it does to their bodies. Many consumers are buying products at the grocery store and are clueless that they have become a part of the global experiment. Nowadays many activists are trying to explain people what GMO is and how it works. David Suzuki and BBC Documentary “Ghost in Your Genes” provide a lot of explanation to the issue of GMO in the modern world. Overpopulation is one of the main reasons ...

Analysis of the Character of Shakespeare's Macbeth in the Social and Historical Contexts

The play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, which is based on the Scottish history, appears to be not so much a work of art as a political response to the era in which it was necessary to develop a Scottish theme, emphasize the historical friendship of England and Scotland, and tell about the popular witches and witchcraft at the new royal court. Undoubtedly, tragedies are the creative heritage of William Shakespeare. They express the power of his brilliant mind and the essence of his era, precisely because the subsequent periods comprehended their conflicts through the prism of the Shakespearean works ...

Shakespeare was not just one of the most prolific playwrights of his time, but of all time. An quick Internet search revealed that the general consensus is that he wrote in his lifetime thirty-seven different plays—comedies, tragedies and histories. Of his tragedies, few would argue that any is as tragic as Hamlet, whose protagonist is considered the iconic tragic character. The realities he faces are some of the most unimaginable hardships any human being could imagine going through. These difficulties leave their mark on Hamlet as a person, and the consequences of them become his consequences. This essay explores ...

In Toni Morrisons’s Beloved the use of the phrase “This is not a story to pass on” in three different iterations is confusing, because if history and literature has emphasized anything it is “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Morrison is making sure the story is literally passed but the real meaning is deliberately ambiguous, having different meanings depending on how you read or analyze the novel. It could mean “this is an important story, do not pass on it”; or miss the experience of knowing it. It could also be saying that slavery ...

William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet more than four hundred years ago. Yet, it was not the first mention of Danish Prince in the literature. The history knows about the Prince Amleth, a character, preserved by 13th century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus and retold in 16th century. Actually, this means that the tragedy of Hamlet is not new. Yet, Shakespeare made it look modern in the eyes of his contemporaries. Furthermore, the story of Hamlet, his revenge and his love seems to look modern even in 21st century. Nowadays, the play of Hamlet is one of the most famous and most staged plays ...

He’s Mad, She’s Mad, but by Whose Standards?

A Brief Look at Two Very Different Kinds of Madness in Hamlet
In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, the main characters, Hamlet and Ophelia, each appear as being mad at different times. But each is a different kind of mad. The kind of madness depends upon which critic is analyzing the play. Some critics give Hamlet a controlled madness, a worldly kind of madness “linked with culture” (Showalter 239) and carefully created to fool the people out to get him. They say that Shakespeare hints that Hamlet is in control of all his faculties, that he is aware of the plotting and ...

Impact of technology on health

The health sector ranks among the most revolutionary sectors as far as technology is concerned. In the last thirty years, the impacts of technology in the sector stretch to all departments as work done in the sector eases with time. However, technology has more of the positive than negative impacts in the field (Mcgregor & James 263). Many people identify that the health sector relates with technology because it merges well with the technology. Medical technology refers to the modernized attention deployed in the process of diagnosis and treatment administration. Technology in the medical sector presents through the pharmaceuticals, the ...

Corruption is a popular theme in Shakespeare’s plays; almost always when corruption is interjected into his plays it is preceded by jealously. In the play Hamlet, King Claudius succumbs to the sting of jealously as a result, he totally corrupted himself.

Claudius wants what his brother has, his kingdom and his bride; this becomes his raison d’être; Claudius does not view his jealously as a sin that needed to be stemmed, nor is he willing to wait on chance for his brother to die. He wants what his brother has and he wants it now. Claudius is so driven by ...

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“Seeming” in Hamlet
In Hamlet, William Shakespeare uses the word “seeming” three times:
The first time is in Act I, Scene 5. This is the scene between Hamlet and the Ghost of his father. In describing the evil nature of the character of Claudius, the king's brother and his murderer, the Ghost says, “The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:/ O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!” (Shakespeare n.p.). In this sentence, the Ghost is explaining how the queen, who was assumed to be virtuous, let her will be influenced by Claudius. The word “seeming” means ...

