… ”Shooting an Elephant” & Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Throughout history, writers have written about many different subjects based on their personal experiences. George Orwell, under the pseudonym of Eric Blair, was one of the most famous…

… world is our organization of social and economic systems. Man, however, retains traits of his evolutionary ancestors in the form of self-preservation and greediness. While many political, social and economic systems such as socialism attempt to…

… Updike, Sammy is a local grocery clerk in a small New England town. He is a young man thrown into conflict with his much older manager, Lengel over some young female customers. Sammy is especially intrigued with one girl in particular and struggles…

… of values. Many varied on exact principles, but most applied the idea of Natural Law. Or, as C.S. Lewis would refer to it in his Abolition of Man, the Tao. In this particular book Lewis discusses the implications that would follow could man overcome…

… is one of the most crucial characters in the play. If not for him, Hamlet would not have been thrown into the state of distress and torment that plagued him throughout the story. Every tragedy needs an element of the supernatural, and in this tale,…

… number of different roles: as a political figure, a private man, a leader and accomplished solder. Shakespeare’s dramatic portrait relies on presenting Henry through his words and actions, the different people he encounters as a King, and a warrior…

… through the ego. The conscious ego is a result of the clash between the unconscious super-ego and id. There is a process that creates the super-ego and eventually affects the ego. This important procession is early object identification, leading…

… in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860. She was married at age 24 when she became deeply depressed and ordered to bed rest. This only worsened matters when she divorced her husband and began writing and speaking in California, where she eventually died…

… group I think of are Goths. The media projects them as a negative social group, Satanists, and a possible reason of the Columbine school shooting. I had the chance to go see what the gothic community is like when I stayed with my cousin in Dallas a…

… ten seconds of my life. Today’s the sixteenth of July 1969, 8:32AM and Apollo 11 has taken off under clear skies from Cape Kennedy Florida, destination, the moon. Our lives are at the hands of thousands of scientists and many years of research. Piloted…