Marcellus in Act I states that “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” and this sets the tone of the play as well as the struggles of Hamlet. Hamlet is wrecked by feelings of uncertainty over his father’s death and his mother’s incestous marraige to his uncle Claudius. Although Hamlet wants to avenge his father’s death and restore honor to the royal house, he struggles with his innate goodness and morality. He knows he has nothing to go on except the ghost’s words and looks for proof that his father was indeed murdered. Hamlet ...

According to Christopher Bader, Joe Baker and Frederick Carson Mencken in Paranormal America: Ghost encounters, UFO sightings, Bigfoot hunts, and other curiosities in religion and culture (2011) research shows that “more than 2/3 of Americans have paranormal beliefs with this being manifested in their penchant for movies with paranormal themes. This statistic is not alarming since evidently the paranormal and the supernatural have been a part of human culture since the beginning of time. In fact, in most religions paranormal experiences are either commonplace, or show up without alarm to the persons practicing that particular religion. While persons without ...

Act V, Scene III

“The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.

Cold and fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.

What do I fear? myself? there's none else by:
Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am:
Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why:
Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?
Alack. I love myself. Wherefore? for any good

That I myself have done unto myself?

O, no! alas, I rather hate myself
For hateful deeds committed by myself!
I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not”.

“Methought the souls of all who I had murdered

All came to my tent, and every one did threat
This scene appears as the only time that ...

Final Reflective Portfolio

This paper is a reflection of the skills I have gained in this class. It focuses on four texts and analyses them as indicators of my development as a reader and creator of literary and cultural texts. Three of the analyzed texts were created for this class while the fourth was written for a math class.

Part 1: Texts

The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts
Fay Goodman's book entitled The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts is already an entertaining read by itself. However, different parts of the book contain paratextual elements that give it a new meaning and make it a more ...

The Dawes Act (1887)
The Dawes Act of 1887 was intended to assimilate Native Americans, with the intent of making them more like white Americans. To do so, various Native American tribes were removed from their homelands and relocated to areas called Indian Territory. Upon arrival at their new lands, they were told that the land they now occupied was to be owned communally, whereas, prior to the Dawes Act, Native American tribal communities individually owned their own familial lands. On February 8, 1887, the 49th Congress went on to specify in detail, how these communal lands were to ...

Each and every piece of art is being connected to some particular period of history: to its key events, to its main personalities. The appearance of the photography has made the artists’ reactions onto some particular events even more intense, as it gave them much more freedom for the creation. Nowadays, one of such key issues of the modern world is the terrorism and each artist sees this issue differently, putting his or hers own sense in it. What do pictures tell the viewer? First of all, they teach to think and to try to find some hidden elements ...

VISUALIZING DEATH AND ITS POTENTIAL MEANING

VISUALIZING DEATH AND ITS POTENTIAL MEANING

Introduction

It is in ones desire to go skydiving and hope that the parachute pulls, but still questioning its possibilities. It is in ones desire to drive a car much too fast to control but believing one is fully capable of not necessarily cheating death. It is ones desire to drink a large amount of alcohol, knowingly, all at once.
It is the death drive, the instinct towards chaos. Primarily it can be said that throughout the entirety of this essay we will explore many different ways in which death has been, and can ...

Katsushika Hokusai is a Japanese artist who has many works that are at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Among them, his most recognizable woodblock print, Under the Wave of Kanagawa. It is also know as the Great Wave, from his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Many will know this image as it because it has been on posters, tee shirts places to show the image to the public. Few know the work belongs to Hokusai. Looking similar to Great Wave, both in color and in detail, is, Tsukuda-Jima in Musashi Province. A woodblock printing with ink shows fishermen ...

August Wilson met success as a play writer after experiencing various odd jobs and dropping out of school after facing intense racism. In a way, the drama is a personal piece of expression for him. The Piano Lesson focuses on the lives of two siblings and an ancient family heirloom dating back to their great grandfather’s time. The drama revolves around their bickering over the piano that what should be done with it. Boy Willie and Berenice, the two siblings, and their story focuses on the migration of Africans and the problems they faced during whole life but also add to ...